What Happened Before the Big Bang?

Is Our Universe Alone?

Horizon – Before the Big Bang

In the first few years of the new millennium, this starkly strange building emerged from the Canadian countryside. In it are housed some of the most extreme minds in science. The ideas produced within the walls of this institution, are intended to shed new light science’s hardest problem.

Starkly Strange Building

“Is there an ultimate answer? I don’t know. I don’t even know if the question makes sense.”

They intend to tell us once and for all where we came from by unravelling the deepest mysteries of the birth of the universe.

“Time did not exist before the beginning. Somehow, time sprang into existence. Now, that’s a notion which we have no grasp of and which may be a logical contradiction.”

They are re-writing science’s story of creation.

“Why is it, all of a sudden, there are laws of nature, and where did they come from? Why these laws and not other laws?”

And it concluded that one of the 20th century’s greatest scientific ideas might have to be thrown out.

“There was certainly not a Big Bang. That is impossible. I don’t believe in that at all.”