NARRATOR: He is considered
the most brilliant mind of the 20th century. DAVID CHILDRESS: His brain
was wired in a different way than normal human beings. NARRATOR: With
radical theories that redefined the forces of nature. DAN HOOPER: We thought we had
a pretty good understanding how the universe works. Einstein showed that
we were just wrong. NARRATOR: But was Albert
Einstein's genius somehow otherworldly? DOC BARHAM: Anytime that
there is an individual with extraordinary
gifts, is it possible that they're a little
bit more than human? NARRATOR: And could
that genius unlock the secrets of the universe? RONALD L. MALLETT: It's
Einstein's theories which allows for the real
possibility of time travel. NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world believe we have been
visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. What if it were true? Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history? And if so, might
evidence of alien contact help to unlock the mystery
behind the genius of Albert Einstein? [theme music] Principe Island, 140 miles
off the west coast of Africa, May 29th, 1919. During a rare total
solar eclipse, astrophysicist Arthur Eddington
photographed the deflection of starlight around
the darkened sun to try and prove Albert
Einstein's much disputed theory of general relativity. [ominous music] MICHAEL DENNIN: The theory
of general relativity says light will bend in
a gravitational field. So when the eclipse
blocks out the sun, the stars close to the
sun can now be seen. And if the light bends, they'll
be in a slightly different position. [ominous music] Einstein was exactly right. The light bent just as much
as he predicted it would bend. Newspapers around the world
had headlines saying Einstein's theory was vindicated. And in fact, space and
time were a lot stranger than we had imagined. NARRATOR: In his
lifetime, Albert Einstein was a worldwide celebrity,
whose name personified the word genius. His groundbreaking discoveries
redefined Isaac Newton's laws of physics and created a
completely new understanding of how the universe works. DAN HOOPER: Before
Einstein, physicists viewed space and time as
simple, unchanging static ideas that objects existed in, and
that events took place in. According to Einstein, the
existence of matter and energy and space can change its
shape, it can warp time, it can distort it. And his theory of
relativity totally upended everything we thought
about these most fundamental of physical concepts. Before his theory of relativity,
our understanding of space was equivalent to a
time when we believe the Earth was flat essentially. Einstein's theory of relativity
expanded our understanding of the universe on that level. MICHAEL DENNIN: Albert
Einstein was a genius, and his genius was
looking at this stuff and just thinking about it from
a completely different angle. And that's what really allowed
him to make huge progress in areas that other people
hadn't been able to make up to that point. NARRATOR: But what
was the origin of Einstein's revolutionary
scientific breakthroughs? Was it a product of
his innate gifts? Or might it have come
from somewhere else? Albert Einstein was
born on March 14th, 1879 in Ulm, Germany. As a child, he displayed
an unusual interest in the less tangible
forces of the world. His father, when he was ill
one time, showed him a compass. And Einstein as a
child was so amazed. Here, there was
this invisible force that caused the compass
needle the point and that sparked
his imagination. What is that? How does that happen? So this is sort of the beginning
of things that made him realize that what we saw in
the world had sort of mysterious connections. NARRATOR: This curiosity
led young Einstein to a physics degree from the
Swiss National Polytechnic in Zurich. But following his graduation,
the aspiring physicist struggled to find work. RONALD L. MALLETT: He wasn't
able to get immediately a job that he wanted, which
is teaching physics. So he took the job that
was through a friend of his at a patent office. The patent office helped
him sharpen his mind by examining these patents. And eventually, it
also gave him the time that he needed to think about
these things that puzzled him. NARRATOR: It was
during this time that something remarkable
happened to Albert Einstein. Something which suggests that
Einstein was communicating with a realm outside our galaxy. A realm that some ancient
astronaut theorists believe may be designed by
extraterrestrials. DOC BARHAM: Albert Einstein was
very adept in putting himself into altered states
of consciousness through what he called his
thought experiments, which were a kind of three-dimensional
metaphorical reverie. This was the kind of thing of
