The Sky at Night 255x9 - The Multiverse of Mystery

The Sky at Night in the Multiverse of Mystery is a magicaljourney into the far-flung ideas at the very edge of scientificknowledge, exploring the concepts that today seem like sciencefiction but may one day become science fact.Delving into thearchive at the Royal Society, we look at the dreamers whofirst considered the possibility of travelling to the moon andblack holes long before they could be proven to exist. Fromthere, the team explore some ideas and theories that todaycould be dismissed as fanciful thinking.They imagine a worldwhere a popular TV programme asks two scientists, HiranyaPeiris and Emma Chapman, to meet, have dinner and talkscience, all under the watchful eye of maître d' PeteLawrence.Meanwhile, Maggie Aderin-Pocock sails off to explorethe realities of interstellar travel and astrobiologist DougVakoch explains some of the challenges of communicating withaliens. Astrophysicist Becky Smethurst is lost in a world ofblack and white holes, and Chris Lintott, as you have neverseen him before, argues the case for a multiverse.Along withanimation from the BBC Ideas team, this edition of The Sky atNight shines a very different light on the world ofastrophysics.