The universe began with a massive expansion, billions and billions of years ago, and it continues to expand with every passing second. The idea that the universe, and man's very existence, began with a ''Big Bang'' is no longer a topic of debate among most scientists--it is essentially taken as fact. How has man come to this ...

Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe - in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them. These other universes contain space, time and strange forms of exotic matter. Some of them may even contain you, in a slightly different form. Astonishingly, scientists ...

This episode tackles world-changing discoveries such as radioactivity, the Atom Bomb, and the Big Bang, and tried to answer the biggest questions of all - why are we here and how were we made? Part 1 Part 3

The 2006 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to John Mather and George Smoot for their contribution to the big bang theory of the origin of the universe. The pair were honored for their discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the co...