All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens s07e03 God Particle.eng

NARRATOR: It has been called
the key to the universe...

MARIA SPIROPULU: We are just discovering
something which is completely blowing our minds.

NARRATOR: ... a gateway
to new technologies...

JOHN BRANDENBURG: We're going
into a vast unknown territory.

Who knows what we'll find?

NARRATOR: ... and possibly

the most important scientific
breakthrough of all time.

WILLIAM HENRY: It's going to open up new
layers of our understanding of reality.

NARRATOR: Could the so-called God particle

really reveal the truth about our origins?

And might clues to its significance

have been left here on Earth

thousands of years ago by
extraterrestrial beings?

DAVID CHILDRESS: We can use this to
understand our place in the universe

and even to teleport and travel

through time and space.

NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world

believe we have been visited in
the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so, might there be evidence
in the discovery of the God particle?

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NARRATOR: Every religion seeks
to answer the same question:

"Where did we come from?"

Philosophers, sages and priests

have pondered our origins
since the dawn of humanity,

while science has looked for evidence
that might one day give us the answer.

ROBERT CARGILL: Both religion and science

approach the idea of where we
come from with a set of rules.

Science has the scientific method.

Religion comes at the same question
with its own set of rules...

a presupposition that a God or gods exist.

Religion gives us a
certain view of reality.

And science gives us a
different view of reality.

And yes, there are points at which
these two worldviews are compatible.

JOHN BRANDENBURG: Science and religion,

at their best moments,
are searching for truth,

as is philosophy.

Especially at moments like
the moment of the big bang,

the moment of creation, the genesis.

These streams of thought converge.

In effect, science and
religion and philosophy

are all searching for the same thing.

It reminds me of Einstein's question:

"What were God's thoughts when
he was making the universe?"

- (people chanting)
- NARRATOR: If science and religion

are both searching for
answers to the same questions,

then why do we so often
consider them at odds?

Is it necessary that one negates the other?

CARGILL: Science speaks nothing
whatsoever about the existence of God.

And because of that,

there's still an opening for God.
Right? There's still a possibility

that God stands behind all this,

that God's responsible for the big bang.

JONATHAN YOUNG: In the ancient world,
the philosophers were the scientists.

There was no clear distinction

between hard research and
theological speculations.

All serious thinkers were trying to

figure out the nature of reality.

Now we consider these
to be separate pursuits.

RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: If we
truly want to bridge the gap

between religion and science,

we must recognize

that religion needs to
become more scientific.

And science would benefit by
becoming a wee bit more religious,

not in the mythological sense,

but by looking back to the religious,

and "what they interpret to be myth,"

and say, if there's any legitimacy
or reality to this, what is it?

Let's explore.

Let's discover.

Let's find out what the truth is.

NARRATOR: As our technology advances

at an increasingly rapid rate,

are we getting closer to
discovering our true origins?

And finding out whether or not we
really are alone in the universe?

Some believe a recent
scientific breakthrough

may prove to be a giant leap
forward in our search for the truth.

Geneva, Switzerland.

Here,

buried over 300 feet beneath the Earth

and covering a remarkable 17-mile expanse,

is the largest and most
complex machine ever created:

the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC.

Smashing tiny protons together

at speeds of nearly 670
million miles per hour,

the LHC creates such intense energy

that some people are afraid

it could actually create a black hole

and swallow up the entire Earth.

BRANDENBURG: The Large Hadron Collider
is a real triumph of human civilization.

It's easily the most
complicated and powerful device

that human beings have ever built.

You're actually firing
two protons into each other

and having them collide with
an enormous release of energy,

recreating conditions in a very
small area similar to the big bang

in its very earliest instant.

MICHAEL DENNIN: It is a
bit like going back in time,

towards the big bang or the
beginning of the universe...

getting to points in the history of the
universe where the energies were that high.

