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Stephen Hawking’s Machine of Life

Season 1 Episode 5

Humans are made of tiny machines, which must all work together to thrive.

The volunteers start Stephen Hawking’s Machine of Life. The machine works by transferring an impulse from one place to another, sustained by the input of energy. Each moving part follows the laws of physics and together they keep the impulse moving.

AIR DATE 5/31/16

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Join Professor Stephen Hawking as he reveals our true potential in a series that challenges a selection of volunteers and viewers to think like the greatest geniuses of the past and answer some of humanity’s toughest and most enduring questions.

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