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I've been lucky.
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I have lived an extraordinary life,
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Exploring the universe and
attending the odd party or two.
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But imagine I could go
anywhere and see anything,
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That would be the most
amazing opportunity of all.
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Join me on a fantastical
trip to my favorite places.
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After all, why should
astronauts have all the fun?
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Every journey has a beginning,
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And my own had a very difficult start.
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At age 21, I received a
life-changing diagnosis.
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Doctor said a disease would
steal my independence,
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And then my life.
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So I decided to devote with time I had left
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To studying something truly worthwhile.
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We've all seen computer
animations of the big bang.
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The big explosion, the flying
galaxies, and then us,
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But that's not right.
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It was far more elegant and strange.
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To see what really happened,
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I'm going to wind back time.
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As we go back, everything converges.
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Space itself is shrinking,
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Unwinding the work of
200 million lifetimes,
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Until finally we reach a
point of infinite density,
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The beginning of not just space,
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But time as well.
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This is my life's obsession,
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The big bang.
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There are no fireworks.
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Light won't exist for hundreds
of thousands of years.
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Our universe begins in
darkness, not in light.
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And time has began to flow forwards,
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So the big bang must had caused itself,
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Because without time, nothing
can had come before it.
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All around us,
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Heat and energy are spreading
at incredible speed.
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There are slight imperfections,
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Some parts hotter than others.
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In a billionth of a second,
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It's grown from smaller than an atom
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To a billion kilometers.
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This rapid inflation can't last forever.
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The universe is settling into
steadier growth and cooling.
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380,000 years after the big bang,
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The light switch of the universe is thrown.
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A flash so brightly we'll
still be able to detect
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In 14 billion years.
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I predicted that this flash
will contain fluctuations
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Preserved from the big bang.
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Our universe,
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A magnified version of
its earlier tiny self.
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The tiny imperfections present then
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Are now causing the universe
to expand at different rates.
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Everything that exists,
planets, stars, galaxies,
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And even us, are formed
from these imperfections.
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I am still on the same
journey I began years ago.
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Just as the expanding universe slowed,
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So did the progress of my disease.
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I have been lucky to live
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To see some of my predictions confirmed.
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That first flash of light we saw
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Is now called the cosmic
microwave background.
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You hear it in the crackle of a radio,
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And see it in the static of a television.
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It reveals wrinkles in
the beginning of time,
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Which is why I believe
perfection is overrated.
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Nothing in nature is perfect.
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If it were, we wouldn't exist at all.
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Any good adventure means taking a few risks
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Even if your reputation is at stake.
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Years ago, I made a very public bet
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With fellow scientist Kip Thorne
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About one of the most
mind-boggling phenomenon
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In the universe.
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It was a bet I would live to regret.
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People always ask me what would happen
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If you fell in a black hole.
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Well, there is only one way to find out.
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Hidden in the center of our
galaxy by thick dust clouds
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Lies one of the more extra
ordinary things in the universe.
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Sagittarius A Star,
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A black hole with the
mass of 4 million suns.
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It bends light around
itself like a cosmic lens.
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So massive and dense
that it warps space time
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Into an infinitely deep well.
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Its gravity is so strong,
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Not even light can escape.
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My bet was about what happens to things
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Sucked into the warp touch of reality.
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The nearer we get, the
stronger gravity pulls.
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Harder on our front than our back.
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Too strong and it will stretch
us out like spaghetti.
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Hopefully, we won't get turned into pasta.
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I'm going to need some serious power
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To fight a tide of gravity.
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Go any deeper, cross the event horizon,
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And it'll be the last trip I ever make.
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Nothing escapes out of a black hole,
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Or does it?
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Eventually, I realized something could.
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It became known as Hawking radiation.
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You see, space isn't actually empty.
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Virtual particles and antiparticles
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Are popping into existence all of the time,
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And cancelling each other out.
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At the edge of a black hole,
one particle might fall in,
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But the other could escape out into space.
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This would bring energy
from the black hole,
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And eventually cause it totally disappear.
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So, I bet that everything
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That had ever fallen into the black hole
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Would be lost for good,
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But that causes a huge problem.
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You see, you can think of the universe
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As a giant data file
which constantly changes
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As one event follows the next.
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But if black holes can
destroy part of this data,
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Then the entire file becomes corrupted,
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And both the past and the
future of the universe
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Becomes uncertain.
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Eventually, I realized
this must be impossible,
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So I lost the bet.
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My latest theory is that
the data is not lost,
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But preserved in turbulence
around the black hole
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Like a finger print,
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So the universe is safe for now.
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But if you ever find yourself heading
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For your own personal black hole,
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Keep an open mind and take your chances.
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You will find a way out of it in the end.
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Our next destination reminds
me of being a young child,
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Full of wonder.
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Gazing at the stars,
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I always imagine there was someone up there
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Looking back.
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As I grow older, I am
more convinced than ever
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That we are not alone.
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After a lifetime of wondering,
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I am helping to lead a new
global effort to find out.
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The Breakthrough Listen Project
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Will scan the nearest million
stars for signs of life.
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But I know just a place to start looking.
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In recent years,
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We found thousands of planets
outside of our solar system,
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Some are burning hellscapes
of fire and lava.
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Others are solid diamond,
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Bathed in deadly X-rays from a dying star,
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But some are more like home.
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Incredibly, we found one
only 16 light years away,
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Right on our doorstep.
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Gliese 832C, one of my favorites,
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And one of the closest
habitable world candidates
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Discovered so far.
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It's a breathtaking sight,
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A super Earth five times
more massive than ours.
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Here, a year last only 36 days.
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Its atmosphere could be thick,
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Smothering the surface
in super-heated smog.12119
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