Speaker 1: You're listening to the third and final part of Unexplained,
Speaker 1: season seven, episode ten, Into the bad Lands. After the
Speaker 1: discovery of the strangely mutilated calf, doctor Colum Kellerher and
Speaker 1: the rest of the team from Robert Bigelow's National Institute
Speaker 1: for Discovery Science are a little rattled. The next few
Speaker 1: days are spent analyzing all the data they pulled from
Speaker 1: the area, but nothing unusual is found. A few days later,
Speaker 1: a light snow has fallen over the land. In the evening,
Speaker 1: doctor Kellerher and a colleague are in the team's trailer
Speaker 1: in the paddock at the front of the ranch house
Speaker 1: when they hear the Sherman's dogs barking manically outside. The
Speaker 1: men dash out of the trailer to find Terry Sherman,
Speaker 1: tending to the nervous looking dogs as he stares off
Speaker 1: into the distance. There's something out there, he says, nodding
Speaker 1: towards the horizon. Moments later, keller Her and his colleague
Speaker 1: are holding onto the back of Terry's pickup as it
Speaker 1: tears off toward a herd of cattle nervously huddle together
Speaker 1: at the foot of Skinwalker Ridge. The high powered beams
Speaker 1: of the truck flash across the pasture as they roll
Speaker 1: and bump over the rugged terrain. Having drawn close enough,
Speaker 1: Terry picks out a silhouetted shape standing just off from
Speaker 1: the hurt, sheltering by the trees. Believing it to be
Speaker 1: just another one of the cows, Terry drives around in
Speaker 1: an attempt to corral it back into the pack, but
Speaker 1: when they look again, the shape has gone. Scanning the
Speaker 1: darkness beyond, they see it again, only now it's sitting
Speaker 1: high up in a tree. When they draw closer again,
Speaker 1: they can see clearly that it is no cow. Terry
Speaker 1: slams on the brakes and grabs his rifle from the back.
Speaker 1: In seconds, he's leaning against the bonnet with his eye
Speaker 1: peering down the gun sight. The others train torches on
Speaker 1: the animal and its eyes light up. It's staring right
Speaker 1: at them. Terry, convinced this is the creature that killed
Speaker 1: his calf, lines up the shot and squeezes the trigger.
Speaker 1: The gun kicks back and the thing falls to the ground.
Speaker 1: Terry scrambles forward, scanning desperately for any sign of the creature,
Speaker 1: but it's gone. Just then, he sends his movement to
Speaker 1: the left and turns to see something huge crouching like
Speaker 1: a dog, its thick trute muscles clearly visible under the moonlight.
Speaker 1: It stares at Terry for a second before springing high
Speaker 1: and away into the air. Terry fires two more shots
Speaker 1: into the dark, then gives chase after it. Kelleher and
Speaker 1: his colleagues find him a short time later, crouched over
Speaker 1: a small patch of snow. He directs their torches to
Speaker 1: the ground there, as they described it, later, they find
Speaker 1: an enormous single footprint pressed into the snow. It's round
Speaker 1: at the base and roughly six inches wide, with what
Speaker 1: seems like two elongated claws coming off it. It looks
Speaker 1: a little like the print of an eagle or a hawk,
Speaker 1: but at this size, what it most resembles is a
Speaker 1: large dinosaur. It's now June nineteen ninety seven, and doctor Kelleher,
Speaker 1: along with three colleagues and two healer dogs, is setting
Speaker 1: out to capture a mysterious light that was spotted a
Speaker 1: week earlier by another of the Big Low Team's investigators
Speaker 1: near the old ranch house. After setting up camp a
Speaker 1: few hundred yards south of the old cabin, it isn't
Speaker 1: long before the dogs begin to bristle seemingly alerted to
Speaker 1: something invisible in the space between them and the house.
