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Space... A vast empty ocean where a planet

like ours is a remote island...

Alone in the void.

Or is it?

New research is beginning to unveil a hidden force,

one that shakes the entire universe

and penetrates space

with trillions of invisible connections...

Instantly linking every place in our world

and joining our future with our past.

Now we're beginning to grasp these mystical powers.

Is the force... With us?

Space, time, life itself.

The secrets of the cosmos lie through the wormhole.

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captions paid for by discovery communications

you know the story.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,

there was a mysterious force,

surrounding us, penetrating us,

binding the galaxy together.

If you could wield this force...

You could do astonishing things.

Seem like a Hollywood fantasy?

Well, scientists now wonder

whether something like the force could be real.

Could there actually be a mystical power

that spans the universe,

connecting and binding all things?

Astrophysicist Jamie Rollins has spent his career

listening to the universe,

trying to detect a mysterious force...

one we've never been able to see.

Over the course of the history of astronomy,

light has essentially been

our only way of learning about the universe.

What we see out there is influenced by forces

coming from things

that we don't actually directly observe.

It's like walking around without being able to hear.

We know that there are sounds,

and we know that we could learn a lot from them

if we could hear them.

There is no sound in the vacuum of space.

But according to Albert Einstein,

gravity affects space in a very similar way to sound.

We've been able to demonstrate many of the predictions

of Einstein's general theory of gravity.

The one big one that we haven't is the fact

that there should be waves of gravity.

Gravitational waves are one of Einstein's

most elusive predictions.

He believed that space is not truly empty,

but acts like a kind of substance

that can be warped by masses

like stars and galaxies.

And when massive objects move suddenly,

they send ripples across space,

squeezing and stretching everything they encounter...

from planets to the people living on them.

Detecting these gravitational waves

would prove that we are physically joined to the cosmos

by a fabric of space,

and that events across the universe exert

a tangible force on us.

But detecting this force is no easy task.

The waves that pass through the Earth

are essentially unfathomably small.

We have to make incredibly sensitive detectors to be able

to experience this effect.

LIGO...

the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory...

is one of the world's biggest scientific experiments.

Each of its arms

is four full kilometers long.

To rule out Earthquakes and other forces,

LIGO has two separate detectors...

one in Louisiana, one in Washington state.

LIGO compares the way two high-powered laser beams

move up and down each of its long arms.

Mirrors at the end of each one bounce

the laser beams back to the center,

where they're compared by computers.

As long as the length of the two arms are exactly the same,

then the light going into the two arms

will come back and be exactly in synch.

If a gravitational wave passes through the Earth,

it would cause the arms to squeeze and stretch,

throwing the lasers out of phase with each other.

Jamie is one of LIGO's more than 1,000 scientists.

And, for him, the principle

by which the detector works is very familiar.

As a former DJ, he's used to listening

to tiny discrepancies in sounds.

Let's say I've got two identical records

that I've started at the exact same time

such that the songs are exactly synchronized together.

If we were to disturb one by,

say, dragging my finger along the side,

then this record would fall out of phase with the other one,

which would produce a shift in the sound that we can hear.

If you're listening to one record,

you might not notice that effect.

Now if we were to speed up on record

and slow down the other, the songs come in

and out of phase with each other.

This is very similar to what happens to the light

in the arms of the interferometer.

The changes in length

that we're looking for are so miniscule.

They're smaller than the nucleus of a single atom.

It's completely imperceptible to the normal physical world

that we experience.

But in September 2015,

after more than two decades of development

and more than a billion dollars,

LIGO finally detected a ripple in space.

It sensed a staggeringly violent event,

one that took place a long time ago

in a galaxy a billion light years away.

What we detected was a binary black hole system

which is two black holes that are in a tight orbit

around each other...

in fact, at the very end of their lifetime

as a binary system.

As the two black holes spiraled together and collided,

the fabric of space shuddered and a billion years later,

LIGO felt it.

To Jamie, that ripple in space

is proof that gravity

connects everything in the universe.

It was incredibly gratifying.

But it's also the excitement

to know that there's so much to be learned

by having this new sensory perception in the universe.

It's really as if we're connected

to the rest of the universe in a totally different way.

One omnipresent force, the force of gravity,

binds the universe together.

But how does gravity actually connect planets,

stars, and people?

