How the Universe Works

2010
4.8
367 reviews
TV-PG
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Season 4 episodes (8)

1 How the Universe Built Your Car
7/14/15
Beneath the hood of your car lies the history of the Universe. The iron in your chassis, the gold in your stereo and the copper in your electronics all owe their existence to violent cosmic events that took place billions of years ago.
2 Earth: Venus's Evil Twin
7/21/15
There is a hellish planet in our solar system; covered in thick dense clouds and roasted by colossal temperatures. Incredibly this is a vision of Earth's future. To understand how our world will be destroyed we need to look at Earth's evil twin Venus.
3 Monster Black Hole
7/28/15
Black holes are the least understood places in the universe, where the rules of physics collapse. We go inside the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way to uncover terrifying secrets about parallel universes, wormholes, and space-time.
4 Edge of the Solar System
8/4/15
Giant magnetic bubbles millions of miles wide, bizarre invisible matter, and a death star tearing through bands of icy comets, flinging them into violent orbits. All this and more could be inside our cosmic backyard, and effecting our lives on Earth.
5 Dawn of Life
8/11/15
We're on the verge of unconvering the how life on Earth came to be. Our origin is a hotly contested scientific debate. Did we come from strange volcanic hatcheries deep under the sea? Or did life on Earth come from another planet?
6 Secret History of the Moon
8/18/15
Our Moon is stranger than you think, and we reveal its incredible secrets. Can we thank the Moon for life on Earth? What explains the mysterious tunnels beneath its surface? Is a lunar base the key to humanity's future in space?
7 The First Oceans
8/25/15
Where did the Earth's oceans come from? For years, scientists suspected they came from molecules delivered to Earth from distant stars by asteroids, but an exciting new discovery suggests that its true origins are be more exotic than anyone ever imagined.
8 Forces of Mass Construction
9/1/15
There's a mysterious force you can't see or touch, but it affects everything in the universe. Magnetism has shaped our cosmos, and without it, Creation would simply disintegrate. We follow scientists trying to understand how this strange force works.

About this show

From the beginning of time, Stars, Galaxies, Planets, Solar Systems, and more have been working individually and together to produce all that is and all that we see. Take a deeper look at how the cosmos is designed, built, and actually works on How The Universe Works.

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4.8
367 reviews
Charles Gregory
September 9, 2017
Nothing on this stupid show is a fact like scientists believe. The only way it could become facts is with proof and that will never be possible, oh and just to let all of you scientists know science is supposed to be used to help save and understand lives, not destroy faith. You stupid atheists.
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kevin cornell
September 19, 2015
Funny how you never saw any of this,"can't be viewed in your country crap till the control of the internet was handed over by our president to a Chinese co. If I'm paying, or willing to pay, I'll watch it if I please. Or you can do without my business entirely.
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Al Garnier
March 14, 2021
The laws of thermodynamics can be boiled down to two types of energy, potential and kinetic energy. Potential energy is expansive energy and non-interactive while, kinetic energy is attractive and highly interactive. The only possiblity for interactions to occur in an expansion field is if, and only if, it collides with another expansion field of potential energy to become kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is where life's interactions begin.
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