Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees Every cosmologist and
astronomer agrees: our Universe is 13.7 billion years old. Using
cutting-edge technology, scientists are now able to take a
snapshot of the Universe a mere heartbeat after its birth. Armed
with hypersensitive satellites, astronomers look back in time to
the very moment of creation, when all the matter in the Universe
exploded into existence. It is here that we uncover an unsolved
mystery as old as time itself – if the Universe was born, where
did it come from? Meet the leading scientists who have now
discovered what they believe to be the origin of our Universe,
and a window into the time before time. The big bang theory
holds that the entire universe was once packed tightly into an
unimaginably dense and tiny space, known as a “singularity.”
Professor Jim Al Khalili delves into over 50 years of the BBC
science archive to tell the story behind the emergence of one of
the greatest theories of modern science, the Big Bang. The
remarkable idea that o