Cosmologist Claudia De Rham is taking aim

at the elusive substance of gravity itself.

For all the forces that we know,

there's a particle associated with that force,

which is responsible for carrying the force

through empty space.

When I bring that magnet close to the horseshoe,

I can feel the magnetic force.

And for the magnetic force, the electric force,

the particle is the photon.

It's not visible light, but it's there nonetheless.

And one of the great mysteries of physics today

is whether there's a particle associated

with the gravitational force.

Claudia is obsessed

with finding gravity's hidden mechanism.

How does this mysterious force stretch across the cosmos,

silently tugging on everything?

But gravity is not easy to study.

Because of all the forces we know,

gravity is the weakest.

We think of gravity as this huge,

powerful force that keeps us glued

to the surface of the Earth.

But, actually, it's remarkably easy to overcome.

All it takes is a few fans.

Right now, a powerful

wind is pushing Claudia away from the Earth.

Molecules of air are hitting her body

and forcing it upward.

But something else is forcing her down.

You could almost picture a tractor beam pulling me down.

And if anything is, in physics,

we're having a huge debate on

whether gravity is a force or not.

According to Einstein,

there is no force of gravity

pulling on these skydivers.

The huge mass of the Earth

simply distorts the shape of space near it,

and they follow the contours of that shape.

But quantum mechanics has a different approach.

According to this theory of the most fundamental particles,

something really is passing

between the skydivers and the Earth...

identical little chunks of gravity called gravitons.

Right now, I'm exchanging gravitons with the Earth.

They are traveling between the Earth and me.

If we could see gravitons,

we'd see tractor beams everywhere,

making hidden connections

between everything that has mass.

Claudia believes these graviton tractor beams

keep us all stuck to the Earth...

at least, when we're not in a wind tunnel.

But they have never been detected

in any scientific experiment.

It's extremely hard to catch a graviton.

When a graviton comes,

it just goes straight through me.

To detect the particles which carry forces,

we build particle accelerators.

But if those forces are weak,

we must build enormous particle accelerators,

and gravity is trillions of times weaker

than electromagnetism.

You could think of needing

to have a detector of the massive Jupiter

parked in orbit around a neutron star

to have enough mass there

to have maybe the chance of detecting

one or two gravitons every century,

and that's being very optimistic.

But if we could find the graviton

and learn to manipulate it,

we'd have in our hands a seemingly supernatural force.

Just as we focused photons into laser beams,

we could focus gravitons into beams of gravity.

It's a new world,

manipulating the photon on an everyday basis.

So, who knows what would be possible

if we were able to capture the graviton...

And then manipulate it.

Gravity holds everything in our universe together.

But the gravity between anything but giant objects

is incredibly weak.

A tiny action over here

could never create a reaction over here.

Or could it?

Distance.

It's such a basic idea, we don't even think about it.

But because we have distance,

that object is too far away

from me to knock over.

But now, suppose I had a double,

someone I'm truly, deeply connected to.

I could cause something far away to happen instantly.

Could such a power exist in the universe?

Quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger studies

a strange phenomenon called entanglement.

Entanglement means that two particles

which have interacted

are connected in a very interesting way,

such that measurement on one changes

the quantum state of the other one.

The particles of the quantum world

are as unpredictable as playing cards.

They can SPiN and vibrate in many possible directions.

When we measure these properties,

we get random results.

But according to quantum theory,

when two particles are entangled,

their results will always match...

As if the particles could somehow talk to each other.

In a nutshell, we have two particles,

and I make measurements on them.

The result on each of them is completely random.

But the two are the same.

How can two random events always be the same?

Stranger still, entangled particles seem

to remain connected,

no matter how far apart they are.

The idea that objects

must be nearby to affect each other

is what physics calls locality.

So if you consider a stack of papers,

then locality would mean that if I kick one over,

the others also fall over.

But entanglement appears to be non-local,

which means that distance is irrelevant.

Non-locality would mean that if these papers

fall over by themselves,

something else might happen...

like this picture falling over at the end of the room.

On the roof of his institute in Vienna,

Anton has deployed a powerful laser

to test entanglement over long distances.

What we do here is we create photon pairs.

We keep one photon locally

and the other one is sent to a measurement station,

which is about three miles away.

After moving his entangled photons far apart,

Anton measures them both at the exact same time.

