NARRATOR: It has been called the key to the universe. MARIA SPIROPULU: We are just
discovering something which is completely blowing our minds. NARRATOR: A gateway
to new technologies. JOHN BRANDENBURG: We're going
into a vast unknown territory, who knows what we'll find. NARRATOR: And possibly,
the most important scientific breakthrough
of all time. WILLIAM HENRY: It's
going to open up new layers of our
understanding of reality. NARRATOR: Could the
so-called god particle really reveal the truth
about our origins? And might clues to
its significance have been left here on
Earth thousands of years ago by extraterrestrial beings? DAVID CHILDRESS: We can use
this to understand our place in the universe and even
to teleport and travel through time and space. 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 there be
evidence in the discovery of the god particle? [theme music] Every religion seeks to
answer the same question-- where did we come from? Philosophers, sages, and priests
have pondered our origins since the dawn of
humanity, while science has looked for evidence
that might one day give us the answer. Both religion and science
approach the idea of where we come from with a set of rules. Science has the
scientific method. Religion comes at
the same question with its own set of
rules, a presupposition that a god or gods exist. Religion gives us a
certain view of reality. Science gives us a
different view of reality. And yes, there are points at
which these two worldviews are compatible. Science and religion
at their best moments are searching for truth
as its philosophy, especially at moments like
the moment of the Big Bang-- the moment of
creation, the Genesis. These streams of
thought converge. In effect, science and
religion and philosophy are all searching
for the same thing. It reminds me of
Einstein's question-- what were God's thoughts when
he was making the universe? NARRATOR: If science and
religion are both searching for answers to the
same questions, then why do we so often
consider them at odds? Is it necessary that
one negates the other? Science speaks
nothing whatsoever about the existence of God. And because of that there's
still an opening for God, there's still a possibility
that God stands behind all this, that God is responsible
for the Big Bang. JONATHAN YOUNG: In
the ancient world, the philosophers
were the scientists. There was no clear distinction
between hard research and theological speculations. All serious thinkers
were trying to figure out the nature of reality. Now, we consider these
to be separate pursuits. RABBI ARIEL BAR
TZADOK: If we truly want to bridge the gap
between religion and science, we must recognize
that religion needs to become more scientific. Science would benefit by
becoming a wee bit more religious, not in the
mythological sense but by looking back
to the religious, and quote, what they
interpret to be myth, and say, if there's any legitimacy or
reality to this, what is it? Let's explore. Let's discover. Let's find out
what the truth is. NARRATOR: As our technology
advances at an increasingly rapid rate, are we getting
closer to discovering our true origins and finding
out whether or not we really are alone in the universe? Some believe a recent
scientific breakthrough may prove to be a
giant leap forward in our search for the truth. Geneva, Switzerland. Here, buried over 300
feet beneath the earth, and covering a remarkable
17-mile expanse, is the largest and most
complex machine ever created-- the Large Hadron
Collider or LHC. Smashing tiny protons together
at speeds of nearly 670 million miles per hour, the LHC
creates such intense energy that some people are
afraid it could actually create a black hole and
swallow up the entire Earth. The Large Hadron
Collider is a real triumph of human civilization. It's easily the most
complicated and powerful device that the human beings
have ever built. You're actually firing two
protons into each other and having them collide with
an enormous release of energy, recreating conditions in a very
small area similar to the Big Bang in its very
earliest instant. It is a bit like going
back in time towards the Big Bang or the universe, getting
to the point in the history of the universe where the
energies were that high. NARRATOR: On July
4th 2012, thousands crowded outside an auditorium
at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or
CERN, to hear the announcement of the LHC's first
major finding. Streaming the event
live across the world, scientists prepared to
reveal a discovery that could solve a decades old
mystery about the nature of our universe. The atmosphere in the
room was incredible. It was not like a normal
physics symposium or seminar. It was truly something of
completely different magnitude, which was going to be
announced, that it is completely extraordinary, which it was. [applause] As a layman, I would now
say I think we have it. [applause] NARRATOR: What the scientists
at CERN had discovered was a tiny bit of matter that
some call the god particle. WILLIAM HENRY: Scientists
around the world celebrated the discovery
of the god particle as a milestone in
human knowledge, and thought that
it's going to open up new layers of our