putting himself into a place that most of us won't go,
and exploring that space. [ominous music] So that he could receive very,
very novel and new ideas. Thought experiments enable
you to visually or geometrically approach a problem that
maybe mathematically might be difficult. For
example, Einstein liked to think about what
it would be like, from a first person perspective,
sitting on a beam of light moving through space. What would you see
from that perspective? He had all sorts of
different visual ways of thinking about physics. [music playing] NARRATOR: In 1905,
after immersing himself in these thought experiments,
Einstein authored four papers that would redefine mankind's
perception of the universe in multiple ways. DAN HOOPER: Included
in that year was a paper which
essentially proved that atoms were real
entities, that really existed. It was a very controversial
idea at the time. MICHAEL DENNIN: In that
year, he published a paper on what's called the
photoelectric effect. Everybody believed
that light was a wave. Einstein, he said, no, light
really acts like a particle. And it comes in little
discrete packets. RONALD L. MALLETT:
These particles of light eventually led
Einstein to the notion of the stimulated emission. So we have lasers. We use lasers for
everything, from eye surgery, to cutting metals. One of his papers included
the equation equals mc-squared. It said you could create
mass, you can destroy mass, and it gave us an idea of how
mass might come into existence in the first place. MICHAEL DENNIN: Einstein showed
that mass can be converted into useful kinetic energy. And so this is the
basis of the energy we get out of nuclear
fission and nuclear fusion. [nuclear explosion] DAN HOOPER: And another
paper he published that year became the beginning of
a theory of relativity. This was an amazing array of
things to do for a scientist. In an entire career, the fact
that Einstein did it all in one year, is virtually miraculous. DOC BARHAM: To get a sense of
how dramatic those papers were, imagine if someone came
up to you and said, everything that you know
about space and time and matter and energy is wrong. And then they would
give you all the math and all the explanation of
why everything that you know is totally wrong. It's often referred to as the
annus mirabilis papers, which basically means the miracle
year or a wonderful year. NARRATOR: What was the
source behind Einstein's incredible insight about
the laws of physics? Is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists contend, that Einstein's ability to enter
altered states of consciousness connected him to an
extraterrestrial world, one that allowed him to
access information about the inner workings
of the universe? DAVID CHILDRESS: Einstein said
that when he first developed the concept of relativity,
it was like a storm going off in his head. [thunder rolling] And this would show that he had
a different kind of a brain. And his brain was wired
in a different way than normal human beings. JASON MARTELL: Albert Einstein
was known to spend hours on end sitting in a
chair, formulating an idea or a thought to its inception. Now, was he tapping
into some type of advanced field of knowledge? It's very possible Einstein
used this type of technology to a certain level. When we look at
history and when we look at the people themselves
who are the giants on whose shoulders we stand,
what they are saying is that this information
wasn't theirs but that's something
beyond them. Something which was larger,
something which was divine allowed him to receive
this information and give it to the world. [ominous music] GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: All
the knowledge of the universe exists in the cosmos
and maybe Einstein was able to access that
knowledge that he was more in tune with this,
what I would even refer to as a
metaphysical world, that he had this direct access. He didn't know how he
did this, but his being knew it, his essence
that through his being, he was able to unlock the
secret of the universe. NARRATOR: Did Albert Einstein's
use of thought experiments grant him access to an
extraterrestrial realm as some ancient astronaut
theorists believe? Perhaps the answer lies
not in other worlds but locked away within the
pieces of Albert Einstein's brain. [music playing] Princeton, New Jersey,
April 18th, 1955. World renowned physicist
Albert Einstein dies from a ruptured
aneurysm in his heart. Hours later, Princeton Hospital
pathologist Thomas Harvey carefully removes the
famous scientist's brain. DOC BARHAM: When
Albert Einstein died, there was an autopsy performed
on him in 1955 at Princeton University. And the man who
performed the autopsy removed Einstein's brain. And he actually took Einstein's
