TV Horizon - Season 39 Episode 6 : Parallel Universes Horizon - Season 39 Episode 6 : Parallel Universes 7.516/10 by 32 users Everything you're about to read here seems impossible and insane, beyond science fiction. Yet it's all true. Scientists now believe there may really be a parallel universe - in fact, there may be an infinite number of parallel universes, and we just happen to live in one of them. These other universes contain space, time and strange forms of exotic matter. Some of them may even contain you, in a slightly different form. Astonishingly, scientists believe that these parallel universes exist less than one millimetre away from us. In fact, our gravity is just a weak signal leaking out of another universe into ours. For years parallel universes were a staple of the Twilight Zone. Science fiction writers loved to speculate on the possible other universes which might exist. In one, they said, Elvis Presley might still be alive or in another the British Empire might still be going strong. Serious scientists dismissed all this speculation as absurd. But now it seems the speculation wasn't absurd enough. Parallel universes really do exist and they are much stranger than even the science fiction writers dared to imagine. It all started when superstring theory, hyperspace and dark matter made physicists realise that the three dimensions we thought described the Universe weren't enough. There are actually 11 dimensions. By the time they had finished they'd come to the conclusion that our Universe is just one bubble among an infinite number of membranous bubbles which ripple as they wobble through the eleventh dimension. Now imagine what might happen if two such bubble universes touched. Neil Turok from Cambridge, Burt Ovrut from the University of Pennsylvania and Paul Steinhardt from Princeton believe that has happened. The result? A very big bang indeed and a new universe was born - our Universe. The idea has shocked the scientific community; it turns the conventional Big Bang theory on its head. It may well be that the Big Bang wasn't really the beginning of everything after all. Time and space all existed before it. In fact Big Bangs may happen all the time. Of course this extraordinary story about the origin of our Universe has one alarming implication. If a collision started our Universe, could it happen again? Anything is possible in this extra-dimensional cosmos. Perhaps out there in space there is another universe heading directly towards us - it may only be a matter of time before we collide. Details Casts Posters Images Title Horizon - Season 39 Episode 6 : Parallel Universes Alternative Titles BBC Horizon First Air Date 1964-02-04 Last Air Date 2024-07-22 Number of Episodes 1169 Number of Seasons 60 Genres Documentary, Networks BBC Two, Casts Plot Keywords , Episodes List Horizon Season 39 :Episode 1 Helike - The Real Atlantis Helike - The Real Atlantis 2002-01-10 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 2 Volcano Hell Volcano Hell 2002-01-17 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 3 Fatbusters Fatbusters 2002-01-24 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 4 The Lost Pyramids of Caral The Lost Pyramids of Caral 2002-01-31 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 5 Death of the Iceman Death of the Iceman 2002-02-07 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 6 Parallel Universes Parallel Universes 2002-02-14 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 7 The Dinosaur that Fooled the World The Dinosaur that Fooled the World 2002-02-21 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 8 The Fall of the World Trade Center The Fall of the World Trade Center 2002-03-07 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 9 Archimedes' Secret Archimedes' Secret 2002-03-14 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 10 The Mystery of the Jurassic The Mystery of the Jurassic 2002-03-28 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 11 Killer Lakes Killer Lakes 2002-04-04 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 12 The A6 Murder The A6 Murder 2002-05-16 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 13 The England Patient The England Patient 2002-05-23 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 14 Freak Wave Freak Wave 2002-11-14 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 15 Stone Age Columbus Stone Age Columbus 2002-11-21 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 16 Homeopathy: The Test Homeopathy: The Test 2002-11-26 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 17 The Day the Earth Nearly Died The Day the Earth Nearly Died 2002-12-05 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before. Horizon Season 39 :Episode 18 The Secret of El Dorado The Secret of El Dorado 2002-12-19 Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.