Speaker 1: Kelliher switches on his night vision goggles and gives a
Speaker 1: stifled cry. Barely a hundred yards in front of him,
Speaker 1: invisible to the naked eye, but clearly visible through the
Speaker 1: goggles is what he describes later as a bright ball
Speaker 1: of light, offering four meters off the ground. Almost as
Speaker 1: soon as he sees it, however, it disappears. Keller Her
Speaker 1: flicks a switch and bathes the pasture in the bright
Speaker 1: beams of industrial floodlights, something they'd set up specifically for
Speaker 1: moments like these. There, shouts his colleague M, now also
Speaker 1: looking through night vision binoculars. There's something in the trees
Speaker 1: moving north. Kella Her fumbles with its camera and points
Speaker 1: it toward the tree line. He hurriedly takes a snap,
Speaker 1: holding the camera in place while he counts to twenty
Speaker 1: under his breath to give the infrared film time to
Speaker 1: pick up the image. The dogs, barking louder out turn
Speaker 1: all their attention to whatever it is that's lurking beyond
Speaker 1: the tree line, while M scans left to right with
Speaker 1: the binoculars, tracking the shape through the trees. It's still moving,
Speaker 1: he says. Keller Heer clicks and counts to twenty again.
Speaker 1: We are watching you. Kellaher turns to his colleague and astonishment.
Speaker 1: The words had come from M's mouth, but the voice
Speaker 1: was not his. Jesus Christ, it took control of my mind,
Speaker 1: says M, recoiling in horror. Then silence. The dogs cease
Speaker 1: their barking, and all about is still Kellerher looks on,
Speaker 1: incredulous as M struggles to come to terms with what
Speaker 1: just occurred. The pair stay there for another hour in
Speaker 1: the hope of recording any more activity, but they find nothing.
Speaker 1: Bigelow's team will return to this location numerous times over
Speaker 1: the next few weeks, only to be continually disappointed. That
Speaker 1: is until one evening in August. It is while packing
Speaker 1: up after yet another fruitless six hour shift under the stars,
Speaker 1: that one of Bigelow's team notices something reflective on the
Speaker 1: dirt track below. It wasn't uncommon for a well polished
Speaker 1: surface or even a scrap of foil to pick up moonlight,
Speaker 1: especially under the vast desert sky with a bright full
Speaker 1: moon above. Only the moon was last full over a
Speaker 1: week ago. What's more, whatever this is appears to be
Speaker 1: getting bigger. Before long, they realize it isn't a reflective
Speaker 1: substance at all, but some kind of light in and
Speaker 1: of itself. One of the team grabs a camera and
Speaker 1: hurriedly stuffs it with the role of infrared film, while
Speaker 1: another colleague pulls out the night vision goggles and raises
Speaker 1: them to his eyes. The pair struggle to focus on
Speaker 1: the orb of light as it continues to grow steadily
Speaker 1: in size, distorting and shifting as it expands, until it
Speaker 1: suddenly becomes clear that it isn't an orb but all.
Speaker 1: It's a tunnel to what appears to be some other
Speaker 1: place where it is still daytime. All of a sudden,
Speaker 1: as they later reported, one of the men catches sight
Speaker 1: of something inside it, something moving. They watch in horror
Speaker 1: as a faceless creature with seemingly distended limbs and dark
Speaker 1: fur crawls forth from out of an unknown place. Small
Speaker 1: at first, it appears to grow in size as it
Speaker 1: pulls itself forward, inching closer and closer to the edge
Speaker 1: of the tunnel, before finally slipping out of the light
Speaker 1: and dropping onto the prairie. The men continue watching, utterly,
Speaker 1: mesmerized as the creature stands up on two legs and
Speaker 1: speeds off into the fields. A moment later, the light
Speaker 1: is gone. The men, feeling suddenly exposed, pause for a
Speaker 1: brief second before hurtling down to the bottom of the
Speaker 1: ridge and back to the safety of the observation trailer.
