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throughout the world,

there is a number
that is considered divine.

AMIR HUSSAIN:
In the Bible, there's 12 tribes

of Israel.
There's 12 apostles for Jesus.

NARRATOR:
It is embedded

in dozens
of ancient structures...

At Gobekli Tepe,
there are 12 stones

focused
around two huge monoliths.

NARRATOR:
...and found in the latest
scientific principles.

MICHIO KAKU:
The universe is a symphony
of strings.

And that music is divided
into 12 notes.

NARRATOR:
Is the recurrence
of the number 12

merely chance?

Or could it hold a clue

about humanity's
extraterrestrial past?

RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:The number 12 contains within it

the code of the power of God.

The ancient secret of
tapping into something greater

and higher, something
very possibly extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

NARRATOR:
Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1914.

William James Sidis,
a 16-year-old child prodigy,

becomes the youngest person
to receive a degree

from Harvard University.

Six years after his graduation,

he publishes his first book,

The Animate and the Inanimate.

In the work, he introduces
forward-thinking concepts

in theoretical physics,
including the existence

of dark matterand the behavior of black holes.

MICHAEL DE VLIEGER:
William James Sidis

is a child prodigy, a genius,

who describes,
in what he calls black bodies,

essentially the way
black holes would behave.

They would be invisible because
they are taking in energy.

NARRATOR:
Astrophysicists
have only recently begun

to come to an understanding
of black holes

that Sidis demonstrated
a century ago.

♪

But how did he come to have
such extraordinary insight?

Some researchers attributeSidis's obsession with a base 12

or duodecimal
for his revolutionary thinking.

The duodecimal system

is the number system based on 12rather than ten.

So, instead of counting to ten,

we count to 12,

but we don't use the word "12."
We'll say "a dozen."

For 13,
we'll say "one dozen one,

one dozen two, one dozen three."

ERIC RANKIN:
12 seems like
an organic number to us.

One, as opposed to, say,
dividing our math

into the ten-based
metric system,

when we stay with 12,

it's more easily divided
into more fractions

that stay in round,
even numbers.

That's why it's beautiful
on a clock hand,

that a quarter of an hour
is an even 15.

Half an hour is an even 30.

If it was based on tens,

it would start
getting wonky pretty quick

and requiring decimal points
behind it.

JULYE BIDMEAD:
The Mesopotamians

divided their year
into 12 months.

The ancient Hebrews
took those exact months

and the exact names
of the months

and developed
the Hebrew calendar.

CAROLINE CORY:
We also see the 12 signs
of the zodiac,

and they're basically associated

with the 12 lunar cycles.

Even in biology,
we find that the human body

has 12 systems,

12 meridians, 12 chakras.

In science, we know

that we have 12 cranial nerves.

The number 12
is also very important

in the planetary grid theory,

where you find exactly 12 points

around the globe

that are called vortices

that have
very mysterious qualities.

For example,
the Bermuda Triangle

or the South Atlantic Anomaly.

These specific 12 points

are the entry and exit points

from the Earth
to the rest of the cosmos.

The number 12

is prevalent
in many cultures in society.

It is symbolic for perfection,
for completion.

Maybe even the mastery
of the human condition.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible

that William Sidis's obsession
with the number 12

allowed him
unprecedented insight

into some of the greatest
mysteries of our universe?

In 1976,

theoretical physicist
Burkhard Heim,

known to many
in the scientific community

as the German Stephen Hawking,

introduced
further groundbreaking work

centered on the number 12.

He developed a revolutionary
grand unified theory

that consisted
of a 12-dimensional worldview.

His theory incorporates

not only our material realities
but philosophical ones,

such as how the universe began,

the nature of consciousness
and even why we are here.

KAKU:
In the beginning,
there was one equation.

One equation which, when solved,

gave us the expanding universe,

the formation of galaxies,
the planet Earth,

people, maybe even love.

We find that three dimensions

is simply too small.
[chuckles]

You can't cram all the forces
into three dimensions.

Maybe 12.

But this is one of the hottest
topics in all of physics.

NARRATOR:
For many outside
the scientific community,

the significance
of the number 12 in mathematics

and theoretical physics is,
at best,

a vaguely understood piece
of trivia.