brain out of his head and he put it in a cookie
jar filled with formaldehyde. And he held onto it. So there was an urban
legend that went around that said that somebody
had Einstein's brain which was actually true. What everyone didn't realize
is that the key thing that defined Einstein,
which was his brain, was being driven
around in the backseat of a car of this physician. It was a very weird story. His motivation was not just
simply the ghoulish thing of having this
great trophy but it was to try to see if
he could understand. And he began to
give slices of it to neurobiologist and
neurophysiologists to see if they could understand
what it was about Einstein that was different. NARRATOR: Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, present day. 45 miles south from the hospital
where Albert Einstein's brain was removed and hidden
away behind the walls of this museum, resigns what's
left of arguably the greatest mind in human history. [music playing] GEORGE GRIGONIS: Here
at the Mutter Museum, we have a mummified
human remains, skeletons of mutated bodies. But our most important
artifact is right here, Einstein's brain. ANNA DHODY: We have a
wide range of artifacts, but they are all in
the medical spectrum. Einstein's brain, it's
an amazing representation of not only a medical specimen
but one that represents one of the greatest
minds in the world. [music playing] NARRATOR: In 2011,
the Mutter Museum received 46 slides
of Einstein's brain from Dr. Lucy Rorke-Adams who
acquired them from an employee of Thomas Harvey. LUCY B. RORKE-ADAMS:
I've been extraordinarily fortunate to have been the
caretaker of these slides for over 40 years. And I regard them as
a scientific treasure. The best way to
describe his brain was that it looked like the
brain of a young person. At age 76, he has beautiful
preservation of the neurons and no degenerative
disease of any kind. NARRATOR: How is it possible
that at the advanced age of 76, Albert Einstein possessed the
neurons of a healthy young man? Why was his brain unique
to that of other humans? Even more curious is the fact
that Einstein's parietal lobe, the part of the brain
believed to be involved in the manipulation of objects
and the processing of numbers, was 15% wider than
the average human. These are actual images taken
in 1955 of Albert Einstein's brain. One thing to point out here
is you can see the red line is relatively expanded compared
to normal brains marking the expansion of
the parietal lobe. The parietal lobe of Albert
Einstein is truly anomalous. That's unique. It's intriguing to think that
this might have something to do with his unique ability
to put himself into these very abstract scenarios. He was known for
thinking, what would it be like if I was traveling
at the speed of light? That's a hard place
to put your mind in. The parietal lobe might
be involved in these types of abstract thoughts. So the fact that we see
kind of an anomalous anatomy in the parietal lobe of
Einstein, it's intriguing. NARRATOR: In the
1980s, at UC Berkeley, Dr. Marian Diamond discovered
another amazing feature about Einstein's
brain structure. Diamond found that it contained
over 70% more glial cells than the average human brain. The brain is not just the
communication between neurons, but the communication
between neurons and glia. Glias are crucial for the very
basic carrying of information. We could hypothesize that a
brain with a larger number of glia per neuron could have
advantageous effects on brain performance, and hence,
cognitive abilities. Probably 99.9% of the brains
across mankind are identical. But certain brains stand out. And in the case
of Einstein, this was a genius who seems to have
some kind of hardware that was different. NARRATOR: What
could be the reason for the extraordinary genetic
makeup of Albert Einstein's gray matter? Is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe, that he's advanced
brain allowed him to receive and decipher messages
from an otherworldly realm upon entering a
trance-like state? Could this explain how he
was able to envision his four groundbreaking papers that
transformed man's understanding of the universe in
under a year's time? How could one
person in one year create and write such
important papers? And his own colleagues had no
idea what he was talking about. The way Einstein
thought was completely different than
people before him. How do we account for
Einstein's large brain capabilities? Is it something in human
evolution that's just causing him to evolve faster? Or was he potentially given
some type of leg-up genetically? Maybe some type of
extraterrestrial gene that we still haven't
yet identified? DOC BARHAM: Other
individuals out there that may have DNA sequences
