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That's right. Yeah. It's just wild. I don't know what to. I mean, I knew Hunter Biden because he was my neighbor, which is kind of weird. But we live near each other. So not that weird. But I just can't. Did you think it was strange when Hunter Biden called you? Man, not really. Because, again, I've had people that I've wanted to help and very gratified to be able to help who have come from far and wide. And sometimes with very different opinions than mine. You know, I was also the first one to say on national television that transgenderism was a very bad idea and that folks shouldn't let their kids watch Chaz Bono on Dancing with the Stars. Don't let your kids watch. And then Megan Kelly said I was spreading hate. Now she's walked back those kinds of ideas. But I've had transgender people come to me for help with depression or terrible anxiety or horrible delusions. Once you need help, that's the equalizer that brings things to equilibrium. And without, you know, getting too narcissistic and I have that, you know, tendency, I think I'm pretty good at it. Right. And I love doing it.

And I love the fact that you don't have to think politically. You don't have to think about someone's past. I've worked with serial killers, right? I worked with the guy who tried to kill me when I first visited him in prison. Why? Because in the end, people have the capacity to be good. It's miraculous. And I love that it's, in fact, connected to God, that when you use empathy to get to the bottom of someone's real story and heal them. I don't know how to explain that. I couldn't agree more. Amen. I don't know what that is. And it's not located exclusively in the brain. Because that's like saying, well, I know about novels because they're in laptops. No, you don't. The brain is like the laptop. Every experience a person has had from birth affects that individual and unpacking that for someone, giving them back their story is incredibly powerful. So if someone came to me addicted to crack cocaine and said I had horrible experiences as a child, terribly traumatic experiences, and, you know, some are known about Hunter Biden, so I'm not breaking confidence here. You know, if you're in a car and your mother and sister are killed while you're in the backseat. Yes. You get a lifetime of struggle in front of you. For sure. That's the best case. Right. If you're not a serial killer, you get a B minus in the Ablo School of Psychiatry. Yeah. And coming to understand everything from that point forward in your life can free you to do new things. And though there are cynics out there who would say that the man's art is a farce and that he has no talent, I would say, why should that be the case? Why can't you find yourself as an artist later in life and why say that the things that that person creates are worth less? I'd like to have one. I can't do it. I can't do what he does. So in any case, right? I mean, so that's the way in which I don't like their politics.

They are anathema to me. I think Joe Biden's the Biden's. I think Joe Biden, I think it would be mass delusion to suggest that Joe Biden is not compromised by other governments. I think that would be mass delusion. But if any one of the Bidens came and said, I need help, I'd say, let's go. Right. Well, that's your job. That's what you're supposed to do. Yeah. It's a calling. And it's been a privilege to do that for people. It seems, again, without asking you about any of the details of your treatment of Hunter Biden, it sounds like when you stop treating him, I think this is right, the authorities went after your medical license, they took your guns, and the DEA raided your house. Is that correct? Well, they were after my medical license a little before that, but, well, no, that's not, you're right. That's right. It coincided with the end of his treatment, that there was that kind of intense, you know, interest in depriving me of my license. By the way, I've been to court twice. I won both times, as to the malpractice things. One was a malpractice tribunal in Massachusetts. I won.

Second was an assistant of mine, a former assistant, who said, yeah, he harassed me. I won. Once one article like that goes in the paper, though, the local paper, in this case, the Salem News, people line up. I've treated thousands of people, and even during... So, wait, you're saying there was a witch hunt in Salem. There was a witch hunt in Salem, exactly, and the truth is you have to take a hard look at Massachusetts courts, as my lawyer said. He said, Keith, we might win five times, but if the jury nullifies the truth in one of those cases, you could be penniless. I settled a few cases because, I don't know, maybe God's saying because you didn't have the Quijones. I don't know, but I wanted some safety for my family. I get it. How, I mean, I think this is relevant to over 100 million Americans. How can the authorities take your guns without ever, and not return them, without ever convicting you of anything? A disgruntled former assistant said he doesn't store them the right way. But, sure, people make all kinds of claims. I have no idea how you stored them. I know nothing about it. I just thought that under our system, you had to be convicted before being punished. Well, you know, you had Eduardo Bolsonaro on your broadcast. I thought it was a brilliant interview. Not so much. Not so much. Not so much because, you know, you think to yourself, I'm in Massachusetts. They say if I won't give them the guns, they'll arrest me. You know, I had kids at that time, younger kids.

They're older now. A little bit younger. And so I thought, well, I'll get them back. Eventually, I'll get them back. I'm a tough guy. I'll get them back. And likely I will at some point. But no, they've never given them back. They never had a reason to take them. I've never been convicted of a crime. I've never misused my guns. So I was disarmed. I was then raided, sued multiple times, and I've never committed a crime. How did Hunter Biden's laptop wind up in your office or house? Well, I think the text and emails that exist would prove out that, you know, he leaves laptops places. Yeah. Right. And despite my saying to him, pick it up, dude, like along with your Laurel Piano clothes because they're my size and I might wear them. Yeah. Or keep them. He didn't. And so there it was. And it was taken. So you knew it was in your house. Oh, yeah. It was locked up. And you told him you left your laptop at my place. Pick it up. And he didn't. Correct. Multiple times. And so what happened next? I mean, did you look at the laptop? No. Never. That's why this theory from Hunter's pal and benefactor, his lawyer, Kevin Morris, is absurd because they could open it up.

He has it back and they could do some sort of forensic look at it. Not only did I never open the lid, I never turned it on. I have no interest in looking at somebody's private stuff. Well, you were his shrink, so you would know his secrets anyway. Exactly. I don't have to look at his laptop to know his secrets and his secrets are safe with me, which is why if you have a lawyer, I've said this before, if you have a lawyer who represents you and you allow that lawyer to suggest that your shrink is a scumbag, then I give you a diagnosis additionally besides cocaine dependence, which is scumbag. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Because that I made clear to a few people who suggested you should have turned it over. Look what you had. You could have helped America. No, no, no. You don't understand. This is sacred. This is like a blood oath. If you think I'm going to be on my deathbed and look my kids in the eyes and say, well, I was the one who made it kind of confidential when you go to a psychiatrist. Uh-uh. Like, I'm willing to die for that. I'm not breaking confidentiality with a patient ever.

That's like one of those tripwires where if someone said to you, how do you hope to die? You know, if you had to pick away, I'd say, well, it would be standing up for a principle and, you know, losing my life over it. If I had to pick, that's a principle that I'd say it's worth it. I get it. It's worth it. I agree with you very strongly on that. Yes, that's right. I know you do. I mean, otherwise you wouldn't be doing what you're doing. Yeah, of course, especially in middle age, like you don't need to do it. But can I ask about the DEA? I thought the DEA existed to keep El Chapo in check. How did that work? They show up at your place and do they say, by the way, do you have any of Joe Biden's kids stuff here? Nope. Here's how it happened. Never talked about it before. So, but I'm here with you. Yes, I'm grateful. You make it easy. So, no, somebody booked an appointment to come see me for help. It wasn't an appointment coming to see me for help. It was the DEA coming with armed agents. What? Oh, yeah. You thought it was a patient? I thought it was a patient. Armed federal agents?

Armed federal agents knocking on the door. I walked downstairs. I, you know, in order to deal with my own anxiety, which is real, you know, I said, does anyone want coffee? No, we can't have coffee. We can't accept that. I was like, well, that's unfortunate and sort of not very warm of you. But what are you here for? Please, let's just get our work done. So, you know, they go. But they didn't tell you why they were there? No. No, they have a warrant and they go through everything. My sock drawer, et cetera. I was, you know, and they take everything they want and they take all your business computers. They took my therapy notes on my therapy. Okay. This is like an Eagleton thing. We're going back sometime. Yeah. And keep it for years. Returned it only recently. Kept it for, what, four years, three, four years. Returned it only recently. And, you know, looked through everything. And I've committed no crime and there won't be a criminal charge against me. So, it leaves you wondering what the heck. Well, yeah. I mean, that's why I wanted to talk to you. What the hell is this? Part of the American legal system, as my lawyer explained to me, I said, well, let's look at the subpoena. He said, we can only do that if they file a suit against you. I said, well, really? I can't examine what they presented to a judge to be able to come to my office without there being litigation? That's right. Well, that's a problem. A problem? So, it's like a star chamber and you don't get to know what you've been accused of. You don't get to know what you've been accused of.