But researchers suggest
this number can be found

in nearly every aspect of life,

appearing in patterns

that seem to repeat
over and over.

For example,
in many ancient traditions,

there exists a group
of divinely appointed advisors

nearly always numbering 12.

JONATHAN YOUNG:
There's a fascinating pattern
of 12s.

It's interesting how this number

comes up again and again
throughout history.

You've got the Arthurian legend,

the 12 knights
of the Round Table.

In the Greek stories,
12 Olympians

went to war with 12 Titans.

HUSSAIN:
In the Bible, you have 12

as being this important number.

There's 12 tribes of Israel.

There's 12 apostles for Jesus.

In the Islamic tradition,
the largest Shia sect

is called the Twelvers
because they have 12 imams.

So, you have to wonder,what is it behind the number 12?

Is it all coincidence?

Or could there be
a higher meaning behind it?

NARRATOR:
The importance of the number 12

is reinforced in the
New Testament's Book of Acts,

which tells of the founding
of the Christian church

after the crucifixion of Jesus

and after the apostle Judas

took his own life.

BIDMEAD:
The apostles,

which were now down to 11--
not quite 12 yet--

had gotten together in Jerusalemto celebrate the Shavuot,

a Jewish harvest festival
that occurs,

um, 50 days after the Passover.

Jesus had promised them before

that revelation
would come to them.

However, they were not yet 12.

They needed a replacement for 12before the revelation.

NARRATOR:
During this celebration,

which came to be known
as the Pentecost,

the apostle Matthias
is chosen to replace Judas.

Only then
is divine contact made.

MICHAEL CARTER:
The disciples are awaiting

their marching orders.

They're in a home,
and a violent wind

comes through the house

and shakes the house
to its foundations,

and the disciples are startled.

And then fire

descends from out of the sky.

And these tongues of fire
attach themselves

to each of the disciples.

YOUNG:
The 12 apostles
gained some kind of access

to special knowledge,
special power.

But only because they met as 12.

TZADOK:
We find the number 12

as having
ancient mystical significance.

It contains within it

the code of the power of God,

the ancient secret

of tapping into something
greater and higher,

something very possibly
extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR:
Could it be
that Jesus's 12 disciples

were, in effect, wisdom keepers,

men who were entrusted
with divine,

perhaps even
extraterrestrial secrets?

And if so,
does it further illustrate

that there is some sort
of cosmic significance

to the number 12?

Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

some of the oldest
stone structures on Earth

that all feature
a pattern of 12.

We find that there are
12 T-shaped stones.

According to
mainstream archaeologists,

this ancient stone complex

contains the world's oldest
known megalithic structures,

dating back
at least 11,500 years.

Prior to the discovery,

the people of this time period

were thought
to be hunter-gatherers

and nowhere near advanced enoughto achieve

such an impressive feat
of engineering.

And as far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

just as remarkable

is the fact
that these ancient structures

once again
point to the importance

of the number 12.

This is the oldest stone circle
complex in the world.

If we look
at the most sophisticated

of the stone enclosures,

we find that there are
12 T-shaped stones

focused around two huge
gateway-like monoliths

in the center.

We have to ask ourselves,

why 12?

NARRATOR:
Is there something
to be learned from the fact

that the oldest known
megalithic structures on Earth

incorporate the number 12?

Researchers point out
that the number 12

turns up at many other
archaeological sites

around the world.

HUGH NEWMAN: Other ancient sitesthat encode number 12

include the Stones of Stenness
on the Orkney Islands,

which dates back
to at least 3100 BC.

Only a few stones still remain,

but, originally, there were 12.

We also have the Twelve Apostlesof Ilkley Moor

up in Yorkshire,
where, strangely,

many UFO sightings and strange
lights have been recorded.

Other sites with the number 12
include Callanish,

which is up
in the Outer Hebrides.

This is a remarkable
megalithic construction.

NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest

that a similar appearance
of 12 stones

in the stories
of the Hebrew Bible

reveals the significance of the
number is not merely symbolic.

In the Book of Exodus,

Moses erected
12 standing stones

at the foot of Mount Sinai

after receiving
the Ten Commandments.