Every time he does this,

he sees the same eerie coincidence.

Their particles give matching answers.

To see if it matters how far apart they are,

Anton has performed this experiment over ranges

longer than 90 miles.

If the theory of non-locality is correct,

the connection between

entangled particles is literally instantaneous,

even if they're across the universe.

To one of the greatest minds of the 20th century,

the idea of instant connections seemed

to defy the laws of physics.

Einstein was always critical

about quantum mechanics for two reasons.

One was the randomness of individual events,

and the second was entanglement.

So, Anton set out to make sure

this spooky action at a distance

he saw in his experiments

was a genuinely spooky force.

At Vienna's Hofburg palace,

he found a sprawling subbasement

that gave him room to work.

And we are here in the second basement,

in the lowest basement,

which we chose because it has long hallways.

These are the longest hallways in Vienna.

And, furthermore, the environment is very stable,

very little vibrations, it's very quiet.

This hallway is so long that even light takes

a full billionth of a second to cross it.

When Anton shoots entangled photons

toward the opposite ends of this hallway,

his super-fast equipment has time

to measure both photons

faster than light can beam a message between them.

We measure them really simultaneously.

So fast that there's no time

that they could have talked to each other

and told each other what happens.

Anton proved that entanglement

makes an instant connection.

Somehow, two faraway places

can be linked in a way

that defies explanation.

Could a spooky distant force also affect us

and the events in our lives?

According to this man, it can.

In fact, it could be the reason reality exists.

We are made of tiny magic particles.

Entanglement gives every one of them

the power to make connections

that reach instantly across the universe.

But if the particles in our bodies can do this...

Why can't we do it ourselves?

And why does our world look so...

Ordinary?

If a mystical force

is connecting distant points in the universe...

Where do we fit in?

Good morning, Toronto.

Your weather forecast today,

a 50 percent chance of rain.

Tiny quantum events are all around us,

happening at every single moment.

Quantum physicist Aephraim Steinberg

can't see them any better than the rest of us.

But he believes we feel the effects.

We all go and listen to the weather forecast,

and at best, they tell us 50 percent chance of rain,

60 percent chance of rain.

We just don't know enough.

According to the standard view of quantum mechanics,

there's a kind of quantum weather out there

where we're always doomed to have predictions

that are only probabilistic...

50 percent chance of this, 50 percent chance of that.

According to Aephraim,

there's reason to suspect

we don't fully understand the quantum world.

And that reason is its randomness.

It's these random particles of the quantum world

that can entangle with each other,

making instantaneous connections.

We know that entanglement means

there's a sort of hidden connection.

It's a mysterious kind of connection

that we can't describe mechanistically.

No one understands why it should be

that the universe seems capable of speaking

to itself instantaneously across huge distances,

while whenever we try to communicate,

we're limited to speaking no faster

than the speed of light.

If I leave home in my car in the morning

and I get to work half an hour later,

we all believe that you could tell me

where my car was every instant of the way along that path.

Quantum mechanics is different.

It doesn't have this concept of a trajectory.

It was in a famous experiment called the double slit,

where the trajectories of quantum particles

first went missing.

In this experiment, light travels

toward a pair of slits so that each photon,

each particle of light, might be expected to choose...

either take the left slit or the right slit.

But offer a proton a choice of two slits,

and it appears to choose both of them.

If it was a car, we could determine

that car would either turn left or turn right.

It couldn't do both.

But cars and photons are different in another way.

You could watch a car,

but you can't watch a photon.

So, we'd all love to see how the photon pulls off this trick.

But when you think about what it takes

to observe something,

you realize that there's no such thing as passive observation.

For you to see an object,

you must bounce light off of it.

But if what you're trying to see is a particle of light...

You destroy what you're looking at.

The normal view of quantum mechanics is to say

that we simply cannot ask

which slit an individual particle goes through.

We can't talk about how they get from place to place.

All we can talk about

is the probabilities for where they end up

when we observe them at the end of the day.

While we move in predictable paths,

we are made of particles that seem to skip around at random,

or so quantum theory asks us to believe.

But it's not the only interpretation

of what's happening.

Back in 1952,

a physicist named David Bohm proposed

that quantum particles might

actually follow predictable paths,

but only if we accept that faraway forces

are shaping their trajectories.