that we're not familiar with, that are unknown, that are
non-terrestrial, that have never been discovered before. Anytime that there
is an individual with extraordinary
gifts, is it possible that they're a little
bit more than human? NARRATOR: Could Einstein's
extraordinary brain anatomy explain his remarkable genius? Or could it be that his
use of thought experiments and his unique brain
structure allowed him to receive and
decipher information from an otherworldly source? Perhaps answers can be found by
examining the incredible minds behind other geniuses
throughout human history. Stockholm, Sweden, 1921. The Royal Swedish Academy of
Sciences awards Albert Einstein with the Nobel Prize in
science for his groundbreaking contributions to
theoretical physics. But what separated Einstein
from his contemporaries? How did the
42-year-old physicist achieve such a seemingly perfect
blueprint of the universe? PHILIP COPPENS: We see
that across time and space, we have packets of
people who have received tremendous amounts of
information, which really have propelled civilization along. Obviously, the question then
is, do they have special brains? Or is this just
something which happens by concentrating
on the right thing to access this information? NARRATOR: Is it possible that
Albert Einstein's practice of thought experiments allowed
his genetically-advanced brain to receive messages from
a metaphysical realm as ancient astronaut
theorists believe? It so, could there be
evidence of other geniuses across human history whose
greatest breakthroughs materialized through altered
states of consciousness? Athens, Greece. Outside the Academy
of Athens sits a statue of a war hero
and the founding father of Western philosophy-- Socrates. [ominous music] Socrates' contemporaries
described the philosopher as being strange in
many ways, including spending hours each day
consumed by his own thoughts. One of the most
stunning examples of Socrates' day
dreaming actually happened while on
campaign as a soldier at the Siege of Potidaea. Socrates was caught in the
grip of a thought or an idea, and he remained fixed and
thinking silently for an hour, for another hour,
for another hour. He displayed an
extraordinary endurance that his peers may have
found odd and suspicious and puzzling. PHILIP COPPENS: We often think
that a genius is eccentric, but I think some of
their eccentricity comes from the fact
that they really are in touch with other realities. In the case of Socrates,
he said that he was able to access a demon. Now, a demon for Socrates
is not some evil creature, but the ancient Greeks had this
subcategory of gods who really were talking to human
beings, explaining the mysteries of life to us,
explaining why we were here. NARRATOR: Is Socrates'
so-called demon evidence that the founder
of Western philosophy was mentally unstable? Or could Socrates demon be
proof that he was in contact with an extraterrestrial
intelligence that was sending him messages from a distant
realm in the cosmos? I think it's too easy just
to say that, yeah, Socrates was nuts, or that he
was schizophrenic, or that he was hearing voices. The demon is some
kind of messenger, or some kind of
bridge between him and the realm of
the metaphysical that he is trying to attain. NARRATOR: Did Socrates
practice a deep meditation connect him to an
extraterrestrial intelligence as some ancient astronaut
theorists contend? If so, could there be other
geniuses with similar claims that they received information
from a higher realm while in a trance-like state? DOC BARHAM: In the case
of Leonardo da Vinci, in his writings, he
describes laying down on a bed in his room
and taking a candle and placing the candle
at the foot of the bed. And he would lie down in the
bed and look at the flickering of the flame on the ceiling
and it would put him into a very, very
deep state in which he would be able to imagine
and come up with new ideas. JONATHAN YOUNG: Puccini said
that his great opera, Madama Butterfly, was from God,
that he wrote it down but it came directly
from a divine source. William Blake,
whose entire opus, his writing and painting
was based on repeated angelic visitations. Brahms said that his music came
from something beyond himself. We don't know if they're in
fact receiving communication from some divine or powerful
source beyond that realm or if they may be in touch with
their own unconscious or deeper wisdom that they're not
customarily hearing from. NARRATOR: In the 1900s,
Serbian-born inventor, Nikola Tesla, pioneered modern
electrical engineering and was the driving force behind
today's wireless technology. In his writings, Tesla describes
his method of approaching a complex engineering problem. DOC BARHAM: Nikola Tesla was