And in the Book of Joshua,

after the Jordan River
parted

to allow the Israelites to pass,

Joshua had 12 stones placed

where the priests
had been standing

who carried
the Ark of the Covenant.

But perhaps
the most extraordinary example

can be found in the Hebrew
Bible's Book of Kings,

when the prophet Elijah
confronts the worshippers

of the pagan god Baal

and challenges them to provide
proof of their god's existence

by making
a sacrificial offering.

Elijah has this bizarre life,

where there are
these multiple episodes

where he is in contact
with someone up in the sky.

HUSSAIN:
Elijah builds an altar
with 12 stones.

He puts the offering,
the bull, on the altar.

And, of course, God,
with God's divine fire,

sends the fire down
to burn this offering.

WILLIAM HENRY:
Why 12 stones?

Was it one stone eachfor the Twelve Tribes of Israel?

That's the common explanation.

But is there something more?

Is it that Elijah
is pointing to the power of 12

and its connection with the
divine light or the divine fire

that he's about to call down?

NARRATOR:
Elijah,

Moses,

Joshua--

all instructed by God
to erect exactly 12 stones.

But regardless of whether or notthese stories reflect

actual historical accounts,

is there a profound message

contained
within this repeated pattern?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and suggest it could reflect
important knowledge

our ancestors possessed

about the very nature
of the universe.

Canton, New York.

2003.

Mathematician Dr. Jeffrey Weeks
and his colleagues

suggest, based on analysis
of maps of the big bang,

that the universe
takes the 12-sided shape

of a dodecahedron.

A team of scientists
headed by Jeffrey Weeks

made a re-remarkable deduction
about the universe.

They believe, based on cosmic
radiation data they've accrued,

that the universe may in fact bea dodecahedron-shaped system,

which is quite incredible.

So, again,
we have this number 12,

and we have
leading scientists saying,

"Hey, yes, this may well be the
actual shape of our reality."

HENRY:So this discovery shows us that,

from the macro level,

the universe level,

down to the societal level

that the number 12 seems to be

the ruling mystical number
of the universe.

NARRATOR:
Curiously,

the idea that the universe takesthe shape of a dodecahedron

was also theorized
by the Greek philosopher Plato

more than 2,000 years earlier.

Plato describes
an early image of the Earth

i-in something
called the Phaedo,

as a dodecahedron
that is 12 panels.

This shape represents the ether,

the life-sustaining life force
that animates everything.

KAKU:
The Greeks were
masters of geometry.

And Plato
and many of the Greeks thought

that this was the key
to the universe,

that the universe obey
what are called magic numbers,

magic numbers encoded
in the laws of geometry,

numbers which seem
to be the basis of reality,

numbers created by the gods

that were talking to us
through numbers.

HENRY:
What Plato described is

the view
that is seen by the gods

or by advanced souls

who are able
to escape the physical

and enter
into the metaphysical realm.

Where did Plato
get that knowledge?

It's quite possible
that he came into contact

with some higher intelligence,

maybe even extraterrestrials
that want to see us

ultimately fulfill our destiny.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible

that special knowledge
was imparted to Plato

so that future generations
of humans would take notice

and seek to better understand
the cosmic significance

of the number 12?

And, if so,

could this also be why
the number 12 was incorporated

in so many ancient structures?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining curious anomalies
within our own human DNA.

HENRY: An immunologist found
that these people had

New York.

Within a collection held
by the institute

is an ancient
Mesopotamian tablet

known as Plimpton 322.

Dated to roughly 1800 BC,

it contains insight
into the mathematical system

of the ancient Sumerians.

RANKIN:
Modern culture and civilization
started in Sumeria

6,000 years ago.

Almost the world's
first modern city

and the world's first useof technology that we use today.

The wheeled and axled vehicle;

a plow; the arch;

the world's first ziggurat,
a pyramidal structure;

writing system, cuneiform;

and this math system
based on 12s and 60s.

DE VLIEGER:
Some of their mathematics

still fascinate us today.

Um, they were able to achieve
a lot with their system

because it was based on 60.

60 is five times 12.

It allowed them to avoid
the messiness of fractions.

RANKIN:Why would they not count by tens

when they have ten digits
on our feet and hands

and seems very easy?

