Welcome To The Rest Is Science

Forget what you think you know about reality. The Rest Is Science is a mind-bending series that tears down familiar ideas… time, randomness, beauty, it will reveal just how bizarre the world truly is. Join Professor Hannah Fry and science creator Michael Stevens (Vsauce) twice a week to explore big, small and surprising questions as they deep dive into theories, concepts, objects and thoughts and take us on a journey into the unexpected. If you love digging into details that usually get skipped over, this is the show that proves reality is stranger than fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Speaker names marked ? are inferred from speaking time and the show’s known hosts — they are not voice-verified.

• 0:00Michael Stevens?

  We're gonna get a little bit splashy, a little bit wet. No. Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Science. I am Michael Stevens.

• 0:08Hannah Fry?

  And I'm Hannah Fry. We are talking randomness, meaning, and chaos. All of the sweet, easy subjects for today.

• 0:14Michael Stevens?

  When was the best era for music?

• 0:17Hannah Fry?

  Are you sure water's wet?

• 0:18Michael Stevens?

  How many digits of pi do you know?

• 0:20Hannah Fry?

  Go on then, we'll take intent, shall we?

• 0:21Michael Stevens?

  All right, three.

• 0:23Hannah Fry?

  Point.

• 0:27Hannah Fry?

  Almost certainly, we're drinking dinosaur pee.

• 0:29Michael Stevens?

  Oh, almost certainly.

• 0:30Hannah Fry?

  I'll be honest with you, every jar you've ever had has probably got some dark matter in it.

• 0:34Michael Stevens?

  I'm working on a theory that consciousness itself comes about because the universe has no meaning.

• 0:42Hannah Fry?

  I'm slightly obsessed with fridges.

• 0:44Michael Stevens?

  Yeah.

• 0:44Hannah Fry?

  Which I appreciate isn't a normal sentence. You know Darwin, I don't know if you've heard-

• 0:48Michael Stevens?

  Met him a few times.

• 0:49Hannah Fry?

  Michael, when did you last cry?

• 0:51Michael Stevens?

  Hannah, I'm glad you asked. Did you like my Hannah impression?

• 0:54Hannah Fry?

  That was really good. It was good.

• 0:57Hannah Fry?

  Elephants have names that they give each other. You'd be like, Billy!

• 1:01Michael Stevens?

  Right.

• 1:01Hannah Fry?

  And the elephant would be like, yours?

• 1:03Michael Stevens?

  Wow.

• 1:04Hannah Fry?

  Which is amazing.

• 1:05Michael Stevens?

  Cube, if you win, do we split the...

• 1:07Hannah Fry?

  No.

• 1:09Michael Stevens?

  I'm a schnitz cookie.

• 1:10Hannah Fry?

  Look, Newton was just a lazy guy.

• 1:12Michael Stevens?

  Where was I going with this?

• 1:13Hannah Fry?

  You are literally evaporating overnight. If you just carried on like that, you would eventually end up as a raisin.

• 1:18Michael Stevens?

  Yeah.

• 1:22Hannah Fry?

  You are honestly the exact right amount of weird.

• 1:25Michael Stevens?

  I don't really see what's so weird about that.

• 1:27Hannah Fry?

  I guess on that note, we'll finish.