Speaker 1: The following day, when the whole role of infrared film
Speaker 1: is developed, it reveals nothing as it happens. Despite a
Speaker 1: number of supposedly startling observations. After almost a year of investigating,
Speaker 1: Robert Bigelow's team have failed to capture anything on film.
Speaker 1: All that time, they'd tried to be subtle due to
Speaker 1: an earlier suggestion of Terry's, who felt that every time
Speaker 1: he tried obviously to observe the anomalous activity, it would stop,
Speaker 1: as if there was some kind of awareness that he
Speaker 1: was trying to observe it. By the end of that
Speaker 1: summer of nineteen ninety seven, however, the team decided to
Speaker 1: change tact and promptly erect six twenty four hour surveillance
Speaker 1: cameras around the property. All they had to do then
Speaker 1: was wait a full year passes without incident. Then, finally,
Speaker 1: in late July nineteen ninety eight, something peculiar happens. One morning. Terry,
Speaker 1: in his continuing capacity as ranch manager, is making his
Speaker 1: routine check of the cameras. When he approaches the primary unit,
Speaker 1: a telegraph pole in the middle of the pasture with
Speaker 1: three cameras attached to the top. A wry smile breaks
Speaker 1: out across his face as he gazes up at the equipment.
Speaker 1: The cables that had previously been threaded so carefully through
Speaker 1: meters of PVC tubing and held in place with the
Speaker 1: duct tape were now dangling freely in the breeze. The
Speaker 1: tubing wrenched apart and discarded at the bottom of the pole.
Speaker 1: As for the duct tape, it had completely vanished later
Speaker 1: that afternoon, having flown straight in from Las Vegas as
Speaker 1: soon as he heard the news. Doctor Colum Kellerher sits
Speaker 1: in the team trailer working through the footage from the
Speaker 1: damaged cameras. On the monitor, images of the pastures play out,
Speaker 1: the cattle ambling back and forth, flicking their tails as
Speaker 1: they chew on the grass. The images speed forward, flickering
Speaker 1: and stretching, as Kelleher skips the tape onwards. Then releasing
Speaker 1: the dial, he lets the last few minutes play out
Speaker 1: When the timecode reaches eight thirty, the tape completely cuts out,
Speaker 1: and all the other tapes are the same, each going
Speaker 1: dark at precisely eight thirty. Doctor Kellerher realizes with some
Speaker 1: excitement that whatever happened must have occurred at that precise time.
Speaker 1: Some time later, one of the team returns to the
Speaker 1: trailer holding another tape, this time taken from a camera
Speaker 1: that had been pointed directly at the vandalized post. If
Speaker 1: this tape works, they will see exactly what destroyed those cables.
Speaker 1: Kellerher slips the tape in to the deck and runs
Speaker 1: it back to shortly before eight thirty. Then hits play.
