Punk Science: A (Very) Brief History of Science

Punk Science are back. And this time, they’ve brought their friends.

Galileo. Newton. Einstein. These are just some of the influential people that Punk Science hang around with on a day-to-day basis. Well, their theories at least. The ones they can understand, anyway. The theories they can reduce to a chaotic, volunteer-based live demonstration. But now, in their most ambitious and improvised show ever, auspiciously timed to coincide with the Centenary of the Science Museum, Punk Science attempt their biggest challenge yet: ALL OF SCIENCE. Yes, all of it.

Using their tried-and-tested formula of live experiments, rigged voting, music and comedy, Punk Science will attempt to trace the trajectory of scientific thought and discovery, all the way from when thinking and discovering were first thought about and discovered. Bill Bryson managed it in his book, but we might have to leave some things out. We’ve only got an hour, for Pete’s sake, and we are but men!

But rest assured, the show will cover all your favourite scientific paradigm shifts, even if that does mean looking up the phrase 'paradigm shift'.

Don’t miss out. We won’t be doing another show like this for a hundred years.

This event is organised by: The Science Museum

This event is part of Light Matter