Beginning & End of the Universe

Season 1

Acclaimed British Professor Jim Al-Khalili tackles the biggest subject of all: the universe. Jim guides us through a cosmic detective story that goes from the beginning of the cosmos to the end of time, as laid out in breakthrough observations from scientists from Albert Einstein to Edwin Hubble. He arrives at answers to our most searching questions: where did we come from and where are we going?

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S1 E1 - The Beginning
March 22, 2016
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Professor Jim Al-Khalili takes us back in time to tackle the greatest question in science: How did the Universe begin? Uncovering the origins of the universe is considered humankind's greatest intellectual task. By recreating key experiments, Jim unravels the cosmic mystery of science's creation story, the Big Bang.
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S1 E2 - The End
March 29, 2016
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Professor Jim Al-Khalili carries us into the distant future to try to predict how the universe will end... with a bang or a whimper? He reveals a universe far stranger than anyone has yet imagined, and, at the frontier of our understanding, encounters a mysterious and enigmatic force that promises to change physics forever.
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