NARRATOR: On July 4, 2012,

thousands crowded outside an auditorium

at the European Organization
for Nuclear Research,

or CERN,

to hear the announcement of
the LHC's first major finding.

Streaming the event live across the world,

scientists prepared to reveal a discovery

that could solve a decades-old mystery

about the nature of our universe.

MARIA SPIROPULU: The atmosphere in
the room was, uh, was incredible.

It was not like a normal
physics symposium or seminar.

It was truly something of
completely different magnitude was...

was going to be announced,

that it is completely
extraordinary, which it was.

ROLF HEUER: As a layman, I would now say...

I think we have it.

(Cheering)

NARRATOR: What the scientists
at CERN had discovered

was a tiny bit of matter

that some call,

the God particle.

WILLIAM HENRY: Scientists around the world
celebrated the discovery of the God particle

as a milestone in human knowledge

and thought that it's going to open up
new layers of our understanding of reality.

NARRATOR: But just what is
the so-called "God particle"?

And what is it telling
us about the universe?

Known in the scientific
community as the Higgs boson,

the particle was first theorized
by physicist Peter Higgs in 1964.

Its discovery confirms the
existence of an invisible force

throughout the universe
known as the Higgs field.

Scientists believe when particles
interact with this field,

they acquire mass, which slows them down,

and allows them to form matter
such as planets and stars.

DENNIN: An image that's often used

is ping-pong balls moving
through sand or sugar.

Sometimes they're pushed down real deep.

Sometimes they're on top of the sand.

If you're on top, you move around quickly.

If you're deep in, you move slowly.

And that interaction

with this other Higgs particle is
what gives other particles their mass.

ROBERT H. FRISBEE: You really can't
overemphasize the importance of finally saying

there is a Higgs particle

and that we really are on the right track.

BRANDENBURG: There's great excitement in the
scientific community because the Higgs field

permeates all of space-time.

It's possible, theoretically,

to effectively switch
off the mass of particles

and achieve near-light speed very easily.

This could open up not only the planets,

but the stars to human exploration.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Whether it's
through science, religion, philosophy

or the ancient astronaut
theory, the fact is

we are all seeking answers
to the same questions.

Who are we?

Where do we come from?

And ultimately

where are are we going?

And so we celebrate a discovery

like the Higgs boson or "God particle"

because it brings us that much closer

to answering the questions
that have fascinated humanity

for thousands of years.

NARRATOR: Scientists believe that
the discovery of this tiny particle

could represent a quantum leap

in our understanding of the universe.

Some have even proposed
that it could open the door

to anti-gravity technology,

travel at the speed of light,

and the creation of wormholes.

However, ancient astronaut theorists

propose that the God particle

is not a new discovery, but rather

a rediscovery.

NARRATOR: Chandigarh, India.

This thriving city at the
foot of the towering Himalayas

is the capital of India's Punjab state.

It was in this region of Northwest India

that scholars believe a series of
religious texts called the Vedas

were compiled from oral stories that
had been passed down for centuries.

SUBHASH KAK: The Vedas,

according to the Indian tradition itself,

were put together in the final
form about 5,000 years ago.

But these hymns

had been circulating in the
Indian region for a long time.

We do know

that not a single letter

of the four Vedas has changed,

unlike any other texts in the world.

So, there was a belief

that the text of the Vedas
should not be tampered with

because they represent the entire cosmos.

YOUNG: In the Hindu lore,

the Vedas are not of Earthly origin.

They are from mysterious sources.

And they are from before time.

They are from before human history

and are said to be from
before even the gods.

Major figures in modern science
were ardent students of the Vedas.

Bohrs and Schrodinger read arduously.

Oppenheimer could read it in Sanskrit.

Even Einstein and Tesla
were known to have read it.

It had a profound influence
on modern thinking.

NARRATOR: Inside these ancient tomes

are Hinduism's first stories of creation.

In one Vedic text called the Rig Veda,

creation was said to have begun suddenly

and explosively from an
infinitesimal point of pure energy.