someone who wrote extensively about using very, very
powerful visualizations. In fact, he said that he was
able to visualize a motor and then actually run Research
and Development, R and D, on the motor in his mind so that
he could tell where there might be, for example,
mistakes or flaws. And he would be able to do
almost all of that in his mind in these altered states
of consciousness. PHILIP COPPENS: Nikola
Tesla is a person who believed in the existence
of extraterrestrial beings. He is a person who
really believes that he can communicate
with other galaxies. NARRATOR: Perhaps the
greatest piece of evidence that Tesla believed he
was in communication with other worldly beings can
be found in a letter he sent to the American Red Cross
in December of 1900. In the letter he writes, we have
a message from another world, unknown, and remote, it
reads, one, two, three. PHILIP COPPENS:
Tesla was a genius with certain eccentricities. Everything he did was in threes. And it is interesting,
I think, because this is a level of symbolism. When we realize that so many
of our ancestors, whenever they are talking about
communication with the divine and how it this divine
downloaded this information to them, we'll see this
rich layer of symbolism there as well. NARRATOR: Why was Tesla so
obsessed with the number three? Could this be a clue that Tesla
was using his own internal form of wireless communication to
connect with cosmic advisors as ancient astronaut
theorists believe? And could this also explain
the remarkable genius of India's Srinivasa Ramanujan? Although Ramanujan was
an unexceptional student, he is widely considered
the greatest mathematician in history. And according to his
journals, Ramanujan believed he was being
guided subconsciously by an otherworldly being,
the Hindu god, Namagiri. PHILIP COPPENS: Namagiri was
the family deity of Ramanujan. And basically,
everything the family did was linked with his deity. DOC BARHAM: Much of
his creative work was actually done by going
to bed with an intention to be visited by a Hindu
deity that he worshipped. And when he would
fall asleep, he would become lucid
in the dream time. And he would receive enormous
amounts of information. In one particular
dream, he talks about seeing a very large
red wall and a hand that came out and wrote equation,
after equation, after equation, after equation. He memorized the equations
and when he woke up, he actually then went to
work verifying the proofs. The vast majority of
all of his equations were new and important and
utterly groundbreaking. DAVID WILCOCK:
All of the science that we need to eventually be
able to create portals, star gate travel,
teleportation, it all needs a mathematical foundation. And the closest that
we have right now is the Ramanujan
equations that we've been able to decipher so far. GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: It
is an irrefutable fact that mathematics is the
language of the universe. So if from Ramanujan's
formulate do in fact check out, who knows
what the potential is of those conclusions? It could be life altering. It could be revolutionary. NARRATOR: Can it
only be a coincidence that many of the greatest
minds in human history claim to have
received information from an otherworldly source? Or could it be possible
that Socrates, Nikola Tesla, Srinivasa Ramanujan, as well as
other geniuses in human history were using altered
states of consciousness to access an alien
realm, a realm that some ancient astronaut
theorists believe contains the entire knowledge
of the universe? If so, where might this
field of knowledge exist? Perhaps answers can be found
in Asia, within the pages of an ancient Hindu text. [music playing] Angkor, Cambodia. Here, in the
Northwestern jungle, stands the largest Hindu
temple in the world-- Angkor Wat. Built in the 12th century,
the temple's design is meant to represent Mount
Meru, a mythical mountain that exists in the cosmos that the
Hindu believed was the center of the metaphysical universe. Numerous stone carvings adorn
the walls of the temple, depicting scenes from the
Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. Within the pages of this
ancient text of Hindu mythology, there is a description of a
non-physical plane of existence in the universe called
the Akashic Record. DOC BARHAM: Akasha is
actually a Sanskrit word and the Akashic Record is
a term that, basically, the idea behind it is that
all of the information in the universe is pre-existing
and an individual can actually tap into that information. PHILIP COPPENS: Our ancestors
began to look more into this, and the Akashic
records came about. Basically, the notion
is this, that somehow all the information,
not just from mankind, but everywhere in the universe,
