The Big Beginning

[Magnus Magnusson]
I'd like to start, if I may, with Professor Hawking
How did the universe start? With a 'Big Bang'?

[Stephen Hawking]
We observe that distant galaxies are moving away from us
They must have been closer together in the past

It was the beginning of the universe
And of time itself
Anything that happened before the big bang
Could not affect what happened after

[Richard Dawkins]
The poetry of the expanding universe
The poetry of the complexity of life
We're not normally equipped to understand
And science gives it to us

Science is opening your eyes
To the wonderfulness of what's there
Science is opening your eyes
To the poetry of the expanding universe

[Magnus Magnusson]
We come to you, Carl Sagan
Could you help me by putting in Layman's term
What was involved with this 'Big Bang'?

[Carl Sagan]
The early cosmos was everywhere white hot
But then as time passed
The radiation expanded and cooled

Then little pockets of gas began to grow
Steadily brightening, we call them 'galaxies'

[Stephen Hawking]
It was the beginning of the universe
And of time itself
Anything that happened before the Big Bang
Could not affect what happened after

[Richard Dawkins]
The poetry of the expanding Universe
The poetry of the complexity of life
We're not normally equipped to understand
But science gives it to us

[Tara Shears]
In the Big Bang we had equal amounts of matter and anti-matter
And as soon as they met each other,
They annihilated together

And this battle played out
Whilst the universe expanded
In its first minute of existence

[Neil DeGrasse Tyson]
It's not all that hard to detect the big bang
All you need to do is change the channel
Until you come between two stations

About one percent of the snow and noise
Comes from the big bang itself
We're all eavesdroppers
On the birth pangs of the cosmos

[Stephen Hawking]
It was the beginning of the universe, and of time itself

[Tara Shears]
And this battle played out

[Richard Dawkins]
Science is opening your eyes
The poetry of the expanding Universe

[Tara Shears]
And this battle played out
Whilst the universe expanded
In its first minute of existence

[Stephen Hawking]
It was the beginning of the universe
And of time itself