Celebrating Science

- Season 1

(2008)

Jeffrey Rosenthal shows us how probability and randomness can shed new light on many familiar situations in our everyday lives.

At the beginning of the 20th century Einstein published three revolutionary ideas that changed forever how we view nature.

Neil Turok discusses the overwhelming evidence of the Big Bang theory and how the cause of this event remains deeply mysterious.

Raymond Laflamme discusses how leading researchers are building ultra-powerful quantum computers.

Modern scientific and technological developments are vastly different from the forecasts by science fiction authors who promised us space travel and intelligent humanoid robots.

International researchers at the Large Hadron Collider, in Geneva, Switzerland, will soon embark on one of science's greatest adventures.

Professor Roger Penrose describes a very different proposal, one that suggests a succession of universes prior to our own.

Discoveries at the Large Hadron Collider, in Geneva, Switzerland, will establish a new Golden Age, bringing our fundamental understanding of the physical world to a new level.

Ben Schumacher describes how some things can happen in our universe, and others cannot. The laws of physics establish the boundary between possibility and impossibility.

There's a gigantic black hole at the center of our galaxy with gravity so strong that nothing can escape from it, not even light.

Acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, change, and probability reveal a tremendous amount about our daily lives.

Brian Schmidt discusses the life of the universe, and how astronomers have traced its history back more than 13 billion years.