is somehow accessible. Some cultures actually say
that this information really is a gift of the gods. That they left is somehow behind
for us to use at our own will. And we are able to
download this information from this other realm, this hall
of records, whatever you want to call it. An interesting thing to
correlate with the Akashic Record might be from
Star Wars, the force. Some type of cosmic energy
that's omnipresent and we have the ability
to tap into this. This is something very
new in our own sciences, trying to discover
and understand this field of knowledge. NARRATOR: Is it possible
that Albert Einstein's method of meditation, which he
called his thought experiments was actually connecting
him to the Akashic Record? Could the Akashic Record be
the source of inspiration behind the world's geniuses? If so, how could such a
metaphysical plane of knowledge exist? Perhaps the answer can be found
in one of Albert Einstein's many theories. In 1935, Albert Einstein
published a paper describing quantum entanglement. It theorized that if a particle
is split into two parts, both remain linked
to one another even when separated
over vast distances. The experiments showed
that two particles separated in space and time
demonstrated a connectivity. If you change the
spin of one particle, the other particle would
actually change its spin as well. In other words, if
something happens to one, the other responds in the
same or an equal and opposite manner. And this occurs instantaneously. So it's a form of
instantaneous communication. It's what Einstein referred
to as spooky communication at a distance. What we have to
remind ourselves is that we are made of stardust. Our whole body consists of
material that has been here since before the
beginning of time. And these particles
that we consist of, each and every particle contain
the knowledge of the universe. ANDREW COLLINS:
It's not only real, but it can explain to us some
much weirdness in this world which we still don't
understand and call paranormal. And this would include the idea
of telepathy in remote viewing. NARRATOR: Remote
viewing is the practice of using deep concentration to
visualize locations or objects beyond sight and sound. Starting in the 1970s,
the United States initiated a program called
Project Stargate to train individuals to access a
higher realm of knowledge. Using controlled
scientific settings, remote viewers attempted
to sense unknown targets and then record their
impressions on paper. ANDREW COLLINS:
The US government have funded remote
viewing programs, as did the Soviets, as have
various other governments around the world. Remote viewing exercises
have taken place for people to try and observe that which
is on the moon, or Mars, and these are proper scientific
programs with accuracy. DOC BARHAM: The US military
remote viewing program has scientific protocols
for how to do this. There are really specific
techniques where an individual can put out a
question or a query, and if they are in that
altered state of consciousness, they will receive information. If you read the biographies
of famous geniuses and things like that, each one of them
has their own description for how to do this. JASON MARTELL: Why would the
government spend millions of dollars in all these
advanced studies in areas like remote viewing
unless there is some type of valid
need to experiment with these types of technology. If we think about the fact
that we're all pretty much made of the same elements
in the universe, is there maybe some
atomic level of energy that allows us to communicate
and tap into knowledge that we're now
starting to rediscover. NARRATOR: Is it possible that
remote viewers were attempting to replicate the meditative
techniques behind Albert Einstein's thought experiments? Can this explain
how remote viewers might possess the capability to
transcend both sight and sound? Could Einstein's
thought experiments be the inspiration behind
the incredible breakthroughs of Socrates, Nikola
Tesla, and other geniuses throughout history? GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: All these
different geniuses, Ramanujan, Tesla, Socrates, according
to their own diaries, always said that they were in
communication with some type of otherworldly entities. So were all these
people just crazy? Or is it possible that the
universe is far more complex than we think? NARRATOR: Is it possible that
mankind's greatest minds had the ability to access a realm
of knowledge left behind by otherworldly beings? Could this be evidence that
the Akashic Record actually exists just as the
ancient Hindu believed? And if a select
few have the power to tap into this
alien realm, does this mean that the extraterrestrials
who created it can influence them as well? Albert Einstein's