TSOUKALOS: It describes
this strange cosmic egg

that begins as a single concentrated point.

And everything expanded from
this single concentrated point

to form the universe.

Now, if you look at this
from a modern perspective,

this actually reflects modern
science's big bang theory,

where the universe began as a singularity

and expanded to form the
universe as we know it today.

To me, the similarities are astounding.

DAVID WILCOCK: It's not like this idea
was just banging around for anybody to see.

It was a concept that our
scientists didn't start to embrace

until the 20th century.

And yet it was already there in these texts

that are at least 3,000
years old, if not much older.

KAK: What is remarkable in the Vedas

is that they were able to
come to an understanding,

which is very similar to the understanding
that modern science has reached

through the intuitions of our
great contemporary scientists.

NARRATOR: Is it really possible

that the Hindu creation
story from the Rig Veda

is evidence that people
living thousands of years ago

may have had knowledge of
the precise scientific process

involved in the creation of the universe?

A process modern scientists are
only just beginning to understand?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and believe that further proof can be found

in another early creation story...

the Hebrew bible's Book of Genesis.

BRANDENBURG: One of the first phrases
in Genesis: "Let there be light."

And this is like the
moment of the big bang.

The whole universe began
effectively as light, as energy.

We're speaking of moments of existence

that humans would experience
just as a great flash of light.

And in that sense,

the story of Genesis in the
Bible and science converge.

YOUNG: We have in this verse the
description of the very first light,

the light out of which all things came,

the light which led, finally, to matter,

to things of substance,
to the universe itself.

In current scientific theory,

fractions of a second after the big bang,

the Higgs field transformed what had
been particles of light into mass,

matter into creation itself.

We have very strong
parallels with the Scriptures.

First, light and then matter.

NARRATOR: Similar descriptions of the
universe beginning from a single point of light

can be found in cultures
throughout the ancient world,

from Egypt to China

and to the American Southwest.

YOUNG: In the Egyptian creation narrative,

the very first god was Atum.

He emerged from the darkness
to create Egyptian civilization.

The Sumerian, the Egyptian, the Norse...

something emerges out of darkness.

Order emerges out of chaos.

Where there was no form, form begins.

There is something about these stories

that is beyond any one of them

that seems to allude to a greater reality.

NARRATOR: But how is it that the
ancient world's most sacred texts

all describe creation in much the same way

as our current scientific theory?

And where did our ancestors

get this seemingly advanced understanding

of the origins of the universe?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answers may lie

in the stories of the man
who compiled the Vedic texts

in written form,

a mysterious sage named Veda Vyasa.

WILCOCK: In the Hindu
mythologies, Vyasa is believed

to be a reincarnation of the god Vishnu,

and that Vishnu specifically
took on a human embodiment

to be able to write
down these classic texts.

CHILDRESS: This sage, Vyasa,
who is the author of the Vedas

was said to be an immortal.

And, ultimately, one of the gods himself.

TSOUKALOS: Some have suggested
that Vyasa came to Earth

to record and impart this
Vedic knowledge to mankind.

Now, could it be possible that
he was in fact an extraterrestrial

who came here with the direct
mission to bring knowledge to mankind

and guide them in their
understanding of science and physics?

NARRATOR: Could Veda Vyasa

really have been an extraterrestrial?

And might he have educated mankind

about the workings of the universe

thousands of years before
the Large Hadron Collider

was ever even constructed?

But if so, why?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe
further evidence can be found

in the stories of a Greek scientist

2,500 years ahead of his time.

NARRATOR: The Thracian coast, Greece.

At the northern end of the Aegean Sea

lie the ruins of an ancient metropolis.

2,500 years ago,

Abdera was a thriving
seaport and trading center.

It was a wealthy hub of
commerce between empires

and the home of one of
history's greatest thinkers:

Democritus.

YOUNG: Democritus was a Greek philosopher

in the fifth century before the Common Era.

