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Genius by Stephen Hawking
Why Are We Here?
Join Stephen Hawking as he sets three ordinary people a truly mind-bending challenge: Can they work out why they exist at all? Hawking takes them down a rabbit hole of profound realizations, helping them think like philosophers as much as scientists. #HawkingGeniusPBS
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Can three volunteers measure the solar system and universe to find out where we are?
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Three volunteers set out to find an amazing realization about the nature of life itself.
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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.