Ten, 20, 30.

That's not the way
those early ancestors of ours

living in Sumeria of the day
were taught to count.

They were taught to countby using the thumb as a counter,

counting the knuckles
or the pads on one hand.

So you had one, two, three,
four, five, six,

seven, eight, nine,
ten, 11, 12.

NARRATOR:
Where did the ancient Sumerians
learn to count

using their knuckles
as an extra digit?

According to their texts,

this knowledge
was given to them

by visitors
who came down from the sky.

RANKIN:
We're able to read cuneiform.

And the people of the day said,
"We did not create this.

"They were gifted to us
by these sky visitors

that we ended up calling
the Anunnaki."

NARRATOR:
While the Sumerians learned
to count in units of 12

by using their knuckles,

in many other ancient cultures,

they actually depicted
their gods

as having six fingers
and six toes.

Sacred texts and mythologies
around the world

often reference six-fingered
gods or gods with six toes.

In the Bible,
we learn of Goliath,

who had six fingers
and six toes.

In other traditions,
for example,

in America, in Chaco Canyon,

we see depictions in petroglyphs
of anthropomorphic beings

with six fingers and six toes.

Newspaper Rock in Utah--
same thing.

NARRATOR:
Did our ancestors
encounter otherworldly beings

with 12 fingers and 12 toes?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest evidence

that such stories are true

and that these beings
even mated with humans

still exists in our own DNA.

Yasuni National Forest,

Ecuador.

1958.

[insects trilling]

Deep in the Amazon basin,

American missionaries discover

a previously unknown
indigenous tribe

centuries removed
from human civilization.

Incredibly, the Waorani people

nearly all possess
12 fingers and 12 toes.

In 1983,
The New York Timesreported

on the work of a medical doctor,an immunologist,

who did a study
on the Waorani tribe of Ecuador

and found that these people had
extraordinary health benefits.

KIRSTEN FISHER:
One interesting thing that
came out of the study was that

the operation of the extra digitwas essentially hardwired

into its own unique part
of the brain,

in terms of the motor control.

So it wasn't like
it was stealing

from another part of the brain

in order to operate
that extra digit.

It was fully integrated

into the, sort of,
the neurological system.

NARRATOR:
The medical term
for the condition

of having extra digits
is polydactyly.

The recessive trait actually
occurs in nearly one

in 1,000 live births,

suggesting that it may, in fact,

be part of the early
human genome.

And the occurrence of
polydactyly

is not entirely random--

there are certain lineages
where this trait

is strikingly prevalent.

Brasilia, Brazil.

October 13, 2017.

Alessandro De Silva
and his wife Katia

welcome the birth
of a healthy baby boy.

Vinicius is the 14th member
of the extended family

to be born
with a distinctive trait:

12 fingers and 12 toes.

CHILDRESS: A lot of times
when people have six fingers,

they can't use all their digits
very well,

but the De Silva family
is-is quite good at it

and-and they use that
extra digit.

You have to wonder, is it
some extraterrestrial gene

that ultimately,
we should all have?

It's an amazing thought.

NARRATOR:
According to some
ancient astronaut theorists,

there may be an even more
profound explanation

for the rare occurrence
of extra digits in humans.

They suggest this anomaly
could be encoded into our DNA,

and designed to draw attention
to the number 12.

-But why 12?
-GEORGE NOORY: Again,

here we have the number 12,
and its sig-significance

is tied into
just about everything.

CHILDRESS:
You have to wonder
if the number 12

isn't some code that has been
put there in the past

for us to decipher.

And it's still waiting for us.

NARRATOR:
A code?

Could there really be
an extraterrestrial connection

to the ubiquity
of the number 12

in mankind's history
and culture?

Ancient astronaut theorists
are convinced

the answer is a profound yes,

and suggest that further clues
can be found

by examining a group of
20th century scientists

who were assembled
to investigate--

and possibly communicate with--
UFOs:

The Majestic 12.

Truman assembled a group
of scientist

October 25, 1988.

The Dallas field office

of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation

receives a copy of an alleged

"top secret"
government document.

