Episode guide
Through the Wormhole: Season 1
8 episodes · first aired Jun 9, 2010
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- 1 Is There a Creator? Jun 9, 2010 · 44m It's perhaps the biggest, most controversial mystery in the cosmos. Did our Universe just come into being by random chance, or was it created by a God who nurtures and sustains all life?…
- 2 The Riddle of Black Holes Jun 16, 2010 · 44m They are the most powerful objects in the universe. Nothing, not even light, can escape the gravitational pull of a black hole. Astronomers now believe there are billions of them out in…
- 3 Is Time Travel Possible? Jun 23, 2010 · 44m Einstein's Theory of Relativity says that time travel is perfectly possible — if you're going forward. Finding a way to travel backwards requires breaking the speed of light, which so far…
- 4 What Happened Before the Beginning? Jun 30, 2010 · 44m Every cosmologist and astronomer agrees: our Universe is 13.7 billion years old. Using cutting-edge technology, scientists are now able to take a snapshot of the Universe a mere heartbeat…
- 5 How Did We Get Here? Jul 5, 2010 · 44m Everywhere we look, life exists in both the most hospitable of environments and in the most extreme. Yet we have only ever found life on our planet. How did the stuff of stars come…
- 6 Are We Alone? Jul 14, 2010 · 44m Aliens almost certainly do exist. So why haven't we yet met E.T.? It turns out we're only just developing instruments powerful enough to scan for them, and science sophisticated enough to…
- 7 What Are We Really Made Of? Jul 21, 2010 · 44m 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…
- 8 Beyond the Darkness Jul 28, 2010 · 44m What is the universe made of? If you answered stars, planets, gas and dust, you'd be dead wrong. Thirty years ago, scientists first realized that some unknown dark substance was affecting…