understanding of reality. NARRATOR: But just what is
the so-called god particle? And what is it telling
us about the universe? Known in the scientific
community as the Higgs boson, the particle was first theorized
by physicist Peter Higgs in 1964. Its discovery confirms the
existence of an invisible force throughout the universe,
known as the Higgs field. Scientists believe
when particles interact with this field, they
acquire mass which slows them down and allows them to
form matter such as planets and stars. The image that's often
used is ping pong balls moving through sand
or sugar, sometimes they're pushed down
real deep, sometimes they're on top of the sand. If you're on top, you
move around quickly. If you're deep in,
you move slowly. And that interaction with
this other Higgs particle is what gives other
particles their mass. You really can't over
emphasize the importance of finally saying there
is a Higgs particle and that we really are
on the right track. JOHN BRANDENBURG:
There's great excitement in the scientific community
because the Higgs field permeates all of space time. It's possible, theoretically,
to effectively switch off the mass of particles and
achieve near lightspeed very easily. This could open up not only
the planets but the stars to human exploration. [music playing] GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Whether
it's through science, religion, philosophy, or the
ancient astronaut theory, the fact is we are all seeking
answers to the same questions-- who are we? Where did we come from? And ultimately,
where are we going? And so we celebrate a discovery
like the Higgs boson or god particle because it brings us
that much closer to answering the questions that
have fascinated humanity for thousands of years. NARRATOR: Scientists
believe that the discovery of this tiny particle could
represent a quantum leap in our understanding
of the universe. Some have even proposed
that it could open the door to
anti-gravity technology, travel at the speed of light,
and the creation of wormholes. However, ancient
astronaut theorists proposed that the god particle
is not a new discovery but rather a rediscovery. [music playing] Chandigarh, India. This thriving city at the
foot of the towering Himalayas is the capital of
India's Punjab state. It was in this region
of Northwest India that scholars believe a
series of religious texts called the Vedas were compiled
from oral stories that had been passed down for centuries. SUBHASH KAK: The
Vedas, according to the Indian tradition
itself, were put together in the final form
about 5,000 years ago. By these hymns had
been circulating in the Indian region
for a long time. We do know that not a single
letter of the four Vedas has changed unlike any
other texts in the world. So there was a belief
that the text of the Vedas should not be tampered
with because they represent the entire cosmos. JONATHAN YOUNG:
In the Hindu lore, the Vedas are not
of earthly origin. They are from
mysterious sources, and they are from before time. They are from
before human history and are said to be from
before even the gods. Major figures in modern
science were ardent students of the Vedas Bourse and
Schrodinger read arduously, Oppenheimer could read it
in Sanskrit, even Einstein and Tesla were known
to have read it, had a profound influence
on modern thinking. NARRATOR: Inside
these ancient tombs our Hinduism's first
stories of creation. In one Vedic text
called the Rigveda, creation was said to
have begun suddenly and explosively from
an infinitesimal point of pure energy. GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
It describes the strange cosmic
egg that begins as a single concentrated
point, and everything expanded from this single concentrated
point to form the universe. Now, if you look at this
from a modern perspective, this actually reflects modern
science's Big Bang Theory where the universe
began as a singularity and expanded to form the
universe as we know it today. To me, the similarities
are astounding. DAVID WILCOCK: It's not like
this idea was just hanging around for anybody to
see, it was a concept that our scientists
didn't start to embrace until the 20th century, and
yet it was already there in these texts that are at least
3,000 years old, if not much older. SUBHASH KAK: What is
remarkable in the Vedas is that they were able to come
to an understanding, which is very similar to
the understanding that modern scientists
need to the intuitions of our great
contemporary scientists. NARRATOR: Is it really possible
that the Hindu creation story from the Rigveda is evidence
that people living thousands of years ago may
have had knowledge of the precise scientific
process involved in the creation
of the universe-- a process modern scientists
are only just beginning to understand. Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes, and believe that
further proof can be found in another
early creation story-- the Hebrew Bible's
Book of Genesis. JOHN BRANDENBURG: One of the
first phrases in Genesis, let there be light. And this is like the
moment of the Big Bang. The whole universe began
effectively as light, as energy. We're speaking of
moments of existence that humans would experience
