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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:03,421 --> 00:00:05,590 [ Man Narrating] The world is at war... 2 00:00:09,052 --> 00:00:11,388 and the Nazis rule the seas... 3 00:00:14,766 --> 00:00:17,602 with one of humanity's greatest powers- 4 00:00:18,978 --> 00:00:22,732 a secret code that can win wars. 5 00:00:23,650 --> 00:00:27,404 But can it also reveal the mysteries of the universe? 6 00:00:28,697 --> 00:00:33,118 Ifs a cipher with a key hidden in big history. 7 00:00:34,536 --> 00:00:37,122 We think of history as a time line- 8 00:00:37,205 --> 00:00:41,876 a series of events stretching a few thousand years into the past. 9 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,212 It's time to think bigger. 10 00:00:44,295 --> 00:00:45,880 Instead of a line... 11 00:00:45,964 --> 00:00:51,428 imagine a web of infinite connections interacting over billions of years... 12 00:00:51,511 --> 00:00:55,223 linked together to create everything we've ever known- 13 00:00:55,306 --> 00:00:59,060 our universe, our planet... and us. 14 00:00:59,144 --> 00:01:03,565 History as we know it is about to get big. 15 00:01:08,820 --> 00:01:11,531 Two years into the Second World War... 16 00:01:11,614 --> 00:01:15,326 the Nazis prepare an order to sink a British ship... 17 00:01:17,078 --> 00:01:21,583 but British intelligence can intercept German radio transmissions... 18 00:01:21,666 --> 00:01:25,253 so the Nazis use a sophisticated machine... 19 00:01:26,379 --> 00:01:31,009 to turn their messages into an almost uncrackable code. 20 00:01:32,427 --> 00:01:34,971 It's called Enigma. 21 00:01:35,680 --> 00:01:39,517 By using a series of rotors and a series of plugs... 22 00:01:39,601 --> 00:01:45,315 each letter was turned into a completely random letter. 23 00:01:48,193 --> 00:01:50,403 [ Narrator] Enigma uses a scrambling algorithm... 24 00:01:50,487 --> 00:01:54,824 to convert a word like tag- German for “day”- 25 00:01:54,908 --> 00:01:58,244 into a seemingly meaningless string of letters. 26 00:02:00,246 --> 00:02:04,959 [ Beeping ] 27 00:02:05,627 --> 00:02:08,713 With the Enigma machine, it would be random-completely random- 28 00:02:08,797 --> 00:02:12,008 if you did not have the accompanying code key... 29 00:02:12,091 --> 00:02:16,554 to enter in your Enigma machine after you receive the message. 30 00:02:19,766 --> 00:02:23,728 [ Narrator] Enigma has 159 quintillion variations. 31 00:02:25,313 --> 00:02:27,565 [Speaking German ] 32 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:31,986 The Nazi code... 33 00:02:33,446 --> 00:02:35,323 seems invincible. 34 00:02:36,407 --> 00:02:37,700 [Ticking ] 35 00:02:43,832 --> 00:02:46,167 Traditional history tells us... 36 00:02:46,251 --> 00:02:51,047 that in war, codes can be the keys to victory or defeat. 37 00:02:53,466 --> 00:02:56,678 But big history connects to our biology... 38 00:02:56,761 --> 00:03:01,349 to reveal how an advanced ability to make and break codes... 39 00:03:01,432 --> 00:03:03,017 sets humans apart. 40 00:03:11,109 --> 00:03:13,695 [Growling 1 41 00:03:13,778 --> 00:03:15,864 [Wailing ] 42 00:03:15,947 --> 00:03:18,867 All animals code and decode messages. 43 00:03:18,950 --> 00:03:20,243 [ Chirping ] 44 00:03:20,326 --> 00:03:22,745 [Croaking ] 45 00:03:22,829 --> 00:03:26,457 [ Howling ] 46 00:03:26,541 --> 00:03:30,461 Simple things like a predator warning. Danger. Run away. 47 00:03:31,713 --> 00:03:34,382 - [ Growling ] - Angry. Stay Clear. 