Natures Shapes - Dave Gorman, Sara Hart and Thomas Woolley

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  Hello, I'm Brian Cox.

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  I'm Robert Ince and this is the infinite monkey cage and today we are going to ask what shape should the infinite monkey cage be

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  if indeed something infinite can be a shape.

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  So I was kind of wondering about that

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  because you've already told me it annoys audiences a lot about the fact there's not just one infinity there's bigger infinities and bigger infinities and yet even little infinities they are infinite at the same time so I'm just wondering can an infinite monkey cage have a shape geometry Right,

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  okay.

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  The universe has got a geometry.

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  Right, what's the universe?

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  Hyperbolic geometry.

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  Hyperbolic geometry, yeah.

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  And it can be curved or it can be flat.

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  Right, so it can be like the Earth.

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  And we think it is flat.

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  Or it can be curved.

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  Or it can be like a saddle.

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  Yeah.

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  Saddle.

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  Because the flat Earth is, that's entirely, everyone's monetized that as much as they can.

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  But if I leave the Saddle Earth theory, I could imagine that could be quite a success for me.

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