Synopsis

"Origins: Back to the Beginning" investigates the immense forces of the early universe that paved the way for habitable worlds. The investigation begins with a global competition among scientists to detect faint remnants of the Big Bang's intense energy—a "whisper" carried across vast distances in microwave radiation. This contest pits the resourceful astronomer Tony Readhead and his makeshift detector in the Andes Mountains against NASA’s advanced satellite probe. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse T