Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking

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On Sunday May 30th Discovery Channel will be airing a two part special featuring some of Stephen Hawking's newest theories.

Part 1 will air at 8PM EST dealing with the possibility of other life and Part 2 following directly after and will look at time travel.

Into The Universe
Igniting an international media frenzy, world-renowned theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking makes some incredible claims - ones that redefine our view of life and our place in the universe - in the captivating new documentary Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking. Could alien life be found on distant planets? Is time travelling the exclusive domain of science fiction - or is it possible?

Delve into the mind of the world's most famous living scientist and explore the splendour and majesty of the universe as never seen before when Discovery Channel presents the Canadian Broadcast Premiere of Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking on Sunday, May 30 at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT. In a special two-part broadcast event that will bend the mind, stretch the imagination and unleash the wonder of our universe, consider the possibility of intelligent alien life and time travel as brilliantly imagined by Hawking.

Cutting-edge effects, digitally enhanced NASA footage and live action combine to bring Hawking's extraordinary vision of the universe to the screen for the first time. Definitive, provocative, surprising and exquisitely beautiful, Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking is a fascinating look through the mind's eye of one of the finest brains on the planet.

Premiering at 8 p.m. ET/9 p.m. PT, the first hour of Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking asks the compelling question: Are we alone? Or could extraterrestrial life be found on distant planets? Yes, says Hawking, "to my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational."

The episode titled "Aliens" travels from the moons of Jupiter to a galaxy perhaps not so far, far away in search of intelligent life and poses the question of what it means to be "alive." Hawking introduces possible alien life forms - in stunning CGI - that face the same universal trials of adaptation and survival as the residents of Earth. Hawking calculates the odds of making "contact" - although he cautions against it: "Like us, they probably would have evolved from a species used to exploiting whatever it can...if aliens ever visit us, I think the outcome would be much as when Christopher Columbus first landed in America. Which didn't turn out very well for the Native Americans."

Then, at 9 p.m. ET/10 p.m. PT, Hawking explores one of the world's favourite scientific queries: Is time travel possible? In "Time Travel" Hawking theorizes warping the very fabric of time and space. From killing your grandfather to riding a black hole, learn the pitfalls and the prospects for a technology that could - quite literally - change everything.

http://www.discoverychannel.ca/article.aspx?aid=26058

Sounds to me like an interesting show from an absolutely brilliant man.

Please discuss and keep in mind that this has nothing to do with religion so please keep such comments to yourself.