Aephraim decided to investigate this idea.

He set out to redo the double-slit experiment,

to see whether the faraway force called entanglement

might offer a more sensible explanation

of how particles move.

Nowadays, we have techniques

that allow us to actually measure

what a photon's doing while it's in flight.

We don't want to do this by catching the photon

and interrupting its trajectory, if it has one.

Instead, we do it using the magic

of entangled particles.

When two particles entangle,

they become perfect mirrors of one another

so one can tell you what the other is doing.

Imagine two cars that are identical in every way,

even down to the turn signal.

Maybe as car "a" rides off into an intersection,

we can't follow it and see which way it turns.

But we can always look at car "B."

And if its right blinker is turning, we conclude

that car "a" should turn to the right.

Like the two slits in the experiment,

two roads lead away from this intersection.

Turn left, and you get to a church.

Turn right, and you get to a fountain.

Aephraim can't watch which road his car will choose...

But by watching the car it's entangled with...

He can guess its destination.

But, once again, protons aren't like cars.

Even knowing which way they turned

will steer you wrong half the time.

Does randomness win the day after all,

or is something happening after the intersection?

Aephraim used entanglement to keep on watching.

It's as though even though I can't follow the car

through the intersection and measure exactly

where it is at every instance,

I can get just a little bit of information

about where it is now, where it is a moment later,

and build up a trajectory.

As the photon moved toward its destination,

Aephraim watched its entangled partner.

It didn't just tell him where the other photon went,

it actually influenced the other's trajectory.

It was as if they were connected by an unseen force.

The two particles were collaborating

to from a trajectory

just like the ones we see.

We know based on the theory of entanglement

that entangled particles are forever influencing one another.

To understand what one entangled car is doing,

we must also know what the other entangled car is doing.

I can't lift up my hand and cause an apple

on the other side of the quad to rise up off the ground.

And yet, the world is simply interconnected.

The universe seems to be busy

talking to itself instantaneously all the time.

Remember how in "star wars,"

the force is with you, even if you aren't aware of it?

While I stand here

experiencing plain old reality,

the particles I'm made of might be communicating

with particles billions of light years away.

It's a magic trick we do in every moment.

And science is starting to get an idea how it works.

Hello.

Oh, you again.

Yeah, I was just... hello?

When we human communicate over distance,

there has to be something connecting us,

whether it's a phone line or a radio signal.

But entanglement doesn't seem to work that way.

It just happens.

There is no phone line.

Or, can we just not see the cord?

Theoretical physicist Daniel Kabot thinks a lot

about distant connections,

and the hidden ways they might work.

Quantum entanglement is one of

the most mysterious properties of quantum mechanics.

We might thing that two things that are widely

separated have their own independent existence.

But according to quantum mechanics,

that's really not true.

Objects don't have an independent

existence of their own.

Quantum mechanics ties them all together.

In quantum mechanics,

instant connections are everywhere,

but we can't use those connections

when we want to go somewhere.

We still have to walk.

Our concepts of distance and time are so fundamental

that we don't think of them as concepts at all.

We think of them simply as reality...

the set of rules which everything

in the universe must follow.

Hi, I called in an order.

All right. Daniel.

Pastrami Reuben. Excellent.

Thanks. Enjoy.

If we want to get somewhere,

we have to pass through space.

Forget the cheesecake.

If we change our minds about a lunch order...

Hello, junior's?

We have to cross the same space again.

Can I get a slice of cheesecake?

But according to some physicists,

there are faster ways to go.

A wormhole is like a filament of space

that connects in two distant points,

not via the route that we'd normally travel.

It's a shortcut where you'd go out of our ordinary space

and then reappear somewhere else.

Forgot my cheesecake.

Wormholes connect two distant places

faster than light could move between them.

While there's no direct evidence wormholes exist,

the same kind of connection links

two entangled particles.

One idea is that this connection

is actually a reflection of quantum entanglement.

Wormholes and quantum entanglement

are very similar to each other...

could well be two different sides of the same coin.

Daniel thinks wormholes might be the secret shortcuts

by which entangled particles communicate.

And if these connections exist,

the universe may be filled with them.

You could think about the early universe

as a hot, molten blob.

As it expanded and cooled,

the space we see began to take form.

The surface of the globe is the universe we experience.