Obviously, someone, you know, I'm a Trump supporter in Massachusetts. I should dig a moat around my office, right? I should have, like, fire-breathing dragons around the office. But they were clearly there to cause me trouble. I mean, here's a funny story. So, one of the agents takes out of my desk a vial. The vial has blue powder in it. He looked at me. He says, Doc. I said, it's a long story. He said, it always is. I said, you see that carved bear on my desk? He said, yeah. I said, well, that carved stone bear was given to me by a Native American chief that I treated. And he said, if I feed it ground-up turquoise stone, that I will get courage from the bear. And that there is what you have in your hand. I said, by the way, the bear doesn't really eat it. It's a metaphor. And I said, but maybe you take it and you test it. And he said, no, no, no. Even you couldn't come up with that that fast. It's too weird to be fake. Right? It's too weird to be fake. But when a Native American chief gives you a bear and says, feed it turquoise stone ground up, that's what you do. Right? You don't want to mess with that kind of juju. That's crazy. So they never explained what they were doing there. Never explained. They have guns. You don't. They have guns. You don't. I texted Roger Stone. And I said, man, me, you, and Trump raided. Who doesn't get raided? And he, because he's Roger Stone, he texted right back the bad guys. Yeah. He's right. Unfortunately, he's right. So, and then how did they get Hunter Biden's laptop at that point? So they're going through your house, presumably. Going through my house. They're like, unlock everything, open everything, unlock everything, open everything. And they take that, along with other things. They took my laptop. They took my cell phone. And cell phones and old cell phones. And so that was one of the items. And then I immediately called my lawyer and I said, look, a patient's item was taken amongst the things that were mine. It has a sticker on it. It looks different than mine. It's messy. Mine are clean. This was messy. We have to get it back to him because that's not okay. And that's what we did. Did they ask for Hunter Biden's laptop or did they just sweep it up? No, they just swept it up. Did they know it was his? Did you tell him? Didn't tell him. And yet they returned it to him. Yes, they did. Well, how did that happen? Well, you know, I mean, I did suggest that that would be the right thing for them to do. They may they could have made a different decision given that he was under investigation federally, but they didn't. And so that's their business as to why not. But, you know, it sort of put me in a funny position because I had guys like Garrett Ziegler, who's a, you know, a far right guy saying, you know, Keith Ablo must be in business selling drugs with Hunter Biden. He wouldn't turn over that laptop. He had it all this time. Well, no, it's patient confidentiality. And by the way, when you had that laptop, I mean, of course, no one knew you had it. No one knew you were treating Hunter Biden, maybe outside of Salem. But you were raided.

That laptop was taken months before the story, before I heard the story that the laptop existed. I mean, we first got its contents in October of 2020, and this was February of 2020. Right. And so, yeah, no idea as to motive agenda. Again, I mean, I did have a disgruntled former employee, one who thinks the laptop had nothing to do with it would say, well, maybe that person told them that you were selling drugs. They raided a pharmacy in my town at the same time in Newburyport, Mass. Again, no charges. It's run by a very nice guy, Lewis. He's about 85. But in any case. Did anyone apologize to you? No, and it's not necessarily over. They never say, oh, by the way, sorry, and you have a clean bill. Wait, so they can just show up with guns at your house, not explain why they're there. That's right. Steal all your stuff and then never charge you, much less convict you, and then it just kind of hangs over your head. It hangs over your head. And if I had called my lawyer prior to this, you would have said, absolutely not. You are not going on Tucker Carlson's show because, as you know, you're still under federal investigation. And so any doctor, any doctor in America, if you said, did you have to ever wonder whether you can call in prescriptions around the country for pharmacies, would say, I don't know. I've done it. Is that a bad thing if they fill it? But if they find out that any single doctor did that, for instance, they can make a beef about it. So this is a way to shut people up, right? Because anybody, right, can be messed with. As Ben Carson said at the prayer breakfast years ago, if I wanted to get you or you or you, I could do it. He meant the IRS. But there are lots of other ways. And the reason I'm here, aside from the fact that you are the patriot you are, and we were friends back at our former employer, is that I don't like being shut up.

Good. And it's one of those moments where you think, man, it's safer not to, really safer. But then you've got to live with yourself. That's complicated. So if you allow yourself to be shut up, as most Americans will learn sooner or later, you've got to make a choice, right? Whether you're going to speak your mind, which is a way of reinforcing yourself, like the self is connected to God. It's fueled by God. It is God, really, your core true self. Where did it come from? We don't know. That's good. That means it's incredibly powerful. If you don't speak your mind out of a desire for safety, which I understand, you die a little bit. I strongly agree. So just listening to you talk, it's like most people, I've got complicated views of psychiatry, and I don't understand it because I'm not a psychiatrist. But I'm hearing you talk about what I'm hearing you talk about what's inside a person is more than just the sum total of chemical reactions in the brain. But that is not a conversation that you hear very often, even from psychiatrists and Sigmund Freud, whose ideas form the basis of psychiatry globally, is in the West anyway, was at the center of the public conversation even 40 years ago, has been disappeared from history. Can you describe what you think? Can you describe what you think is going on there, the change? I've noticed it. I don't understand it. Well, you're right.

Psychiatrists graduating today most often are never in psychotherapy themselves. Many of them could never perform psychotherapy. Most of them are now doling out their time in 10-minute increments to write prescriptions that match one of 300 or more diagnoses that are in the psychiatry manual, the DSM-5TR, or whatever it's called now, which neatly fit with insurance company reimbursement for those disorders. So all these forces have aligned to crush the heart of psychiatry, which is really about restoring the individual to him or herself. That makes psychiatry public enemy number one. What does that mean, restoring? I feel like you're saying something very important, so I just want to make sure it's clear what it is. What does that mean, restoring a person to himself? Well, so human beings really do have inborn talents. They have belief systems that evolve, but they're based upon something very deep. They suffer depression, anxiety, all manner of things when their stories are not known to them. When they think of people, let's say, in the family or others or events that unfolded as beneficial to them when they were, say, very bad for them. They need to recast the characters that they thought were the heroes in their lives and say, maybe not.

Maybe when I allowed myself to take a common example, maybe when I allowed myself to not pursue that real passion of mine because I wanted to satisfy people around me, maybe that means that those people didn't love me as much as I thought they did. Right. Now, that's that's an incredible epiphany when that happens. If a man, for instance, is supposed to be an artist and he goes around the globe doing deals to create wealth to create wealth for his family because he's not sure what else to do because that was assigned to him. That man needs to embrace his art again and reevaluate everyone around him who suggested he not do that. And I think you're describing in a much more detailed way the phrase you used to hear but never do now, which is be true to yourself. Be true to yourself is the key to psychiatry, because the truth is now they want to match one or another antipsychotic or antidepressant or anti-anxiety medicine to your symptoms. That can be very helpful, but they forgot the other part, like the 75 percent, which is you can literally hear voices or see visions based on being disconnected from your core. Right. So you hear these things almost as echoes.

Let's figure out, did we somehow play a role? Can we unravel this story? All that's gone because, number one, we're suggesting, look at all the things. A country doesn't need a border to be a country. What? That's insane. OK, the president, although there's dramatic evidence that he's compromised by foreign countries, he's not. And he makes decisions just in the interest of the United States. Delusion. Craziness. We're being asked to be crazy and we're killing off psychiatry at the same time, because psychiatry is a source of sanity. Right. So you look at the the the president, the president doesn't have dementia. His doctor says so. Well, that is another form of insanity. You're asking me to be delusional. And in order for me to be delusional, I must be cut off from myself or my soul. That's my anchor. And the anchor, again, being a symbol of God, Christianity, etc. To be free and flexible and creative was really essential to what I wanted to make. And I didn't find a platform that did that other than works. Hi, I'm Liv. I run Double Bricks, a print and design studio in Brighton, UK. Right. I'm unanchored now. I'm adrift. What do you do when you're adrift?

You cling to anything that offers you safety that you think offers you safety in a storm. The government. That's what's up. It's it's so crazy. Freud would be laughing his butt off or is in the grave if we ever said, you know, the way that they take care of people who disagree with the status quo, which is about trying to stop sanity. They accuse them of sexual things. You'd be like, well, yeah, people can't get their minds away from that. And there's all kinds of deep feelings between men and women about sex. If you want to destroy someone, just say that that person is a sexual predator. What happened to Trump 30 years ago in a department store? He supposedly attacked somebody. Right now, you have to be very careful because what if I got sued? What if I said it wasn't true? I might get sued by the plaintiff. They shut people up. And they asked them to accept delusion as truth. And this sounds like a novel like 1984, because it is.

