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>> Narrator: BILLIONS AND
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BILLIONS OF GALAXIES -- THE
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UNIVERSE IS SO VAST, WE CAN'T
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EVEN IMAGINE WHAT THOSE NUMBERS
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MEAN.
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BUT 14 BILLION YEARS AGO, NONE
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OF IT EXISTED...UNTIL THE BIG
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BANG.
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>> THE BIG BANG IS THE ORIGIN OF
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SPACE AND THE ORIGIN OF TIME
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ITSELF.
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>> Narrator: WE TAKE A JOURNEY
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THROUGH SPACE AND TIME, FROM
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THE BEGINNING TO THE END OF THE
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UNIVERSE ITSELF.
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-- Captions by VITAC --
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THIS IS OUR WORLD.
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CITIES...FORESTS...
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OCEANS...PEOPLE -- EVERYTHING IN
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THE UNIVERSE IS MADE FROM MATTER
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CREATED IN THE FIRST SECONDS OF
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THE BIG BANG...
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...EVERY STAR, EVERY PLANET,
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EVERY ATOM, EVERY BLADE OF
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GRASS, EVERY DROP OF WATER.
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>> WATER IS ANCIENT.
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THE HYDROGEN ATOMS IN HERE WERE
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BORN MOMENTS AFTER THE BIG BANG.
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THEN CAME EVERYTHING ELSE.
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>> Narrator: THE BIG BANG IS THE
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DEFINING EVENT OF OUR
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UNIVERSE...AND EVERYTHING IN IT.
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THE SECRETS OF OUR PAST, OUR
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PRESENT, AND OUR FUTURE ARE
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LOCKED INSIDE THIS ONE MOMENT IN
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TIME.
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TO UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF THE BIG
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BANG, WE HAVE TO TRAVEL OUTSIDE
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OF OUR OWN SOLAR SYSTEM...
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AND JOURNEY BEYOND EVEN OUR OWN
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GALAXY.
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AS WE TRAVEL INTO DEEP SPACE,
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WE'RE ACTUALLY SEEING INTO THE
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PAST...AND GETTING CLOSER TO
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BEING ABLE TO WITNESS THE DAWN
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OF TIME ITSELF.
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PASSING THE FIRST INFANT
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GALAXIES AND THE FIRST STARS...
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WE ARRIVE BACK AT THE MOMENT THE
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UNIVERSE BEGAN AND FACE THE
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BIGGEST QUESTIONS IN ALL OF
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SCIENCE.
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>> THIS IS THE HOLY GRAIL OF
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PHYSICS.
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WE WANT TO KNOW WHY IT BANGED.
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WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT BANGED.
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WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT WAS THERE
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BEFORE THE BANG.
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>> Narrator: TO GET THE ANSWERS,
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WE'VE BUILT MACHINES THE SIZE OF
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CITIES TO SIMULATE CONDITIONS
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WHEN THE UNIVERSE WAS CREATED...
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AND SPACE TELESCOPES TO PEER
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DEEP INTO OUR PAST.
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>> WE ARE GETTING CLOSE TO
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ANSWERING THE OLD-AGE QUESTIONS.
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WHY ARE WE HERE?
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WHERE DID WE COME FROM?
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DOES THE UNIVERSE IN FACT HAVE A
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BEGINNING OR AN END?
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AND, IF SO, WHAT ARE THEY LIKE?
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IF WE FIND THE ANSWER TO THAT,
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IT WOULD BE THE ULTIMATE TRIUMPH
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OF HUMAN REASON.
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WE WOULD KNOW THE MIND OF GOD.
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>> Narrator: THE ORIGIN OF THE
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BIG BANG IS THE GREATEST MYSTERY
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OF ALL TIME.
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AND THE MORE WE LEARN, THE
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DEEPER THE MYSTERY BECOMES.
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>> WE LIKE TO THINK THAT OUR
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UNIVERSE IS UNIQUE.
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HOWEVER, NOW WE'RE NOT SO SURE.
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PERHAPS THERE IS A MULTIVERSE OF
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UNIVERSES.
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>> ANOTHER POSSIBILITY IS THAT
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OUR BIG BANG IS JUST ONE OF MANY
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BIG BANGS, BUT IT MAY BE ONE OF
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JUST AN INFINITE NUMBER OF
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UNIVERSES.
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AND THERE MAY BE OTHER REGIONS
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IN THAT INFINITE NUMBER OF
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UNIVERSES WHERE A BIG BANG IS
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JUST HAPPENING TODAY.
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>> Narrator: BUT THERE'S ONLY
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ONE UNIVERSE WE'RE SURE OF, AND
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UNDERSTANDING THIS ONE IS HARD
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ENOUGH.
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SINCE THE LATE 1920s, EVERYTHING
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WE KNOW ABOUT HOW OUR UNIVERSE
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WORKS HAS BEEN TURNED UPSIDE
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DOWN.
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>> IT'S IMPORTANT TO REALIZE HOW
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MUCH OUR PICTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
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HAS CHANGED IN THE LAST CENTURY.
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AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
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20th CENTURY, THE CONVENTIONAL
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WISDOM IN SCIENCE WAS THAT THE
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UNIVERSE WAS STATIC AND ETERNAL.
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>> Narrator: IN 1929, THAT ALL
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CHANGED.
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AT THE MOUNT WILSON OBSERVATORY
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ABOVE LOS ANGELES, ASTRONOMER
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EDWIN HUBBLE DISCOVERED GALAXIES
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AREN'T STUCK IN ONE PLACE.
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NOT ONLY ARE THEY MOVING, BUT
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THEY'RE FLYING AWAY FROM EARTH
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AT INCREDIBLE SPEEDS.
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THIS WAS THE FIRST REAL EVIDENCE
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OF THE BIG BANG.
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>> ALL GALAXIES ON AVERAGE ARE
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MOVING AWAY FROM US, AND,
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STRANGER STILL, THOSE THAT WERE
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TWICE AS FAR AWAY WERE MOVING
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TWICE AS FAST.
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AND THOSE THAT WERE THREE TIMES
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AS FAR AWAY WERE MOVING THREE
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TIMES AS FAST, AND SO ON.
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EVERYTHING WAS MOVING AWAY FROM
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US.
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>> Narrator: IT BECAME KNOWN AS
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HUBBLE'S LAW.
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HIS DISCOVERY IS STILL THE
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STARTING POINT FOR EXPLORATION
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OF THE BIG BANG.
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>> WHAT HUBBLE CONVINCINGLY
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DEMONSTRATED, BY SEEING THE
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MOTION OF THOSE GALAXIES, IS
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THAT THE UNIVERSE IS EXPANDING.
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>> Narrator: THEORETICALLY, AN
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EXPANDING UNIVERSE MUST HAVE
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STARTED FROM A SINGLE POINT.
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BY MEASURING HOW FAST THE
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UNIVERSE IS EXPANDING,
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ASTRONOMERS CALCULATED
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BACKWARDS AND FIGURED OUT WHEN
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IT BURST INTO LIFE.
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>> PEOPLE ASK THE QUESTION,
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"HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THE
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UNIVERSE IS 13.7 BILLION YEARS
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OLD?
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I MEAN, SMARTY-PANTS, YOU
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WEREN'T THERE 13.7 BILLION YEARS
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AGO."
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WELL, WHEN YOU WATCH TELEVISION
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ON VIDEOTAPE, YOU HIT THE STOP
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BUTTON WHEN YOU SEE AN
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EXPLOSION, AND YOU CAN RUN IT
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BACKWARDS AND SEE WHEN IT
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ACTUALLY TOOK PLACE.
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THE SAME THING TAKES PLACE WITH
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COSMOLOGY.
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WE CAN RUN THE VIDEOTAPE
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BACKWARDS AND THEN CALCULATE
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WHEN IT ALL CAME FROM A COSMIC
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EXPLOSION.
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>> Narrator: YOU DON'T HAVE TO
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BE AN ASTRONOMER TO LOOK BACK IN
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TIME.
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IF YOU GAZE UP AT THE NIGHT SKY,
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YOU'RE SEEING STARS THAT ARE
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MILLIONS OF LIGHT-YEARS AWAY,
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MEANING IT TOOK THE LIGHT FROM
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THOSE STARS MILLIONS OF YEARS TO
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GET HERE.
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SO IF YOU LOOK FAR ENOUGH, YOU
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SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE THE
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BEGINNING OF THE UNIVERSE.
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NAMED FOR THE GROUNDBREAKING
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ASTRONOMER, THE HUBBLE SPACE
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TELESCOPE ALLOWS US TO LOOK DEEP
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INTO THE UNIVERSE, BACK IN TIME,
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AND CLOSER TO THE MOMENT OF THE
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BIG BANG.
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THE CLOCK TO THE BIG BANG WAS
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ONLY THE FIRST STEP.
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>> WHEN PEOPLE FIRST HEAR ABOUT
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THE BIG BANG THEORY, THEY SAY,
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WELL, WHERE DID IT TAKE PLACE?
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IT TOOK PLACE OVER THERE.
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IT TOOK PLACE OVER THERE.
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WHERE DID IT TAKE PLACE?
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ACTUALLY, IT TOOK PLACE
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EVERYWHERE, BECAUSE THE UNIVERSE
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ITSELF WAS EXTREMELY SMALL AT
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THAT TIME.
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>> Narrator: THESE ARE ONLY SOME
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OF THE MOST ABSTRACT AND
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DIFFICULT CONCEPTS THERE ARE.
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SO HERE'S A MIND-BENDER.
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WHAT CAME BEFORE THE BIG BANG?
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>> THE PHILOSOPHERS IN ANCIENT
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SOMETHING ARISE FROM NOTHING?
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AND WHAT'S AMAZING TO ME IS THAT
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THE LAWS OF PHYSICS ALLOW THAT
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TO HAPPEN.
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AND IT MEANS THAT OUR WHOLE
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UNIVERSE, EVERYTHING WE SEE,
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EVERYTHING THAT MATTERS TO US
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TODAY, COULD HAVE ARISEN OUT OF
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PRECISELY NOTHING.
