About this season
Professor Stephen Hawking challenges a selection of volunteers to think like the greatest geniuses in history and solve some of humanity's most enduring questions.
Episodes (6)
1. Can We Time Travel?
10.0Aired 18 May 2016 • 44 min
Stephen Hawking challenges three ordinary people to determine if time travel is possible. The fascinating journey of discovery features DeLoreans, atomic clocks, a giant black hole and a large swath of New York City.
2. Are We Alone?
Aired 18 May 2016 • 44 min
Professor Stephen Hawking challenges three ordinary people to work out the likelihood of alien life out there in the universe. See why the team has their minds blown in a way they were never expecting.
3. Why Are We Here?
Aired 25 May 2016 • 44 min
Stephen Hawking gives 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.
4. Where Did the Universe Come From?
Aired 25 May 2016 • 44 min
Stephen Hawking challenges three ordinary people to work out where the universe came from. Hawking leads the trio on an extraordinary journey of discovery featuring racing cars, ice-skaters, balloons and running tracks.
5. What Are We?
Aired 1 June 2016 • 44 min
Stephen Hawking challenges three ordinary people to find out what we really are. Self-assembling machines, light-up bacteria and the world's first physical demonstration of evolution in action conspire to revolutionize their view of life.
6. Where Are We?
10.0Aired 1 June 2016 • 44 min
Stephen Hawking challenges three ordinary people to think like a genius. Can they measure the earth, the solar system and even the universe - and find our true place in the cosmos?