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Stephen Hawking's Universe

Premieres: Southeast Asia on Sept 26 at 9:00 pm; North Asia on Jul 18 at 9:00 pm; Australasia on Jul 18 at 7:30 pm

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DISCOVERY CHANNEL TAKES YOU ON A JOURNEY THROUGH THE UNIVERSE WITH A STEPHEN HAWKING SPECIAL
- Explore the cosmos with one of the world's greatest living scientists -

Dr Stephen Hawking is a British theoretical physicist whose scientific career spans over 40 years. Diagnosed with debilitating motor neurone disease, Dr Hawking is someone who has defied all odds of living a normal life, much less discover radical scientific what-ifs that have baffled most of us. Despite being unable to eat or get in and out of bed himself, Dr Hawking is able to construct convoluted diagrams and manipulate complex equations in his head. Dr Hawking has proved to be a crucial force in the development of general relativity and cosmology, and is regarded by many to be the greatest genius alive today.

In the two-part series STEPHEN HAWKING'S UNIVERSE, Dr Hawking considers one of the most important mysteries facing humankind - the possibility of an alien, intelligent life - in Are We Alone?. Come along on a journey rendered in eye-popping detail from the moons of Jupiter to a galaxy maybe not so far away. Meet possible aliens and discover what they might look like. Dr Hawking delves into the very principles of what it is to call something 'alive', and calculates the likelihood of contact being made. In the episode Is Time Travel Possible?, Dr Hawking explores the world's favourite scientific 'what if?'. Warping the very fabric of time and space as he goes along, Dr Hawking explores the possibilities of time travel, discovering the pitfalls and prospects of a technology that could quite literally change everything. Authoritative, awe-inspiring and epic, once you have experienced STEPHEN HAWKING'S UNIVERSE, your world will never seem the same again.