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>> Narrator: IT'S ONE OF THE
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BIGGEST HURDLES TO UNDERSTANDING
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THE BIG BANG.
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FIRST YOU HAVE TO BUY INTO THE
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PREMISE THAT SOMETHING WAS
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CREATED OUT OF NOTHING.
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>> IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO DESCRIBE
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THE MOMENT OF CREATION IN HUMAN
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LANGUAGE.
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ALL WE KNOW IS THAT FROM WHAT
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MAY HAVE BEEN NOTHING, WE GO TO
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A STATE OF...ALMOST INFINITE
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DENSITY AND INFINITE TEMPERATURE
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AND INFINITE VIOLENCE.
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>> Narrator: UNDERSTANDING HOW
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NOTHING TURNED INTO SOMETHING
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MAY BE THE GREATEST MYSTERY OF
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OUR UNIVERSE.
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BUT IF YOU UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU
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START TO UNDERSTAND THE BIG
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BANG, WHEN TIME AND SPACE BEGAN,
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AND THE GREAT BIG EXPLOSION
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CREATED EVERYTHING.
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>> Narrator: AT THE DAWN OF
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TIME, THE UNIVERSE EXPLODES INTO
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EXISTENCE FROM ABSOLUTELY
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NOTHING INTO EVERYTHING.
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BUT EVERYTHING IS ACTUALLY A
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SINGLE POINT, INFINITELY SMALL,
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UNIMAGINABLY HOT, A SUPER-DENSE
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SPECK OF PURE ENERGY.
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>> THE BIG BANG WAS SO IMMENSE
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THAT IT BROUGHT INTO EXISTENCE
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ALL OF THE MASS AND ALL OF THE
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ENERGY CONTAINED IN ALL OF THE
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400 BILLION GALAXIES WE SEE IN
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OUR UNIVERSE IN A REGION SMALLER
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THAN THE SIZE OF A SINGLE ATOM.
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THE ENTIRE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE
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WAS A MILLIONTH OF A BILLIONTH
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OF A CENTIMETER ACROSS AT THAT
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TIME.
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EVERYTHING WAS COMPRESSED INTO
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AN INCREDIBLY HOT, DENSE REGION.
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>> Narrator: IT'S NOT EVEN
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MATTER YET, JUST A POINT OF
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RAGING ENERGY.
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IT WAS THE BEGINNING OF THE
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UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING IN IT.
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>> EVERYTHING WAS SIMPLE.
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ALL THE FORCES THAT WE KNOW
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ABOUT TODAY WERE ONE AND THE
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SAME.
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THE UNIVERSE WAS AMORPHOUS.
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IT HAD NO STRUCTURE.
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>> Narrator: IN THAT INSTANT OF
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CREATION, ALL THE LAWS OF
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PHYSICS, THE VERY FORCES THAT
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ENGINEER OUR UNIVERSE, BEGAN TO
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TAKE SHAPE.
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THE FIRST FORCE TO EMERGE WAS
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GRAVITY.
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THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE -- ITS
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SIZE, STRUCTURE, AND EVERYTHING
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IN IT -- WAS DECIDED IN THAT
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MOMENT.
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CARLOS FRENK STUDIES HOW GRAVITY
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SHAPED THE UNIVERSE BY CREATING
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ARTIFICIAL UNIVERSES IN THIS
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SUPERCOMPUTER.
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HE GIVES EACH ONE A DIFFERENT
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AMOUNT OF GRAVITY.
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THE FIRST ONE HE TRIED HAD TOO
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LITTLE, RESULTING IN, WELL,
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NOTHING.
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>> GRAVITY HAS SAVED OUR
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UNIVERSE, FOR IF GRAVITY WAS
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WEAKER THAN IT IS, WE WOULD HAVE
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A VERY BORING UNIVERSE IN WHICH
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EVERYTHING WOULD BE FLYING APART
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SO FAST THAT THERE WOULD BE NO
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GALAXIES FORMING.
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>> Narrator: NEXT, HE PROGRAMMED
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A UNIVERSE WITH TOO MUCH
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GRAVITY.
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>> IF GRAVITY WAS STRONGER THAN
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WE THINK IT IS, AGAIN, WE'LL END
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UP WITH A FAILED UNIVERSE.
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EVERYTHING WILL END UP IN BLACK
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HOLES.
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IT HAS TO BE JUST SO.
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IT HAS TO BE JUST RIGHT.
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>> Narrator: LUCKY FOR US, THE
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BIG BANG GOT IT JUST RIGHT --
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THE PERFECT AMOUNT OF GRAVITY.
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IN THE TURMOIL OF FORCES AFTER
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GRAVITY EMERGED, STILL A
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FRACTION OF A SECOND AFTER THE
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BIG BANG, A SHOCK WAVE OF ENERGY
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ERUPTED AND EXPANDED THE
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UNIVERSE IN ALL DIRECTIONS AT
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INCREDIBLE SPEED.
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>> ALL OF SPACE EXPANDED BY AN
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UNBELIEVABLY LARGE FACTOR IN A
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FRACTION OF A SECOND.
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WE THINK THAT IN LESS THAN A
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MILLIONTH OF A MILLIONTH OF A
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MILLIONTH OF A MILLIONTH OF
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A SECOND, SPACE EXPANDED BY A
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FACTOR BIGGER THAN A MILLION,
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MILLION, MILLION, MILLION TIMES.
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>> Narrator: AND FOR THE RECORD,
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THAT'S FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF
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LIGHT.
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BUT, WAIT, DOESN'T THAT BREAK
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ONE OF THE LAWS OF PHYSICS?
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>> EVEN SCHOOLCHILDREN KNOW
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THAT, "YOU CAN'T GO FASTER THAN
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THE SPEED OF LIGHT."
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BUT I SAY THERE'S A LOOPHOLE
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THERE.
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YOU SEE, NOTHING CAN GO FASTER
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THAN LIGHT, NOTHING BEING EMPTY
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SPACE.
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>> Narrator: DON'T WORRY.
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THIS IDEA GIVES EVEN THE BEST
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MINDS IN SCIENCE A HEADACHE.
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BUT IT'S CRITICAL TO
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UNDERSTANDING THE EARLY
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UNIVERSE.
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SCIENTISTS THINK IT TOOK LESS
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THAN A MILLIONTH OF A MILLIONTH
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OF A MILLIONTH OF A MILLIONTH OF
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A SECOND FOR THE UNIVERSE TO
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EXPAND FROM THE SIZE OF AN ATOM
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TO A BASEBALL.
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THAT MAY NOT SOUND LIKE MUCH,
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BUT IT'S LIKE A GOLF BALL
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EXPANDING TO THE SIZE OF THE
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EARTH IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF
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TIME.
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THAT MEANS IT WAS EXPANDING
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FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT.
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THAT'S FAST.
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>> SO MANY THINGS WERE HAPPENING
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SO FAST IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE,
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BECAUSE EVERYTHING WAS SO CLOSE
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TOGETHER, THAT WE NEEDED A NEW
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UNIT OF TIME TO DESCRIBE THINGS.
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>> Narrator: IT'S CALLED PLANCK
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TIME.
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TO UNDERSTAND JUST HOW SHORT A
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PLANCK TIME IS, CONSIDER THIS.
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THERE ARE MORE UNITS OF PLANCK
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TIME IN ONE SECOND THAN ALL THE
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SECONDS SINCE THE BIG BANG.
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THE MATH IS MIND-BLOWING.
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THERE ARE MORE THAN 31 MILLION
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SECONDS IN A YEAR, AND IT'S BEEN
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14 BILLION YEARS SINCE THE BIG
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BANG.
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SO MULTIPLY 31,556,926 BY
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14 BILLION, AND WHAT YOU GET IS
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A REALLY BIG NUMBER.
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>> IT'S A TIME SCALE THAT'S SO
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SMALL THAT ALL HUMAN INTUITION
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GOES OUT THE WINDOW.
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IF WE LOOK AT OUR WATCHES AND
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MEASURE ONE SECOND, WE CAN ASK,
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HOW MANY PLANCK TIMES IS THAT?
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WELL, IT IS A BILLION, BILLION,
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BILLION, BILLION, BILLION
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PLANCK TIMES.
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>> Narrator: SO, NOW THE BIG
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BANG IS ONLY A FEW PLANCK TIMES
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OLD, AN EXPLODING MASS OF PURE
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ENERGY EXPANDING FASTER THAN THE
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SPEED OF LIGHT.
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IN THE NEXT FEW PLANCK TIMES,
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THE UNIVERSE AS WE KNOW IT WILL
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BE BORN.
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>> Narrator: A FRACTION OF A
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SECOND AFTER THE BIG BANG, THE
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UNIVERSE IS SO SMALL IT CAN FIT
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IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
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BUT IN ANOTHER TINY FRACTION OF
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A SECOND, IT EXPANDS TO THE SIZE
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OF THE EARTH.
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THEN, MOVING FASTER THAN THE
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SPEED OF LIGHT, IT GROWS LARGER
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THAN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM.
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AND IT'S STILL JUST A RAGING
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STORM OF SUPERHEATED ENERGY.
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>> IT WOULD BE HOTTER AND DENSER
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AND MORE VIOLENT THAN ANYTHING
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THAT WE CAN EXPERIENCE IN THE
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UNIVERSE TODAY.
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EVEN THE INTERIOR OF A STAR IS
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CALM AND SERENE BY COMPARISON TO
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THE VIOLENCE OF THE EARLIEST
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MOMENTS OF THE BIG BANG.
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>> TEMPERATURES WERE SO HOT THAT
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EVEN THE ATOMS OF YOUR BODY
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WOULD DISINTEGRATE -- SO HOT, IN
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FACT, THAT THE ATOMS WOULD BE
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RIPPED APART.
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>> Narrator: HOW HOT?
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TRILLIONS OF DEGREES HOT.
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BUT AS THE UNIVERSE CONTINUES TO
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EXPAND, IT ALSO BEGINS TO COOL.
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DROPPING TEMPERATURES TRIGGER
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THE NEXT STAGE IN THE UNIVERSE'S
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EVOLUTION.
