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Astrophysics, minor

in quantum field theory.

J.T. is primarily molecular

and atomic physics,

and Lin is specializing

in general relativity

- and gravity theory.

- Wow.

Three pretty

exciting companions

for a New Year's Eve party,

right?

- oh, hi.

- Hey, Pops.

oh, hey.

Blake, I'd like to

introduce you to my dad.

You're-

I wanted to introduce

you at the church,

but you were late.

Meet the Reverend Jerry Wells.

You look a little different

without the robes on.

You look a little different

without your uniform on.

That was an interesting

sermon today, Reverend.

oh, Jerry, please.

And Blake, I'm a huge fan.

Kerry tells me that she's

writing a story about you.

She's trying, I haven't been

very cooperative.

Speaking of my story,

why don't we move over there

so I can actually

get to work?

Actually, I wanted to ask Marc

about quantum entanglement

- and Schrodinger's cat.

- Come, please.

Kerry, you gonna be home

for dinner tonight?

- Yeah, I'll be there at 6:00.

- It was nice meeting you.

Good to meet you.

How did you know about

quantum entanglement

and Schrodinger's cat?

I didn't,

I saw it on TV last week.

oh, clever you.

okay, so let's see what

we've got so far.

You were born in a log cabin,

you walked six miles to school

and back every day,

uphill both ways.

Then you went on

to become a nude model

and Chase has some pictures

coming,

and then you become

a super hockey player

for Madison College.

Sounds pretty good so far.

So I know you're

an engineering major,

which I found out from

the online directory,

but I'm sure my publisher

would like a few more details

here and there,

so why don't you

tell me a little bit more

about that log cabin?

Marc:
It's all based in

Einstein's theory of relativity

and time dilation.

There's two brothers

and one of them is 23 years old

and he's an astronaut,

and there's a younger brother

and he's 16.

And his older brother

is always watching out for him,

and the older brother is put on

the first mission to the star

Proxima Centauri,

4.2 light years away.

Now, this mission takes

20 years, Earth time.

Marc, please,

I can't see through you here.

okay, fine, but for

the astronaut,

when he returns to Earth,

only four years have passed.

So he's like what, 27 now?

But the younger brother

who stayed on Earth,

20 years have passed for him

and he's now 36,

so now the younger brother

is now nine years older

than his older brother, and-

How can he be

nine years older than-

And, I'll just tell you why.

He's a police detective and he's

turned into one of those

tough-guy, streetwise,

kinda seen-it-all kind of cops,

and he has to shepherd his now

younger older brother

who has returned to this

world that is so far different

than what he knew.

What do you think, huh?

Make a good TV show or not?

Younger older brother?

Couldn't it just be that he goes

back in time and then he-

I don't know, he knows things

that other people don't know.

They did that already.

"Quantum Leap,"

Scott Bakula.

He played Samuel Beckett.

It was created by

Don Bellisario,

it was on NBC from March '89

to May '93.

Besides, you can't

travel back in time,

but in the starship headed to

Proxima Centauri

traveling near

the speed of light,

time actually moves much slower

than it does on Earth

during the same time period,

and that is time dilation.

It's not that time seems to pass

more slowly in the starship,

it actually does.

Four years pass in the starship,

20 years pass on Earth.

That is proven science

and it is true.

Mm-hmm.

Come on, guys,

dinner's ready.

Can we just wait until I see

how this call turns out?

No, now.

I made baked ziti

and sausage casserole,

and I don't want it

to get cold.

Just put it on the TiVo

and record it, Dad.

All right.

If it were anything other than

your mom's casserole,

we'd watch

the rest of the game.

Yeah, right.

Random verse time, Kerry.

okay.

"Before the mountains were

brought forth,

"or ever thou hadst

formed the Earth and the world,

"even from everlasting to

everlasting, thou art God.

"Thou turnest man to

destruction;

"and sayest,

'Return, ye children of men

"'for a thousand years in thy

sight are but as yesterday

when it is past

and as a watch in the night. "'

Psalm 90, thank you.

Let's pray.

For these gifts we are about to

receive, we give you thanks.

Amen.

Pass the casserole.

Let's tell the doctor

what we want to do.

Go ahead, you tell him.

- man:
Put the time on it.

- man:
It's already been signed.

man:
So as we've seen,

Life first developed

here on Earth

much earlier than

previously thought.

In fact, right after the first

water appeared

3.5 billion years ago,

as attested to by the fossils

of stromatolites

at Warrawoona, Australia.

Now, this little fact creates

something of a problem

for the most simplistic of the

evolutionary interpretations,

which rely on billions of years

for the first single-celled

animal forms to evolve,

and that is purely by chance.

I'm gonna leave you

on that note,

and that completes our review

of the Ediacaran Era,

so we will move right on to

the Cambrian, or Cambrian Era.

This era is often referred to as

the Cambrian explosion,

reflecting a rapid, sudden

appearance of

most major complex animals

around 530 million

years ago

and the accompanying

wide diversification

of other organisms

such as phytoplankton,

calcimicrobes and so forth.

Now, Charles Darwin,

you remember him.

Parenthetically,

he considered this sudden

proliferation of animal life

with little or no antecedent to

be the single greatest threat

to his theory of evolution,

to the point that

he included an entire chapter

in "The origin of the Species"

to this problem.

Now, why am I

not surprised Kerry

would have something

to add to this?

( laughter )

Well, it seems to me that this

sudden expansion of life

gives a clear example

of order emerging from chaos,

and left to nature itself,

this never happens.

order does not

emerge from chaos.

Chaos devolves into

greater chaos.

okay, I'd agree

with that assessment.

And doesn't this lend credence

to the argument

for a watchmaker?

A creator guiding

the process?

Well, I'm a scientist, Kerry,

so I have to remind you

that there is

no scientific evidence

to support the idea of

a creator.

And back to the issue

of order emerging from chaos,

Darwin addresses this, using

the eye as an example

when he says,

"To suppose that the eye, with

all its inimitable contrivances,

"could have been formed by

natural selection seems,

I freely confess, absurd

in the highest possible degree. "

That's very good.

Kerry, why don't you just give

science a chance for a while?

You might be surprised by some

of its answers.

Well, I love surprises.

If we may.

Back to the Cambrian era.

oh, and heads up,

in the coming weeks,

we're going to be

reviewing the contributions

of a number of men and women,

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