incredible legacy which includes over
300 scientific papers continues to influence the
world more than a half century since his death. And while Einstein redefined our
understanding of the universe, perhaps his greatest
contribution to mankind is still to come-- time travel. RONALD L. MALLETT: It's
Einstein's special theory of relativity, speed of
light, and the general theory of relativity, which allows for
the real possibility of time travel. NARRATOR: Some scientists today
believe that Einstein's theory of relativity creates
the possibility to travel through a portal or
wormhole called an Einstein Rosen Bridge, a space anomaly
that may actually be a gateway to parallel universes. MICHAEL DENNIN: In the
theory of general relativity, space actually
acts like something that you can bend and
warp and make holes in. Then Einstein Rosen Bridge
is a particular example of a wormhole. And a wormhole as a
structure in space and time that involves kind of
tearing a hole in space, stretching the material--
if you think of space being a material-- and reconnecting
it somewhere else. An Einstein Rosen Bridge
takes two points in space and connects them. So that if you travel in one
end, you come out the other. Even though those two points
appear in different universes, it's essentially a
teleport or something that allows you to get
between two distant places instantaneously. NARRATOR: Could Einstein's
theoretical wormhole actually serve as a portal
to another universe? Perhaps opening a
gateway that will one day establish contact between
humans and extraterrestrials? DOC BARHAM: When we
take a look at the idea that there are wormholes,
and that these are actually generally accepted by some of
the most brilliant individuals on the planet, what you begin to
see is that all of these pieces are in place to suggest that
there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe
and that there is also the likelihood or possibility
that we have had contact in the past or have
ongoing contact now or may have contact
in the future as well. NARRATOR: Was Albert Einstein's
monumental work actually a lifelong quest to establish
contact with extraterrestrials? Did otherworldly beings
provide him with information about how to transcend
both space and time? If so, why? PHILIP COPPENS: We find that
the greatest discoveries across time and space don't
come through hard work or intensive labor, but that
really the genius somehow is able to access a realm,
and that that realm is able to pretty much download
that information to them and makes them remember
forever onwards as geniuses. DAVID CHILDRESS: In history,
you have certain people whose genius is just so incredible. It's like they're
able to see the future and they're not going to
just influence the world then and in the future. But what they're going to do
is going to dramatically change the world forever. PHILIP COPPENS: We tend to think
of civilization as this flow ebb of information, that
somehow across the flow of time, we have progressed. But really, this
is not the case. We have made giant strides
forwards because at pockets in time, there were
certain geniuses living. NARRATOR: Are
extraterrestrials accelerating the cognitive abilities
of a select few to help further the development
of human civilization as some ancient astronaut
theorists believe? Could this explain
Albert Einstein's extraordinary neural anatomy? GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Is it only a coincidence that arguably the greatest mind
in the history of the world had a higher concentration
of glial cells and a wider parietal lobe than the
average human brain and was as healthy as the brain
of a young man when he died? That is extraordinary evidence. DAVID CHILDRESS: If you were
able to study the brains of some of these other genius-- Isaac Newton, of Nikola
Tesla, and perhaps now, with someone like
Stephen Hawking-- I think we would find that their
brains too are significantly different than a normal human's. PHILIP COPPENS: There seems
to be something within our DNA whereby we go in
one direction and we seem to have in
normal human being but also certain
things within our DNA are able to make us a genius. And definitely, Einstein
was one of them. But what makes this switch work
is something which we have been completely incapable
of answering. NARRATOR: Were
the greatest minds in human history
receiving information from otherworldly beings? Are geniuses the link
between us and them? Could Albert Einstein's
thought experiments be the key to unlock
the genius that exists in each and every one of us? If so, who will be
the next Einstein? Where will he or she come from? And what new dimensions will
they reveal to mankind.? [music playing]
