How To Prove You're A Time Traveller
4/22/202650 min
How do you convince people you aren't a witch if you travel back in time, and where can you actually find something decent to eat when you're there? Professor Hannah Fry and VSauce, Michael Stevens, tackle the most practical and delicious logistics of surviving a trip through history. Check out one of Hannah's favourite chemistry YouTube channels - https://www.youtube.com/@cnliziqi ------------------- For more information about Cancer Research UK, their research, breakthroughs and how you can support them, visit https://cancerresearchuk.org/restisscience Cancer Research UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1089464), Scotland (SC041666), the Isle of Man (1103) and Jersey (247). A company limited by guarantee. Registered company in England and Wales (4325234) and the Isle of Man (5713F). Registered address: 2 Redman Place, London, E20 1JQ.
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First 90 secondsHannah Fry· Host0:01
Welcome to The Rest is Science. I'm Hannah Fry.
Michael Stevens· Host0:03
And I'm Michael Stevens.
Hannah Fry· Host0:04
And this is Field Notes, which is the, um, the part of the week where Michael and I are supposed to take a bit easier, to turn up and just answer your questions and show each other an object and have a lovely old time. Um, and, uh, frankly, uh, you guys don't notice the amount of effort that we put in, in the other one, 'cause you like this one just as much.
Michael Stevens· Host0:22
[laughs] Well, you know what? It's, it's the magic that we have, Hannah. We should try to do something really boring, like how few views can we get- [laughs] ... on a podcast episode?
Hannah Fry· Host0:35
Make that the challenge, yeah. See what we can optimize for.
Michael Stevens· Host0:38
We could do just, like, a clip show. Like, not, not a best-of clip show, but a worst-of clip show. The moments where jokes fell flat, where- [laughs] ... we, we, we said something kinda wrong.
Hannah Fry· Host0:52
Unfortunately, it's not gonna be today, 'cause it's absolutely ama- it's jam-packed full of amazing stuff.
Michael Stevens· Host0:56
[laughs] I know. Today's is actually good. Today, uh, I wanna show off a tool I invented that helps solve a problem that will never happen.
Hannah Fry· Host1:04
We've done something a bit different today. We've done, we've done something a bit upside down. We've, uh, we've gone through the mail bag, and we have found questions that are all to do with time travel or sort of unexpectedly popping out of existence in one place and popping up somewhere else.
Michael Stevens· Host1:19
So I'm gonna begin with a question for you, Hannah, and this is also for all the listeners out there.
Hannah Fry· Host1:23
Okay.
Michael Stevens· Host1:24
If I were to time travel you right now, at this instant, with what you have on your