Why Are We Here?

S1, E3: World-famous scientist Stephen Hawking sets three ordinary people a series of fun physical and mental challenges. Can they think like a genius? This episode is truly mind-bending – can they work out why they exist at all? Cue an extraordinary journey of discovery, featuring smashed glasses, spooky castles and a truly freaky flash-mob illustration of multiple universes. Hawking takes them down a rabbit hole of deeply profound realizations, helping them think like philosophers as much as scientists. The end result is that the volunteers have a newfound appreciation of why they are here at all. Along the way, Genius also explains how the great minds of history reached their conclusions about the nature of the universe. We travel around the world to find out how these breakthroughs were made, and how important they still are, according to the world’s top thinkers. Finally a devastating realization lands – and the team have their minds blown in a way they were never expecting... This is a whole new kind of science show, hosted by the ever remarkable and inspiring figure that is Professor Stephen Hawking.