48 00:03:37,427 --> 00:03:40,138 [ Narrator] But human communication is different. 49 00:03:40,221 --> 00:03:42,724 Our brains are more complex... 50 00:03:42,807 --> 00:03:45,643 so we build a world of symbols... 51 00:03:47,478 --> 00:03:51,149 where everything around us is a code to crack. 52 00:03:53,610 --> 00:03:55,820 This green light means “go.” 53 00:03:58,114 --> 00:04:00,074 These numbers mean expensive. 54 00:04:01,826 --> 00:04:04,162 And these mean you're on schedule. 55 00:04:07,457 --> 00:04:12,837 We constantly create new codes and new ways to decipher them. 56 00:04:13,504 --> 00:04:15,757 You're actually thinking in code. 57 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:18,301 Your brain is figuring out... 58 00:04:18,384 --> 00:04:23,139 what am I going to associate with that word, with that smell, with that thought... 59 00:04:23,222 --> 00:04:24,891 and that becomes hardwired. 60 00:04:25,892 --> 00:04:29,354 [ Narrator] But if our brains are programmed to code and decode... 61 00:04:29,437 --> 00:04:31,606 a mystery remains- 62 00:04:33,024 --> 00:04:36,069 how did we become nature's code breakers? 63 00:04:37,862 --> 00:04:42,158 Big history connects back 600 million years... 64 00:04:53,044 --> 00:04:55,713 to earth's first computer processor. 65 00:04:58,299 --> 00:05:02,887 This prehistoric worm's brain has a new combination of cells... 66 00:05:02,971 --> 00:05:06,724 that lets it decode more information than other animals... 67 00:05:06,808 --> 00:05:09,143 and even learn from experience. 68 00:05:11,813 --> 00:05:15,024 And over time, this cluster of cells mutates... 69 00:05:16,609 --> 00:05:18,361 and evolves to become... 70 00:05:19,737 --> 00:05:21,614 our cerebral cortex. 71 00:05:23,241 --> 00:05:26,995 Here, 16 billion neurons store memory... 72 00:05:27,078 --> 00:05:28,746 control language... 73 00:05:28,830 --> 00:05:30,581 and decode the world. 74 00:05:32,125 --> 00:05:35,837 The connections between nerve cells and what we call "gray matter"... 75 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,756 make the human brain uniquely powerful... 76 00:05:40,091 --> 00:05:44,721 able to process one quadrillion pieces of information in a lifetime- 77 00:05:47,557 --> 00:05:51,602 information that's even more powerful when we share it. 78 00:05:52,437 --> 00:05:53,896 [Speaking Native Language] 79 00:05:53,980 --> 00:05:56,524 The cerebral cortex is our language center. 80 00:05:56,607 --> 00:05:58,568 Here, we create a code... 81 00:05:58,651 --> 00:06:01,863 that communicates thoughts with sound- 82 00:06:05,116 --> 00:06:06,951 the code of speech. 83 00:06:13,458 --> 00:06:15,710 But communicating a single thought... 84 00:06:15,793 --> 00:06:18,713 takes at least five different regions of the brain... 85 00:06:18,796 --> 00:06:23,217 connecting simultaneously in a network so complex... 86 00:06:23,301 --> 00:06:28,639 it lets us not only describe things, but plan for future possibilities. 87 00:06:29,807 --> 00:06:31,893 [ Markley] We can talk about conditional events. 88 00:06:31,976 --> 00:06:35,480 If this thing happens, then this other thing will not happen. 89 00:06:35,563 --> 00:06:38,066 If this thing happens, you should do this. 90 00:06:40,151 --> 00:06:43,946 [ Man ] it becomes this remarkable tool that really separates humans... 91 00:06:44,030 --> 00:06:47,450 and sends human history off on a very different trajectory... 92 00:06:47,533 --> 00:06:49,619 to that of all the other species on our planet. 93 00:06:54,082 --> 00:06:58,711 [ Narrator] But speech also reveals the limits of human memory. 