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THE RAW ENERGY OF THE EXPLOSION
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TRANSFORMS INTO TINY SUBATOMIC
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PARTICLES.
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IT'S THE FIRST MATTER IN THE
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UNIVERSE.
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THIS CONVERSION OF ENERGY INTO
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MATTER WAS PREDICTED BY
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ALBERT EINSTEIN YEARS BEFORE
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ANYONE STARTED TALKING ABOUT THE
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BIG BANG.
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IT'S THE ONE SCIENTIFIC EQUATION
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EVERY SCHOOLKID KNOWS.
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>> THERE IS ONE VERY FAMILIAR
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FORMULA.
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AND THAT IS E EQUALS MC SQUARED.
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IT SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT THE
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CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE.
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IT SAYS EVEN IF THE UNIVERSE IS
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CREATED JUST OUT OF PURE ENERGY,
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THAT BECAUSE ENERGY CAN BE
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CONVERTED TO MATTER AND MATTER
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TO ENERGY, THAT YOU CAN GET ALL
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OF THE STUFF THAT WE SEE IN THE
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UNIVERSE FROM THIS PURE
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ENERGETIC EVENT.
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>> Narrator: EINSTEIN'S LITTLE
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EQUATION HAD A BIG IMPACT.
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IT LED TO THE FIRST NUCLEAR
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BOMBS.
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IN A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION, A SMALL
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AMOUNT OF MATTER IS CONVERTED
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INTO AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF
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ENERGY.
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AS THE UNIVERSE WAS FORMING, THE
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EXACT OPPOSITE HAPPENED.
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PURE ENERGY TRANSFORMED INTO
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PARTICLES OF MATTER.
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>> YOU DON'T NEED TO CREATE
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MATTER IN THE BEGINNING.
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YOU JUST NEED ENERGY.
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AND ENERGY ALONE CAN LEAD TO THE
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CREATION OF AN ENTIRE UNIVERSE.
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>> Narrator: IN JUST A FRACTION
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OF A SECOND AFTER THE BIG BANG,
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THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF OUR
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UNIVERSE BEGIN TO TAKE SHAPE.
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BUT THIS FIRST MATTER IS LIKE
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NOTHING WE SEE TODAY.
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>> THE STUFF OF MATTER HAS BEEN
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VERY DIFFERENT OVER THE AGE OF
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THE UNIVERSE.
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WHAT WE NOW THINK IS NORMAL
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MATTER WAS NOT AT ALL NORMAL IN
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THE EARLIEST MOMENTS OF THE BIG
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BANG.
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>> Narrator: THAT'S BECAUSE
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CONDITION WERE SO EXTREME.
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THERE WERE NO ATOMS YET.
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BUT THERE WERE TINY SUBATOMIC
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PARTICLES.
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>> IN THE EARLIEST MOMENTS OF
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THE BIG BANG, THE UNIVERSE WAS
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SO HOT AND DENSE, THERE WERE
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GREAT AMOUNTS OF ENERGY.
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AND SO PARTICLES WERE BEING
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CREATED ALL THE TIME, AND ENERGY
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AND MATTER WERE TRANSFERRING
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BACK AND FORTH IN THIS HOT,
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DENSE SOUP.
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>> Narrator: THAT EARLIEST
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MATTER WAS TOO UNSTABLE TO START
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FORMING THE UNIVERSE AS WE KNOW
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IT.
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THINK OF IT LIKE THIS.
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IMAGINE RUSH HOUR AT
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GRAND CENTRAL IN NEW YORK CITY
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AS THAT SUPERHEATED EARLY
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UNIVERSE.
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THE COMMUTERS RACING THROUGH THE
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MAIN CONCOURSE ARE SUBATOMIC
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PARTICLES.
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>> IF YOU LOOK AT A CROWD OF
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PEOPLE -- A LARGE CROWD OF
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PEOPLE -- THEY MAY APPEAR
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RANDOM.
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THAT RANDOM, QUIRKY MOTION IS
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VERY SIMILAR THAN WHAT WAS
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HAPPENING IN THE PARTICLES IN
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THE UNIVERSE IN THE EARLIEST
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MOMENTS OF THE BIG BANG.
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>> Narrator: THE EXTREME
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TEMPERATURE OF THE EARLY
519
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UNIVERSE ENERGIZES THE SUBATOMIC
520
00:20:37,804 --> 00:20:38,938
PARTICLES.
521
00:20:38,938 --> 00:20:40,206
THEY APPEAR.
522
00:20:40,206 --> 00:20:44,644
THEY DISAPPEAR.
523
00:20:44,644 --> 00:20:46,513
THEY RACE AROUND AT INCREDIBLE
524
00:20:46,513 --> 00:20:47,146
SPEEDS.
525
00:20:47,146 --> 00:20:49,282
IT'S PURE CHAOS.
526
00:20:54,687 --> 00:20:56,523
>> IT'S LIKE PEOPLE.
527
00:20:56,523 --> 00:20:58,057
IF THEY'RE EXCITED AND RUNNING
528
00:20:58,057 --> 00:20:59,659
AROUND FAST TO CATCH TRAINS AT A
529
00:20:59,659 --> 00:21:01,361
TRAIN STATION, THEY'LL BE MOVING
530
00:21:01,361 --> 00:21:02,929
AROUND QUICKLY.
531
00:21:02,929 --> 00:21:05,665
BUT EVENTUALLY, THEY CALM DOWN
532
00:21:05,665 --> 00:21:07,500
AND GET SLOWER.
533
00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:09,001
THAT'S WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING TO
534
00:21:09,001 --> 00:21:10,236
OUR UNIVERSE, IN A SENSE.
535
00:21:10,236 --> 00:21:11,738
THE PARTICLES ARE MOVING AROUND
536
00:21:11,738 --> 00:21:12,372
VERY FAST.
537
00:21:12,372 --> 00:21:13,840
AND AS THE UNIVERSE COOLS DOWN,
538
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:15,342
THE PARTICLES MOVE MORE SLOWLY
539
00:21:15,342 --> 00:21:19,145
AND, IN SOME SENSE, LESS RANDOM.
540
00:21:19,145 --> 00:21:20,813
>> Narrator: AS THE UNIVERSE
541
00:21:20,813 --> 00:21:22,349
COOLS, THE PARTICLES STOP
542
00:21:22,349 --> 00:21:25,051
CHANGING BACK INTO ENERGY.
543
00:21:33,360 --> 00:21:35,362
NOW THERE ARE MORE AND MORE
544
00:21:35,362 --> 00:21:37,397
SUBATOMIC PARTICLES, BUT IT'S
545
00:21:37,397 --> 00:21:41,267
STILL A HOT, VIOLENT PLACE.
546
00:21:41,267 --> 00:21:42,969
ALL THIS IS HAPPENING IN
547
00:21:42,969 --> 00:21:45,104
FRACTIONS OF A SECOND TOO SMALL
548
00:21:45,104 --> 00:21:46,038
TO DETECT.
549
00:21:46,038 --> 00:21:48,274
BUT THE BIG BANG IS MOVING INTO
550
00:21:48,274 --> 00:21:50,510
A CRITICAL STAGE NOW, A TITANIC
551
00:21:50,510 --> 00:21:52,645
BATTLE BETWEEN MATTER AND THE
552
00:21:52,645 --> 00:21:54,814
ONE THING THAT CAN DESTROY THE
553
00:21:54,814 --> 00:21:56,883
UNIVERSE BEFORE IT EVEN GETS
554
00:21:56,883 --> 00:21:59,519
STARTED...ANTIMATTER.
555
00:22:19,271 --> 00:22:20,773
>> Narrator: EVERYTHING IN THE
556
00:22:20,773 --> 00:22:25,412
UNIVERSE IS MADE FROM MATTER,
557
00:22:25,412 --> 00:22:27,414
FROM THE SMALLEST ROCK TO THE
558
00:22:27,414 --> 00:22:29,148
LARGEST STAR.
559
00:22:29,148 --> 00:22:31,317
AND ALL THE MATTER THERE WILL
560
00:22:31,317 --> 00:22:33,420
EVER BE WAS CREATED FROM THE
561
00:22:33,420 --> 00:22:41,060
PURE ENERGY OF THE BIG BANG.
562
00:22:41,060 --> 00:22:42,729
EINSTEIN'S EQUATION,
563
00:22:42,729 --> 00:22:44,864
E EQUALS MC SQUARED,
564
00:22:44,864 --> 00:22:47,700
SAYS THAT ENERGY TRANSFORMS INTO
565
00:22:47,700 --> 00:22:48,935
MATTER.
566
00:22:48,935 --> 00:22:51,471
BUT IT WAS JUST A THEORY.
567
00:22:51,471 --> 00:22:54,340
TODAY SCIENCE IS ABLE TO TEST
568
00:22:54,340 --> 00:22:59,078
THAT THEORY.
569
00:22:59,078 --> 00:23:01,113
THIS IS CERN IN SWITZERLAND,
570
00:23:01,113 --> 00:23:03,149
HOME TO THE WORLD'S LARGEST
571
00:23:03,149 --> 00:23:06,553
MACHINE.
572
00:23:06,553 --> 00:23:08,655
IT'S THE SIZE OF A CITY AND
573
00:23:08,655 --> 00:23:10,690
ENGINEERED TO RE-CREATE THE
574
00:23:10,690 --> 00:23:12,759
CONDITIONS MILLIONTHS OF A
575
00:23:12,759 --> 00:23:15,294
SECOND AFTER THE BIG BANG.
576
00:23:15,462 --> 00:23:17,029
>> IF WE WANT TO PROBE
577
00:23:17,029 --> 00:23:18,531
EVER-SMALLER SCALES,
578
00:23:18,531 --> 00:23:19,999
PARADOXICALLY WE NEED AN
579
00:23:19,999 --> 00:23:21,033
EVER-BIGGER MACHINE.
