Stephen Hawking's Grand Design

Stephen Hawking's Grand Design

2012
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design
Stephen Hawking's Grand Design

Stephen Hawking's Grand Design

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Stephen Hawking draws on 40 years of research to answer some of life's most compelling questions.

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EP3  Did God Create the Universe?
Sep. 27,2012
Did God Create the Universe?

Professor Stephen Hawking unfolds his personal, compelling vision of the biggest question of all: Is there a god who created and controls the universe in which we live? To answer this controversial and age old question, Hawking takes us on a journey through humanity's history of appraising our place in the Universe - from Vikings facing down eclipses to the laws of modern cosmology. Using the laws of physics, Hawking argues that the universe can pop into being from absolutely nothing, that there was no time before the creation of the universe and therefore, no room for a Grand Designer.

EP2  The Key to the Cosmos
Sep. 20,2012
The Key to the Cosmos

"The Key to the Cosmos," poses the ultimate-of-ultimate questions: Why does the universe exist and why does it follow rules and laws? What's the point of the enormous, endless cosmos, and why is it so perfectly tuned so as to allow life to exist? From Newton's ground breaking discovery of gravity, through hidden extra dimensions, to a muti-verse of billions more universes where anything - and everything - is possible.

EP1  The Meaning of Life
Sep. 13,2012
The Meaning of Life

"The Meaning of Life," explores what the laws of physics reveals about who and what we humans really are? Do we have free will or are we just complex biological machines working to the laws of nature? From Descartes to the latest advances in quantum physics, Hawking explores this fascinating territory with his famous fearless zeal as he questions the very nature of reality itself.

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Released: 2012-09-13 | Released Producted By: DSP , Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.discoveryuk.com/web/stephen-hawkings-grand-design/
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Stephen Hawking draws on 40 years of research to answer some of life's most compelling questions.

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Benedict Cumberbatch , Stephen Hawking , Tom Bonington

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grizzledgeezer Anyone who's read "A Brief History of Time" knows what a poor job Steven Hawking does explaining things. He's no Richard Feynman or Carlo Rovelli.I just watched episode 2, a grab-bag of ideas that never coalesce into a coherent view. Much is omitted -- time dilation, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, and most importantly, Einstein's major goof -- "God doesn't play dice".We are left believing that the statistical behavior of quantum effects is somehow equivalent to the statistical behavior of macro objects. Not so. You //can// predict where the roulette ball will fall, but not when an electron will drop from a higher quantum level.In quantum physics, there is no "cause and effect", and there is no discussion of the argument about whether there are hidden causes that haven't been discovered. (There aren't.)I was bothered that string theory is given credence. Scientists have been abandoning it, because no one has been able to propose experiments that reveal whether it's correct. That makes it a poor theory, because it isn't falsifiable.A sloppy, intellectually lazy presentation of physics.