just as a great flash of light. And in that sense, the story
of Genesis in the Bible and science converge. JONATHAN YOUNG: We
have in this verse the description of the very
first light, the light out of which all things came,
the light which led finally to match two things of substance
to the universe itself. In current scientific
theory, fractions of a second after the Big Bang, the
Higgs field transformed what had been particles
of light into mass, matter into creation itself. We have very strong parallels
with the scriptures. First, light, and then matter. NARRATOR: Similar descriptions
of the universe beginning from a single point of light
can be found in cultures throughout the ancient world. From Egypt to China and
to the American southwest. JONATHAN YOUNG: In the
Egyptian creation narrative, the very first god was Atum. He emerged from the darkness to
create Egyptian civilization. The Sumerian, the Egyptian,
the Norse, something emerges out of darkness. Order emerges out of chaos. Where there was no
form, form begins. There is something
about these stories that is beyond any one of them that
seems to allude to a greater reality. [music playing] NARRATOR: But how is it that
the ancient world's most sacred texts all
describe creation in much the same way as our
current scientific theory? And where did our ancestors
get this seemingly advanced understanding of the
origins of the universe? Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answers may lie in the stories of
the man who compiled the Vedic texts in written
form, a mysterious sage named Veda Vyasa. In the Hindu
mythologies, Vyasa is believed to be a
reincarnation of the god Vishnu, and that
Vishnu specifically took on a human embodiment
to be able to write down these classic texts. This sage, Vyasa who is
the author of the Vedas said to be an immortal, and
ultimately one of the gods himself. GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Some
have suggested that Vyasa came to Earth to record and
impart this Vedic knowledge to mankind. Now, could it be possible
that he was, in fact, an extraterrestrial who came
here with a direct mission to bring knowledge to
mankind and guide them in their understanding
of science and physics? NARRATOR: Could
Veda Vyasa really have been an extraterrestrial? And might he have educated
mankind about the workings of the universe
thousands of years before the Large Hadron Collider
was ever even constructed? But if so, why? Ancient astronaut theorists
believe further evidence can be found in the stories
of a Greek scientist 2,500 years ahead of this time. [music playing] The Thracian Coast, Greece. At the northern
end of the Aegean Sea lie the ruins of
an ancient metropolis. 2,500 years ago Abdera was a
thriving seaport and trading center. It was a wealthy hub of
commerce between empires and the home of one of history's
greatest thinkers Democritus. Democritus was a Greek
philosopher in the 5th century before the Common Era. He was not just a philosopher,
but a scientific theorist. In fact, his great
gifts have led him to be revered as the
father of modern science. NARRATOR: Democritus was
born to a wealthy family and educated by Persian magi-- learned priests who are
said to control the fates. It was believed
that he was trained by the magi, these
priests of the east, and that he also traveled
to Egypt and to Babylon and studied with the
secret masters who had these ancient
wisdom teachings hidden in their lineage. RICHARD RADER: Democritus
traveled quite a bit, and through his travels
learned quite a lot. Traveling east through what
we call the ancient near east, studying with the magi, and
studying with Chaldeans who were known for their
magical mysterious learnings and their magical mysterious
knowledge as well. NARRATOR: Through his
travels and his interactions with people said to have
mysterious knowledge, the young philosopher
and mathematician came up with a radical
theory concerning all matter in the universe. Democritus theorized that
everything-- people, plants, stone, and sun-- were made of the same
stuff, tiny particles he called atomos. SABINA MAGLIOCCO: He
developed an early version of the atomic theory. It is an early theory of
everything in the world being made up of these very, very
small invisible particles which Democritus have called atoms. ROBERT R. CARGILL:
Democritus argued that there is a
fundamental building block but we couldn't see them. That was the theory,
philosophical theory, that was in ancient Greece. This is long before science. MICHAEL DENNIN: When Democritus
was talking about atoms, it's amazing how close he
got to what we really know. What he was motivated
by was the idea that if you cut something
up, the pieces still have the same properties. And so he just did the
thought experiment, well, if I keep cutting it
smaller, then eventually I'll have the smallest possible
piece and that's the atom. And that's what gives
it its properties. That's basically our
picture of matter now, that smallest piece
is the protons, neutrons, and the electrons
that make up the atom. NARRATOR: What Democritus
articulated 2,500 years ago is remarkably similar to today's
standard model of physics-- the basis of our search for the