The memo,
dated November 18, 1952,

purports to be
a preliminary briefing

to President-elect
Dwight D. Eisenhower.

It details information relating
to a secret committee

to investigate and cover up
extraterrestrial encounters.

BIRNES:
They prepared a manual,
basically briefing documents,

for the incoming
administration.

According to these documents,

as Truman was preparing for
the 1948 election,

he assembled a group
of scientists.

And they were called
Majestic 12, MJ-12,

and they were studying UFOs.

NARRATOR:
Since the first memo surfaced,

the authenticity
of the MJ-12 documents

has been hotly debated.

But for some researchers,

an equally intriguing question

is if the group truly existed,
why did Truman choose 12?

TZADOK: Harry Truman
put together Majestic 12.

Why not Majestic 11?
Why not Majestic 24?

Was the choosing of the number
12 for the MJ-12 a coincidence

or something
much more significant?

Are they an echoback to the 12 apostles of Jesus

in the Christian tradition

or are they 12 sons of Jacob
in the Jewish tradition?

NARRATOR:
If there really was
a top secret group

assembled to investigate
the UFO phenomenon,

does the fact that President
Truman selected exactly 12 men

indicate that he--
or someone on his team--

was aware of the significance
of this number?

Could it have been
meant to signal

to the extraterrestrials
they were investigating

that they were aware of the
existence of some kind of code?

According to the documents
that surfaced,

the men who made up
the Majestic 12

included top scientists,
government officials

and high-ranking
military personnel,

led by Vannevar Bush.

During World War II,
Bush headed

the U.S. Office of Scientific
Research and Development,

through which almost all wartimemilitary R&D was carried out.

The MJ-12 documents also detail
actual contact

that this group made
with alien entities.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE:
The most important document

is "The Restricted SOM1-01,

Majestic-12 Group Special
Operations Manual."

And when you go to page 11,

there is an extraterrestrialtechnology classification table,

and this is solid confirmation
that our government knew,

and was dealing with
extraterrestrial entities

and technology in the '40s.

And if we are on a planet

where there are nonhumans
cohabiting with us,

have they finally seen
that the time has come,

that we need to be released
from the idea

that we're alone
in the universe?

CHILDRESS:
Here we have MJ-12,

who are entrusted
with this special knowledge.

You have to ask yourself,
were they

signaling extraterrestrials?

And this was really the first

official government-style
welcoming

and they were basically saying,
"We're ready for you."

NARRATOR:
Is it possible

that the formation
of the Majestic 12

was an attempt to signal
to a higher intelligence

that humankind now graspedthe significance of this number?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

MJ-12 represented
an important first step

towards a reconnection with
our extraterrestrial ancestors

and they suggest that humanity
may be on the verge

of entering into a new age that
was foretold in the Bible.

Patmos island, Greece.

60 AD.

In a mountaintop cavern known
as the Cave of the Apocalypse,

St. John the Theologian
wrote the last book

of the Christian New Testament:
The Book of Revelation.

In the 12th chapter,

it describes a heavenly realm
called the "New Jerusalem."

HUSSEIN:
The Book of Revelation
talks about

the unveiling of a new world.

And so, there's
the earthly Jerusalem.

This was a new Jerusalem.

DE VLIEGER:
The New Jerusalem
had 12 gates--

three facing north,
three facing south,

three facing east,
three facing west--

one for each of the 12 tribes
of Israel.

The city also had measurements
that were multiples of 12.

That's very interesting.

It connects with that divine 12

and then the ability
to divide 12

into four sets of three.
Very practical number.

NARRATOR:
While many take the Book
of Revelation to be symbolic,

there is one curious aspect
which leads some to believe

it was inspired by
an otherworldly encounter.

In Revelation this city
descends from out of the sky,

which leads to question,

could the New Jerusalem
have been a mothership or, uh,

a city that descends
from the ship?

NARRATOR:
If the Book of Revelation

was inspired by
an extraterrestrial event--

one where John the Theologian

witnessed a spaceship
descending to Earth--

might this explain how John
had been taught

about the New Jerusalem

and the cosmic importance
of the number 12?

The word "angel"
is used 12 times

in the Book of Revelations.

Most of the time,

these angels
are telling the future,

they're prophesying
about some end-time event.

