The Infinite Monkey Cage – How to Build a Universe

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Robin Ince. The Infinite Monkey Cage – How to Build a Universe

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‘A joyous trip through our understanding of the universe’

Daily Express

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Someone suggested we called it ‘Top Geek’. From that point onwards, we were determined to find an alternative by any means possible. ‘Top Geek’ suggested a show where Brian got overexcited to the point of Freudian excitation as he test-drove particle accelerators while wearing very tight jeans.

So I sat in a room in Levenshulme with an A4 pad and sought to escape my Richard Hammond fate by dreaming up every possible alternative, writing down every dismal proton pun or alliterative coupling of cosmology and comedy. From Fermat’s Penultimate Theorem via Einstein A-Go-Go to Cosmic Asides, the list was many and awful. Sometimes the key to writing is to put everything down, including the horrors that you might have to resort to if your brain doesn’t offer you something better.

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