Speaker 1: A scene flashes up on the screen, an image of
Speaker 1: pastures and milling cattle, like before, only this time. Standing
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the image is the telegraph
Speaker 1: pole with the three cameras attached to the top. The
Speaker 1: team watches, transfixed as the time edges ever closer to
Speaker 1: the eight to thirty mark, until finally the moment arrives
Speaker 1: eight twenty nine and fifty seven seconds, eight twenty nine
Speaker 1: and fifty eight seconds, fifty nine seconds, and then finally
Speaker 1: eight thirty, But there is nothing. The image remains just
Speaker 1: as before, with no sign of anybody tampering with anything,
Speaker 1: not even approaching the post. The team skips the footage
Speaker 1: backwards and forwards, watching as daylight fades tonight, but still
Speaker 1: there is nothing. The following morning, the footage is taken
Speaker 1: to the investigation team's HQ in Las Vegas, where it
Speaker 1: has cleaned up and sharpened, so much so that they
Speaker 1: can even see the tiny red LEDs lit up on
Speaker 1: the front of each camera as they record. As they
Speaker 1: play the footage back again, they watch stunned as each
Speaker 1: led light is inexplicably snuffed out at precisely eight point thirty,
Speaker 1: while all around the pastures remain empty and still. For
Speaker 1: the next two years, Terry continues to assist Robert Bigelow's team,
Speaker 1: hoping desperately for any kind of explanation as to what
Speaker 1: had terrorized his family and all the animals at the ranch,
Speaker 1: but the answers don't come. By nineteen ninety nine, the phenomena,
Speaker 1: whatever it was, had gradually abated to almost nonexistent. There
Speaker 1: were still, apparently the occasional orb or light in places
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be, but Terry and Gwen Sherman felt that
Speaker 1: something fundamental had changed. Eventually, the Shermans make the decision
Speaker 1: to leave Bigelow Ranch behind for good, and new caretakers
Speaker 1: were installed with instructions to report on any strange activity
Speaker 1: that might occur, though to date it is not known
Speaker 1: if any such activity has taken place. Looking at the
Speaker 1: various instants one at a time, the phenomena might have
Speaker 1: been explained away as unusual but not necessarily paranormal. When
Speaker 1: taken together, however, it was hard for Terry and Gwen
Speaker 1: not to suspect that something extraordinary UKNN and organized had
Speaker 1: either been observing them, examining them like zoologists to see
Speaker 1: how they ticked, or had simply been using their cattle
Speaker 1: as cannon fodder with devices beyond their knowledge. They could
Speaker 1: only be thankful that whatever it was, or whoever they were,
Speaker 1: the family had not been harmed. By the end of
Speaker 1: the twentieth century, with the dissipation of activity on Bigelow Ranch,
Speaker 1: Robert Bigelow turned his focus to a new company he
Speaker 1: founded in nineteen ninety eight called Bigelow Aerospace. The company
Speaker 1: was established to develop space destinations using the latest inexpandable technology,
Speaker 1: with plans to launch the first hotel in space by
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty two, that idea has not yet
Speaker 1: come to pass. With interest in Bigelow Ranch beginning to wane,
Speaker 1: doctor Colin Kelleher and the rest of the investigative team
Speaker 1: were forced to call it a day, and in two
Speaker 1: thousand and four, the National Institute for Discovery Science, or NIDS,
Speaker 1: was eventually wound down and disbanded. The NIDS team and
Speaker 1: the Sherman family maintained to this day that they witnessed
Speaker 1: a variety of extraordinary and anomalous events, but also concede
Speaker 1: that they have no firm evidence to substantiate or back
Speaker 1: up any of their claims. In twenty sixteen, the Adamantium
Speaker 1: Real estate company, whose owners and provenance remained a mystery
Speaker 1: to this day, took ownership of Bigelow Ranch. Mighte no
Speaker 1: official operations thought to be taking place on the site,
Speaker 1: it is believed to still be watched over by a
Speaker 1: number of cameras and motion detectors, as well as a
Speaker 1: twenty four hour surveillance team of armed ex military personnel.
Speaker 1: As our understanding of the world and the space around
Speaker 1: us continues to grow ever more sophisticated, so too do
Speaker 1: our tools of exploration. Where once our intrepid endeavors were
Speaker 1: marked by an almost two dimensional terrestrial curiosity to look
Speaker 1: only beyond the distant mountain peaks, or across the seemingly
Speaker 1: endless bodies of water that lapped invitingly at our feet.