In the Jewish, the Christian,
the Muslim traditions,

there is this idea of
the world to come,

that this world isn't
the be-all and end-all.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that
the Revelation prophecy

isn't about a physical event,

but rather the ushering in
of a new age for mankind?

And if so, might the formation
of the Majestic 12

have set humanity on a path
towards what is referred to

in the Bible as
the "New Jerusalem"?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest that according
to traditions

from the other side
of the world,

the time of Revelation
doesn't lie in the far future,

but is happening right now.

HENRY:
Astronomers observed
this

December 21, 2012.

Thousands of people congregate
at the ruins of Tikal--

one of the largest
archaeological sites

of the Maya civilization

that thrived in the area
of Central America

for more than 2,000 years.

The Maya were known for
being incredibly accurate

at tracking time by tracing the
movement of celestial bodies,

and it is on this exact day

that the famous Mayan long-countcalendar comes to an abrupt end.

Those gathered at Tikal

and other important sites
around the world

are anticipating
some Earth-changing event,

possibly even the end
of the world.

RANKIN: So, the Mayans had
this prophecy--

what we would call 2012--

and they were talking
about a coming new age

or a coming new thing.

The best analogy I ever heard
about the end

of the Mayan calendar
was like it was an odometer.

It wasn't the end of the world--

it was the end of a system

and then the beginning
of a new system.

BRUCE FENTON:
I find it quite fascinating

that the Mayan calendar system
contains

this period of time,
144,000 days,

which, again, a multiple of 12.

So there's something
very strange going on there,

you know,
with this number 12 recurring.

NARRATOR: Was the end
of the Mayan calendar

signaling not the end
of the world

but a turning point
for humankind?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

the answer is yes.

And if the number 12
is some kind of alien code,

it is profoundly linked
to everything

from the formation
of the Majestic 12

to the events of 12/21/2012.

Many people were expecting,

uh, possibly some big cataclysm.

It was the end
of the Mayan calendar.

But instead, uh,
what happened in 2012

was a turning point in history.

NARRATOR:
Geneva, Switzerland.

July 4, 2012.

In the final year
of the Mayan calendar,

scientists working at the CERN
Large Hadron Collider,

the most complex
machine ever created,

announce the LHC's
first major finding.

The particle accelerator
has uncovered

a tiny bit of matter
called the Higgs boson,

an elementary force that allows
particles to acquire mass

to form matter
that makes up our world.

The confirmation of the God
particle, as it became known,

validated
the standard model of physics,

which proposes there are
12 fundamental particles.

The God particle,

discovered in 2012,

is the 12th.

This is a very momentousoccasion in the following sense,

that, for 40 years now,people have been looking for it.

And it really is the particle
that brings together

what's called
the standard model of physics

and explains why particle
and-and matter has mass.

NARRATOR:
With this 12th

and final fundamental particle
discovered,

scientists believethey now have a complete picture

of the basic building blocks
of our universe.

FENTON:
We now are
in a-a very different world

to the world we were pre-2012,

with all kinds
of revelations in science.

You know, things have really
changed very fast since then.

DENNIN:
Now that we've discovered
the Higgs boson,

we can actually explore
what that implication is

for lots of other things we knowabout the physical universe,

including things
like dark matter,

matter that doesn't
really interact with light

and we can't see,
dark energy,

whatever it is that's causing
the universe to accelerate.

'Cause we know
it's accelerating,

but we don't know why.

So, a lot of these other
features of physics,

we now may be able
to get a better handle on.

CHILDRESS:
Along with this God particle,

perhaps humans on Earth
are discovering exactly,

you know, who we are,

where we've come from
and where we're going.

NARRATOR:
Has humanity entered
a new age of understanding,

one shepherded in
by the discovery

of the 12th fundamental
particle,

the so-called God particle?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and point to another
extraordinary occurrence

in 2012,

one that happened
just one month before the end

of the Mayan calendar.

In November 2012,

astronomers at the Arecibo
Observatory in Puerto Rico

observed
this blinding flash of light

that kept repeating itself.

They had no idea what it was

or, actually,
where it was coming from.

They continued researching it,

and they discovered that
this bright flash was so bright

that it had the power
of 500 million suns.

