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Genius by Stephen Hawking
What Are We?
Season 1
Episode 5
Three ordinary people take on challenges to try to understand what they really are. In this episode the volunteers are led to an amazing realization about the nature of life itself.
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Can three volunteers measure the solar system and universe to find out where we are?
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The group experiments with cars and balloons to understand the origin of the universe.
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The volunteers pose an important question about our role in the universe.
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Three volunteers set to find out how likely it is that aliens exist.
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Stephen Hawking sets three challenges to find out if we could be time travelers.