Well, I have to say it's a very noticeable trend. I haven't heard anyone else note it. But that people who get crossways with, say, the CIA seem to have like a higher than average likelihood of having kiddie porn found on their computers. Have you noticed that? Absolutely. And by the way, this is one reason, there are many reasons I love Donald Trump. But one of the reasons is because on national television during a debate for the first presidency that he will serve, I hope, he held up his hands. And he said, and now they're hitting on my hands and they're saying that because these are small, something else is small. And I'm telling you, there's no problem in that department. And I was I was I was up out of my seat. I'm like, Freud would be applauding madly because nobody can do that. You have to be a psychological giant to talk about your private parts on national television and say people say they're small, but they're not. Nobody can do that. That's a fascinating reaction. But that's a guy who will say, you know what, they're crossing the border in droves. We're building a wall. Yep.

Same guy. That's the guy we need. Why do they call Trump psychologically fragile? Well, they call him psychologically fragile because it's a convenient way to attack people to say, oh, he's you know, he's not well. They also say he's psychologically fragile because if you're looking through a filter that is blurry and misdirected, you might see his truths as not as him not being well. It's just the truth, right? When he said, even in the van, bad moment in that trailer or whatever, when he said, you know, when you're famous, you can do this to. Yeah, yeah. Crass. He called it locker room truth, locker room talk. I might say, well, wait a second. It's very weird. But when you're famous and rich, why is it? I would at least open up the question. Why is it that that's an aphrodisiac? Why do men or women allow more degrees of freedom if you're famous, strong and rich? We don't know that. We should think about that. But what he was saying was joking about the fact that that's not been explained. And it is true.

And it is true. So people say he's crazy. No, no, no. He just told you the truth, but you can't hear it. So you're going to call it crazy. Right. The notion that you should vote with paper ballots and they should actually count them. This would seem to be rational, but it could satisfy the criteria for the DSM 5TR plus in the future. Well, why are you saying that? Why would you possibly think that there'd be any monkey business with an election? Now, again, you say things like that. And what they're trying to do is make everybody scared of saying anything true or anything that they wonder about as to whether it might be true. Donald Trump is partly the antidote to that because he just speaks the truth almost obsessively. It's almost an obsession that he doesn't adulterate truth, which is why when people would say, well, I'm not sure that he likes minorities. I'd be like, are you kidding me? If you ever said to Donald Trump, I know this black woman who's like, she might be 0.05% more talented than this white male. But, you know, I think you should hire the white male because, you know, it's a white male. He'd beat the hell out of you. Be like, what? You want to cheat me out of 0.05% of talent? Are you kidding me? He won't have it.

Because it's all about the talent. It's all about the truth. And there's no hatred there at all for anybody. And the numbers now show it, I think. And the numbers show it. Yeah. So, last question. First of all, let me just say I love how interested you are in what is true and how willing you are to pause and ask the first and most important question, which is it true? I mean, I think that, you know, if you're not willing to do that, then you're serving lies. It's that simple. But what can the average person, you just said that part of the antidote is Trump. But what for the average person is not in control of who's president or of much else, actually. So how do you stay sane in a society that demands you lie and is pushing you toward mental illness, which is clearly where we live? That's exactly right. And part of the end, there are several parts of the antidote. One is say what you think and take some lumps. It's OK. You're going to be stronger. OK, I mean, not everybody can be Donald Trump and defy, you know, wrong minded courts around the country and the rest of it. OK, we don't have to be that. But by the way, it's the biggest self-help course the world has ever seen. Just watch him and do some of that. That's going to be as good as Tony Robbins or even a little better. Right. I love Tony Robbins. Yeah. But but, you know, it's going to be just like that and it's free. So just watch him do what he does. Get a dog. Right. I mean, why? Because I love I love these answers. You're speaking my language because the dog loves you and you need to and you'll have unconditional love for love for the dog. Right. It's just the truth. Right. The the the dog isn't lying to you and you're not going to lie to the dog. I mean, it's big exercise. Why? Your body is important. Right. I have a friend who talks about posture as the key to well-being. Be in your body. Why?

Because they're going to try to take you out of your body at every turn. Right. And some of its technology. Technology is primed to remove you from your body and just say, well, you're really just your profile on Facebook or you're really just your avatar. Well, no, I'm really not. I really am connected here to my body. And I know it because I go for walks or, you know, look what's happening. The world's trying to help us. The AMA tried to ban boxing. That's thought of as very quaint now, given MMA. Yeah. Because the world tries to reset. It's like, you know what? We better get back in our bodies. Let's have guys have to tap out before their arms or legs are broken. And people would say, well, that's grotesque. It's horrible. No, no, no. It's part of the antidote. We need it right now. Because otherwise we're going to be evaporated into technology, lies, delusions. Tell people you love them if you really do. That's a wonderful antidote to falsehood. That's an amazing thing, right? If anybody who has a kid, you'd give your left and right arm to save one of their hands. That's the truth.

That's truth. Think about that. That'll help you. You might meditate. Meditation centers people. Why? Because it's about you connecting to God, really. I mean, it doesn't have to be a far out thing or an Eastern philosophy or anything else. It's just about you sitting there and realizing, you know what? I'm breathing. I'm here. And then there's some other nice tricks. Like, if you're feeling troubled, I like to tell people this. If you really have your back against the wall, think of yourself as sitting in a movie cinema watching your own life story. And I like to tell people, how many people, when Tom Cruise is in trouble, throw away their popcorn and say, let's get out of here. He's in a jam. Absolutely nobody. Everyone sits there and thinks the same thing. I wonder what's going to happen. When you're in pain and you've got troubles, all you really have to do to let God do the rest is just say, I'm going to sit here. I'm not leaving the theater. Anybody who's ever thought of, God forbid, taking his or her life, just sit in the theater. It's going to get better. And that's some of it. Okay. So I've got six, if I'm remembering correctly. The first is to speak your mind. The second is to get a dog and experience the unconditional love of the dog. The third is to live in your body, get in touch with your body.

You're a physical being. You're not just spirit or mist. The fourth would be to get some quiet and commune with God or listen, meditate, as you said. The fifth would be get some distance, some perspective on your life. Maybe it was just five. I'll add a sixth, which is allow yourself to know that you don't know. And, you know, one thing is my son, during all this trouble, said, Dad, you know, it doesn't seem like you're really dissolving. Like, why are you not more troubled? And I said, look, I am. I'm just not showing you because that's what dads do, okay? Of course. I said, but I also look at my own life a bit askance, and I think, I don't know what this is. I don't know what this is for. And so, if it turns out that at some point in your life, my son, someone thinks they have your back against the wall, and you look at them and you say, go F yourself. I saw my dad go through this. Yeah. Then it all was worth it. Times 10. And I didn't know that. I might not even be on the planet when that happens.

So, a little sense of mystery is good in saying, I don't know why this is happening. Humility. Humility. But there's a plan. I don't know the whole plan. It's okay. Man, I think you are, I don't think, I know for a fact, you are the most psychologically balanced and healthy psychiatrist I've ever met by far. I mean that. And I'm just grateful that you came. Thank you. Well, thank you for having me. Really, you are a good litmus test for whether I would speak my mind, and therefore, you've been my therapist. It worked. For the first and only time. Dr. Keith Abbo, thank you. Thanks, Tucker. Free speech is bigger than any one person or any one organization. Societies are defined by what they will not permit. What we're watching is the total inversion of virtue. Drinking warm water before bed resets blood sugar levels and reverses to type 2. 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And that was when I really first realized how much I loved music. And I asked my parents, but how can music be so beautiful? You remember the melody? Yes. You want me to sing it? Please. Those notes of Richard Strauss ignited a universe. When did the composing begin? When I was four, I just had these melodies and ideas in my head. And I would play them down at the piano. Sometimes my parents would think that I was just remembering the music that I'd already had before. But I said, no, no, these are my melodies that I composed. This past summer in Austria, we watched Alma prepare her violin concerto and the premiere of her piano concerto. Joji Hattori conducts the Vienna Chamber Orchestra. Just the clarinet. Just the clarinet.