Higgs boson or god particle. But how could Democritus
have known about the atom and the forces that govern it? Could it be that
Democritus had access to advanced and perhaps even
extraterrestrial information about the quantum realm? Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe that the answer may lie in an even more radical
suggestion Democritus made about the cosmos. GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
In his writings, Democritus opposed it
there are many worlds, and that these worlds
even sustain life. Now, could it be
that by other worlds, he was maybe even referring
to parallel universes? MICHAEL DENNIN: As we fast
forward from Democritus to the more current era where
the idea of parallel universes have really taken office
the multi-universe view, where all possible
universes has occurred, this is very similar to
Democritus' idea of making all possible universes. But now they're very
much next to each other, parallel in space as well
as occurring in time. NARRATOR: Some
cosmologists today believe our universe
is one of many, and that the god particle
could lead us to discovering these other universes. Is it possible that
Democritus had knowledge of this 2,500 years ago? And might that information
have come to him not only from a different world, but
perhaps a different universe? JASON MARTELL: Democritus claim
to communicate with what he thought were parallel worlds. He sometimes with
exercise his energy by going into places of the
dead and would receive what he thought were voices and
information which would predict the future. GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Some
accounts of Democritus describe him as having access
to magical powers with which he could control the weather and
predict natural disasters. He also allegedly communicated
with what he referred to as other worlds, and he
described images and voices that came to him giving him
all sorts of information. DAVID WILCOCK: Is it possible
that the priests of the magi, the priests of the
Egyptian mystery schools, and the priests
of Babylon taught him some form of ancient
practice that allows the human body to become an
instrument to connect directly on a telepathic level with
extraterrestrial beings? RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: The more
that we draw forth in science, we're going to discover the
truths of the past that have long been hidden from us. Yes, mankind has been
directed from the beginning. NARRATOR: But did Democritus
truly understand atomic theory and the concept of
multiple universes all the way back in
the 5th century BC? Or is it possible, as some
ancient astronaut theorists suggest, that he was simply
documenting information passed on to him by more
advanced beings, clues about our universe deliberately
left for us to discover over time? Perhaps the answer can be found
by looking at the discovery of the god particle
and its connection to the Mayan calendar. [music playing] Palenque, Mexico. These majestic stone ruins are
all that remain of the once powerful Mayan city. With its towering stone
pyramids and ornate plazas, Palenque reveals the
true sophistication of the Mayan civilization. In terms of scientific
and artistic achievements, the Maya were among the world's
best ancient civilizations. Their advancements in math,
engineering, astronomy, geometry were unparalleled
in the entire Americas. NARRATOR: It was in
this ancient Mayan city that researchers have unearthed
one of the best examples of a remarkable calendar
that tracked not only days and months, but also ages
spanning thousands of years. ED BARNHART: The Maya
were very, very intent on recording the passage
of time, so much so that early scholars called the
entire culture esoteric time worshippers. They had a number
of clinical cycles. One of the last ones they
made, we call the Long Count. To the Western mind,
you could look at it as the odometer on your car. It clicks through time. And scholars have a
difference of opinion whether it is a cycle
that will reset itself or whether it is a system that
can go backwards and forwards into perpetuity. WILLIAM HENRY: The Mayans were
obsessed with the idea of time cycles and worlds. They believed that we
had existed in three previous worlds, and that
they could forecast or predict the emergence of a new world. And that was the purpose
of the Mayan calendar, was to pinpoint a specific date
and time when one world would end and a new world would begin. NARRATOR: The Mayan
calendar last turned on December 21st 2012. Thousands of people
from around the world descended on Mayan
sites to mark the event. Some, however, saw dire
omens in the occasion. The Mayan prediction of the
end of the world in December 2012 caused a
firestorm of prophecy, watchers, and people believing
that it was actually doomsday. But as we know now,
nothing of that nature actually happened at that time. NARRATOR: If it wasn't
a doomsday clock as many believed, then just
what was this ancient calendar predicting? Ancient astronaut theorist
suggest it may have, in fact, been counting down,
not to the end of the world but to the dawn of a new
era in human history. The Mayans never said it