94 00:06:59,837 --> 00:07:02,632 [ Man ] All the world's major civilizations, at some point... 95 00:07:02,715 --> 00:07:06,260 confronted the problem of there being too much information to keep it in your head. 96 00:07:06,344 --> 00:07:09,514 Now, the information load got so heavy... 97 00:07:09,597 --> 00:07:12,197 that they had to develop permanent ways for recording information. 98 00:07:14,143 --> 00:07:17,105 [ Narrator] Big history connects our biology... 99 00:07:23,694 --> 00:07:26,405 to a transformative leap for mankind. 100 00:07:29,742 --> 00:07:32,036 It's 3200 B.C... 101 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:37,208 and this scribe in Mesopotamia is one of the first to use writing... 102 00:07:37,291 --> 00:07:41,963 to translate the code of speech into images. 103 00:07:43,965 --> 00:07:47,552 Writing is the ultimate secret code that was developed by humans. 104 00:07:51,764 --> 00:07:55,810 Early writing seems to have always started with simple pictures. 105 00:07:55,893 --> 00:07:58,688 But very soon they evolve and become symbolic. 106 00:08:08,447 --> 00:08:11,659 [ Narrator] Modern alphabets conceal this ancient legacy. 107 00:08:13,161 --> 00:08:16,581 The ancient Egyptians write in hieroglyphics. 108 00:08:17,748 --> 00:08:20,585 This is their symbol for water. 109 00:08:20,668 --> 00:08:23,462 The Egyptians trade with the Phoenicians... 110 00:08:23,546 --> 00:08:26,674 who adapt the symbol and call it mem- 111 00:08:26,757 --> 00:08:31,679 a wavy line that evolves over thousands of years... 112 00:08:31,762 --> 00:08:34,098 into the letter “M.” 113 00:08:35,433 --> 00:08:37,852 Writing transforms civilization. 114 00:08:37,935 --> 00:08:42,607 It increases the knowledge we can share across the generations. 115 00:08:43,858 --> 00:08:49,280 And it's also a tool for concealing information in secret codes... 116 00:08:51,699 --> 00:08:54,744 that men use in times of war. 117 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:59,749 80 how can the human brain crack a code... 118 00:08:59,832 --> 00:09:02,543 that the human brain makes? 119 00:09:04,962 --> 00:09:08,424 With a code breaker that isn't human. 120 00:09:13,095 --> 00:09:16,432 Big history is a new way to see the world. 121 00:09:17,975 --> 00:09:21,979 It reveals that our brain is nature's top code breaker- 122 00:09:25,816 --> 00:09:28,444 a complex living computer... 123 00:09:28,527 --> 00:09:30,947 that can build sophisticated machines... 124 00:09:31,030 --> 00:09:35,409 to share or conceal vital information. 125 00:09:36,661 --> 00:09:38,079 [Speaking German ] 126 00:09:40,623 --> 00:09:43,668 Big history links back to a world at war... 127 00:09:45,253 --> 00:09:48,547 and the code that sparks the future. 128 00:09:49,757 --> 00:09:51,008 [ Explosion ] 129 00:09:57,932 --> 00:10:00,518 At Britain's decryption headquarters... 130 00:10:00,601 --> 00:10:05,564 9,000 code breakers use two captured German Enigma machines... 131 00:10:05,648 --> 00:10:07,441 in their top secret mission- 132 00:10:07,525 --> 00:10:11,988 to crack the Nazis' uncrackable military code. 133 00:10:14,365 --> 00:10:18,577 They look for repeating patterns that might correspond to common phrases... 134 00:10:18,661 --> 00:10:20,371 like “Heil Hitler”... 135 00:10:21,872 --> 00:10:24,625 or names of high-ranking Nazi officers. 136 00:10:26,711 --> 00:10:29,839 It's a classic code-breaking strategy. 137 00:10:33,384 --> 00:10:36,846 Big history connects a breakthrough in code breaking... 138 00:10:42,226 --> 00:10:44,895 to a breakthrough in archeology. 