Magnusson:

I'd like to start

If I may

With Professor Hawking

How did the Universe start?

With a ‘Big Bang’?

Hawking:

We observe that distant galaxies are moving away from us

They must have been closer together in the past

It was the beginning of the Universe

And of time itself

Anything that happened before the Big Bang

Could not affect what happened after

Dawkins:

The poetry of the expanding Universe

The poetry of the complexity of life

We're not normally equipped to understand

But science gives it to us

Science is opening your eyes

To the wonderfulness of what's there

Science is opening your eyes

To the poetry of the expanding Universe

Magnusson:

We come to you Carl Sagan

Could you help me by putting in layman's terms

What was involved with this ‘Big Bang’?

Sagan:

The early Cosmos was everywhere white hot

But then as time passed

The radiation expanded and cooled

Then, little pockets of gas began to grow

Steadily brightening

We call them the galaxies

Hawking:

It was the beginning of the Universe

And of time itself

Anything that happened before the Big Bang

Could not affect what happened after

Dawkins:

The poetry of the expanding Universe

The poetry of the complexity of life

We're not normally equipped to understand

But science gives it to us

Shears:

In the Big Bang we had equal amounts

Of matter and antimatter

And as soon as these met each other

They annihilated together

And this battle played out

Whilst the Universe expanded

In its first minute of existence

And this battle played out

Whilst the Universe expanded

In its first minute of existence

Tyson:

It's not all that hard to detect the Big Bang

All you need to do is change the channel

Until you come between two stations

About one percent of the snow and noise

Comes from the Big Bang itself

We're all eavesdroppers

On the birth pangs of the Cosmos

Hawking:

It was the beginning of the Universe

And of time itself

Shears:

And this battle played out

Dawkins:

Science is opening your eyes

To the poetry of the expanding Universe

Shears:

And this battle played out

Whilst the Universe expanded

In its first minute of existence

Hawking:

It was the beginning of the Universe

And of time itself