Want to hear about wormholes and gas-giant-inhabiting aliens and time travel and that sort of mind-blowing thing from a true genius without doing a bunch of channel surfing?
Problem solved: Discovery Channel's long-awaited *Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking *launches tonight.
Starting at 9 p.m. Eastern and Pacific Time with a segment titled Aliens and followed up at 10 p.m. by Time Travel, the four-part miniseries promises Hawking's typical mix of theory and wonder and fact and imagination.
Discovery has several mind-bending "what if?" sort of clips on its site, ranging from visions of life in Europa's ocean to what a ship pushing near light speed might look like, and while that means a heavy dose of computer-generated effects, really, how else are you going to try and envision what goes on in a forever-voyaging mind like Stephen Hawking's?
Luckily, he's also gifted enough to bring us all along for the ride.