What I really want to hear is the violin and the clarinet. That night, the soloist was the composer herself. And as you listen, remember, she wrote all the notes for all the instruments. We could see Alma was living a story. A story of loss. A story of redemption. Scales of emotion beyond a child. And yet, her vision was almost like wisdom. Do you have any idea where this comes from? I don't really know, but it's really very normal to me to go around, walk around and having melodies popping into my head. It's the most normal thing in the world. For me, it's strange to walk around and not to have melodies popping into my head. So if I was interviewing you, I would say, well, tell me, Scott, how does it feel like not having melodies popping into your head? It's very quiet in my head, I must say. Can you relate? You've Googled everything, trying to find the best ways to teach your kids math, but your kids just aren't interested.

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You thought it was you! I thought it was me. I hardly had to say something and, you know, a piano teacher once said, "It's difficult to teach her because one always has the sense she's been there before." She wouldn't be able to imagine life without dreams and stories and music. That's as unimaginable to her as it is strange for other people to think about a little girl with melodies in her head. I love getting the melodies. It's not at all difficult to me. I get them all the time. But then actually sitting down and developing the melodies and that's really the difficult part, having to tell a real story with the music. The story Alma tells in her opera is Cinderella, but it's not the Cinderella you know. It seemed demeaning to Alma that Cinderella was attractive just because her feet were small. So she casts Cinderella as a composer and the prince as a poet. Cinderella finds a poem that was composed by the prince and she loves it and she's inspired to put music to it. And in the ball, she sings it to the prince. I think that it makes much more sense if he falls in love with her because she composed this amazing melody to his poem because he thinks that she's his soul mate because he understands her. Well, people can fall in love with composers. Exactly. I think this may be one of those times. They fell in love with Cinderella in its first production in Vienna. There is another composer who had an opera premier in Vienna at the age of 11, Mozart. People compare you to Mozart. What do you think of that? I know that they mean it to be very nice to compare me to Mozart. It could be worse. Of course, I love Mozart and I would have loved him to be my teacher, but I think I would prefer to be the first Alma than to be a second Mozart. In Israel, Mozart joined Alma on stage. She played his piano concerto with a cadenza. In a cadenza, the orchestra stops and the soloist breaks away in music of her own making. It's something that I composed because it's a very early concerto of Mozart and the cadenza was very simple. It didn't go to any different keys and I composed quite a long one, going to lots and lots of different keys, doing lots of things on Mozart's motifs. So you improved the cadenza of Mozart. Well, yes. It's kind of a comet that goes by and everybody looks up and just goes, "Wow." Robert Yertigen is a professor of music at Northwestern in Chicago. He has been a consultant to Alma's education. I sent her some assignments when she was six, seven, where I expected her to crash and burn because they were very difficult. It came back, it was like listening to a mid-18th century composer. She was a native speaker.

A native speaker. It's her first language. She speaks the Mozart style. She speaks the style of Mendelssohn. And the names that you just mentioned are the ones that live for centuries. Yes, she's batting in the big leagues and if you win the pennant, there's immortality. The route to immortality leads through California. In December, the San Jose Orchestra will stage Cinderella in Alma's American debut. She'll be the bell of the ball on the piano, organ and violin. The piano music teachers say, "Oh, you must choose the piano." And the violin music teachers say, "Oh, you must choose the violin." But anyway, that's better than the piano teachers saying, "You must choose the violin." And the violin teachers say, "You must choose the violin." That would be a bad sign. That would be a bad sign, yes. Fortunately, she doesn't have to choose. This is her composition, "Violin Concerto No. 1." It's extremely jolly and very happy and jocular, that movement. I want to make the people who listen to it laugh and be happy. The first movement of the violin concerto is quite the opposite. It's very dark and dramatic. What does a girl your age know about dark and dramatic?

Well, yes, that's an interesting question because, you know, I'm a very happy person. So, I have lots of imaginary composers and one of them is called Antonin Yellowsink. Antonin Yellowsink. Alma's imaginary composing friend is an insight into the music of her mind. Alma told us that she made up a country where imaginary composers write, each in his own style of emotion. So, how many composers do you have in your head? I have lots of composers. And sometimes when I'm stuck with something when I'm composing, I go to them and ask them for advice. And quite often they come up with very interesting things. Even the real world seems magical. The Deutscher's move to the English countryside to be near a famous school of music. Alma is privately tutored and home-schooled alongside her sister, Helen, who also knows her way around the piano and the treehouse. I usually don't ask people your age this question, but what have you learned about life? Well, I know that life is not always beautiful, that there's also ugliness in the world. That's why I've learned that I want to write beautiful music, because I want to make the world a better place. We cannot know how Alma Deutscher channels her music like a portal in time. But in a world too often ugly and too often overburdened with explanation, it is nice to take a moment and wonder. *Country music* *Country music* *Country music* *Country music* Child prodigies have long been a source of great fascination. *Country music* the brain. What is it about Jake Barnett that had him taking college courses at age eight and getting A's and by 12 doing paid scientific research? And today at age 13, an honors college sophomore lecturing the crowd at his university science symposium. The untied shoelaces reveal either your average teenager or the first telltale science of the absent-minded professor or both. Surrounded by researchers twice his age, Jake is presenting his summer physics research project on PT symmetric lattice systems. This has implications in fiber optics, electromagnetic signals, anything that requires like a light going through a cable. Every number or math problem I ever hear, I have permanently remembered.

You just never forget? They never slip out the back door of your brain? No. Is it fun for you to do it? I mean, do you get a kick out of it? Yeah. For Jake, Fun is reciting from memory the infinite series of numbers known as Pi. 3.14159265358979323846264338327950. Jake memorized more than 200 of Pi's numbers in an afternoon. 9749445923078. Enough, enough. And he did it just to test himself. You want me to go backwards from there? Well, sure. 32397985356295141.3. Bravo. He's not just parroting a textbook. He understands and analyzes the logic of higher mathematics. He can visualize and solve complex problems by using what he calls the fourth dimension. Just exactly what is the fourth dimension. It's hard to describe in terms of the typical three because it's tangent to all the other ones. I'd be able to describe it if I had like a whiteboard and like 30 minutes to describe it. It takes a while. It's the fourth dimension. What do you expect? The numbers appear to him as shapes that he says just build on one another. So this, for example, is 3 cubed or 27. And then if I want to do 54, I just stack another one onto it. He says his mind is constantly buzzing with new physics problems and theories. When he runs out of wall space, he moves on to windows. Remembering things so precisely, does that ever become a burden to you? No, not at all. No sense of overload? I remember math and numbers. I don't remember other things. For example, if someone asks me where something is in the house, I tell them I don't know. The oldest of four kids, Jake lives with his family in the suburbs of Indianapolis. These are my periodic table. It's got all my elements. He used the money he made from his summer research project, $3,200, to turn his bedroom into a science lab. Copernicus was the most recently named element. For as long as he can remember, he's been fascinated by the mysteries of space. Saturn is my favorite planet, not due to the rings, but due to some of its moons. Any ambition to be an astronaut? Not an astronaut. That's, like, too dangerous. I'm going to be the guy controlling the astronauts. If anyone's an astronaut, it's going to be my brother. All work and only occasional play does not make Jake a dull boy. What do you do for fun? When it isn't anything academic? No, I mean, beyond the academics. Does looking up space articles online count? He has a full scholarship at the joint Indiana University-Purdue campus in Indianapolis, where he is an honors student in math and physics. He may not be the tallest student on campus, but is surely among the brightest. He regularly gets the highest grades in his classes. What happens if you have C sub n, where it's proportional to n? Jake's been auditing classes here since the ripe old age of eight, when it became obvious to his parents that third grade was not going to be enough for him. What did your fellow students make of it? Everyone was thinking that Mom was taking the class and she couldn't find a babysitter. The students thought I was the student. His parents, Christine and Michael Barnett, expected their son would quietly listen and learn, but even they were shocked when Jake jumped right into scientific discussions. The professor would ask questions and Jake was answering them. And then he took the final at the end and got an A on it. And suddenly the people at the university took notice of that and eventually invited him to attend the university. It's pretty shocking with an eight-year-old Aces of University Astronomy course. Weren't you impressed? I guess I was impressed. I was just doing what I like to do. No one could have predicted that Jake would even make it to college. Just before his second birth date, he began to regress, stop speaking and making eye contact. After consulting with several doctors, the diagnosis was autism. We went through speech therapy, physical therapy, developmental therapy, occupational therapy. A therapist came to the home. He was going further and further from our world into a world of his own. And I really was just baffled at how we were going to get him back out of that world.

