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Season 5
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We all float along the river of time. But does that river have a source? Where did time come from? And what, exactly, is it?
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When we look up into the sky it appears we live in a universe that is filled with light. But scientists are now certain there is far more matter in the dark portions of our universe that we can't see.
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Humanity's potential seems limitless. But could we become as powerful as God? Scientific breakthroughs are granting our species divine abilities.
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The force that holds us to the surface of the earth, and holds the earth in orbit around the sun, may be a trick of the mind. We feel it, but it may not be real. Is gravity an illusion?
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If we were in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, would we even know it? Will we someday lose our bodies and souls? Is a Zombie Apocalypse possible?
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Could oceanic creatures and sea water, collectively form a super-organism? If the ocean is a living being, a new discovery suggests it may be capable of thought. If so, what is the ocean thinking?
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The stability of the US, Europe, China, or any global power depends on high-speed digital communication. With a little imagination, could a few terrorists sabotage this massive network?
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Are the wealthy just born in the right place at the right time? Are the poor victims of a system designed to keep them down? Or do physics and biology determine who is rich and who is poor?
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Do you make your own luck, or does luck make you? Some scientists believe luck is strictly a matter of statistics and probabilities... but others believe unseen forces are at work.
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What would an alien civilization believe in? Is God being worshipped somewhere else in the cosmos? We won't know until we make contact, but we can look for clues here on Earth.
Season 4
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Is life the product of evolution? Or is it thanks to the guiding hand of God? Believers in Intelligent Design argue complex life could not have evolved randomly.
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We like to think we are the masters of our fates. But is that really true? What if everything that has or will happen in the universe has already been determined?
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Do we live in the 'real world', or is it all in our mind? Human senses capture only a small part of nature, and new physics suggests we may be blind to entire dimensions of space.
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From our smartphones to our vacuum cleaners to our cars, we have robots that live and work beside us. Are robots the future of human evolution?
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Our minds store our entire lives, our memories and our deepest desires. Tell no one, and our thoughts remain our own. Could brain hackers someday be able to rewrite our thoughts?
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Every single person who has ever lived was created from the genes of one man and one woman. But human sexual reproduction, unchanged for millions of years, is about to undergo a radical revolution.
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If the stuff of life is spread throughout the cosmos, then the universe could be teeming with aliens. Will alien brains think in ways we understand?
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We are all at the mercy of the Sun. Its glowing disc sustains nearly all life on Earth. But the Sun also holds a dark secret: someday, it will bathe us in a fiery, planetary holocaust.
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What defines the beginning of a life? Is it the moment when two cells unite? Or does something have to know it is alive before its life can truly begin?
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Scientists have been on the hunt for a particle that is supposed to explain how the universe got to be full of matter. The 'God Particle', is believed to be responsible for giving mass to all matter.
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