He was not just a philosopher,
but a scientific theorist.

In fact, his great gifts have led him to be

revered as the father of modern science.

NARRATOR: Democritus was
born to a wealthy family

and educated by Persian Magi...

learned priests who were
said to control the fates.

WILCOCK: It was believed that
he was trained by the magi,

these priests of the east,

and that he also traveled
to Egypt and to Babylon

and studied with the secret masters

who had these ancient wisdom
teachings hidden in their lineage.

RICHARD RADER: Democritus
traveled quite a bit and,

through his travels, learned,
uh, quite a lot traveling east

through... in what we
call the Ancient Near East

studying with the Magi

and studying with Chaldeans who were

known for their magical,
mysterious learnings

and their magical,
mysterious knowledge as well.

NARRATOR: Through his travels
and his interactions with people

said to have mysterious knowledge,

the young philosopher and mathematician

came up with a radical theory
concerning all matter in the universe.

Democritus theorized that everything...

people, plants, stone and sun...

were made of the same stuff:
tiny particles he called "atomos."

SABINA MAGLIOCCO: He developed an
early version of the atomic theory.

It is an early theory of everything in the
world being made up of these very, very small,

invisible particles which
Democritus then called atoms.

CARGILL: Democritus argued that
there's a fundamental building block.

Even though we couldn't see
them, that was the theory,

the philosophical theory
that was in Ancient Greece.

This is long before science.

DENNIN: When Democritus
was talking about atoms,

it's amazing how close he
got to what we really know.

What he was motivated by

was the idea that if you cut something up,

the pieces still have the same properties.

And so he just did the thought experiment...
well, if I keep cutting it smaller,

then eventually, I'll have
the smallest possible piece,

and that's the atom.

And that's what gives it its properties.

That's basically our
picture of matter now...

that smallest piece is the
protons, neutrons, and the electron

that make up the atom.

NARRATOR: What Democritus
articulated 2,500 years ago

is remarkably similar to today's
Standard Model of physics...

the basis of our search for the
Higgs boson, or God particle.

But how could Democritus
have known about the atom

and the forces that govern it?

Could it be that Democritus
had access to advanced

and perhaps even
extraterrestrial information

about the quantum realm?

Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe that the answer may lie

in an even more radical
suggestion Democritus made

about the cosmos.

SOUKALOS: In his writings, Democritus
proposed that there are many worlds

and that these worlds even sustained life.

Now, could it be that by "other worlds"

he was maybe even referring
to parallel universes?

DENNIN: As we fast forward from
Democritus to the more current era,

where the idea of parallel universes have
really taken off is the multi-universe view,

where all possible universes has occurred.

This is very similar to Democritus's
idea of making all possible universes.

But now they're very
much next to each other,

parallel in space, as
well as occurring in time.

NARRATOR: Some cosmologists today
believe our universe is one of many,

and that the God particle could lead
us to discovering these other universes.

Is it possible that Democritus
had knowledge of this

2,500 years ago?

And might that information have come
to him not only from a different world,

but perhaps a different universe?

JASON MARTELL: Democritus claimed to communicate
with what he thought were parallel worlds.

He sometimes would exercise his
energy by going into places of the dead

and would receive what he thought were

voices and information

which would predict the future.

TSOUKALOS: Some accounts
of Democritus describe him

as having access to magical powers

with which he could control the
weather and predict natural disasters.

He also allegedly communicated with
what he referred to as other worlds.

And he described images and voices

that came to him giving him
all sorts of information.

WILCOCK: Is it possible
that the priests of the magi,

the priests of the Egyptian mystery schools

and the priests of Babylon

taught him some form of ancient practice

that allows the human body
to become an instrument

to connect directly on a telepathic level

with extraterrestrial beings?

TZADOK: The more that
we draw forth in science,

we're going to discover
the truths of the past

that have long been hidden from us.

Yes, mankind has been
directed from the beginning.

