IF you could travel through time, forwards or back, and change things, would you?.
Come to think of it, why are the skies blue, the oceans wet and the sun hot, and while we’re on the subject, what triggered life itself?
As long as humans have wandered the planet, we have occasionally stopped, sat down and wondered how it all came to be.
Now, Morgan Freeman has set out to explore it all a bit more deeply, with the hope that he and a team of geniuses can find the answers.
The Shawshank Redemption is just one of the movies that made the 77-year-old a Hollywood giant, but his latest TV series could be his most-important starring role yet!
Morgan is a deep thinker, and, in Through The Wormhole, he looks at how experts and boffins from around the world tackle questions that have puzzled mankind for centuries.
Is there life out there on other planets? Is there a God or gods? And can the future affect what’s happening now?
“Professor Paul Davies is a cosmologist at Arizona State University,” says Morgan. “He believes what happens in the future reaches back and affects what happens in the present.
“This eliminates choices we could have made in the past for instance, once his students have stepped into his classroom, an earlier choice to ditch class is ruled out. He thinks they never actually had that choice.”
It’s mindblowing, intriguing stuff!
Especially, of course, if human beings really could enjoy time travel.
“The greatest sorrow is losing a loved one,” says Morgan. “The time I spent as a child with my grandmother helped make me the man I am today.
“I often wish I could see her again, or go back in time and show her who I am, and what I’ve become as an adult. Seems like an impossible dream, but is it?”
But what on Earth is a Wormhole, that mysterious subject of the show’s title?
“It’s a cosmic shortcut through space and time,” explains Morgan. “Nobody has ever seen one, so maybe we’ll have to build one.
“Luke Butcher is a theoretical physicist with the University of Edinburgh. He studies distortions of space-time, how energy warps the fabric of the Universe, and he thinks he has figured out how to build a time machine.”
n Morgan Freeman’s Through The Wormhole is on the Discovery Channel, Sundays at 9pm from June 7.
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