580
00:23:21,033 --> 00:23:22,368
THERE'S JUST NO OTHER WAY OF
581
00:23:22,368 --> 00:23:24,471
DOING IT, SO BIG MACHINES MEAN
582
00:23:24,471 --> 00:23:26,806
SMALL PHYSICS, MEANS EARLY TIMES
583
00:23:26,806 --> 00:23:29,075
AND, THEREFORE, GETTING CLOSER
584
00:23:29,075 --> 00:23:31,377
AND CLOSER TO THE ORIGIN OF THE
585
00:23:31,377 --> 00:23:32,945
UNIVERSE ITSELF.
586
00:23:33,079 --> 00:23:34,614
>> Narrator: THIS MONSTER
587
00:23:34,614 --> 00:23:36,382
MACHINE IS CALLED A COLLIDER.
588
00:23:36,382 --> 00:23:38,317
IT'S DESIGNED TO TAKE US BACK TO
589
00:23:38,317 --> 00:23:39,919
THOSE FIRST FRACTIONS OF A
590
00:23:39,919 --> 00:23:42,288
SECOND AFTER THE BIG BANG.
591
00:23:42,288 --> 00:23:43,956
IT'S A 12-FOOT-WIDE
592
00:23:43,956 --> 00:23:46,325
CONCRETE-LINE CIRCULAR TUNNEL
593
00:23:46,325 --> 00:23:52,031
17 MILES AROUND.
594
00:23:52,031 --> 00:23:53,666
THE COLLIDER MAKES TINY
595
00:23:53,666 --> 00:23:55,735
PARTICLES OF MATTER SMASH INTO
596
00:23:55,735 --> 00:23:57,804
EACH OTHER AT ALMOST THE SPEED
597
00:23:57,804 --> 00:24:04,511
OF LIGHT.
598
00:24:04,511 --> 00:24:06,212
FOR A SPLIT SECOND, THOSE
599
00:24:06,212 --> 00:24:08,380
COLLISIONS GENERATE TURBOCHARGED
600
00:24:08,380 --> 00:24:10,517
ENERGY SIMILAR TO THE EXPLOSIVE
601
00:24:10,517 --> 00:24:13,419
FORCE OF THE BIG BANG.
602
00:24:13,419 --> 00:24:15,888
AND THEN THAT PURE ENERGY
603
00:24:15,888 --> 00:24:18,891
BRIEFLY TRANSFORMS INTO MATTER,
604
00:24:18,891 --> 00:24:21,193
JUST LIKE IT DID NEARLY
605
00:24:21,193 --> 00:24:25,732
14 BILLION YEARS AGO.
606
00:24:25,732 --> 00:24:27,834
BUT A MONSTER MACHINE NEEDS A
607
00:24:27,834 --> 00:24:29,969
MONSTER DETECTOR TO SEE THESE
608
00:24:29,969 --> 00:24:31,403
COLLISIONS.
609
00:24:31,538 --> 00:24:33,439
>> THIS DETECTOR IS FIVE STORIES
610
00:24:33,439 --> 00:24:36,809
TALL AND WEIGHS OVER 7,000 TONS.
611
00:24:36,809 --> 00:24:38,344
AND 7,000 TONS -- TO GIVE YOU A
612
00:24:38,344 --> 00:24:39,846
SENSE OF PERSPECTIVE -- IS THE
613
00:24:39,846 --> 00:24:42,549
WEIGHT OF THE EIFFEL TOWER.
614
00:24:42,682 --> 00:24:43,883
>> Narrator: BUT AS BIG AS IT
615
00:24:43,883 --> 00:24:45,552
IS, IT CAN'T SEE THE ACTUAL
616
00:24:45,552 --> 00:24:47,086
PARTICLES OF NEW MATTER.
617
00:24:47,086 --> 00:24:48,855
THEY HANG AROUND FOR JUST A
618
00:24:48,855 --> 00:24:50,890
SPLIT SECOND AND MOVE SO FAST IT
619
00:24:50,890 --> 00:24:55,061
CAN ONLY RECORD THEIR TRAILS.
620
00:24:55,061 --> 00:24:56,563
>> THERE'S A LOT OF ENERGY IN
621
00:24:56,563 --> 00:24:57,363
THESE PARTICLES.
622
00:24:57,363 --> 00:24:58,798
THEY MOVE VERY, VERY QUICKLY,
623
00:24:58,798 --> 00:25:00,166
AND SO YOU NEED A VERY LARGE
624
00:25:00,166 --> 00:25:01,701
AMOUNT OF DETECTOR IN ORDER TO
625
00:25:01,701 --> 00:25:05,004
BE ABLE TO MAP THE PATH OF THESE
626
00:25:05,004 --> 00:25:06,573
PARTICLES VERY PRECISELY.
627
00:25:06,573 --> 00:25:08,040
SO, THE DETECTOR IS SO BIG
628
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:09,408
BECAUSE YOU NEED BETTER
629
00:25:09,408 --> 00:25:10,376
RESOLUTION.
630
00:25:10,376 --> 00:25:11,844
IT WORKS EXACTLY THE SAME AS A
631
00:25:11,844 --> 00:25:12,344
CAMERA.
632
00:25:12,344 --> 00:25:13,780
THE MORE PIXELS YOU HAVE, THE
633
00:25:13,780 --> 00:25:14,814
BETTER THE PICTURE.
634
00:25:14,814 --> 00:25:16,148
IT'S EXACTLY THE SAME HERE.
635
00:25:16,148 --> 00:25:17,584
WE JUST HAVE A FIVE-STORY
636
00:25:17,584 --> 00:25:19,852
CAMERA.
637
00:25:19,852 --> 00:25:21,453
>> Narrator: SCIENTISTS HOPE
638
00:25:21,453 --> 00:25:22,955
THAT IT'LL REVEAL JUST HOW
639
00:25:22,955 --> 00:25:26,993
ENERGY TRANSFORMS INTO MATTER...
640
00:25:26,993 --> 00:25:29,228
BUT NOT JUST ANY MATTER -- THE
641
00:25:29,228 --> 00:25:31,263
KIND OF MATTER THAT EMERGED
642
00:25:31,263 --> 00:25:33,600
14 BILLION YEARS AGO AT THE DAWN
643
00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:38,370
OF TIME ITSELF.
644
00:25:38,370 --> 00:25:39,906
BUT THE DAWN OF TIME WAS A
645
00:25:39,906 --> 00:25:41,674
CRITICAL MOMENT IN THE BIRTH OF
646
00:25:41,674 --> 00:25:43,175
THE UNIVERSE, BECAUSE PURE
647
00:25:43,175 --> 00:25:44,944
ENERGY ALSO PRODUCED ONE OF THE
648
00:25:44,944 --> 00:25:46,613
MOST DANGEROUS THINGS IN THE
649
00:25:46,613 --> 00:25:49,348
UNIVERSE -- ANTIMATTER.
650
00:25:49,348 --> 00:25:51,784
THAT'S RIGHT, ANTIMATTER --
651
00:25:51,784 --> 00:25:56,823
IT'S REAL.
652
00:25:56,823 --> 00:25:58,524
>> ANTIMATTER IS THE MIRROR
653
00:25:58,524 --> 00:26:00,326
IMAGE OF ORDINARY MATTER.
654
00:26:00,326 --> 00:26:02,494
HOWEVER, MATTER HAS ONE CHARGE,
655
00:26:02,494 --> 00:26:04,631
AND ANTIMATTER HAS THE OPPOSITE
656
00:26:04,631 --> 00:26:05,865
CHARGE.
657
00:26:05,865 --> 00:26:07,867
IF THERE WAS AN ANTI-ME MADE OUT
658
00:26:07,867 --> 00:26:09,702
OF ANTIMATTER, THAT PERSON, IN
659
00:26:09,702 --> 00:26:11,503
PRINCIPLE, COULD LOOK EXACTLY
660
00:26:11,503 --> 00:26:13,239
LIKE ME -- SAME PERSONALITY
661
00:26:13,239 --> 00:26:15,241
QUIRKS, SAME EVERYTHING, EXCEPT,
662
00:26:15,241 --> 00:26:16,976
OF COURSE, WHEN I DECIDE TO
663
00:26:16,976 --> 00:26:17,910
SHAKE HIS HAND.
664
00:26:17,910 --> 00:26:19,646
AT THAT POINT, WE BOTH WOULD
665
00:26:19,646 --> 00:26:21,480
BLOW OURSELVES TO SMITHEREENS IN
666
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:25,918
A GIGANTIC NUCLEAR EXPLOSION.
667
00:26:25,918 --> 00:26:27,553
>> Narrator: MATTER WITH A
668
00:26:27,553 --> 00:26:29,656
POSITIVE CHARGE LOCKS HORNS WITH
669
00:26:29,656 --> 00:26:31,791
ITS ARCHENEMY, ANTIMATTER,
670
00:26:31,791 --> 00:26:33,660
WITH A NEGATIVE CHARGE.
671
00:26:33,660 --> 00:26:35,962
THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE HANGS
672
00:26:35,962 --> 00:26:38,064
IN THE BALANCE OF THIS EPIC
673
00:26:38,064 --> 00:26:38,731
BATTLE.
674
00:26:38,731 --> 00:26:40,566
EQUAL AMOUNTS OF MATTER AND
675
00:26:40,566 --> 00:26:42,368
ANTIMATTER WILL CANCEL EACH
676
00:26:42,368 --> 00:26:45,271
OTHER OUT -- NOT GOOD.
677
00:26:45,271 --> 00:26:46,673
>> A UNIVERSE WITH EQUAL AMOUNTS
678
00:26:46,673 --> 00:26:47,807
OF MATTER AND ANTIMATTER IS
679
00:26:47,807 --> 00:26:49,075
EQUIVALENT TO A UNIVERSE WITH
680
00:26:49,075 --> 00:26:50,877
NO MATTER AT ALL, BECAUSE THE
681
00:26:50,877 --> 00:26:52,511
MATTER AND ANTIMATTER WILL
682
00:26:52,511 --> 00:26:54,180
ANNIHILATE BACK INTO PURE
683
00:26:54,180 --> 00:26:54,881
RADIATION.
684
00:26:54,881 --> 00:26:56,182
AND THERE'LL BE NOTHING
685
00:26:56,182 --> 00:26:57,684
INTERESTING -- NO STARS AND
686
00:26:57,684 --> 00:27:02,188
GALAXIES AND PEOPLE IN BETWEEN.