139 00:10:45,646 --> 00:10:49,859 The Rosetta stone unlocks an ancient secret. 140 00:10:50,568 --> 00:10:54,697 This 2,200-year-old tablet features the same message... 141 00:10:54,780 --> 00:10:59,744 in Greek, Egyptian script and the lost language of hieroglyphics. 142 00:11:01,579 --> 00:11:05,958 When 19th century French archaeologists find repeating patterns... 143 00:11:06,042 --> 00:11:09,211 like the name of the Egyptian King Ptolemy... 144 00:11:10,463 --> 00:11:14,592 the stone becomes the key to cracking the hieroglyphic code. 145 00:11:25,561 --> 00:11:28,689 More than a hundred years later... 146 00:11:28,773 --> 00:11:32,943 the British find patterns that help to unravel the Enigma code- 147 00:11:38,783 --> 00:11:41,619 a critical advantage for the Allies. 148 00:11:42,828 --> 00:11:47,208 It gave us an ability to combat, or to confront, the enemy... 149 00:11:47,291 --> 00:11:48,918 wherever the enemy was going to appear. 150 00:11:54,131 --> 00:11:56,801 [ Narrator] But a code war is a cat-and-mouse game. 151 00:11:59,470 --> 00:12:01,639 The Nazis up the ante... 152 00:12:03,015 --> 00:12:06,685 with a new encryption machine called the Lorenz. 153 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:12,441 It conceals words by turning them into numbers. 154 00:12:12,525 --> 00:12:15,277 It's the cutting edge of cryptography... 155 00:12:16,821 --> 00:12:19,615 but it runs on an ancient idea. 156 00:12:21,534 --> 00:12:24,787 Big history links the Nazis' mega code... 157 00:12:30,334 --> 00:12:33,921 with the symbol that means nothing. 158 00:12:34,004 --> 00:12:38,676 In the ancient world, the idea of zero doesn't exist... 159 00:12:39,176 --> 00:12:41,595 until the seventh century- 160 00:12:41,679 --> 00:12:44,348 when Indian mathematicians develop the concept... 161 00:12:44,432 --> 00:12:47,184 that “nothing” is actually “something.” 162 00:12:49,270 --> 00:12:52,606 When you add the zero, that's a placeholder. 163 00:12:52,690 --> 00:12:56,944 That understands that, “Hey, '10' is a 'one' and a 'zero.”' 164 00:12:58,028 --> 00:13:02,533 Having that placeholder allows much more complex thought. 165 00:13:05,035 --> 00:13:08,622 [ Narrator] Zero ignites a mathematical revolution... 166 00:13:08,706 --> 00:13:12,293 and it' becomes the basis of a new symbolic language- 167 00:13:14,545 --> 00:13:16,172 binary code. 168 00:13:16,839 --> 00:13:20,050 Binary code, to put it simply, is ones and zeros... 169 00:13:20,134 --> 00:13:21,844 off and on, yes and no. 170 00:13:21,927 --> 00:13:25,389 Is it one or is it zero? 171 00:13:30,269 --> 00:13:35,566 [ Narrator] Binary code is both strikingly simple and infinitely complex. 172 00:13:36,650 --> 00:13:39,820 Just two symbols in different combinations... 173 00:13:39,904 --> 00:13:42,281 can form a word... 174 00:13:42,364 --> 00:13:43,991 a book... 175 00:13:44,074 --> 00:13:45,826 or an encrypted message. 176 00:13:48,245 --> 00:13:50,289 Big history connects forward... 177 00:13:57,338 --> 00:14:01,675 to a new generation of top secret machines... 178 00:14:01,759 --> 00:14:05,471 that use the ancient idea of binary code-.. 179 00:14:05,554 --> 00:14:07,473 To build the modern world. 180 00:14:18,067 --> 00:14:22,363 Binary seems even more invincible than Enigma... 181 00:14:23,239 --> 00:14:25,199 with more possible solutions... 182 00:14:25,282 --> 00:14:28,702 than a single code breaker could crack in a lifetime. 183 00:14:29,703 --> 00:14:32,873 The British need more processing power... 184 00:14:32,957 --> 00:14:35,376 so they build an artificial brain. 