NARRATOR:
What the astronomers
were witnessing

was a fast radio burst,
or FRB,

a transient radio pulse

caused by some high-energy
astrophysical process

not yet understood.

They would label this burst
for the year, month and day

it was discovered,

FRB 12-11-02.

What makes FRB 121102
really interesting

was that it didn't happen once--

it actually repeated.

After the original pulse
detected in November of 2012,

it flashed again in May of 2015

and then again in June,

multiple times each time,

which led some scientists
to speculate

maybe it's
not just a random occurrence.

Maybe this is actually
a strong signal

being sent out deliberately

by some alien civilization
trying to contact us.

We have another coincidence
with 12

with the FRB 121102
bursts of information

that are coming to us.

And it seems to be
an intelligent signal

aimed at planet Earth.

NARRATOR:
Could the extraordinary
discoveries

of the God particle
and fast radio bursts

provide evidence
that 2012 really did mark

a major turning point,

one in which humanity
will awaken

to a profound new reality?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest

that we are on the brink
of deciphering

the final part
of this alien code

and that the key
might actually be found

not by means of mathematics

but with music.

NARRATOR:
Samos, Greece.

535 BC.

35-year-old mathematician
and philosopher Pythagoras

leaves his home
to travel to Egypt

and study the esoteric arts.

He becomes initiated
into the Egyptian priesthood

and eventually founds a school

where his pupils
are sworn to secrecy.

Despite his mysterious nature,

Pythagoras would share
with the world

groundbreaking
mathematical concepts.

And he believed that through
his study of both music

and the movement of the planets,

he had uncoveredthe sacred code of the universe.

KAKU:
The ancients realized that
there were wandering objects

called planets.

And because they moved,

perhaps, encoded
in the motion of these planets

was our destiny, the future,

that there was
a rhyme and reason

to the radii of the orbits
of the planets,

the music of the spheres--

that these spheres,
when they rotate,

create music according to
certain ratios found in music.

The person who first understood

the laws of music
was Pythagoras.

He worked out the laws of music,

that music is divided
into 12 notes.

Pythagoras had this notion
that the music of the spheres,

that the harmony,

the sound
that moved the planets around

was also the sound

that would keep the body
in alignment.

So above, as below,

that we would be in sync

with the movements
of our own galaxy

because of this musical pattern
that suffused everything.

There are 12 tones
in the musical system.

So there's a twelveness to theway the galaxies are harmonized,

to the way our bodies might be
in sync with everything,

all through the 12 tones
of the musical scale.

KAKU:
An octave has 12 steps to it,

and that became the origin
of the mathematics of music.

Well, today,
we believe that string theory,

which is what I do for a living,

is based on the harmonies
of vibrating strings.

We now believethat all the subatomic particles

in the universe--

neutrons, protons, quarks--

are nothing
but different vibrations

of a tiny rubber band.

And so what is the universe?

The universe
is a symphony of strings.

And, therefore,
what is the mind of God

that Albert Einstein
wrote about so eloquently

for the last 30 years
of his life?

According to string theory,

the mind of God
would be cosmic music

resonating through hyperspace.

That is the mind of God.

NARRATOR:
Is humanity's
modern understanding

of the physics of the universe
just now allowing us

to understand the esoteric
knowledge of our ancestors,

knowledge that was
perhaps given to them

by extraterrestrials

for future generations
to rediscover?

TZADOK:
So if the number 12

is sacred to the physical world,

we should question why.

And in modern science,

we're beginning
to have an answer

and to ultimately receive
the revelation

of the wisdom of God

symbolized by the number 12.

So, the number 12 is out there,

but it can only be comprehended
when the mind contemplates

the reality
of the physical world.

And then by doing thatthrough the power of perception,

the power of perception
influences space and time

and therefore changes the whole
physical world as we know it.

NARRATOR: Might the repeated
occurrence of the number 12

found throughout
our ancient world

in groups of wisdom keepers,

sacred formations,

and even DNA

all be part of a code

left by humanity's
extraterrestrial creators?

Perhaps once we understand
how to harness the power

of this divine number,

we will no longer simply be
the people of Earth

but the people of the universe.

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