Review Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman (television series on the Science Channel) | poetslandscape

Perhaps taking a few concept from a number of pretty a success, religiously themed series that have played at the History Channel (series of varying extraordinary, I would add), Through the Wormhole is a remarkably brave collection which seeks to talk about questions that touch on every technological know-how and religion and does so in a remarkably smart manner.

Since it?S first season remaining 365 days, I surely have advocated this display to teenagers and their mother and father and to my pleasure I?Ve determined college college students from my parish who are fanatics.

Each episode of the show deals with a rather fundamental topic.  The first seasons’s series topics were: “Is there a Creator?” “The riddle of Black Holes” “Is Time Travel Possible?” “What happened before the Beginning?” “How did we get here? ” “Are we Alone?” “What are we really made of?”  The second season’s topics were: “Is there Life after Death?”, “Is there an Edge to the Universe?”, “Does Time Really Exist?”, “Are There More Than Three Dimensions?”, “Is There a Sixth Sense?”, “How Does the Universe Work?”, “Faster than Light”, “Can We Live Forever?”

Each situation remember is delivered by means of using Morgan Freeman by using a quick episode/parable from his youth, reminding us that those are often questions that we ask at the same time as youngsters. Then the show presents numerous fantastic cutting-edge/cutting aspect strategies to the ones questions which encourage site visitors (and with any luck, the younger) to expand their horizons to not be content material fabric with accepting past pat answers.

The series is audacious but it's also _not stupid_. Quantum mechanics is a field that has long promised to turn upside down our previous understandings of reality.  Already in 1947, C.S. Lewis argued that the indeterminism of quantum mechanics (see the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle) could offer a fundamental basis for the existence of Free Will.  Such was the state of the argument that as I remembered it when I was in college, grad school and the seminary in the 1980s-90s.  It's a generation later and it's a joy to see a popular television series so joyfully swimming the seas of quantum theory and applying it in ways that a generation ago, very few would dare. The same quantum mechanical phenomenon called entanglement that could make time travel possible could also allow a record of our memories (our "soul"?) to exist outside of our bodies basically anywhere in the larger cosmos (wow! ;-).

As such, I honestly love this series.  I do believe that it’s good for everybody to be challenged, and I think it is incredibly important for especially the young to dream and to wonder and _to see value in doing that_.

Indeed, we live in a time when science itself through black holes and quantum mechanics is telling us that the universe is more wonderful than we ever imagined.  And every generation ought to have the right to bask in that wonder and then see if it could touch the face of God.

“Look up at the sky, and see who made the stars” - Isaiah 40:26

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