687
00:27:02,188 --> 00:27:03,923
>> Narrator: LIKE A COSMIC GAME
688
00:27:03,923 --> 00:27:05,692
OF RISK, THE SIDE WITH THE MOST
689
00:27:05,692 --> 00:27:09,261
SOLDIERS WINS.
690
00:27:09,261 --> 00:27:11,764
THE SCORE WAS VERY CLOSE, BUT
691
00:27:11,764 --> 00:27:15,702
THERE WAS A WINNER.
692
00:27:15,702 --> 00:27:17,136
>> FOR EVERY BILLION PARTICLES
693
00:27:17,136 --> 00:27:18,470
OF ANTIMATTER, THERE WERE A
694
00:27:18,470 --> 00:27:19,972
BILLION AND ONE PARTICLES OF
695
00:27:19,972 --> 00:27:22,008
MATTER.
696
00:27:22,008 --> 00:27:24,376
THAT WAS THE MOMENT OF CREATION.
697
00:27:24,376 --> 00:27:26,746
THE ONE EXTRA PARTICLE OF MATTER
698
00:27:26,746 --> 00:27:28,915
IN EACH LITTLE VOLUME SURVIVES,
699
00:27:28,915 --> 00:27:31,083
SURVIVES ENOUGH TO FORM ALL THE
700
00:27:31,083 --> 00:27:33,185
MATTER WE SEE IN THE STARS AND
701
00:27:33,185 --> 00:27:39,625
GALAXIES TODAY.
702
00:27:39,625 --> 00:27:41,093
>> Narrator: ONE IN A BILLION
703
00:27:41,093 --> 00:27:42,594
MIGHT NOT SOUND LIKE MUCH, BUT
704
00:27:42,594 --> 00:27:46,198
IT'S ENOUGH TO BUILD A UNIVERSE.
705
00:27:46,198 --> 00:27:48,267
>> WE'RE THE LEFTOVERS.
706
00:27:48,267 --> 00:27:49,736
SO, BELIEVE IT OR NOT,
707
00:27:49,736 --> 00:27:51,570
EVERYTHING YOU SEE AROUND YOU,
708
00:27:51,570 --> 00:27:53,272
THE ATOMS OF YOUR BODY, THE
709
00:27:53,272 --> 00:27:55,174
ATOMS OF THE STARS, ARE NOTHING
710
00:27:55,174 --> 00:27:57,243
BUT LEFTOVERS -- LEFTOVERS FROM
711
00:27:57,243 --> 00:27:59,278
THIS ANCIENT COLLISION BETWEEN
712
00:27:59,278 --> 00:28:05,885
MATTER AND ANTIMATTER.
713
00:28:05,885 --> 00:28:07,754
>> Narrator: LUCKY FOR US, THERE
714
00:28:07,754 --> 00:28:09,655
WAS ENOUGH LEFT OVER TO MAKE ALL
715
00:28:09,655 --> 00:28:13,760
THE STARS AND PLANETS.
716
00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:16,095
AND THE UNIVERSE IS STILL LESS
717
00:28:16,095 --> 00:28:19,231
THAN ONE SECOND OLD.
718
00:28:19,231 --> 00:28:21,600
BUT NOW IT'S SWARMING WITH TINY,
719
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:26,272
PRIMITIVE PARTICLES.
720
00:28:26,272 --> 00:28:28,474
THE NEXT STAGE IS ASSEMBLING
721
00:28:28,474 --> 00:28:30,777
THOSE TINY PARTICLES INTO THE
722
00:28:30,777 --> 00:28:33,312
FIRST ATOMS.
723
00:28:45,792 --> 00:28:47,359
>> Narrator: GIVE OR TAKE A
724
00:28:47,359 --> 00:28:48,895
COUPLE OF PLANCK TIMES, THE
725
00:28:48,895 --> 00:28:50,797
UNIVERSE IS NEARLY A SECOND OLD
726
00:28:50,797 --> 00:28:54,666
AND STILL A VERY STRANGE PLACE.
727
00:28:54,666 --> 00:28:57,236
BUT MATTER HAS WON THE BATTLE
728
00:28:57,236 --> 00:29:00,072
WITH ANTIMATTER.
729
00:29:00,072 --> 00:29:02,708
AND NOW IT'S TIME TO BUILD THE
730
00:29:02,708 --> 00:29:05,377
UNIVERSE.
731
00:29:05,377 --> 00:29:07,646
IT'S STILL EXTREMELY HOT AND
732
00:29:07,646 --> 00:29:11,050
EXPANDING INCREDIBLY FAST.
733
00:29:11,050 --> 00:29:12,484
>> WHEN THE UNIVERSE WAS A
734
00:29:12,484 --> 00:29:14,153
SECOND OLD, THE PARTICLES IN IT
735
00:29:14,153 --> 00:29:15,687
WERE VERY DIFFERENT THAN THE
736
00:29:15,687 --> 00:29:16,655
PARTICLES WE SEE TODAY.
737
00:29:16,655 --> 00:29:18,157
THERE WERE NO ATOMS.
738
00:29:18,290 --> 00:29:19,892
NOTHING THAT WE RECOGNIZE IN THE
739
00:29:19,892 --> 00:29:21,160
ROOM AROUND US TODAY YET
740
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,031
EXISTED.
741
00:29:25,164 --> 00:29:26,833
>> Narrator: NOW ALL THAT BEGINS
742
00:29:26,833 --> 00:29:29,601
TO CHANGE.
743
00:29:29,601 --> 00:29:33,272
TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO COOL.
744
00:29:33,272 --> 00:29:35,241
AND AS THE PRIMITIVE PARTICLES
745
00:29:35,241 --> 00:29:37,143
KEEP SLOWING DOWN, THEY START
746
00:29:37,143 --> 00:29:38,978
BONDING TOGETHER TO FORM THE
747
00:29:38,978 --> 00:29:43,082
ATOMS OF THE FIRST ELEMENTS.
748
00:29:43,082 --> 00:29:44,917
THE FIRST ONE TO FORM IS
749
00:29:44,917 --> 00:29:48,620
HYDROGEN.
750
00:29:48,620 --> 00:29:50,356
THEN OVER THE NEXT THREE
751
00:29:50,356 --> 00:29:52,524
MINUTES, THE UNIVERSE BEGINS TO
752
00:29:52,524 --> 00:29:54,560
CREATE TWO MORE ELEMENTS --
753
00:29:54,560 --> 00:30:02,134
HELIUM AND LITHIUM.
754
00:30:02,134 --> 00:30:04,070
>> WE WENT FROM A UNIVERSE THAT
755
00:30:04,070 --> 00:30:05,671
WAS INFINITELY SMALL TO A
756
00:30:05,671 --> 00:30:07,639
UNIVERSE THAT WAS LIGHT-YEARS IN
757
00:30:07,639 --> 00:30:08,207
SIZE.
758
00:30:08,207 --> 00:30:09,942
IN THE FIRST THREE MINUTES,
759
00:30:09,942 --> 00:30:11,443
ESSENTIALLY EVERYTHING
760
00:30:11,443 --> 00:30:13,312
INTERESTING THAT WAS GOING TO
761
00:30:13,312 --> 00:30:15,714
HAPPEN IN THE UNIVERSE HAPPENED.
762
00:30:15,714 --> 00:30:17,449
>> Narrator: WELL, NOT QUITE.
763
00:30:17,449 --> 00:30:19,285
IF YOU WERE THERE, YOU COULDN'T
764
00:30:19,285 --> 00:30:20,652
SEE IT.
765
00:30:20,652 --> 00:30:22,121
>> WHEN WE LOOK AT THE NIGHT
766
00:30:22,121 --> 00:30:23,455
SKY, WE CAN SEE LITERALLY
767
00:30:23,455 --> 00:30:25,124
BILLIONS OF YEARS INTO THE PAST,
768
00:30:25,124 --> 00:30:26,625
AND WE THINK IT'S ALWAYS BEEN
769
00:30:26,625 --> 00:30:28,794
THAT WAY.
770
00:30:28,928 --> 00:30:30,396
NOPE, NOT TRUE.
771
00:30:30,396 --> 00:30:32,364
380,000 YEARS AFTER THE BIG
772
00:30:32,364 --> 00:30:34,666
BANG -- THAT'S WHEN THE UNIVERSE
773
00:30:34,666 --> 00:30:36,535
BEGAN TO BECOME TRANSPARENT.
774
00:30:36,668 --> 00:30:42,341
BUT BEFORE THEN, IT WAS MILKY.
775
00:30:42,341 --> 00:30:43,742
>> Narrator: THERE IS A MILKY
776
00:30:43,742 --> 00:30:51,617
SOUP OF LOOSE ELECTRONS.
777
00:30:51,617 --> 00:30:53,752
THE YOUNG UNIVERSE HAS TO COOL
778
00:30:53,752 --> 00:30:55,787
DOWN ENOUGH FOR THE ELECTRONS
779
00:30:55,787 --> 00:30:57,856
TO SLOW DOWN AND STICK TO NEW
780
00:30:57,856 --> 00:30:59,325
ATOMS.
781
00:30:59,325 --> 00:31:01,327
IT TOOK A LONG TIME FOR ALL OF
782
00:31:01,327 --> 00:31:03,095
THE HYDROGEN, HELIUM, AND
783
00:31:03,095 --> 00:31:05,197
LITHIUM ATOMS IN THE UNIVERSE TO
784
00:31:05,197 --> 00:31:06,933
FORM.
785
00:31:06,933 --> 00:31:08,935
SCIENTISTS CALCULATE IT TOOK
786
00:31:08,935 --> 00:31:12,104
380,000 YEARS FOR THE ELECTRONS
787
00:31:12,104 --> 00:31:14,040
TO SLOW DOWN ENOUGH SO THAT THE
788
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,407
UNIVERSE COULD START
789
00:31:15,407 --> 00:31:17,243
MASS-PRODUCING ATOMS.
790
00:31:17,243 --> 00:31:19,946
WHEN THAT HAPPENS, THE MILKY FOG
791
00:31:19,946 --> 00:31:20,679
CLEARS.