There is nothing inside or outside...

at least, that's the usual portrayal.

The early universe started out small,

hot, and dense,

filled with particles as they interacted with each other.

This created entanglements,

quantum connections between the different particles

that were present in the early universe.

And as the universe expanded,

those connections weren't lost.

They left traces behind.

Like the threads passing through this globe,

the hidden legacy of creation

might be a network of wormholes.

But if wormholes are everywhere,

why don't we sense their existence?

Daniel thinks we do.

Let's imagine that we had a huge number of particles,

all with quantum entanglement.

And then we'd have a very dense network of wormholes

connecting all of these particles.

If you looked at that network

and looked at it a bit from a distance,

it might look to you very much like the space

and time that we observe.

The space around us might be filled

with hidden connections dating back

to the creation of the universe.

But could new connections still be forming?

One scientist thinks gravity itself

could be making them...

In the universe's darkest places.

Two vastly different powers are at work in our universe.

While gravity can warp the space

between distant galaxies,

entanglement acts like space and distance do not exist.

Today, science is seeking a theory of everything

that ties together gravity

and the forces of the quantum world.

Could gravity and entanglement

be manifestations of the same thing?

Could there be a master force?

For astrophysicist Damien Easson,

the first step towards a theory of everything

is a strange one...

figuring out what empty space is made of.

Nobody really knows what empty space is.

But we know that at least

what we think of as empty space

is filled with energy.

Damien works on a theory called loop quantum gravity,

which contends that nothing is not really nothing.

The core idea in looped quantum gravity

is that empty space itself

is made out of small quantum bricks of nothing.

The size of these bricks is incredibly small...

much, much, much smaller than an electron

or a proton or other particles that we know about.

But we believe nothing can actually collapse

any smaller than that.

Physicists think a lot about collapsing

because there are places in the universe

where the force of gravity

is said to crush things down to nothing.

Black holes are one of the great mysteries of science.

They form when massive stars run out of fuel.

Without the outward push of nuclear combustion,

they collapse under the pull of their own gravity.

Around the black hole, the gravitational pull is

so strong that even light can't escape...

hence, we call it a black hole.

Inside a black hole,

many scientists think matter

is crushed down to no size at all.

But how could that be possible if space itself

is made of uncrushable bricks of nothing?

In places like this junkyard,

you'll find some powerful manmade forces.

This industrial size crusher applies

more than a ton of pressure

to every inch of the car inside.

But as the car gets more compacted,

the machine becomes less and less effective.

Gravity is different.

If it was only up to gravity,

this car would collapse

and get smaller and smaller and smaller...

eventually, some people believe,

so small that it would be an infinitely dense point.

And that's what we call a singularity.

If singularities are real,

they'd be great places to make connections.

Inside one, the distance

between things shrinks down to nothing.

Everything overlaps with everything else.

Distance and time simply cease to exist.

But could this actually happen in black holes?

Damien is not certain.

When we fall into a black hole,

according to conventional wisdom,

the forces of gravity become

so strong that things are ripped apart,

and the laws of physics as we understand them,

break down.

We know however, though, that since the singularity

is an incredibly small space,

some other theory,

some theory of quantum gravity

must have to kick in.

Black holes are like the clown cars of the universe,

where everything gets uncomfortably close together.

Damien thinks that when the force

of gravity meets the tiny quantum world,

some funny things might happen.

All right, now imagine this part of the balloon

represents the space inside of a black hole.

If we fall into the black hole,

gravity becomes stronger and stronger.

Space becomes more and more compressed.

And this is the point

where a passageway opens up into a new universe.

The passage between the old universe

and the new universe is what we call a wormhole.

Where some people see a singularity,

Damien sees a wormhole,

a secret door to another realm.

While we know gravity brings things close together,

it may also do what entanglement does...

build connections between distant places.

According to this theory,

entanglement and gravity

may work together as a single force,

connecting everything...

and joining our universe with many other ones.

We believe that there are black holes on the inside

of all the hundred billion galaxies

that we observe.

It's quite possible then that within each of these black holes

is an entirely new universe,

connected to our universe by a wormhole.

Our universe may be just one among billions...

all bound together by a single master force.

But this scientist thinks

that same force also unites all time,

and we could use it to send messages to the future.

Ever have that feeling that the past isn't really gone?

