"if infinite monkeys type every day, they may accidentally write hamlet the play, but they'd probably just shit on it and throw it away!" THIS LINE HAD MY CRYING WITH LAUGHTER WALKING DOWN THE STREET

Fantastic song. Eric's done it again.

Who knew?!? I never knew that THIS SONG was written and created FOR Eric Idle BY JEFF LYNNE, the genius behind ELO!! I absolutely LOVE ELO!!

Strawberries never die! #schrödingersstrawberry 🍓

I do love this theme song, and I love the series. Can't wait to hear more

All of a sudden...I want a Brian Cox Puppet o3o

Prof. Brian Cox brought me here. Congrats professor, I hope you will take the 1M.

Just discovered this show, good bye work boredom

the doorbell noise fools me every time

put this on spotify cowards

Love this! I'm working my way through the back catalogue of the podcasts on iplayer and I've not skipped through any of them. Excellent science, discussion and fun.

Simply brilliant!!! (as is the show)

This is so catchy, I can't stop listening to it!

I saw Brian live last Saturday and this played before the main presentation. LOL

Eric Idle hasn't aged a day, has he.

Wonderful!! Thank you

Best Idle song since "Always Look On the Bright Side" :)

This is awesome!!!

seriously why is this not on spotify 😭😭😭

I love The infinite Monkey Cage. I am very old and it teaches me that nothing is written in stone. We learn new things every day and it’s pointless clinging on to the past

I could watch this all day. 😉

Very entertaining

This is rewarmed “Eric the Half a Bee.”

why isn't this on spotifyy ??? :(

Composed by Jeff Lynne

Gloomy.

So, is Professor Cox known for running around with no pants?

Very funny.

Brian Cox for pryminister! With the utter freak show of today's politics surely he's in with atleast a chance!

The Brian and Robin puppets ‘join in’ near the end with backing vocals, but did Brian and Robin actually sing them?!

INFINITE monkeys without their trousers! Leave it up to Deepak Chopra & "QuantumPhysicists-R-US" to cause GLOOMY non-believers to chuckle. This made my day.

Strawberries never die?

Is it just me or at 1:12 does he say heidinger not heisenberg? If it's talking about uncertainty surely it should be that?

Maths

gloomy gloomy maths

What does he say at 2:46 ?

I feel sorry for the Strawberries

Looks just like Brian ....lol

maths

Maths.

I can't help but think that if the BBC had financed / shown the new 'Cosmos' with Brian instead of Neil Degrasse Tyson (Good job tho' he did!!!), it would have got the highest ratings for any Science show ever (since Tomorrows World.) Mostly in the much sought after 30 - 50 y/o housewives demographic. Of course, they'd still nag too much, and be unable to cook without burning the toast, but at least they'd realise how insignificant and unimportant it was... :)

My comment is entirely unrelated to the program, which I haven't experienced, and is limited to this video. It is not possible to determine how roomy the infinite monkey cage is, without knowing the population distribution of monkeys within the space. In other words, it's as roomy as it is. The space could be 100% monkey. Of course, they'd all be dead or dying. That is gloomy, unless you don't like monkeys. Then it's just gross. Also, if infinite monkeys type forever, there is no guarantee that they would ever type Hamlet. For that to work, we need to know the nature of monkey typing. If there is any character sequence in Hamlet that monkeys never type, for whatever reason, then they will never type Hamlet. (Or if they always eat the paper, or break the keyboard, after page 35...) This question may not be solvable in reasonable time, because just after you end your observations, the data could reasonably change. One problem with "forever" (which also applies to infinite space into which infinite cages fit) is that it probably doesn't exist, and at the very least it extends beyond human civilization, and certainly our own lifetimes. Physics probably should not be invoking "forever", when it claims time was created at the big bang, and will become directionless if/when the universe reaches maximum entropy. Time inside our universe is big, but does not appear to be infinite in either direction. Last, although math is used considerably in science, it is not science. It's a nice tool for predicting outcomes, but those outcomes must be verified empirically to be science. So far, there is not sufficient empirical evidence for other universes, and maybe there never will be. These science fiction ideas thrill the kids, but provide ready fodder for science deniers. Don't do that.