Speaker 1: More recently, it is to below those oceans and above
Speaker 1: those mountain peaks that we have turned our imaginations. It
Speaker 1: is interesting, then, as our comprehension of spaces and dimensions evolve,
Speaker 1: to wonder where our descendants might find themselves venturing to
Speaker 1: one day. Equally fascinating is how easily our prevailing notions
Speaker 1: about the space around us can restrict our understanding of
Speaker 1: what its true properties might actually be. On May twenty ninth,
Speaker 1: on the island of Principe, off the west coast of Africa,
Speaker 1: a team of British scientists led by Secretary of the
Speaker 1: British Astronomical Society Arthur Eddington, are transfixed by something extraordinary
Speaker 1: occurring in the sky above them. It's shortly after thirteen
Speaker 1: hundred hours local time when a black disk begins to
Speaker 1: creep across the face of the Sun, drawing a vast
Speaker 1: blanket of shadow over the land. Further and further it
Speaker 1: creeps until the light is all but extinguished, save for
Speaker 1: a few bright yellow beads peeking through the vast outer
Speaker 1: ridges of the jet black disc. All around the scientists,
Speaker 1: strange bands of undulating shadows ripple over surfaces as a
Speaker 1: moment of eerie silence gives way to a crescendo of
Speaker 1: untimely cricket song. When the last of the solar crest
Speaker 1: is finally extinguished, a blinding flash of white flares out
Speaker 1: from behind, before receding to reveal the iris hue of
Speaker 1: the Sun's majestic corona, and all around, a distant hazy
Speaker 1: red glows ominously at the horizon of the Earth. It
Speaker 1: would be impossible for Eddington's team to ignore one of
Speaker 1: the most spectacular solar eclipses of the last five hundred years,
Speaker 1: But remarkably, it is not the Sun that they've come
Speaker 1: to observe. Instead, it is to the giant orange eye
Speaker 1: of a bull that their attentions are turned, along with
Speaker 1: the other four brighter stars of the Hyades cluster that
Speaker 1: make up part of the constellation of Taurus. It is
Speaker 1: via the light omitted from these gigantic celestial bodies reaching
Speaker 1: out to us from one hundred and fifty three years
Speaker 1: in the past that Eddington and his team will record
Speaker 1: the gravitational warping of space predicted by Albert Einstein's general
Speaker 1: theory of relativity. Within six months, when the results of
Speaker 1: the experiment are finally revealed to the world in a
Speaker 1: flurry of giddy newspaper headlines, our fundamental understanding of the
Speaker 1: universe will be changed forever. In nineteen oh five, Einstein's
Speaker 1: special theory of relativity had revolutionized the way we think
Speaker 1: of space and time. No longer would they be considered
Speaker 1: fixed and immutable, but flexible, malleable terms dependent on the
Speaker 1: relative difference between the motion of the observed and the observer.
Speaker 1: With his General theory of relativity, Einstein had uncovered something
Speaker 1: perhaps even more profound. Where Isaac Newton before him had
Speaker 1: envisaged gravity as an attractive force operating within a three
Speaker 1: dimensional concept of space, Einstein had uncovered a fourth dimension
Speaker 1: of space time. He theorized that gravity wasn't a force
Speaker 1: bringing objects together as such, but rather it was the
Speaker 1: bending of space itself. Although the prevailing laws of Newtonian
Speaker 1: physics had also predicted the gravitational warping of light as
Speaker 1: recorded by Eddington's team, they were wrong by roughly a
Speaker 1: half compared to Einstein's predictions. Prior to Einstein's calculations, Newton's
Speaker 1: law of universal gravitation had remained unchallenged for over two
Speaker 1: hundred years, primarily because for all intents and purposes it worked. Indeed,
Speaker 1: Newton's laws do a great job predicting the motions of planets,
Speaker 1: or rocket shooting for the moon, or the trajectory of
Speaker 1: a ski jumper, even but when applied to the universe
Speaker 1: that Einstein had uncovered, they fundamentally break down. Einstein's conviction
Speaker 1: that the speed of light as a constant had lifted
Speaker 1: a veil to reveal a new universe that had been
Speaker 1: there all along. We'd just been too blinded by prevailing
Speaker 1: ideas to see it. In nineteen twenty three, George Lemet,
Speaker 1: a young priest from Belgium studying at Cambridge University under
Speaker 1: Arthur Eddington's tutelage, found something unexpected in Einstein's calculations. At
Speaker 1: the time, it was generally held that the universe was
Speaker 1: infinitely old, that it had always existed, and the various
Speaker 1: bodies within it were completely static. Yet when Lemet examined
Speaker 1: Einstein's calculations, he discovered something quite different. The universe wasn't
Speaker 1: static at all, It was expanding. Russian cosmologist and mathematician