And how did you get him back out of that world? We realized that Jacob was not happy unless he was doing something he loved. Which even as a three-year-old was math and science. His parents say the more he focused on the subjects he loved, the more he began to communicate. You could just see him just relax. You could just see him feel like, thank goodness we're not working on something that I can't do today. And how long did it take for him to, as you say, come back? By the time he was kindergarten age, five, six, he was still behind as far as speaking with others and socializing with others. But he was also light years ahead of everybody else. He was coming home asking us, when am I going to learn something at school today? I want to learn algebra. It was trying to keep Jake challenged that led to a kind of double life. Elementary school by day and sitting in on college courses in the evening. By fifth grade, he dropped out of public school. And just to demonstrate that he was ready for college, he taught himself all of high school math in just two weeks. He was ten years old. That was the most determined thing I've ever seen anybody do. He had to sit in a calculus class to prove to the university that he could sit still. And Jacob was like, I'm going to participate in that class discussion. So if I need to learn algebra one, algebra two, geometry, trig, that's what I'm going to do. And he took a stack of books and he sat down and he just... Went and taught himself all of it in two weeks. Not only that, he finished the entire State of Indiana curriculum for grades 6 to 12 in little over a year. The Barnetts, who've started a center for autistic kids called Jacob's Place, say that many of Jake's symptoms of autism have disappeared. There are certain traits that are still there. And if you really, really knew what you were looking for, you could dig them out. But otherwise, you know, I got a ten year old kid at that point in time that just happens to be doing next level work and no one knew anything different. Your parents told us that you're very proud of your autism. That, I believe, is the reason why I am in college and I am so successful. It is the rise as to my love for math and science and astronomy and it's the reason why I care. Otherwise, I wouldn't have gotten this far. Joanne Ruth says, a psychology professor at Ohio State, has been studying child prodigies for the last 13 years. She believes there's a link between autism and prodigies. We know that child prodigies are having autistic relatives at a very high clip and some of them have autism themselves. She believes that what sets a prodigy with autism apart from other children with the condition is the prodigy's genes have been modified so that the genius emerges without many of the severe disabilities associated with autism. In the general population of autism, 10% will have an autistic savant skill where they're exceptional at something and they've only got that piece displaying itself. She says for prodigies, be it in math, music or art, the key to the extraordinary talent is extraordinary memory. They all share this incredible memory, each and every one of them. In Jake's case, he's 13 years old. What's remarkable is not just this memory, but his vocabulary is so adult. Of course they speak like adults. They've picked up so much information along the way so early in their life and continue to do so. She says a talent like Jake's is about one in 10 million. Jake's extraordinary. He's picking up information at a rate that none of us could even imagine doing it.

She's tested Jake and says he literally aces every intelligence and memory test. Imagine if everything you saw you could remember. Every word you heard, you could recall that. And then you could integrate that information and come up with new ideas. That's what he's doing. Kentucky, New Mexico. A demonstration. Dr. Roussatz named 28 states in random order. Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. No surprise. He was able to do it forwards and backwards in sequence with ease. And when asked again three months later. You still remember them? Yes, yes I do. In the same order? Mm-hmm. And I can still go backwards. And backwards. Give me five or ten. Kentucky, New Mexico, Nevada, Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Washington, Missouri, Texas, Utah, Colorado. While some may dismiss Jake's talent as simply a gift of remarkable memory, his physics professor says the boy is much more than a human calculator. Is it just great memory or something else? It is definitely something else. The great memory does help him, of course, because once he reads something, he remembers it. But what is more important is that he has the drive to learn more. He definitely stands out as a powerhouse of raw talent. Professor Yogesh Yogelkar oversaw Jake's research project. Their work was published in Physical Review A. Jake is the youngest person to be published in that prestigious physics journal. The whole randomness thing. That's like completely against all of physics. He plans to continue his research, building on Einstein's theory of relativity. His parents say he takes on these challenges with an easy grace. He has his own little tight-knit group of friends that he hangs out with, he studies with. He leads study groups. I have college-aged girls calling the house wanting to know if Jake is available to study during finals. When I go to campus with him, it's like I'm walking around with Elvis. So far, the king seems to keep his celebrity status in check, more or less. Practically everyone knows who I am. Are you a star on this campus? Big man on campus. I just figured it out. But the little big man says he enjoys nothing more than using his talent to help fellow classmates see the beauty he sees in the numbers. Thanks, Jake. You're welcome.

I kind of want to try to use that to end the whole math phobia thing. Because so many people like me and millions of others are scared of math. They're scared of science. Correct? Yeah. Why is that so funny? You almost can't understand how anyone could be. Exactly. Yeah. Jake is writing a book to help us overcome our fear of math. And he's on track to graduate at age 14, when he hopes to begin his PhD studies. What's the most aggressive and deadly cancers? Pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive and deadly cancers, in part because often by the time it's diagnosed, the disease has spread to other parts of the body. So when news broke last year that a test had been developed that might detect early pancreatic cancer, the research world not only took notice, it went into shock. For the test hadn't been developed by some renowned cancer research institute, but by a boy wonder, a 15-year-old high school freshman named Jack Andreka. He then convinced an eminent cancer researcher to let him use his lab to develop his theory, all before he even had a license to drive. While the test must undergo years of clinical trials, the biotech industry has already beaten the path to Jack's door. This is Jack Andreka as he beats out 1,500 contestants and wins the grand prize at the Intel International Science Fair with his invention. Like a modern day Rocky, this self-described science geek took the stage and $100,000 in prize money. Pure, unadulterated, adolescent joy. When you won the Intel Award, your reaction went viral, correct? Yes, yes it did. It's a no joke award. I wasn't expecting any awards there. Then when I won, I was just flabbergasted. I was like freaking out. I was just like, what? Yes you were. Me?

Jack Andreka's journey from suburban Baltimore high school freshman to cancer researcher began at age 14, when a family friend died of pancreatic cancer. Shocked that there's no reliable early test for the disease, Jack decided he would develop one. He began probing the internet for everything he could find about pancreatic cancer biomarkers. He read research articles during class and in the middle of biology, while stealthily reading a medical journal, he says inspiration hit. The teacher was not amused. I swear she has like eyes on the back of her head or something. She sees me and she storms up to my desk and is like, Mr Andreka, what is this? And like snatches it out of my hand. As if you had Playboy magazine. I'm just like, it was just a science article. Shouldn't this be a good thing? When he told his parents, Steve and Jane Andreka, about his project, they weren't exactly encouraging. My reaction wasn't a good one. I said, Jack, isn't that a little far-fetched? And I know that when you're 14, you can't just run out and get a lab. A lot of people, you know, are like, we don't train middle schoolers. But Jack decided to find one that did. Over the course of four months, he prepared a test protocol for his theory and sent it out to 200 cancer researchers. I essentially had to send them my budget, my procedure, my timeline and materials list. And I actually had 199 rejections out of those.

Some professors ripped apart my procedure completely. But one professor, Dr Anirban Maitra, finally said yes. An encouraging yes. It was like, this idea might work. And he starts interrogating me, kind of. Firing these questions, trying to sink my procedure in a way. But I answered all of them. Dr Anirban Maitra was a professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins University, and now heads pancreatic cancer research at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. He says his curiosity was piqued by Jack's proposal. Well, it's not every day that you get an email from a 15-year-old that comes with a detailed protocol with methods and supplies and what pitfalls you might run into. And I said, maybe I'll get you a corner in my lab and we'll have one of the postdoc fellows supervising you. Let's see where this all goes. For the next seven months after school and on weekends, Jack's mother would drop him off at the lab, where he learned basic lab techniques and worked on developing his cancer test. Finally, one day in March, I realized this was actually working. Like, it was working amazingly because it was passing all of these preliminary tests. And I run out and I'm pretty much like screaming around the lab. I finally go out and rush into my mom's car and, like, me and her are screaming in the car. And then, of course, I have to go the next day. Jack's test detects an unusually high level of mesothelin, a protein that the body produces in pancreatic cancer. Early and most treatable stage. What exactly are you doing now? So, essentially what this is, is it's one of my strips. And what you do is you first get an original measurement of how the electricity flows across it. The paper strip is coated with a carbon substance that attracts mesothelin. It is placed in an apparatus that Jack built in his parents' garage. And I'm just taking out one single drop of blood here. A high level of mesothelin in a patient's blood sample may indicate the first stages of pancreatic cancer. See how it's increased? It's increased by about two times here. And so what that means is that there's a really high level of this one protein there. And that signals the presence of pancreatic cancer for me. While years of clinical trials must be done, there is no FDA approved test that can reliably measure mesothelin. Dr. Maitre says a test of this kind that could detect pancreatic cancer in its earliest stage could save thousands of lives. He did hone in to the most important missing aspect in terms of pancreatic cancer, which is we don't really have good early detection. There is nothing like a PSA test or a colonoscopy or a mammogram that you can get for the pancreas at this point in time. So by the time the majority of patients present, they already have tumor that has spread outside the pancreas. And those patients typically don't do very well. He says the test, which cost Jack three cents a strip to make, is remarkably elegant in its simplicity. It's remarkable what you've achieved and what you've come up with, there's no question. Have the brain men come to talk to you and want to figure you out? No, actually no one has approached me to do like an autopsy of my brain yet. No, a scan, shall we say. A scan, but like maybe later on in an autopsy.