185 00:14:36,502 --> 00:14:38,963 It's called Colossus. 186 00:14:41,298 --> 00:14:46,345 Like the code it's designed to break, Colossus runs on binary. 187 00:14:46,845 --> 00:14:51,058 Ones and zeros control a series of on/off switches... 188 00:14:51,141 --> 00:14:53,060 that tell it what to do. 189 00:14:55,479 --> 00:14:59,817 The human brain looks for repeating patterns to crack codes. 190 00:15:01,318 --> 00:15:05,990 This machine amplifies that ability on a massive scale. 191 00:15:08,826 --> 00:15:11,078 [ Man ] Colossus would sort through... 192 00:15:11,161 --> 00:15:15,624 an enormous, astronomical number of alternatives... 193 00:15:15,708 --> 00:15:18,794 and search for the clue that would lead to the key. 194 00:15:22,506 --> 00:15:24,508 [ Narrator] Colossus lets the British know... 195 00:15:24,592 --> 00:15:29,013 as much about German military movements as Hitler himself. 196 00:15:33,017 --> 00:15:35,102 [ Morgan ] The Colossus was, in many respects... 197 00:15:35,185 --> 00:15:37,187 the world's first computer. 198 00:15:38,063 --> 00:15:40,774 And in that very, very thought-provoking way... 199 00:15:40,858 --> 00:15:45,863 that Second World War produced the world in which we live today. 200 00:15:49,283 --> 00:15:52,786 [ Narrator] Binary is the blueprint for our digital civilization. 201 00:15:52,870 --> 00:15:56,165 The modern age runs on codes. 202 00:15:57,041 --> 00:15:59,668 They're hidden in everything around us... 203 00:16:00,294 --> 00:16:02,713 the secret engines of life on earth. 204 00:16:04,715 --> 00:16:08,135 So could there also be a master code... 205 00:16:08,218 --> 00:16:10,721 that runs the universe? 206 00:16:21,065 --> 00:16:23,025 Big history reveals... 207 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:26,487 how an ancient code... 208 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:32,576 programs the modern world. 209 00:16:35,162 --> 00:16:38,916 Bu! what happens when a code begins to think for itself? 210 00:16:40,084 --> 00:16:42,252 Big history zooms in... 211 00:16:53,764 --> 00:16:57,351 to the microscopic world of the virus. 212 00:16:59,645 --> 00:17:01,105 [ Coughs 1 213 00:17:02,314 --> 00:17:05,609 This virus is designed to replicate itself... 214 00:17:08,445 --> 00:17:10,948 and perpetually infect its host. 215 00:17:11,949 --> 00:17:16,120 This virus operates on the same kind of orders. 216 00:17:18,497 --> 00:17:20,541 Whether biological... 217 00:17:20,624 --> 00:17:22,584 or digital... 218 00:17:23,544 --> 00:17:26,797 a virus runs on a code... 219 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,425 with a mission of destruction. 220 00:17:30,467 --> 00:17:33,387 Big history connects microbiology... 221 00:17:40,936 --> 00:17:43,564 to a new age of warfare. 222 00:17:45,482 --> 00:17:48,318 Iran, 2007. 223 00:17:48,402 --> 00:17:50,070 [ Bell Ringing ] 224 00:17:50,154 --> 00:17:54,491 A self-replicating computer virus called a worm... 225 00:17:56,285 --> 00:17:59,413 infiltrates a nuclear facility. 226 00:17:59,496 --> 00:18:02,124 [ Morgan ] We created this computer warfare against an enemy- 227 00:18:04,460 --> 00:18:07,129 warfare in which no one travels overseas... 228 00:18:07,212 --> 00:18:09,965 no one fires a single bullet or drops a single bomb. 229 00:18:14,595 --> 00:18:17,264 [ Narrator] The digital worm is a code... 230 00:18:18,348 --> 00:18:20,601 programmed to disable machines... 231 00:18:20,684 --> 00:18:26,273 by jumping from computer to computer until it finds its target. 