792
00:31:20,679 --> 00:31:22,748
THE FIRST LIGHT ESCAPES AND
793
00:31:22,748 --> 00:31:25,684
RACES ACROSS THE UNIVERSE.
794
00:31:25,684 --> 00:31:27,719
NEARLY 14 BILLION YEARS LATER,
795
00:31:27,719 --> 00:31:29,355
TWO YOUNG SCIENTISTS IN
796
00:31:29,355 --> 00:31:31,057
NEW JERSEY PICK IT UP BY
797
00:31:31,057 --> 00:31:35,061
ACCIDENT.
798
00:31:35,061 --> 00:31:38,330
IN 1964, ARNO PENZIAS AND
799
00:31:38,330 --> 00:31:40,299
ROBERT WILSON WERE MAPPING
800
00:31:40,299 --> 00:31:42,568
RADIO SIGNALS ACROSS OUR GALAXY.
801
00:31:42,568 --> 00:31:44,570
EVERYWHERE THEY LOOKED, THEY
802
00:31:44,570 --> 00:31:46,705
PICKED UP A STRANGE BACKGROUND
803
00:31:46,705 --> 00:31:48,807
HUM.
804
00:31:48,807 --> 00:31:50,776
THEY FIRST SUSPECTED THEIR
805
00:31:50,776 --> 00:31:51,610
EQUIPMENT.
806
00:31:51,610 --> 00:31:53,479
MAYBE PIGEON DROPPINGS ON THE
807
00:31:53,479 --> 00:31:55,514
ANTENNA WERE CAUSING THE STRANGE
808
00:31:55,514 --> 00:31:56,983
SIGNAL.
809
00:31:56,983 --> 00:31:59,385
BUT AFTER CLEANING THE ANTENNA,
810
00:31:59,385 --> 00:32:01,487
THE MYSTERIOUS HUM REMAINED.
811
00:32:01,487 --> 00:32:08,894
SO MUCH FOR PIGEON DROPPINGS.
812
00:32:08,894 --> 00:32:11,030
>> PENZIAS DELIVERED A TALK AT
813
00:32:11,030 --> 00:32:12,598
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.
814
00:32:12,598 --> 00:32:14,466
AND ACCORDING TO LORE, ONE
815
00:32:14,466 --> 00:32:16,568
PERSON IN THE BACK SAID, "EITHER
816
00:32:16,568 --> 00:32:18,604
YOU HAVE DISCOVERED THE EFFECTS
817
00:32:18,604 --> 00:32:20,239
OF BIRD DROPPINGS OR THE
818
00:32:20,239 --> 00:32:24,676
CREATION OF THE UNIVERSE."
819
00:32:24,676 --> 00:32:26,578
>> Narrator: IT WAS IN FACT THE
820
00:32:26,578 --> 00:32:28,847
MOMENT OF CREATION, NEARLY
821
00:32:28,847 --> 00:32:31,383
14 BILLION YEARS AGO, WHEN THOSE
822
00:32:31,383 --> 00:32:36,288
FIRST ATOMS GOT THEIR ELECTRONS.
823
00:32:36,288 --> 00:32:38,790
THAT'S THE MOMENT WHEN THE MILKY
824
00:32:38,790 --> 00:32:40,759
CLOUD CLEARS AND THE NEW
825
00:32:40,759 --> 00:32:43,262
UNIVERSE COMES INTO VIEW FOR THE
826
00:32:43,262 --> 00:32:45,831
FIRST TIME.
827
00:32:45,831 --> 00:32:47,899
TO CAPTURE BETTER IMAGES OF THIS
828
00:32:47,899 --> 00:32:49,801
CRITICAL EVENT, NASA LAUNCHED
829
00:32:49,801 --> 00:32:51,870
THE COSMIC BACKGROUND EXPLORER
830
00:32:51,870 --> 00:32:54,206
SATELLITE, OR COBE.
831
00:32:54,206 --> 00:32:56,308
THEY POINTED IT OUT INTO SPACE,
832
00:32:56,308 --> 00:32:58,477
WHERE IT TOOK THE TEMPERATURE OF
833
00:32:58,477 --> 00:32:59,611
THE UNIVERSE.
834
00:32:59,611 --> 00:33:01,647
BY MEASURING DIFFERENCES IN
835
00:33:01,647 --> 00:33:03,615
TEMPERATURE ACROSS SPACE,
836
00:33:03,615 --> 00:33:05,817
THEY CREATED THE FIRST MAP OF
837
00:33:05,817 --> 00:33:07,386
OUR EARLY UNIVERSE.
838
00:33:07,386 --> 00:33:09,855
THE IMAGES WERE CALLED THE FACE
839
00:33:09,855 --> 00:33:11,057
OF GOD.
840
00:33:11,057 --> 00:33:13,225
>> WE GOT GORGEOUS PICTURES --
841
00:33:13,225 --> 00:33:15,227
BABY PICTURES OF THE INFANT
842
00:33:15,227 --> 00:33:17,729
UNIVERSE WHEN IT WAS 380,000
843
00:33:17,729 --> 00:33:18,597
YEARS OF AGE.
844
00:33:18,597 --> 00:33:20,366
BUT THERE WERE PROBLEMS WITH IT.
845
00:33:20,366 --> 00:33:21,933
THE PICTURE WAS VERY FUZZY.
846
00:33:21,933 --> 00:33:23,702
THE COBE RESULTS WERE SIMPLY NOT
847
00:33:23,702 --> 00:33:27,806
GOOD ENOUGH.
848
00:33:27,806 --> 00:33:29,141
>> MISSION LOOKING GOOD.
849
00:33:29,141 --> 00:33:29,875
>> LIFTOFF.
850
00:33:29,875 --> 00:33:31,643
>> Narrator: SO NASA LAUNCHED AN
851
00:33:31,643 --> 00:33:33,279
EVEN MORE ADVANCED SATELLITE,
852
00:33:33,279 --> 00:33:35,947
WMAP, THE WILKINSON MICROWAVE
853
00:33:35,947 --> 00:33:37,849
ANISOTROPY PROBE.
854
00:33:37,849 --> 00:33:40,119
IN 2001, DAVID SPERGEL WAS PART
855
00:33:40,119 --> 00:33:41,987
OF THE TEAM LOOKING FOR A
856
00:33:41,987 --> 00:33:43,922
CLEARER IMAGE OF THE EARLY
857
00:33:43,922 --> 00:33:45,724
UNIVERSE.
858
00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:47,526
>> IT WAS EXCITING TO GO TO THE
859
00:33:47,526 --> 00:33:48,094
CAPE.
860
00:33:48,094 --> 00:33:49,695
IT WAS ONE OF THESE MOMENTS WE
861
00:33:49,695 --> 00:33:51,430
WERE SITTING THERE, WATCHING
862
00:33:51,430 --> 00:33:53,099
THIS -- I WAS THERE WITH MY
863
00:33:53,099 --> 00:33:54,966
FAMILY -- WATCHING THE ROCKET GO
864
00:33:54,966 --> 00:33:55,434
OFF.
865
00:33:55,434 --> 00:33:56,835
IT WAS VERY EXCITING WHEN,
866
00:33:56,835 --> 00:33:58,504
WITHIN ABOUT A DAY, WE WERE ABLE
867
00:33:58,504 --> 00:34:00,172
TO GET OUR FIRST SIGNAL FROM THE
868
00:34:00,172 --> 00:34:01,507
SATELLITE AND KNOW IT WAS
869
00:34:01,507 --> 00:34:04,476
WORKING AND WORKING PROPERLY.
870
00:34:04,610 --> 00:34:05,744
>> Narrator: THIS IS THE MOST
871
00:34:05,744 --> 00:34:07,313
DETAILED PICTURE OF THE EARLY
872
00:34:07,313 --> 00:34:09,215
UNIVERSE EVER TAKEN, JUST
873
00:34:09,215 --> 00:34:11,750
380,000 YEARS AFTER THE BIG
874
00:34:11,750 --> 00:34:15,621
BANG.
875
00:34:15,621 --> 00:34:17,356
THE RED AND YELLOW AREAS ARE
876
00:34:17,356 --> 00:34:18,990
WARMER, THE BLUE AND GREEN
877
00:34:18,990 --> 00:34:20,126
REGIONS COOLER.
878
00:34:20,126 --> 00:34:21,427
AND THOSE TEMPERATURE
879
00:34:21,427 --> 00:34:23,162
DIFFERENCES ARE CLUES TO THE
880
00:34:23,162 --> 00:34:24,630
FUTURE STRUCTURE OF THE
881
00:34:24,630 --> 00:34:29,268
UNIVERSE.
882
00:34:29,268 --> 00:34:31,137
>> YOU SEE TINY VARIATIONS IN
883
00:34:31,137 --> 00:34:32,003
TEMPERATURE.
884
00:34:32,003 --> 00:34:33,539
THOSE TINY VARIATIONS IN
885
00:34:33,539 --> 00:34:35,141
TEMPERATURE REFLECT SMALL
886
00:34:35,141 --> 00:34:36,408
VARIATIONS IN DENSITY.
887
00:34:36,408 --> 00:34:37,976
THIS REGION HAS MORE MATTER.
888
00:34:37,976 --> 00:34:39,645
THIS REGION HAS LESS MATTER.
889
00:34:39,645 --> 00:34:41,413
>> Narrator: LIKE A BLUEPRINT
890
00:34:41,413 --> 00:34:43,149
FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF OUR
891
00:34:43,149 --> 00:34:44,850
UNIVERSE, THIS IMAGE SHOWS US
892
00:34:44,850 --> 00:34:46,618
WHERE THERE'S MORE MATTER AND
893
00:34:46,618 --> 00:34:49,321
WHERE THERE'S LESS.
894
00:34:49,321 --> 00:34:51,457
REGIONS WITH NO MATTER WILL
895
00:34:51,457 --> 00:34:54,993
BECOME EMPTY SPACE.
896
00:34:54,993 --> 00:34:56,928
AREAS WITH DENSER MATTER WILL
897
00:34:56,928 --> 00:34:59,064
BECOME THE CONSTRUCTION SITES OF
898
00:34:59,064 --> 00:35:05,971
GALAXIES, STARS, AND PLANETS.
