Stephen Hawking's Favorite Places | |
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Genre | Documentary |
Directed by | Ed Watkins [1] |
Presented by | Stephen Hawking |
Composer | Sheridan Tongue |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of episodes | 3 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Noah Morowitz, Ben Bowie [2] |
Producer | Ed Watkins |
Running time | 27 minutes |
Production companies | Curiosity Stream Bigger Bang |
Original release | |
Network | Curiosity Stream |
Release | 22 September – 22 September 2016 |
Related | |
Stephen Hawking's Universe |
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Episode 1 takes Hawking from black holes to the Big Bang, Saturn to Santa Barbara, California.
Episode 2 finds Hawking in search of the theory of everything. He also discusses the Great Filter solution to the Fermi paradox and the dangers of artificial intelligence in a visit to Proxima Centauri b.
Episode 3 continues Hawking's fears regarding AI, as well as his search for a theory of everything. He also introduces the multiverse concept and the anthropic principle.
The series had a planned release date of April 19, 2018. However, with Hawking's death on March 14, 2018, CuriosityStream released the third episode early, temporarily making all three episodes free to stream on their website as a tribute to Hawking. [6]
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