232 00:18:26,356 --> 00:18:29,109 [Alarm Blaring ] 233 00:18:30,778 --> 00:18:34,448 Humans create codes that seem to have lives of their own... 234 00:18:36,033 --> 00:18:40,287 echoing the secret code within all of life. 235 00:18:41,872 --> 00:18:44,500 Big history zooms in... 236 00:18:51,173 --> 00:18:54,051 to the code that programs us. 237 00:18:55,052 --> 00:18:59,640 [ Man ] The first creatures that emerged were very small microbes. 238 00:18:59,723 --> 00:19:04,895 And those creatures used D.N.A. to store information. 239 00:19:06,772 --> 00:19:09,358 [ Narrator] Like binary code... 240 00:19:09,441 --> 00:19:11,568 D.N.A. starts simple. 241 00:19:12,194 --> 00:19:14,196 Just four chemicals... 242 00:19:14,279 --> 00:19:18,450 but they combine in millions of complex sequences... 243 00:19:18,534 --> 00:19:23,247 that govern every cell in every living thing on earth. 244 00:19:26,792 --> 00:19:31,171 [Valle] D.N.A., helices-all of that is a type of code. 245 00:19:31,255 --> 00:19:35,551 It's little bits of information to create a larger bit of information... 246 00:19:35,634 --> 00:19:37,594 to create a larger bit of information. 247 00:19:37,678 --> 00:19:41,348 It's like-You take two hydrogen atoms. You take an oxygen atom. 248 00:19:41,431 --> 00:19:43,183 You have water. 249 00:19:43,267 --> 00:19:45,644 You take a bunch of water and you have a sea. 250 00:19:45,727 --> 00:19:47,855 You take a bunch of seas, you have oceans. 251 00:19:47,938 --> 00:19:50,440 Everything has a code. 252 00:19:50,524 --> 00:19:54,570 You can't just think that a code is something in your computer that makes it run. 253 00:19:54,653 --> 00:19:56,530 Code is life. 254 00:20:01,410 --> 00:20:06,415 [ Narrator] So if code is the hidden engine of life on this planet... 255 00:20:06,498 --> 00:20:10,002 could a code also govern the universe? 256 00:20:10,085 --> 00:20:14,214 Some scientists believe that our reality could be nothing more... 257 00:20:14,298 --> 00:20:18,552 than a computer program simulating the world around us. 258 00:20:20,888 --> 00:20:24,224 [ Dyson ] Things that you would think were pretty crazy questions- 259 00:20:24,308 --> 00:20:27,728 such as the question of could our universe actually be running... 260 00:20:27,811 --> 00:20:30,981 as a simulation in a computer- 261 00:20:31,064 --> 00:20:34,276 they don't sound as crazy today as they did 10 or 20 years ago... 262 00:20:34,359 --> 00:20:37,821 because of our ability to do that kind of thing ourselves. 263 00:20:40,657 --> 00:20:43,827 [ Narrator] The code of D.N.A. runs our brains. 264 00:20:44,494 --> 00:20:49,333 A code-cracking marvel that' lets us decipher a world of symbols... 265 00:20:50,167 --> 00:20:52,502 and build machines in our image... 266 00:20:53,670 --> 00:20:56,006 to uncover the ultimate mystery- 267 00:20:57,299 --> 00:21:00,135 a code that rules everything. 268 00:21:03,513 --> 00:21:06,767 But the story of codes is just the beginning. 269 00:21:06,850 --> 00:21:09,937 There's a much bigger puzzle hidden in big history. 270 00:21:10,020 --> 00:21:12,981 Each episode unlocks a clue. 271 00:21:13,065 --> 00:21:14,983 Everyday things like silver... 272 00:21:16,193 --> 00:21:17,361 the sun... 273 00:21:18,528 --> 00:21:19,988 and water... 274 00:21:20,072 --> 00:21:21,615 hold the key. 275 00:21:21,698 --> 00:21:26,370 Watch them all, and you'll see this grand mystery revealed. 276 00:21:26,453 --> 00:21:29,873 The big history of time, of space. 277 00:21:29,957 --> 00:21:32,709 The big history... of us. 22623

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