The Rest Is Science - The Rest Is Science - Coming 25th November

Episode Date: November 18, 2025

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

We're going to get a little bit splashy, a little bit wet? No. Hello and welcome to The Rest is Science. I am Michael Stevens. And I'm Hannah Fry. We are talking randomness, meaning, and chaos. All of the sweet, easy subjects for today. When was the best era for music?

Are you sure water's wet? How many digits of pie do you know? Go on in, we'll take it in turn, shall we? All right, three. Point. Almost certainly we're drinking dinosaur pee. Oh, almost certainly. I'll be honest with you.

Every jar you've ever had has probably got some dark matter, in it? I'm working on a theory that consciousness itself comes about because the universe has no meaning. I'm slightly obsessed with fridges. Yeah. Which I appreciate isn't a normal sentence. You know, Darwin.

I don't know if you've heard. Met him a few times. Michael, when did you last cry? Hannah, I'm glad you asked. Did you like my Hannah impression? That was really good. That was good. Elephants have names that they give each other.

You'd be like, Billy! Right. And the elephant would be like, yes. Wow. Which is amazing. Cube, if you win, do we split the... No. I'm a schnit cookie.

Look, Newton was just a lazy guy. Where is I going with this? You are literally evaporating overnight. If you just carried on like that, you would eventually end up as a raisin. Yeah. You are, honestly, the exact right amount of weird. I don't really see what's so weird about that.

I guess on that note, we'll finish.