Season 5
10 episodes
44 min. per episode
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A brilliant mind confronts cosmic mysteries, unraveling existence's secrets while battling disbelief and forging connections across the universe.
Episodes
Is God worshiped in other worlds across the cosmos? How might alien deities differ from our own? Have advanced aliens discovered everything there is to know about the universe, or are they too looking for answers? The answer may lie buried on Earth.
Do you make your own luck, or does luck make you? Some scientists believe luck is strictly a matter of statistics and probabilities - but others believe unseen forces are at work.
Are the wealthy just born in the right place at the right time? Are the poor victims of a system designed to keep them down? Or do physics and biology determine who is rich and who is poor? Scientists have found that throughout history, the distribution of wealth is governed by hidden forces: DNA, environmental stress, patterns of human migration and even the laws of thermodynamics! Nature seems to demand winners and losers in life. But does this mean greed is king, and the rich can take what they want? Or does the cooperation among even the smallest microorganisms prove selfishness is not essential for survival?
The stability of the US, Europe, China, or any global power depends on high-speed digital communication. With a little imagination, could a few terrorists sabotage this massive network? Cripple a mighty nation? Perhaps even tear down modern civilization? Our increasing dependence on digital devices and global interactivity may be placing us in grave danger. Scientists around the world are dealing with new threats such as body hacking, Trojan Horse viruses, and brain-damaging Internet addiction. But what if the ultimate threat isn't an attack on technology, but the technology itself? Could the final superpower be a conscious Internet?
There could be an undiscovered species on Earth unlike anything we've ever known. Not in the ocean, but the ocean itself.
Morgan Freeman explores humanity's biggest questions: our composition, what preceded existence, if we're alone in the universe, and whether there's a creator - mysteries that have challenged our greatest minds.