Episode guide
Through the Wormhole: Season 5
10 episodes · premiered Mar 5, 2014
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- Episode 1: Is God an Alien Concept? Mar 5, 2014 · 44m Is God worshipped in other worlds across the cosmos? How might alien deities differ from our own? Have advanced aliens discovered everything there is to know about the universe, or are…
- Episode 2: Is Luck Real? Mar 12, 2014 · 44m Do you make your own luck or does luck make you? We find luck, good and bad, in casinos, basketball courts, genetics labs and the subatomic world. It’s a journey that will radically revise…
- Episode 3: Is Poverty Genetic? Jun 4, 2014 · 44m Are the wealthy just born in the right place at the right time? Are the poor victims of a system designed to keep them down? Or do physics and biology determine who is rich and who is…
- Episode 4: How to Collapse a Superpower Jun 11, 2014 · 44m With a little imagination, could a few terrorists sabotage a mighty nation? Perhaps even tear down modern civilization? The stability of the US, Europe, China, or any global power depends…
- Episode 5: Does the Ocean Think? Jun 18, 2014 · 44m There could be an undiscovered species on Earth unlike anything we’ve ever known. Not in the ocean, but the ocean itself! Its body spans thousands of miles; its heart beats with a…
- Episode 6: Is a Zombie Apocalypse Possible? Jun 25, 2014 · 44m It is a nightmare that has stalked us for centuries: hordes of human beings transformed into mindless, cannibalistic monsters. Could this civilization-ending nightmare become reality?…
- Episode 7: Is Gravity an Illusion? Jul 2, 2014 · 44m We feel it every moment of our lives but for physicists, gravity is the longest running unsolved mystery of the universe. Why do all objects that have mass pull on one another?…
- Episode 8: Will We Become God? Jul 9, 2014 · 44m Humanity’s potential seems limitless. But could we become as powerful as God? Scientific breakthroughs grant our species seemingly divine abilities. Biologists tinkering with DNA are…
- Episode 9: Is There a Shadow Universe? Jul 16, 2014 · 44m When we look up into the sky it appears we live in a universe that is filled with light. But scientists are now certain there is far more matter in the dark portions of our universe that…
- Episode 10: When Did Time Begin? Jul 23, 2014 · 44m We float along the river of time. But does that river have a source? Where did time come from? Some believe time and space are one thing, and the Big Bang started the cosmic clock. Others…