was going to be doomsday. They simply said it would
be a new moment of creation. GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Maybe
the Mayan calendar predicted a monumental leap forward, a
transition that would lead us into a whole new era of
scientific understanding and possibility. DAVID CHILDRESS: What
did happen was we discovered the god
particle-- the Higgs boson. So perhaps what the Mayan
calendar was trying to predict was not some
terrible catastrophe, but our own very important
discovery of the god particle and how we can use
this to understand our place in the universe. NARRATOR: If the Maya did
indeed predict the discovery of the god particle, did they
also leave a clue as to where this knowledge will take us? Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer may be found 480 miles north on carved
blocks of hard volcanic in the site at another Mayan
archeological site in Izapa. On Stela 5, there is a
depiction of a mythological tree that the Maya believed connected
the cosmos and the Earth. For the Maya, the
world tree bridge the seen and the unseen, the
celestial and the earthly. The Mayans believed the tree
exuded a kind of syrup or sap called the itz. It had qualities
that allowed portals, to open to make contact
with unseen dimensions. It was the key, if you
will, to other worlds. JASON MARTELL: The Mayans talked
about this type of cosmic ooze that they thought literally
emanated from the world tree. Itz actually opened up
portals to other worlds. Maybe they're talking about
some type of advanced energy that they didn't
directly have access to but how the understandings
and teachings possibly taught to them by extraterrestrials. When I looked at the
symbolism of the sacred tree, I got to thinking what if
that sap is the Higgs boson, the god particle, and you have
scientists saying that it could potentially lead to time
travel and our ability to create tiny wormholes. Now, is it possible that
we can use the discovery of the god particle
and the Higgs boson to understand our
place in the universe and even to teleport and
travel through time and space? NARRATOR: Was the
Mayan calendar devised to predict the discovery
of the god particle? And if so, could this mean
that we are getting closer to a reconnection with alien
beings that visited Earth long ago? Some ancient astronaut
theorists believe another clue may be found just outside the
entrance to the Large Hadron Collider with the
statue of Shiva. [music playing] Geneva, Switzerland. Outside the headquarters
of CERN's Large Hadron Collider is a 12-foot statue
of the Shiva Nataraja, or the dancing Shiva, one of
Hinduisms most powerful gods. JONATHAN YOUNG: Lord Shiva is
one of the three great gods of the Hindu teaching. He is the god of destruction. His job is to destroy but
it is in order to renew. He destroys and creates. His energy, the dance,
he is considered the lord of the dance, a cosmic dance. And it is the dance of
destruction and recreation. DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: God Shiva
is a complex character. It's very difficult to
understand Shiva in one word because he is the
god of procreation and he is also the
god of destruction. He is also the god that
destroys everything. Because everything that is
created must come to an end. NARRATOR: According
to Hindu mythology, Shiva is the god who will
one day destroy the universe to make way for a new one. JONATHAN YOUNG: Shiva's cosmic
dance is not seen as a negative even though it is
greatly destructive. It is destroying in order for
something new to be created. So it is an essential part
of the process of life that things are cleared away so
new things, new possibilities, better possibilities can emerge. NARRATOR: But could the
various attributes associated with this Hindu god be connected
to a recent discovery made at the Large Hadron Collider
about how our universe could suddenly and
catastrophically end? ROBERT FRISBEE: One of
the intriguing outcomes of the Higgs boson
mass measurement is the realization
that the Higgs boson on and the top cork
may put us right on the ragged edge of
an instability condition in the universe. The universe can exist in
several different state. Water, it can exist as steam,
as liquid water, frozen ice. If the universe
changes state, it will produce bubbles
of spacetime expanding at the speed of light that
can destroy everything, all normal matter, all
everything, in the universe as we know it. JOHN BRANDENBURG: Some people
are seeing theories that say there's going to
be expanding bubbles of nothingness that will
create whole new universes. And in a sense, we know that
the universe has to be unstable because it made the Big
Bang in the first place. [music playing] NARRATOR: Could Shiva not only
be a mythological deity that represents the ancient Hindus'
understanding of the universe, but might he also with
been and otherworldly being who passed on information
to our ancestors that we are only
now rediscovering? JASON MARTELL: Maybe the great
god Shiva, the destroyer, was actually trying to
communicate in ancient times things that we're learning
today about breaking things down to the finest particles and
understanding that these are how we understand the basis
