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Radio 4,24 Dec 2009,26 mins

24/12/2009

Material World

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Can crunching celery undo the damage of too many mince pies? How fast is gravity? Why is slug slime sticky? And how much matter can a black hole suck in before it explodes? Quentin Cooper is joined by palaeontologist Mike Benton, atmospheric physicist Helen Brindley and cosmologist Gerry Gilmore for a special question and answer edition of the programme.

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