[Magnus Magnusson] I'd like to start, if I may, with Professor Hawking
How did the Universe start? With a 'Big Bang'?
[Stephen Hawking] We observe that distant galaxies are moving away from us
They must have been closer together in the past
It was the beginning of the Universe, and of time itself
Anything that happened before the Big Bang
Could not affect what happened after
[Richard Dawkins] The poetry of the expanding Universe
The poetry of the complexity of life
We're not normally equipped to understand
But science gives it to us
Science is opening your eyes
To the wonderfulness of what's there
Science is opening your eyes
To the poetry of the expanding Universe
[Magnusson] We come to you, Carl Sagan
Could you help me by putting in layman's terms
What was involved with this 'Big Bang'?
[Carl Sagan] The early Cosmos was everywhere white hot
But then as time passed
The radiation expanded and cooled
Then, little pockets of gas began to grow
Steadily brightening... we call them the 'galaxies'
[Hawking] It was the beginning of the Universe, and of time itself
Anything that happened before the Big Bang,
Could not affect what happened after
[Dawkins] The poetry of the expanding Universe
The poetry of the complexity of life
We're not normally equipped to understand
But science gives it to us
[Tara Shears] In the Big Bang we had equal amounts of matter and antimatter
And as soon as these met each other
They annihilated together
And this battle played out, whilst the Universe expanded
In its first minute of existence
And this battle played out, whilst the Universe expanded
In its first minute of existence
[Neil DeGrasse Tyson] It's not all that hard to detect the Big Bang
All you need to do is change the channel
Until you come between two stations
About one percent of the snow and noise
Comes from the Big Bang itself
We are all eavesdroppers on the birth pangs of the Cosmos
[Hawking] It was the beginning of the Universe, and of time itself
[Shears] And this battle played out
[Dawkins] Science is opening your eyes
To the poetry of the expanding Universe
[Shears] And this battle played out, whilst the Universe expanded
In its first minute of existence
[Hawking] It was the beginning of the Universe, and of time itself
Subtitles by Charles Lapointe (Mithadon)
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