Speaker 1: Alexander Friedman had also hit upon this idea as early
Speaker 1: as nineteen twenty two, when he provided calculations for both
Speaker 1: an expansion and steady state model of the universe. Friedman
Speaker 1: would never live to see the proof of his theory, however,
Speaker 1: as he died tragically of typhoid in nineteen twenty five
Speaker 1: at the age of just thirty seven. In any case,
Speaker 1: in nineteen twenty seven, la Mate published his findings with
Speaker 1: great excitement. Unfortunately for him, however, nobody paid any attention
Speaker 1: to it, except for Einstein, who reportedly met him later
Speaker 1: that year and told him, your calculations are correct, but
Speaker 1: your grasp of physics is abominable. What was most troubling
Speaker 1: about the implications of Lemetra's idea, and what had so
Speaker 1: upset Einstein, was that if everything was moving further away,
Speaker 1: it must have at one point been a lot closer together.
Speaker 1: Lemetre called his discovery his hypothesis of the primeval atom.
Speaker 1: We might know this better to day as the Big
Speaker 1: Bang theory. This theory was given greater credence when astronomer
Speaker 1: Edwin Hubble announced in nineteen twenty nine that distant galaxies
Speaker 1: were moving further away from us and faster than those
Speaker 1: closest to us. Then, in nineteen sixty four, Arno Penzius
Speaker 1: and Robert Wilson, with the guidance of Robert Dickie, uncovered
Speaker 1: the existence of the cosmic microwave background residual radiation pervading
Speaker 1: all of the known universe that many consider to be
Speaker 1: the best evidence to date for the Big Bang. Realizing
Speaker 1: his mistake in the end, Einstein proclaimed Lemetra's theory the
Speaker 1: most beautiful and satisfactory explanation of creation to which I
Speaker 1: have ever listened, demonstrating that what counts ultimately is the data,
Speaker 1: not the ideology. What can't be overlooked is the reason
Speaker 1: that Einstein had missed what was already apparent in his calculations.
Speaker 1: It wasn't because he didn't understand it, but rather because
Speaker 1: he was effectively blind to it. Einstein was so convinced
Speaker 1: that such a universe wasn't possible, even creating an additional
Speaker 1: component to account for it that he called the cosmological
Speaker 1: constant and that he later said was its greatest mistake,
Speaker 1: that he missed the proof of expansion already inherent in
Speaker 1: his own calculations. Just as Einstein had been prepared to
Speaker 1: look beyond conventional wisdom to reassess the work of Isaac Newton,
Speaker 1: so too had Lamet disregarded pervading convictions of the day
Speaker 1: in order to see the universe anew Though it must
Speaker 1: be added that with eye Einstein being the genius that
Speaker 1: he was, it turns out his derided cosmological constant might
Speaker 1: have a function after all, with some linking it to
Speaker 1: the unknown quantity often referred to as dark energy. Although
Speaker 1: it is of course one thing to reinterpret calculations that
Speaker 1: have already been demonstrated to work, it is quite another
Speaker 1: to speculate on something with no hard evidence whatsoever. Lest
Speaker 1: we forget, it is less than one hundred years ago
Speaker 1: since we thought the universe had no beginning, was static
Speaker 1: in composition, composed of only three dimensions, and consisted entirely
Speaker 1: of the Milky Way. Today, many leading scientists are beginning
Speaker 1: to consider the possibility that our universe is only one
Speaker 1: of many universes existing within a much broader region of
Speaker 1: space time than we had previously imagined. With our ever
Speaker 1: advancing understanding of the quantum realm, we find ourselves taking
Speaker 1: seriously notions such as the many world's interpretation, first proposed
Speaker 1: by physicist Hugh Everett i ID In the nineteen fifties,
Speaker 1: for which he was widely ridiculed at the time. Everett's
Speaker 1: idea poses the possibility of an infinite number of universes
Speaker 1: branching out from ours, providing an alternative universe at every
Speaker 1: conceivable moment. The idea has some startling implications, not least
Speaker 1: the possibility that everything that could ever happen already has,
Speaker 1: having barely had a moment to wrap our heads around
Speaker 1: Einstein's four dimensional universe. Advocates of the branch of physics
Speaker 1: known as string theory proposed that space might actually consist
Speaker 1: of eleven or even twenty six dimensions. There are some, however,
Speaker 1: who would discourage our intrepid ventures, who aren't so keen
Speaker 1: on the prospect of uncovering new worlds and whatever else
Speaker 1: we might find along the way. As Stephen Hawking pointed out,
Speaker 1: the history of humankind is littered with the debris of
Speaker 1: civilizations destroyed at the hands of those who considered themselves superior.
