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8 episodes in this season

Is There a Creator?

44 min

The Riddle of Black Holes

44 min

Is Time Travel Possible?

44 min

What Happened Before the Beginning?

44 min

How Did We Get Here?

44 min

Are We Alone?

44 min

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What Are We Really Made Of?

44 min

Beyond the Darkness

44 min

Through the Wormhole

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What Are We Really Made Of?

Season 1 · Episode 7 · Jul 21, 2010

Our understanding of the universe and the nature of reality itself has drastically changed over the last 100 years, and it's on the verge of another seismic shift. In a 17-mile-long tunnel buried 570 feet beneath the Franco-Swiss border, the world's largest and most powerful atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider, is powering up. Its goal is nothing less than recreating the first instants of creation, when the universe was unimaginably hot and long-extinct forms of matter sizzled and cooled into stars, planets, and ultimately, us. These incredibly small and exotic particles hold the keys to the greatest mysteries of the universe. What we find could validate our long-held theories about how the world works and what we are made of. Or, all of our notions about the essence of what is real will fall apart.

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Through the Wormhole

TV Series

201044m7.7

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What Are We Really Made Of?

Season 1 · Episode 7 · Jul 21, 2010

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