Or that someone you've lost is right here with you?

Those mysterious feelings of connection

are what keep fortune tellers in business.

But entanglement and gravity

tell us things are eerily connected.

In "star wars,"

you can use the force to hear the voices of people

who aren't here anymore.

When we feel the presence of things gone by,

have they really gone by?

Or are they still with us?

Hut, hut!

Boise state physicist Jay Olson thinks

we never walk alone,

because in the entangled universe,

everything that has ever happened is still with us.

So, this stadium is almost half a century old.

Teams have played here,

many games have been won and lost.

Just being around it, you can feel that

there's a lot of history

that has played out here.

Tackle him! Three, 32.

Jay likes to watch football scrimmages.

He doesn't attend them religiously,

but the way he understands the universe,

you don't have to.

Go to just one scrimmage,

and you'll experience many others.

The universe is all of space

and all of time simultaneously.

It's the past that's correlated with the future,

and so that information never really goes away.

It's always encoded throughout all time.

Five! Set, hut!

Think of the universe

at this very moment like this stadium...

vast, cold, and virtually empty.

A really big game, the big bang itself,

happened here 13 billion years ago.

A lot of entanglement was generated early on.

Because the density was high,

there were lots of particles bumping into each other,

flying off, carrying these deeper than normal connections.

And as the universe spreads out, the matter spreads out, too,

even these particles that are separated by vast distances

can still be entangled with one another.

And after the big bang,

the connections keep on multiplying

as entangled particles swap their experiences.

To swap entanglement in the lab,

scientists start with two pairs

of entangled particles.

By introducing just one particle from each pair,

they can entangled their distant partners.

You could think of this in terms of human couples.

Jay met his wife, ping,

because they were in the same town at the same time.

They decided to get entangled.

But ping sometimes skips the football scrimmages.

Now, suppose things get exciting

at a particular practice...

And Jay entangles with his neighbor.

Not only are they linked,

but so are the partners they were entangled with.

Even though they've never met each other,

they are now instantly connected.

Weirder still, connections like this can form

between the future and the past.

Entanglements don't just cross space.

They can also cross time.

And we call this time-like entanglement.

Suppose it was 10 years earlier.

Jay's football buddy was entangled back then,

but Jay wasn't.

Fast-forward 10 years,

and a lot of things are different.

Jay met ping, while his buddy got divorced.

Our human perspective says

we can only share an experience

if we are there at the same time.

That moment wouldn't affect your wives at all.

Especially if one of you is no longer married.

But to entanglement, time doesn't matter.

It simply connects one wife

from the present with the other from the past.

This is true even though they never had

the opportunity to meet.

And something that happened to buddy's ex 10 years ago

could happen to my wife today.

Yeah! Whoo!

The entangled universe is an timeless place

where the present is deeply connected

to the future and the past.

Jay thinks we could see those connections

if we built a special detector.

It's possible to generate a detector

that kind of looks at time slightly differently.

It doesn't see exactly what your eye sees,

it sees something else.

Like a Jedi uses the force to see people

who aren't here anymore, we, too, could see

the instantaneous links uniting all of time.

And Jay thinks we could tap this hidden network.

What we know is that this an interesting property

that nature is giving us.

You could send information into the future

while skipping the time in between.

To send his message across time,

Jay would encode it in a quantum state

and pass it to a particle entangled with the future.

The message disappears, but it's not gone.

It's merely skipping over

what we humans experience as time.

It could be two billion years or it could be two years.

We could say two years if I want to be around to see it.

Two years later... Omaha!

Its moment is approaching.

Hut. With her special detector,

ping can now receive the message

Jay left for her two years ago.

If we can send messages across time,

could we some day send ourselves?

The fact that that entanglement exists

between time, people have barely begun to think

of what that might be able to do.

If you could send the state of one atom, in principle,

you could do two or 10 or a million

or even an entire human body or mind.

Will we some day harness the power

to skip across time and space?

Or the power to move distant objects

without ever touching them?

Sounds like make-believe, but such powers do exist.

And they're already at work inside us.

As we seek to understand gravity

and entanglement,

we are taking our first steps

toward abilities we have only dreamed about,

toward deeper understanding

of our oneness with the universe.

There may be no such thing

as the force in "star wars"...

But we have our own that's just as amazing.

The force is truly with us.