But really, I don't think it's that I'm really smart. I mean, I know people that are way smarter than me. You can be a genius, but if you don't have the creativity to put that knowledge to use, then you just have a bunch of knowledge and nothing else. I mean, then you're just as good as my smartphone. His parents say he's been obsessed with science since he was a toddler, conducting experiments even as a three-year-old. School for him was so easy, his parents tried to keep him engaged by encouraging science projects at home. My family isn't the typical family. Like we're, instead of like talking about football, we have like all these science magazines all scattered through our house and we talk to them at dinner. After Jack decided to cultivate E. coli just for the fun of it on the kitchen stove, his parents insisted that he and his older brother, Luke, use the basement as their lab. Their parents believe the less they know about what goes on down there, the better. I gather the rule of the house is don't burn down the house and don't kill yourself. Pretty much. It's don't blow up the house. I want to come home to a place to live. What do they do down there? I don't really know because I don't go down there much. And they may have reason for concern. Clearly, neatness does not count. Last year, Luke cooked up some nitroglycerin just to see if he could. I was just interested to see, could I make it down here? It worked. It also drew the attention of the FBI, who they say sent a letter letting them know that their internet purchasing history had been noted by the feds. They were a little concerned. I don't know why I'm laughing. But these days, Jack doesn't have much time for messing in the basement. Jack and drop it. His test idea has made him a star speaker at medical conferences all over the world. So with me, I just used Google and Wikipedia to find a new way to detect pancreatic cancer. At the beginning of this, I didn't even know I had a pancreas. So if I could do that... And he's become a regular at the White House. Four visits this year alone. Where's Jack? There he is.

Jack, stand up. You've also become a heavy-duty celebrity. It's pretty insane. I mean, you see Barack Obama. President Barack Obama. Yeah, President Barack Obama. I'm just like, hello, Mr. President. And then, hello, First Lady. It's just like, it's crazy. In the past year, he's spoken in Canada, Italy, Australia, Greece, the United Nations, and so far, four trips to England. Earlier this year... Including this address he gave to the renowned Royal Society of Medicine about his test and the problems with current cancer diagnostics. I typed this into the internet, and... This 15-year-old has all the confidence of a physician. And what it comes up with is I could be going through cocaine withdrawal, I could have cancer, or I could be pregnant, so... A stand-up physician. So what I see in the future of medical diagnostics is a shift from the symptom-based to more of a diagnostic antibody-based approach, such as a sensor. Working the crowds of academics and checking out Cambridge University, no big deal. Could you study here? Yes. Jack easily maintains a 4.0 GPA in school, despite a spotty attendance record. You're still in high school, correct? Yeah. Why bother? Well, the reason I still bother with high school is because of my mom. She's really like, "You have to do high school and you have to go to college." But they're being kind of lenient with me right now. Who wants tea? Jack's family is pretty laid back about his success, low pressure, and a high sense of humor. They say that all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. It seems that you've been doing all work. Well, I would say all play, no work, because for me going to the lab is pretty much play. I mean, it's the funnest thing ever. Jack holds the patent on his cancer test, and with the help of his patent lawyer, is looking to license the technology to a pharmaceutical company in the next few months. Now, the actual testing on people or animals, I gather you're not interested in doing that. So, I did some preliminary studies.

However, one thing I don't want to do is end up as a lab rat. I kind of want to be able to come up with a new idea and then really just move on to the next idea and have other people do their repeated trials. Well, where does that stand right now? I have enough data to prove that this works, and so now I'm going to give it to the pharmaceutical companies to run it through, like, clinical trials and stuff. He believes that one day his invention will be in every doctor's office and even on pharmacy shelves. But Dr. Maitre, who's seen so many promising ideas flame out when it comes to pancreatic cancer, urges caution. Pancreatic cancer is a very humbling disease. Every time we think we have a home run, we barely get to first base. As a test, it is still a very long way off. And the reason for that is because such a test cannot be marketed unless it has been validated in large clinical trials. And that cannot be done in a small lab.

That cannot be done by a 15-year-old. But that does not detract in any way from the remarkable achievement of this young man. I think he's brilliant. I was sitting in class, and suddenly it hit me. Between speaking engagements and the occasional appearance at school, Jack is back in the lab working on new diagnostic and environmental tests. And while he now moves in very adult circles, Jack says when it comes to his future, he's just like any other lost teenager. I actually have no clue what I want to do when I grow up. I mean, hopefully something in science I'll be in. And hopefully I'll be doing work that will help change the world. Jack has come up with a new diagnostic invention and is using it to compete for the $10 million Tri-Corner X Prize in Medical Diagnostics. All of the 300-plus teams competing are made up of adult researchers, except for one. Magnus Carlsen is the best in the world. He's a 21-year-old Norwegian, reigned supreme in a sport played by 500 million people.

It's chess. Many don't think of it as a sport because nobody moves. But chess masters will tell you it can be more brutal than boxing. That's because at the championship level, the objective is not only to win, but to demolish your opponent. That can take hours. The best players need extraordinary endurance. Some of them are young. Magnus is the youngest number one ever. And no one can explain to you how he does what he does. It seems to come from another world. Which is why he's become known as the Mozart of chess. Just look at what he's doing. Competing against ten players simultaneously. That, in itself, is not extraordinary. But Magnus cannot see the boards he's facing the other way. So he has to keep track of the positions of 320 pieces blind. And the number of possible moves, infinite. Magnus comes out on top. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen. Do you have any idea how extraordinary this looks to... No, it's one of the amazing things in chess that you can... You don't really need the board, you can just keep it... But it transcends chess. I mean, I just... I just can't fathom what you've just done. It's just... It seems like it's supernatural. Last December, we caught up with him at the London chess classic.

He arrives with his constant companion, his father. Magnus will play against eight other top-ranked players. But he is the star. As celebrated in this world, as Eli Manning is in his. The world number one player from Norway, Magnus Carlsen. Today, Magnus is playing America's number one, Hikaru Nakamura. The match will last four hours, and there will be no breaks. Magnus will go on a stroll now and then, but his mind won't be going anywhere. He says he's concentrating not only on this game, but on other games played by other masters at other times, which he might want to draw on now, 10,000 of them. We gave him a test. It was played right here in London and Simpsons on the Strand in 1859. I don't know the month or day. You got it wrong. Not '59? '51. Wow. You see, your memory isn't superb in everything. It's not what it used to be. He's players are pretty poker-faced. But occasionally, Magnus will flash the smile of someone who knows it's all over, but the handshake. While Nakamura dives deeper into doom.