NARRATOR: But did Democritus
truly understand atomic theory

and the concept of multiple universes

all the way back in the fifth century B.C.?

Or is it possible... as some ancient
astronaut theorists suggest...

that he was simply documenting information

passed on to him by more advanced beings?

Clues about our universe

deliberately left for
us to discover over time?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by looking at the discovery
of the God particle

and its connection to the Mayan calendar.

NARRATOR: Palenque, Mexico.

These majestic stone ruins

are all that remain of the
once powerful Mayan city.

With its towering stone pyramids

and ornate plazas, Palenque

reveals the true sophistication
of the Mayan civilization.

ED BARNHART: In terms of scientific
and artistic achievements,

the Maya were among the world's
best ancient civilizations.

Their advancements in math, engineering,

astronomy, geometry were
unparalleled in the entire Americas.

NARRATOR: It was in this ancient Mayan city

that researchers have unearthed one of
the best examples of a remarkable calendar

that tracked not only days and months,

but also ages spanning thousands of years.

BARNHART: The Maya were very, very
intent on recording the passage of time,

so much so that early scholars
called the entire culture

esoteric time worshippers.

They had a number of calendrical cycles.

One of the last ones they
made we call the long count.

To the Western mind, you could look
at it as the odometer on your car.

It clicks through time,

and scholars have a difference of opinion
whether it is a cycle that will reset itself

or whether it is a system that can go
backwards and forwards into perpetuity.

HENRY: The Mayans were obsessed with
the idea of time cycles and worlds.

They believed that we had
existed in three previous worlds

and that they could forecast or
predict the emergence of a new world.

That was the purpose of the Mayan calendar,

was to pinpoint a specific date and time

when one world would end
and a new world would begin.

NARRATOR: The Mayan calendar
last turned on December 21, 2012.

Thousands of people from around the world

descended on Mayan sites to mark the event.

Some, however, saw dire
omens in the occasion.

HENRY: The Mayan prediction
of the end of the world

in December 2012 caused a firestorm of

prophecy watchers and people believing
that it was actually doomsday.

But, as we know now,

nothing of that nature
actually happened at that time.

NARRATOR: If it wasn't a
doomsday clock as many believed,

then just what was this
ancient calendar predicting?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

it may have in fact been counting down,

not to the end of the world,

but to the dawn of a
new era in human history.

HENRY: The Mayans never said
it was gonna be doomsday.

They simply said it would
be a new moment of creation.

TSOUKALOS: Maybe the Mayan calendar
predicted a monumental leap forward,

a transition that would
lead us into a whole new era

of scientific understanding
and possibility.

CHILDRESS: What did happen was
we discovered the God particle,

the Higgs boson.

So perhaps what the Mayan
calendar was trying to predict

was not some terrible catastrophe,

but our own very important discovery

of the God particle

and how...

we can use this to understand
our place in the universe.

NARRATOR: If the Maya did indeed predict
the discovery of the God particle,

did they also leave a clue

as to where this knowledge will take us?

Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer may be found

480 miles north on carved
blocks of hard volcanic andesite

at another Mayan
archaeological site in Izapa.

On Stela 5,

there is a depiction of a mythological tree

that the Maya believed connected
the cosmos and the Earth.

YOUNG: For the Maya, the world tree
bridged the seen and the unseen,

the celestial and the earthly.

The Mayans believed the tree
exuded a kind of syrup or sap

called the itz. It had qualities that

allowed portals to open to make
contact with unseen dimensions.

It was the key, if you
will, to other worlds.

MARTELL: The Mayans talked
about this type of cosmic ooze

that they thought literally
emanated from the world tree.

The itz actually opened
up portals to other worlds.

Maybe they're talking about
some type of advanced energy

that they didn't directly have access to,

but had the understandings and teachings

possibly taught to them
by extraterrestrials.

HENRY: When I looked at the
symbolism of the sacred tree,

I got to thinking, what if that sap is the

Higgs boson, the God particle?