of life at a subatomic level. GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
In Hindu tradition, Shiva was often portrayed as
blue-skinned with a third eye in the middle of his forehead. And if you look at the different
depictions of Shiva's dance, you see that he is
almost always surrounded by some type of a circle
structure with flames. JASON MARTELL: We see
parallels to technology where he is always depicted
in the circle when he's doing his cosmic dance. It seems very similar to what
we see at the Hadron Accelerator in this large circular
particle accelerator. Maybe there's some tie-in
between Shiva being depicted in a circular device and the
way we're smashing particles now in the Hadron Accelerator. GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Now,
what did our human ancestor artists try to depict here? Do the accounts of
his cosmic dance refer to some type of
misunderstood technology very much similar to the
Large Hadron Collider. JONATHAN YOUNG: In
the Catholic mass, there is a ceremonial
artifact called a monstrance. If you look at this image,
if you look at this item, it has a burst of light,
very similar to the pattern of Shiva's light, this
dance of creation. Some say this shape can be seen
in the Hadron Collider at CERN. uncovered, but in
discoveries yet to come. CERN Headquarters,
Geneva, Switzerland. The Large Hadron
Collider was heralded as a monumental success when
it helped to discover the Higgs boson or god particle in 2012. But that was only the beginning. Since then, researchers
have embarked on a multi-year project
to upgrade what is already the most powerful
machine on Earth by retrofitting it with bigger,
better, and more efficient systems. When the Large Hadron Collider
is activated again in 2015, it will wield at least double
the power it did in 2012 and could boast even 10 times
more by the end of the decade. ROBERT FRISBEE:
And when you look at the size of the detectors,
the Large Hadron Collider, we realize that we
really are pushing the limits of technology. The Large Hadron Collider is
something like seven times more powerful than anything
else that existed before. Will be even able to get even
closer to conditions in time even closer to the
beginning of the Big Bang? MARIA SPIROPULU: The work
that is happening right now during the LHC shutdown is
to prepare the detectors and the experiments for
the big energy step. We are going to even
more higher energy, and that means that
we are probing deeper and we can be just around the
corner of discovering something which is completely
blowing our minds. JOHN BRANDENBURG:
The human race is going to be focusing more
energy on a small area than we've ever done before. So we're looking for
a whole new phenomena. NARRATOR: The
scientists at CERN hope that by increasing the power
of the Large Hadron Collider they will not only be able
to learn more about the god particle but also uncover
other perhaps even more profound secrets
of the universe. But some scientists have voiced
concerns that the Large Hadron Collider could create a black
hole that would swallow up the Earth, set off a
massive nuclear explosion, or even form a vacuum bubble
that could tip the balance of the entire universe. Perhaps this is
a little hubris, and we all know what happens
when physicists get full of hubris. But there's always
a little bit of fear when you're pushing back
the frontiers of science. It's part of the
frontier spirit. MARIA SPIROPULU: We have to
admit that we don't know how the universe started. And as we go into higher
and higher energies, we don't know what we are going
to find because this physics at these levels is an
experimental, completely experimental science. We don't have the complete
understanding and description of the universe that can create
this anxiety and fear that we might create something
that will end the universe. When we look at the
experiments that have been conducted at CERN with
the Large Hadron Collider, it may be that humanity
is taking its first baby steps towards the actual
construction of the universe. We're manipulating matter
at the subatomic level and we are literally harnessing
the forces of creation themselves. JOHN BRANDENBURG: The amount
of the universe that we see and know that is part of the
standard model of physics is only like 4% of the
mass of the universe. We're going into vast
unknown territory. We're going to be witnessing
events that no human being has ever witnessed before,
and energy density scales no human being has ever
been able to create before. So it's very exciting. Who knows what we'll find? NARRATOR: By wielding
the incredible power of the Large Hadron
Collider, could we one day recreate the Big Bang to form
an entirely new universe? And at the same time
destroy our own? Or might we instead be
reaching the threshold of a new age for mankind? If ancient astronauts came
to our planet hundreds of centuries ago,
perhaps they deliberately planted the seeds of knowledge
that would eventually lead us to where we are today. Perhaps finding the so-called
god particle will allow us to finally answer mankind's
most persistent questions-- who are we? Where did we come from? And the most persistent of all-- are we alone? [music playing]