Magnus was playing brilliantly, and he knew it. Is there anything in life more satisfying than that feeling when you're playing brilliantly? I don't know, but it's really, you know, up there. It's pretty good. Yes. The spectators seem as mesmerized as the competitors. They're all chess players, of course. If they weren't, it would be like watching paint dry. Worldwide, 100,000 are watching on their computers. The suspense keeps building until end game, by which time it's cutthroat. But do you enjoy it when you see your opponent squirm? Yes, I do. I enjoy it when I see my opponent, you know, really suffering when he knows that I've outsmarted him. If I lose just one game, then usually, you know, I just want to really get revenge. This is war, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. For 50 years, chess was war. It was a battleground in the Cold War with the Russians, who were dominant. But then an American came along. His name was Bobby Fischer. In 1972, he took on the Russian champion Boris Spassky, and he won. It was an international spectacle. And the enthusiasm has not waned. Back in London, just down the corridor from where Magnus is playing, 500 novices are learning how to master kings and queens. Do you ever play any grown-ups? Yes. Yep, I do play grown-ups. In fact, I'm getting to the hang of playing grown-ups. Who's your, um, who's your favorite chess player? Bobby Fischer. Bobby Fischer? And I like Magnus. You like Magnus? Chess is now routinely taught in schools all over the world, including the United States. In some countries, it's compulsory. Chess can be taught, but not genius. Magnus seemed like a normal enough kid growing up outside Oslo. Wait a minute. When he was five, he could name almost all the countries in the world, and their capitals, and their populations. Magnus's father, Henrik, didn't think that was terribly unusual. He did have a good memory and the ability to concentrate for hours at the time on a specific topic, and he seemed to be interested in a lot of things, new things all the time. But I thought that was normal. What got him into chess? Sibling rivalry. His older sister started to play, so he wanted to beat her, which he did, quickly. Then he started winning tournaments. When he was so long, he became a celebrity, one of the first Norwegians to excel in a sport that did not involve snow. People lined up in shopping malls to play him. When he won, Magnus said it was just a game, no big deal. He couldn't understand why people were making such a fuss. Why does all people want to talk with a little me, you know? Magnus's parents took him and his sisters out of school for a year, rented out their house, sold their car. It was part holiday, mostly chess. They went to Reykjavik, Iceland, which is where Magnus took a leap into legend. When he was matched against Garry Kasparov, the Russian, considered by many to be the greatest ever. And how did Magnus prepare? By reading up. I sat there for a few seconds, and then I thought to myself, you know what, I don't know why he's thinking, but I know what my response is going to be anyway, so I'll just move on. Walk off and watch the other games. Kasparov had never played anyone so young, but he did not exude confidence or happiness. And he did not win. Magnus played him to a draw. It was a sensation. Kasparov left quickly. Nice game, kid. Nothing. How did Magnus react? Guess. He thought he had blown it. When I actually got the winning position, I had little time. I was nervous, and I couldn't finish him off. Why were you nervous? I was playing Kasparov. I was intimidated. You were intimidated by playing the world champion when you were already 13 years old?

Yeah, go figure. It warranted a celebration, of course, and Magnus got to choose. Yes, I went with my family and had some ice cream at McDonald's. By the time he was 19, the boy with the ice cream had become number one in the world. He has a very deep understanding of chess. Frederick Friedl's company, ChessBase, publishes the world's most popular chess program. Is this an indication of genius? He had a great idea of genius and raw talent. Now, Magnus has, uh, still hasn't reached his peak. He hasn't really worked yet. I've heard him described as, uh, lazy, which I find quite extraordinary. I think that's an impolite term, but it's probably appropriate. Except when he's not. Magnus plays soccer whenever he can break away from the board. He's got a mean backhand, and he's moonlighting as a model. There's never been much money in chess, but Magnus is changing that. Sponsors are lining up to endorse him. He's making about a million and a half dollars a year. But it's a solitary life. Magnus is on the road 200 days a year now. Between matches, he is alone in his hotel room, getting ready for tomorrow's game. He works out almost every day. Knows he can't concentrate, for it's often seven hours unless he's in shape. Magnus says he wouldn't be able to tolerate this life if it weren't for his father, who's always there for him. When you travel with Magnus, what's your role? I'm a servant. And a chess fan. You enjoy the games. And so, he says, does Magnus.

Boy, when you look at him, when I look at him, enjoyment is not the word that comes to mind. It should. Maybe you have to compare to a writer or a painter. I mean, probably if you see them at work, they're not smiling or having an easy time. They're exploiting their mind to the utmost. And the same with the chess players. And that's the thing. But that level of concentration is not danger-free. A fair number of grandmasters have gone mad. Which is what happened to Bobby Fischer in his later years. This was not an arrest. This was a kidnapping. It was all cooked up. Do you ever think about that? Yes, I do. You know, when I was watching the recent film about Bobby Fischer, I was thinking, you know, is this going to be me in a few years? I don't think that's going to happen. I don't think that's going to happen. But, you know, it made me think a little bit that, you know, I have to be aware of this, at least. But people have described you as the Mozart of chess. How do you react to that? Yeah, maybe, but was Mozart ever asked how he does this? I would be very impressed if he had a good answer to that. Because I think what he would say is that it just comes natural to me, it's what I do. Which is what you say. It's what he does for fun, too, at the Oslo chess club where he started. He's playing a Norwegian grandmaster here. It's called bullet chess. And Magnus has a handicap. His opponent is given three minutes to make his moves. Magnus has won. It's just a friendly match, but Magnus always hates to lose. So he doesn't. Oh, where's he?

You got him. Yeah, I got him. You got him. Yeah, I got him. The best time to get a Reese's? Anytime. I'd also accept all the time. Earth. Earth. A 4.5 billion-year-old planet. Still evolving. As continents shift and clash. Volcanoes erupt. And glaciers grow and rescate. The best time to get a Reese's. The best time to get a Reese's. Any time. The best time to get a Reese's. Any time. The best time to get a Reese's. Any time. The best time to get a Reese's. Any time. The best time to get a Reese's. Any time. I'd also accept all the time. The best time to get a Reese's. Earth. A 4.5 billion-year-old planet. Still evolving. As continents shift and clash. Volcanoes erupt. And glaciers grow and recede. The Earth's crust is carved in numerous and fascinating ways. Leaving a trail of geological mysteries behind. In this episode. An investigation into California's San Andreas Fault. The greatest fault line on Earth. 800 miles long. This ugly scar on the landscape. Has spawned earthquake.

After earthquake. But for now. It waits quietly. Deep under our cities. Building up stress. To strike. Once again. The San Andreas Fault. Is one of the most dangerous geological features. On Earth. California's greatest cities. And millions of her citizens. Live in constant peril. Since records began. There have been 13 large earthquakes. Along the San Andreas Fault. The water lines have ruptured. There is no water coming out of the fire hydrant. And now. America's geologists. Her rock detectives. A warning of a potential disaster. The major damage has been done. The major damage has been done. In the fall of 2008. More than 300 scientists calculated what a major earthquake would do to Southern California. California. We've been conducting a special study of a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on the Southern San Andreas Fault. Large enough to potentially damage tall buildings. Fire will be very significant. The definitive scientific report presented to politicians was code named ShakeOut. It forecast thousands of deaths and billions of dollars of damage in the city of Los Angeles. Which makes it crucial to investigate the most important question. When will the next big earthquake hit the San Andreas Fault? The latest preparations for disaster are the climax of an investigation that started more than 100 years ago. In the aftermath of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906. The earthquake struck on a Wednesday just before dawn. The ground shook violently for 45 seconds, igniting fires that raged unchecked for the next four days.

28,000 buildings, a tenth of the entire city, were destroyed. And more than 3,000 people, one in every hundred of the population, were killed. With a magnitude of 7.8, it's in the top 20 of North America's strongest ever earthquakes. The scale of the great San Francisco earthquake shocked the nation. But no one understood what had made the city shake. Native American myths explained earthquakes as shocks from a battle between warring spirits. Latter-day explorers couldn't understand the shocks that destroyed their mission buildings. One Spanish missionary wrote, "The earth shook around me from explosions under the ground." 300 years later, and science has still made little progress. Refugees in the ruins of San Francisco still blamed earthquakes on mysterious underground explosions. So just three days after the earthquake, the state of California asked one of the world's most famous geologists, Andrew Lawson from California State University, to investigate what had destroyed the city. He and a team of 25 scientists began collecting damage evidence in the city and surrounding countryside. There were roads that had buckled. Rail tracks that had twisted. The most startling evidence of all? That came near the town of Bolinas in Marin County, to the north of San Francisco. This picket fence had an eight-foot gap in the middle. Before the earthquake, it was a solid boundary fence, dividing two fields. But when he recreated what had happened, Lawson realized that the land had jolted apart and torn the fence in two. Plotting the evidence on a map around San Francisco revealed a surprising pattern. Because connecting the dots drew a straight line. And at every point, the earth moved in the same way, on the coast to the north, inland to the south. This line of weakness was the culprit they were searching for. South of San Francisco, the suspect line ran underneath a lake, the Laguna de San Andreas. So now, the earthquake perpetrator at last had a name. Professor Lawson, who a decade earlier had identified cracks in the earth here as a harmless rift, now rechristened it the San Andreas Fault. In modern-day San Francisco, the buildings, the roads, and the railways have long since been repaired. But if you know where to look, evidence of the 1906 quake can still be found. Geologist Charlie Paul follows in the footsteps of Lawson's team, seeking signs of the havoc from 1906. He finds it on the cliffs at Mussel Rock, 12 miles south of San Francisco. The cliff is not here by accident. There's a very good reason why this cliff is here. Half a mile or so of the shore face apparently fell off in the 1906 earthquake. And if you look down below us, there's a big rotated block that's near the present-day shoreline. And it is just inboard of the San Andreas Fault. The San Andreas Fault is about a quarter of a mile offshore here. And, of course, that's one of the major crustal junctions on this side of North America.