And you have scientists saying
that it could potentially lead to

time travel and our ability
to create tiny wormholes.

CHILDRESS: Now, is it possible that we
can use the discovery of the God particle

and the Higgs boson to understand
our place in the universe

and even to teleport and
travel through time and space?

NARRATOR: Was the Mayan calendar devised to
predict the discovery of the God particle?

And if so, could this mean
that we are getting closer

to a reconnection with alien
beings that visited Earth long ago?

Some ancient astronaut theorists

believe another clue may be found

just outside the entrance
to the Large Hadron Collider

with the statue of Shiva.

NARRATOR: Geneva, Switzerland.

Outside the headquarters of
CERN's Large Hadron Collider

is a 12-foot statue of the Shiva Nataraja,

or the Dancing Shiva,

one of Hinduism's most powerful gods.

YOUNG: Lord Shiva is one of the three
great gods of the Hindu teaching.

He is the god of destruction.

His job is to destroy, but
it is in order to renew.

He destroys and creates.

His energy, the dance... he's considered
the lord of the dance, a cosmic dance,

and it is the dance of
destruction and recreation.

DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: God Shiva
is a complex character.

It's very difficult to
understand Shiva in one...

uh, in one word,

because he is the god of procreation,

and he is also the god of destruction.

He is also the god that
destroys everything,

because everything that is
created must come to an end.

NARRATOR: According to Hindu mythology,

Shiva is the god who will
one day destroy the universe

to make way for a new one.

YOUNG: Shiva's cosmic dance
is not seen as a negative,

even though it is greatly destructive.

It is destroying in order for
something new to be created.

So it is an essential part of the process
of life that things are cleared away

so new things, new possibilities,
better possibilities can emerge.

NARRATOR: But could the various
attributes associated with this Hindu god

be connected to a recent discovery

made at the Large Hadron Collider

about how our universe could
suddenly and catastrophically end?

FRISBEE: One of the intriguing outcomes
of the Higgs boson mass measurement

is the realization that the Higgs boson

and the top quark

may put us right on the ragged edge

of an instability
condition in the universe.

The universe can exist in
several different states.

Water.

It can exist as steam, as
liquid water, frozen ice.

If the universe changes state,

it would produce bubbles of space-time

expanding at the speed of light

that could destroy everything,

all normal matter, all everything

in the universe as we know it.

BRANDENBURG: Some people
are seeing theories

that say there's going to be
expanding bubbles of nothingness

that will create new...
whole new universes.

And, in a sense, we know that
the universe has to be unstable

because it made the big
bang in the first place.

NARRATOR: Could Shiva not
only be a mythological deity

that represents the ancient Hindus'
understanding of the universe,

but might he also have
been an otherworldly being

who passed on information to our ancestors

that we are only now rediscovering?

MARTELL: Maybe the great
god Shiva, the destroyer,

was actually trying to
communicate in ancient times

things that we're learning today about

breaking things down to the finest
particles and understanding that

these are how we
understand the basis of life

at a subatomic level.

TSOUKALOS: In Hindu tradition,
Shiva was often portrayed

as blue-skinned with a third eye
in the middle of his forehead.

And if you look at the different
depictions of Shiva's dance,

you see that he is almost always surrounded by
some type of a circular structure with flames.

MARTELL: We see parallels
to technology where

he's always depicted in this circle
when he's doing his cosmic dance.

It seems very similar to what we
see at the Hadron Accelerator in this

large circular particle accelerator.

Maybe there's some tie-in between Shiva
being depicted in a circular device

and the way we're smashing particles
now in the Hadron Accelerator.

TSOUKALOS: Now, what did
our human ancestor artists

try to depict here?

Do the accounts of his cosmic dance

refer to some type of
misunderstood technology,

very much similar to the
Large Hadron Collider?

YOUNG: In the Catholic Mass, there is a
ceremonial artifact called a monstrance.