Speaker 1: If we struggle to see the world in the same
Speaker 1: way within our own species, let alone, how irrelevant we
Speaker 1: consider the lives of the millions of other species with
Speaker 1: whom we share the planet. What complications might arise should
Speaker 1: we be confronted by a species more advanced than ours. If,
Speaker 1: in our search for hidden worlds, we find a gateway
Speaker 1: to access one, what price might we pay for opening it?
Speaker 1: Perhaps sticking to our own patches best lest we suffer
Speaker 1: the fate of Frank Cotton, for example, from Clive Barker's
Speaker 1: darkly erotic pain to Human Flesh, The hell Bound Heart.
Speaker 1: In Barker's novella The hedonistically Curious, Frank, in his quest
Speaker 1: for ever more sensual pleasure, is introduced to a mystical
Speaker 1: puzzle box known as the La Martian Configuration. It is
Speaker 1: said that the box opens a portal to an extra
Speaker 1: dimensional realm of unfathomable pleasure, administered by a race of
Speaker 1: powerful entities known as Cenobytes. It is only when Frank
Speaker 1: successfully unlocks the portal that he realizes, to his horror,
Speaker 1: that the zadomasochistic cenobites demons to some angels to others
Speaker 1: have an understanding of pleasure that is somewhat different to ours.
Speaker 1: Frank's reward for accessing their world is to have his
Speaker 1: skin ripped from his body before spending an eternity in torture.
Speaker 1: From most human perspectives, the cenobites are monstrous. From theirs,
Speaker 1: they are simply cenobites. For now, at least, we need
Speaker 1: not worry about such horrors. But it's worth bearing in
Speaker 1: mind just how often and significantly extraordinary theories drawn from
Speaker 1: maths can predate our ability to physically prove them. Although
Speaker 1: those multiverse and many world's interpretation theories are only presently speculation,
Speaker 1: they might one day prove to be places we will
Speaker 1: not only communicate with, but visit too. As unfathomable as
Speaker 1: some ideas may at first appear, sometimes it isn't until
Speaker 1: our perceptions of what is possible have shifted that previously
Speaker 1: unseen layers of the universe or indeed universes, can be
Speaker 1: peeled back to reveal their true nature underneath, even if
Speaker 1: the evidence was in front of us all along. To
Speaker 1: paraphrase philosopher Roger Scrutton, the consolation of the imagination often
Speaker 1: turns out not to be imaginary consolation. Ultimately, no matter
Speaker 1: how much further or deeper we look, perhaps there will
Speaker 1: always be something that we don't know, hidden away from
Speaker 1: the beaming light of human endeavor. But one thing seems certain.
Speaker 1: As long as we are around to do so, we
Speaker 1: will never stop searching for whatever that is. This episode
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