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What Happened Before the Beginning? Every cosmologist and astronomer agrees: our Universe is 13.7 billion years old.

What Happened Before the Beginning?

Using cutting-edge technology, scientists are now able to take a snapshot of the Universe a mere heartbeat after its birth. Armed with hypersensitive satellites, astronomers look back in time to the very moment of creation, when all the matter in the Universe exploded into existence. It is here that we uncover an unsolved mystery as old as time itself - if the Universe was born, where did it come from? Meet the leading scientists who have now discovered what they believe to be the origin of our Universe, and a window into the time before time. The big bang theory holds that the entire universe was once packed tightly into an unimaginably dense and tiny space, known as a "singularity.

" But what brought about that big bang? The Big Bang. Through the Wormhole: The Riddle of Black Holes. They are the most powerful objects in the universe.

Through the Wormhole: The Riddle of Black Holes

Nothing, not even light, can escape the gravitational pull of a black hole. Astronomers now believe there are billions of them out in the cosmos, swallowing up planets, even entire stars in violent feeding frenzies. New theoretical research into the twisted reality of black holes suggests that three-dimensional space could be an illusion. That reality actually takes place on a two-dimensional hologram at the edge of the universe. Black holes are almost as difficult to imagine as they are to detect, but a few scientists have been up for the task over the centuries. Then, in 1915, Einstein published his general theory of relativity, providing a framework that allowed for a reinterpretation of Michell's hypothesis.

This is the second episode. How Did the Universe Begin? Only a man with the brain the size of Stephen Hawking’s would seriously accept the challenge of answering the question How did the universe begin?

How Did the Universe Begin?

In less than 30 minutes, while making it accessible for the population at large. Hawking’s lecture is a masterclass in concision and clear- thinking. He spins through the history of thought on the subject, beginning with the early Biblical view that the world was created by God around 6,000 years ago. And that wasn't the only cockamamie theory dreamt up in the succeeding millennium. Up until the 20th century, mainstream thinking viewed the universe as eternal, a static expanse that had no beginning or end, and where, as Hawking supposes, "nothing very exciting ever happened".

And his work with Gary Gibbons in the 1970s and early 1980s posited a feasible mechanism that explained why the universe is "lumpy" with galaxies, rather than having matter evenly distributed through it. Natural Mystery. It seems there is no real division between the mind and the body.

Natural Mystery

Both work together as part of the human whole and changes in one influence the other. Nothing is all in the mind, or just physical. We seem to be extraordinary mixtures of mind and matter, able almost to use one to create the other, explains this documentary film. Each one of us certainly has the power and science now has given us the means to take personal responsibility for our own well-being. We can control our own pain, look after our own fitness, and take drug free action... Episode 1: Mind Over Body Investigations into the power of mind over the body.

Episode 2: Vibrations Investigation into natural vibrations and how we and animals perceive them, including pre earthquake tremors, dolphin interaction, and Sharie Edwards - who can produce sine waves with her voice! Episode 3: Electrical Bodies Electrical phenomenon of the body: auras, plant 'communication', energy healing, acupuncture, and animal acupuncture.

What Happened Before the Big Bang? They are the biggest questions that science can possibly ask: where did everything in our universe come from?

What Happened Before the Big Bang?

How did it all begin? For nearly a hundred years, we thought we had the answer: a big bang some 14 billion years ago. But now some scientists believe that was not really the beginning. Our universe may have had a life before this violent moment of creation. Horizon takes the ultimate trip into the unknown, to explore a dizzying world of cosmic bounces, rips and multiple universes, and finds out what happened before the big bang. Neil Turok, Director of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada, working with Paul Steinhardt at Princeton, has proposed a radical new answer to cosmology’s deepest question: What banged? One bang is followed by another, in a potentially endless series of cosmic cycles, each one spelling the end of a universe and the beginning of a new one.

Sir Roger Penrose has changed his mind about the Big Bang. This is just a preview. The Universe: Beyond The Big Bang. History Channel - The Universe - Beyond the Big Bang.