899
00:35:05,971 --> 00:35:07,539
>> THESE ARE THE FLUCTUATIONS
900
00:35:07,539 --> 00:35:09,241
THAT WILL GROW TO FORM GALAXIES.
901
00:35:09,241 --> 00:35:11,210
SO IF IT WASN'T FOR THOSE LITTLE
902
00:35:11,210 --> 00:35:13,179
DENSITY FLUCTUATIONS, YOU AND I
903
00:35:13,179 --> 00:35:17,883
WOULD NOT BE HERE TODAY.
904
00:35:17,883 --> 00:35:19,618
>> Narrator: OUR UNIVERSE IS NOW
905
00:35:19,618 --> 00:35:23,189
380,000 YEARS OLD AND TRILLIONS
906
00:35:23,189 --> 00:35:27,393
AND TRILLIONS OF MILES ACROSS.
907
00:35:27,393 --> 00:35:29,761
CLOUDS OF HYDROGEN AND HELIUM
908
00:35:29,761 --> 00:35:32,564
GAS FLOAT THROUGH SPACE.
909
00:35:32,564 --> 00:35:34,200
IT WILL TAKE ANOTHER
910
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,402
200 MILLION YEARS BEFORE THOSE
911
00:35:36,402 --> 00:35:39,205
GASES CREATE THE FIRST STARS.
912
00:35:39,271 --> 00:35:41,940
>> THESE FIRST STARS IGNITED THE
913
00:35:41,940 --> 00:35:44,376
UNIVERSE INTO WHAT MUST HAVE
914
00:35:44,376 --> 00:35:46,445
BEEN THE MOST AMAZING FIREWORKS.
915
00:35:52,984 --> 00:35:55,287
THE UNIVERSE WENT FROM THE DARK
916
00:35:55,287 --> 00:35:57,656
AGES TO AN AGE OF SPLENDOR WHEN
917
00:35:57,656 --> 00:35:59,991
THE FIRST STARS ILLUMINATED THE
918
00:35:59,991 --> 00:36:01,893
GAS AND THE UNIVERSE BEGAN TO
919
00:36:01,893 --> 00:36:04,530
GLOW IN MAJESTIC FASHION.
920
00:36:04,530 --> 00:36:07,866
I WISH I'D BEEN THERE.
921
00:36:07,866 --> 00:36:09,801
>> IT WAS LIKE CHRISTMAS-TREE
922
00:36:09,801 --> 00:36:11,102
LIGHTS TURNING ON.
923
00:36:11,102 --> 00:36:13,071
THE UNIVERSE BEGAN TO LIGHT UP
924
00:36:13,071 --> 00:36:14,940
IN ALL DIRECTIONS, UNTIL YOU
925
00:36:14,940 --> 00:36:17,042
FORM THE BEAUTIFUL MOSAIC WE NOW
926
00:36:17,042 --> 00:36:18,944
SEE TODAY.
927
00:36:25,984 --> 00:36:27,853
>> Narrator: MORE AND MORE STARS
928
00:36:27,853 --> 00:36:30,456
TURN ON.
929
00:36:30,456 --> 00:36:32,458
1 BILLION YEARS AFTER THE BIG
930
00:36:32,458 --> 00:36:36,395
BANG, THE FIRST GALAXY FORMS.
931
00:36:36,395 --> 00:36:39,265
OVER THE NEXT 8 BILLION YEARS,
932
00:36:39,265 --> 00:36:42,634
COUNTLESS MORE TAKE SHAPE.
933
00:36:42,634 --> 00:36:45,637
THEN ABOUT 5 BILLION YEARS AGO,
934
00:36:45,637 --> 00:36:48,073
IN A QUIET CORNER OF ONE OF
935
00:36:48,073 --> 00:36:50,709
THOSE GALAXIES, GRAVITY BEGINS
936
00:36:50,709 --> 00:36:56,482
TO DRAW IN DUST AND GAS.
937
00:36:56,482 --> 00:37:00,018
GRADUALLY THEY CLUMP TOGETHER
938
00:37:00,018 --> 00:37:03,589
AND GIVE BIRTH TO A STAR, OUR
939
00:37:03,589 --> 00:37:08,560
SUN.
940
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,162
9 BILLION YEARS AFTER THE BIG
941
00:37:11,162 --> 00:37:13,632
BANG, OUR TINY SOLAR SYSTEM
942
00:37:13,632 --> 00:37:16,335
SPRINGS TO LIFE, AND WITH IT,
943
00:37:16,335 --> 00:37:20,306
PLANET EARTH.
944
00:37:20,306 --> 00:37:23,208
EVERYTHING THERE IS EXISTS
945
00:37:23,208 --> 00:37:24,976
BECAUSE OF THE BIG BANG, AND
946
00:37:24,976 --> 00:37:26,545
IT'S STILL GOING ON.
947
00:37:26,545 --> 00:37:29,548
OUR UNIVERSE IS STILL EXPANDING.
948
00:37:29,548 --> 00:37:32,217
BUT IT WON'T JUST KEEP GOING
949
00:37:32,217 --> 00:37:33,319
FOREVER.
950
00:37:33,319 --> 00:37:36,087
OUR UNIVERSE HAD A BEGINNING,
951
00:37:36,087 --> 00:37:38,657
AND IT WILL ALSO HAVE AN END.
952
00:37:49,335 --> 00:37:50,769
>> Narrator: IN THE 14 BILLION
953
00:37:50,769 --> 00:37:52,738
YEARS SINCE THE BIG BANG,
954
00:37:52,738 --> 00:37:57,843
GALAXIES HAVE BEEN CREATED...
955
00:37:57,843 --> 00:38:00,446
FILLED WITH STARS, PLANETS, AND
956
00:38:00,446 --> 00:38:01,447
MOONS.
957
00:38:01,447 --> 00:38:04,350
AND THE UNIVERSE HAS BEEN
958
00:38:04,350 --> 00:38:09,020
EXPANDING THE WHOLE TIME.
959
00:38:09,020 --> 00:38:11,056
>> WE'VE LEARNED SPACE IS QUITE
960
00:38:11,056 --> 00:38:12,891
BIG -- AT LEAST 150 BILLION
961
00:38:12,891 --> 00:38:14,726
LIGHT-YEARS ACROSS.
962
00:38:14,726 --> 00:38:16,795
>> Narrator: THE UNIVERSE MAY BE
963
00:38:16,795 --> 00:38:17,596
INFINITE.
964
00:38:17,596 --> 00:38:19,230
IT MIGHT LITERALLY GO ON
965
00:38:19,230 --> 00:38:21,500
FOREVER.
966
00:38:21,500 --> 00:38:22,668
>> THE ANSWER IS THERE DOESN'T
967
00:38:22,668 --> 00:38:23,702
HAVE TO BE ANYTHING, IN
968
00:38:23,702 --> 00:38:24,403
PRINCIPLE.
969
00:38:24,403 --> 00:38:26,104
THE UNIVERSE COULD BE INFINITE,
970
00:38:26,104 --> 00:38:27,673
AND THERE'S NO OUTSIDE, OR IT
971
00:38:27,673 --> 00:38:29,140
COULD BE CLOSED ON ITSELF.
972
00:38:29,140 --> 00:38:30,208
IT COULD BE SUCH THAT IF I
973
00:38:30,208 --> 00:38:31,242
LOOKED FAR ENOUGH IN THAT
974
00:38:31,242 --> 00:38:32,511
DIRECTION I'D SEE THE BACK OF MY
975
00:38:32,511 --> 00:38:33,812
HEAD.
976
00:38:33,812 --> 00:38:35,381
>> Narrator: WE MAY NEVER KNOW
977
00:38:35,381 --> 00:38:36,748
IF THE BIG BANG PRODUCED A
978
00:38:36,748 --> 00:38:41,953
UNIVERSE THAT GOES ON FOREVER.
979
00:38:41,953 --> 00:38:44,255
BUT WE DO KNOW THAT THE BIG BANG
980
00:38:44,255 --> 00:38:47,058
HASN'T STOPPED YET.
981
00:38:47,058 --> 00:38:48,259
>> THE BIG BANG IS REALLY
982
00:38:48,259 --> 00:38:49,027
CONTINUING NOW.
983
00:38:49,027 --> 00:38:50,496
WE'RE CONTINUING TO BANG, IF YOU
984
00:38:50,496 --> 00:38:51,763
WANT, IN THE SENSE THAT THE
985
00:38:51,763 --> 00:38:53,064
EXPANSION OF THE UNIVERSE IS
986
00:38:53,064 --> 00:38:55,934
CONTINUING.
987
00:38:55,934 --> 00:38:57,603
>> ONE OF THE MOST ASTOUNDING
988
00:38:57,603 --> 00:38:59,204
DISCOVERIES IN THE LAST FEW
989
00:38:59,204 --> 00:39:00,939
YEARS HAS BEEN THE REALIZATION
990
00:39:00,939 --> 00:39:02,841
THAT OUR UNIVERSE IS NOT SLOWING
991
00:39:02,841 --> 00:39:04,610
DOWN, LIKE WE ONCE THOUGHT, BUT
992
00:39:04,610 --> 00:39:06,144
IT'S ACTUALLY SPEEDING UP.
993
00:39:06,144 --> 00:39:07,413
IT'S ACCELERATING.
994
00:39:07,413 --> 00:39:09,915
IT'S IN A RUNAWAY MODE.
995
00:39:09,915 --> 00:39:11,417
WE NOW BELIEVE THERE'S SOMETHING
996
00:39:11,417 --> 00:39:13,619
CALLED DARK ENERGY, THE ENERGY
997
00:39:13,619 --> 00:39:15,887
OF NOTHING, THAT IS PUSHING THE
998
00:39:15,887 --> 00:39:18,056
GALAXIES APART AND IS KILLING
999
00:39:18,056 --> 00:39:20,426
THE UNIVERSE.
