Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman

PRIMETIME EMMYS® 1X nominee in 2014
Hosted by Morgan Freeman, Through the Wormhole explores the deepest mysteries of existence - the questions that have puzzled mankind for eternity: Who-or what-am I? Are we alone? How did this begin? What happened before that? This series will bring together the brightest minds and best ideas from the very edges of Science--Astrophysics, Astrobiology, Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, and more - to reveal the extraordinary truth of our Universe.
IMDb 8.620108 episodes7+
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - Is There a Creator?
    June 8, 2010
    45min
    TV-PG
    Did our Universe come into being by chance or was it created by a God? The latest science shows that the four forces governing our universe are finely tuned, so much so that it has led many to believe that something must have calibrated them.
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  2. S1 E2 - The Riddle of the Black Holes
    June 15, 2010
    45min
    TV-PG
    They are the most powerful objects in the universe. Astronomers now think there are billions of them, swallowing up planets and stars in violent feeding frenzies, and that reality may take place on a two-dimensional hologram at the edge of the universe.
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  3. S1 E3 - Is Time Travel Possible?
    June 22, 2010
    45min
    TV-PG
    Einstein's Theory of Relativity says time travel is possible, if you're going forward in time. But finding a way to travel backwards requires breaking the speed of light. Now strange-but-true phenomena such as quantum nonlocality may make this a reality.
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  4. S1 E4 - What Happened Before the Beginning?
    June 29, 2010
    45min
    TV-PG
    Cosmologists and astronomers agree: 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 after its birth. But if the Universe was born, where did it come from?
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  5. S1 E5 - How Did We Get Here?
    July 6, 2010
    45min
    TV-PG
    Everywhere we look on Earth, in the most hospitable of environments and in the most extreme, we find life. Yet we have only ever found life on our planet. How did the stuff of stars come together to create life as we know it? What do we mean by 'life'?
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  6. S1 E6 - Are We Alone?
    July 13, 2010
    45min
    TV-PG
    Aliens almost certainly do exist. So why haven't we yet met E.T. We're only just developing instruments powerful enough to scan for them. One leading astronomer believes she may already have heard a hint of their first efforts to communicate.
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  7. S1 E7 - What Are We Made Of?
    July 20, 2010
    45min
    TV-PG
    Our understanding of the universe and reality has drastically changed over the last 100 years, and it's on the verge of another seismic shift based on LHC findings. What we find could validate theories about how the world works and what we are made of.
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  8. S1 E8 - Beyond the Darkness
    July 27, 2010
    45min
    TV-PG
    What is the universe made of? If you answered stars, planets, gas and dust, you're wrong. Today scientists think there must be five times as much dark matter as regular matter, but they have no idea what it is only that it's not made of atoms we know of.
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