If you look at this image, if you look
at this item, it has a burst of light.

Very similar to the
pattern of Shiva's light,

this dance of creation.

Some say this shape can be seen
in the Hadron Collider at CERN.

(explosion)

NARRATOR: Does this suggest
that the invention of tools,

like the Large Hadron Collider,

are happening as part of a plan?

Did celestial beings who came
to Earth in the distant past

give early humans insights
into the origin of existence?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answers may be found

not in what CERN has already uncovered,

but in discoveries yet to come.

NARRATOR: CERN headquarters,

Geneva, Switzerland.

The Large Hadron Collider

was heralded as a monumental success

when it helped to discover the Higgs boson,

or God particle, in 2012.

But that was only the beginning.

Since then, researchers have
embarked on a multi-year project

to upgrade what is already the
most powerful machine on Earth

by retrofitting it with bigger,

better, and more efficient systems.

When the Large Hadron Collider
is activated again in 2015,

it will wield at least double
the power it did in 2012,

and could boast even ten times
more by the end of the decade.

FRISBEE: When you look at
the size of the detectors

at the Large Hadron Collider,

you realize that we really are
pushing the limits of technology.

The Large Hadron Collider is something
like seven times more powerful

than anything else that's existed before.

We'll be even able to get even
closer to conditions in time,

even closer to the
beginning of the big bang.

SPIROPULU: The work that is happening
right now during the LHC shutdown

is to prepare the detectors
and the experiments

for the big energy step.

We are going into even more higher energy,

and that means that we are probing deeper,
and we can be just around the corner

of discovering something which
is completely blowing our minds.

BRANDENBURG: The human race is
going to be focusing more energy

in a small area than
we've ever done before.

So, we're looking for
a whole new phenomenon.

NARRATOR: The scientists at CERN

hope that by increasing the
power of the Large Hadron Collider

they will not only be able to
learn more about the God particle,

but also uncover other,

perhaps even more profound
secrets of the universe.

But some scientists have voiced concerns

that the Large Hadron Collider

could create a black hole

that would swallow up the Earth,

set off a massive nuclear explosion,

or even form a vacuum bubble

that could tip the balance
of the entire universe.

BRANDENBURG: Perhaps
this is a little hubris.

And we all know what
happens when physicists

get full... full of hubris.

But there's always a little bit of fear when
you're pushing back the frontiers of science.

It's part of the frontier spirit.

SPIROPULU: We have to admit that we
don't know how the universe started.

And as we go into higher
and higher energies,

we don't know what we are going to find,

because this physics at these levels is
an experimental, completely experimental,

uh, science.

We don't have the complete understanding
and description of the universe

that can create this anxiety and fear

that we might create something
that will end the universe.

WILCOCK: When we look at the experiments
that have been conducted at CERN

with the Large Hadron Collider,

it may be that humanity is
taking its first baby steps

towards the actual
construction of the universe.

We're manipulating matter
at the subatomic level.

And we are literally harnessing
the forces of creation themselves.

BRANDENBURG: The amount of the
universe that we see and know

that is part of the
standard model of physics

is only, like, four percent
of the mass of the universe.

We're going into vast, unknown territory.

We're going to be witnessing events that
no human being has ever witnessed before,

and energy density scales no human being
has ever been able to create before.

So it's very exciting.

Who knows what we'll find?

NARRATOR: By wielding the incredible
power of the Large Hadron Collider,

could we one day recreate the big bang

to form an entirely new universe,

and at the same time,

destroy our own?

Or might we instead be reaching the
threshold of a new age for mankind?

If ancient astronauts came to our
planet hundreds of centuries ago,

perhaps they deliberately
planted the seeds of knowledge

that would eventually lead
us to where we are today.

Perhaps finding the
so-called "God particle"

will allow us to finally answer
mankind's most persistent questions.

Who are we?

Where did we come from?

And the most persistent of all:

Are we alone?

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