1000
00:39:20,426 --> 00:39:22,093
>> Narrator: WE CAN'T SEE THIS
1001
00:39:22,093 --> 00:39:23,762
DESTRUCTIVE FORCE, AND WE HAVE
1002
00:39:23,762 --> 00:39:27,533
NO IDEA WHY IT EXISTS.
1003
00:39:27,533 --> 00:39:29,435
BUT IT COULD MEAN THE END OF
1004
00:39:29,435 --> 00:39:31,269
EVERYTHING CREATED IN THE BIG
1005
00:39:31,269 --> 00:39:33,304
BANG.
1006
00:39:33,304 --> 00:39:36,041
IF DARK ENERGY CONTINUES PUSHING
1007
00:39:36,041 --> 00:39:38,109
THE UNIVERSE APART, OUR
1008
00:39:38,109 --> 00:39:40,746
MILKY WAY GALAXY COULD BECOME A
1009
00:39:40,746 --> 00:39:42,047
LONELY OUTPOST.
1010
00:39:42,047 --> 00:39:44,450
100 BILLION YEARS FROM NOW, MOST
1011
00:39:44,450 --> 00:39:46,685
OF OUR GALACTIC NEIGHBORS WILL
1012
00:39:46,685 --> 00:39:48,620
BE OUT OF SIGHT.
1013
00:39:48,620 --> 00:39:50,922
STARS WILL BURN OUT.
1014
00:39:50,922 --> 00:39:53,459
GALAXIES WILL GROW DARK.
1015
00:39:53,459 --> 00:39:56,227
EVEN ATOMS WILL TEAR APART.
1016
00:39:56,227 --> 00:39:58,530
THE BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSE, THE
1017
00:39:58,530 --> 00:40:00,866
BIG BANG, WAS OVER IN A FLASH.
1018
00:40:00,866 --> 00:40:03,101
BUT THE DEATH OF OUR UNIVERSE
1019
00:40:03,101 --> 00:40:06,805
WILL TAKE ALMOST FOREVER.
1020
00:40:06,805 --> 00:40:09,374
>> THAT GREAT PHILOSOPHER OF THE
1021
00:40:09,374 --> 00:40:11,977
WESTERN WORLD, WOODY ALLEN, ONCE
1022
00:40:11,977 --> 00:40:14,412
SAID ETERNITY IS AN AWFUL LONG
1023
00:40:14,412 --> 00:40:19,985
TIME, ESPECIALLY TOWARD THE END.
1024
00:40:19,985 --> 00:40:21,787
>> Narrator: FIGURING OUT HOW
1025
00:40:21,787 --> 00:40:23,755
OUR UNIVERSE WILL END IS AS DARK
1026
00:40:23,755 --> 00:40:28,059
A MYSTERY AS THE BIG BANG.
1027
00:40:28,059 --> 00:40:30,228
IT COULD COLLAPSE BACK IN ON
1028
00:40:30,228 --> 00:40:32,564
ITSELF, LIKE A BALLOON WHEN THE
1029
00:40:32,564 --> 00:40:38,269
AIR IS LET OUT.
1030
00:40:38,269 --> 00:40:40,038
>> SO, WOULD THE UNIVERSE END
1031
00:40:40,038 --> 00:40:41,907
WITH A BIG CRUNCH, A REVERSE OF
1032
00:40:41,907 --> 00:40:43,809
THE BIG BANG, OR WOULD IT END BY
1033
00:40:43,809 --> 00:40:45,677
EXPANDING OUT AND BECOMING COLD
1034
00:40:45,677 --> 00:40:46,478
AND DARK?
1035
00:40:46,478 --> 00:40:48,514
IF YOU WISHED, WOULD IT END IN
1036
00:40:48,514 --> 00:40:50,682
FIRE OR ICE, OR WITH A BANG OR A
1037
00:40:50,682 --> 00:40:53,318
WHIMPER?
1038
00:40:53,318 --> 00:40:55,053
>> Narrator: IF THE UNIVERSE
1039
00:40:55,053 --> 00:40:56,755
COLLAPSES, IT MIGHT TRIGGER
1040
00:40:56,755 --> 00:40:58,624
ANOTHER BIG BANG.
1041
00:41:08,399 --> 00:41:11,537
MAYBE THAT'S ALREADY HAPPENED,
1042
00:41:11,537 --> 00:41:14,339
AND WE'RE JUST ONE IN A LONG
1043
00:41:14,339 --> 00:41:17,275
LINE OF UNIVERSES.
1044
00:41:17,275 --> 00:41:19,344
>> PERSONALLY, I BELIEVE IN
1045
00:41:19,344 --> 00:41:21,547
CONTINUAL GENESIS -- THAT IS,
1046
00:41:21,547 --> 00:41:23,749
THERE'S A NEVER-ENDING PROCESS
1047
00:41:23,749 --> 00:41:26,117
WHEREBY UNIVERSES COLLIDE, SPLIT
1048
00:41:26,117 --> 00:41:27,986
APART, GIVE BIRTH TO NEW
1049
00:41:27,986 --> 00:41:29,788
UNIVERSES, PERHAPS WITH
1050
00:41:29,788 --> 00:41:32,157
DIFFERENT LAWS OF PHYSICS WITHIN
1051
00:41:32,157 --> 00:41:36,061
EACH UNIVERSE.
1052
00:41:36,061 --> 00:41:37,295
>> MAYBE THIS ISN'T THE FIRST
1053
00:41:37,295 --> 00:41:38,096
TIME IT'S HAPPENED.
1054
00:41:38,096 --> 00:41:39,230
MAYBE IT'S CYCLIC, AND IT GOES
1055
00:41:39,230 --> 00:41:40,331
AROUND AND AROUND AGAIN,
1056
00:41:40,331 --> 00:41:41,567
EVENTUALLY WILL COLLAPSE, AND
1057
00:41:41,567 --> 00:41:42,801
THE WHOLE THING WILL START OVER
1058
00:41:42,801 --> 00:41:44,169
AGAIN.
1059
00:41:44,169 --> 00:41:46,304
>> Narrator: ONE UNIVERSE OR
1060
00:41:46,304 --> 00:41:48,607
MANY, THEY ALL START WITH A BIG
1061
00:41:48,607 --> 00:41:53,244
BANG.
1062
00:41:53,244 --> 00:41:55,046
>> EVERYTHING THAT MAKES US
1063
00:41:55,046 --> 00:41:56,748
HUMAN -- THE ATOMS IN OUR
1064
00:41:56,748 --> 00:41:59,785
BODIES, THE JEWELRY WE WEAR, ALL
1065
00:41:59,785 --> 00:42:01,152
THE THINGS THAT LEAD TO THE
1066
00:42:01,152 --> 00:42:02,721
TRAGEDY OF LIFE AND THE BEAUTY
1067
00:42:02,721 --> 00:42:05,190
AND THE EXCITEMENT, LOVE,
1068
00:42:05,190 --> 00:42:07,192
EVERYTHING ELSE -- AROSE BECAUSE
1069
00:42:07,192 --> 00:42:08,827
OF PROCESSES THAT HAPPENED
1070
00:42:08,827 --> 00:42:12,097
14 BILLION YEARS AGO.
1071
00:42:12,097 --> 00:42:13,665
AND IF WE REALLY WANT TO
1072
00:42:13,665 --> 00:42:15,433
UNDERSTAND OURSELVES AT SOME
1073
00:42:15,433 --> 00:42:17,202
FUNDAMENTAL LEVEL, WE REALLY
1074
00:42:17,202 --> 00:42:22,608
HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE BIG BANG.
1075
00:42:22,608 --> 00:42:24,009
>> Narrator: 14 BILLION YEARS
1076
00:42:24,009 --> 00:42:26,612
AGO, THE BIG BANG CREATED TIME
1077
00:42:26,612 --> 00:42:28,847
AND SPACE, OUR WHOLE VAST
1078
00:42:28,847 --> 00:42:31,617
UNIVERSE, AND EVERYTHING IN IT,
1079
00:42:31,617 --> 00:42:37,923
INCLUDING US.
1080
00:42:37,923 --> 00:42:39,825
>> SOME PEOPLE ASK THE QUESTION,
1081
00:42:39,825 --> 00:42:41,226
"WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?"
1082
00:42:41,226 --> 00:42:43,695
THE BIG BANG GAVE US EVERYTHING
1083
00:42:43,695 --> 00:42:45,631
WE SEE AROUND US -- THE
1084
00:42:45,631 --> 00:42:47,833
DISTRIBUTION OF GALAXIES AND
1085
00:42:47,833 --> 00:42:48,634
STARS.
1086
00:42:48,634 --> 00:42:50,301
IT SET INTO MOTION THE CREATION
1087
00:42:50,301 --> 00:42:51,937
OF ELEMENTS THAT WE SEE IN THE
1088
00:42:51,937 --> 00:42:52,638
UNIVERSE.
1089
00:42:52,638 --> 00:42:54,940
AND EVEN THE LAWS OF PHYSICS
1090
00:42:54,940 --> 00:42:57,508
THEMSELVES, WE THINK, WERE BORN
1091
00:42:57,508 --> 00:43:04,015
AT THE INSTANT OF CREATION.
1092
00:43:04,149 --> 00:43:06,151
>> Narrator: EVERYTHING STARTED
1093
00:43:06,151 --> 00:43:08,854
WITH THE BIG BANG, ONE BRIEF
1094
00:43:08,854 --> 00:43:11,857
MOMENT IN TIME 14 BILLION YEARS
1095
00:43:11,857 --> 00:43:14,559
AGO, THAT CONTAINS THE ANSWERS
1096
00:43:14,559 --> 00:43:17,362
TO OUR GREATEST QUESTIONS ABOUT
1097
00:43:17,362 --> 00:43:19,998
OUR PAST, OUR PRESENT, AND OUR
1098
00:43:19,998 --> 00:43:21,032
FUTURE.
1099
00:43:21,032 --> 00:43:23,835
EACH DISCOVERY BRINGS US ONE
1100
00:43:23,835 --> 00:43:26,972
STEP CLOSER TO UNDERSTANDING HOW
1101
00:43:26,972 --> 00:43:29,274
THE UNIVERSE WORKS.
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