Modern computers can now trace how damage waves spread out across the city. And that pinpoints where the quake originated along the San Andreas. It was offshore, about two miles out to sea from the Golden Gate Bridge. So to continue tracking the fault, the investigation must head out to sea. Marine geologists use remote operating vehicles, mini-submarines, to map the seafloor. And, of course, what you'd see is subtle variations in the topography or topography that would not naturally line up. So there might be a line on the ocean floor that is higher or lower on one side. And you can use various techniques to determine that this actually is a fault instead of some other process. And that's where the San Andreas is. Running south across the seabed, the San Andreas finally runs out of ocean and hits the land. This broken line of rocks stretching in from the sea marks where the San Andreas hits land 12 miles south of San Francisco. And we're here at Mussel Rock, and we're essentially standing on the San Andreas Fault right now. And if there was an earthquake, I don't know what would happen right here, but I wouldn't want to be here. This Pacific coastline, where cliffs crumbles slowly into the sea, is the boundary between two of the Earth's massive continental plates. Separated by the San Andreas Fault, two vast separate blocks of the Earth's crust lie directly alongside each other. Here, the continent of North America lies slightly on top of the adjacent section of crust which holds the Pacific Ocean. The join can be seen where these lower, darker rocks are overlaid by light-colored sedimentary rocks. These rock types differ by more than 100 million years in age. Two rock bodies that are not similar in any way have been brought together. The fault line was exposed to geologists when the cliffs collapsed here in the 1906 earthquake. But back then, nobody understood how and why the two different types of rock were next to each other. Until around 40 years ago, when the answer was finally revealed by the theory of plate tectonics. The theory showed that the Earth's crust consists of separate moving plates on which the oceans and continents sit. Around 200 million years ago, the heavy Pacific Ocean plate collided with North America and started sinking underneath the lighter continent. The professor of geophysics Mark Zoback studies that process, called subduction, in his laboratory at Stanford University. For many millions of years prior to the existence of the San Andreas Fault, the Pacific plate was subducting beneath North America. The oceanic plate was diving down. And that process went on for, well, well over 100 million years. So a tremendous amount of activity was occurring. As the unstoppable force of one plate met the immovable object of the other, they were forced to change direction. About 20 million years ago, the plate motions were such that the Pacific plate had to start sliding north with respect to North America. And now, you know, the principal motion is this sliding process between the two plates. And 20 million years ago, the San Andreas Fault was born. It was the moving plates that crushed different types of rock together, just as here at Mussel Rock. At last, the investigation knows what it is dealing with. The San Andreas Fault is 800 miles long, emerging from the seabed north of Point Arena in Northern California, and running down to the Salton Sea in the south. The evidence is coming together. Clues from the 1906 earthquake, such as the picket fence that was torn apart, prove that the land was moving. Connecting the dots identifies the straight line of the San Andreas Fault. And Mussel Rock uncovers different plates of the Earth's crust on either side of the fault line. But investigators still need more information about how often the San Andreas has spawned earthquakes in the past. It might help them answer the all-important question: When will the San Andreas strike again? To discover when the San Andreas Fault will strike again, the investigation needs to know about ancient earthquakes that have struck along the fault line. But there's an immediate problem. Here in California, it's a particular challenge. Some of the earliest written records were from the missions and from the early explorers, so only dating back into the 18th century here. Other parts of the world, we have an earthquake history going back millennia. The investigation moves 350 miles south of San Francisco to a desert where the San Andreas may have been active for thousands of years. There's crucial evidence here about earthquakes from ancient times. This creek used to flow straight across the San Andreas Fault here, but several earthquakes formed a natural dam where the San Andreas Fault wedges up here in front of me. That created a small pond, and now we're looking at the dry sediments of that pond that record the history of earthquakes. And that tells us quite a great deal about the past behavior of the San Andreas Fault. Some of the clues are so small that Hudnut's detective work gets him down and dusty among tiny cracks inside the fault. Sometimes we can find out about the past behavior of the San Andreas Fault by looking at the tiniest details. At the bottom of this small ancient pond, mud sediments collected above a fine line of pebbles.

Then an earthquake shifted the land upwards on one side of the vertical fault line. So this layer was originally flat and then, in a subsequent earthquake, it was broken like this along this tiny fracture strand of the San Andreas Fault. But finding proof that this is the site of an ancient earthquake is only part of the story. Hudnut needs to know how long ago it happened. The bare rock layers are no help in dating his find. But just above the fracture line of the rocks, he has found the evidence he needs. Here, a bush was burned by a prehistoric wildfire. And that remnant of carbon is why you see this black stain on the side of the trench wall. The key to unlocking the age of the rocks is carbon-14, known as radiocarbon. Its molecular structure means that carbon-14 is a more unstable isotope than other forms of carbon. It's absorbed by growing plants, then radioactively decays at a known rate after the plant dies. So measuring carbon-14 in vegetation burned in a wildfire reveals how long ago those plants died and dates the rock in which the carbon is found. And through this, we can reconstruct the evidence of the past earthquakes. Radiocarbon dating has proved that earthquakes have been happening along the line of the San Andreas for thousands of years. The particular small earthquake investigated by Hudnut, for example, is around three and a half thousand years old. It happened at a time when the last woolly mammoths were dying out in North America. The investigation moves to an even more remote desert spot, the Carrizo Plain, 160 miles north of Los Angeles. Here lies a dried-up riverbed, which takes an unusual course.

Coming down off the hills, the creek bed takes a sudden, sharp turn to its right. A few hundred feet later, it makes an equally odd 90-degree turn to the left. The creek crossed the line of the San Andreas Fault, but early geologists were mystified. Why did it bend in this way? The scientific pioneers were limited to studies on the ground. Nowadays, Hudnut has an advantage. He can take to the air. The San Andreas Fault, where it cuts through the Carrizo Plain, it almost looks like a scar. And it was caused by repeated earthquakes in the past. Along the long line of hills marking the course of the San Andreas, Hudnut spots the puzzling bends that he's seeking. Oh, if we could swoop along the fault through here, that would be awesome. Oh, there's a great angle. See that right angle offset channel with the elbow in it right there? That's a classic one right there. Hudnut's aerial view of the creek bed shows that the river once flowed straight on across the fault. But little by little, a series of earthquakes along the San Andreas dragged the creek away from its original course. Recreating how the land had moved showed Hudnut that the two parts of the creek had traveled more than 300 feet apart. So if you imagine the North American plate is fixed and the Pacific plate is moving to the Northwest, the Wallace Creek site records that offset because the channel was straight across the fault, but it's been offset through time. Earlier investigators had already radiocarbon dated the land on each side of the fault here, revealing that it took 3,000 years to change the creek's position. So knowing the distance and the time it took to do it, let's Hudnut calculate the average speed with which the two land masses are moving past each other. 300 feet in 3,000 years. One foot per decade. Just over an inch a year. But this was never a steady, sliding, one inch a year movement. The reality was a series of sudden small jumps whenever tension built up enough between the two moving plates to overcome friction between the rocks and rip the land apart with an earthquake. It's an important moment for the investigation. Knowing how fast the land is moving not only reveals the stress that's building up, but also the risk of an earthquake. The San Andreas Fault is giving up its secrets. Clues from a long dried up pond reveal the site of ancient earthquakes. Carbon from a prehistoric fire provides the dates. And bends in a riverbed prove how fast the plates are moving along the San Andreas. But now the investigation has a new mystery to solve. If the land along the San Andreas is moving one inch every year, causing earthquakes, then why has one small town along the fault line never had any? The investigation has discovered how fast the land is stretching and straining along each side of the San Andreas Fault. Which should help establish when that ever increasing stress will snap the land apart in the next major earthquake. But there's a problem. One part of the fault line just doesn't fit the pattern. The small town of Hollister is unique along the San Andreas Fault system. It's never had an earthquake. And the investigation is going to find out why. Hollister has a population of 37,000. And nothing here is quite the way it should be. There are plenty of clues suggesting that the land must be moving here. Sidewalks with cracks in. Curb stones way out of line. And walls that are bent out of shape.

Walking through Hollister, we can see anything that man has built that was laid out in a straight line may have a jog in it. Every year it changes a little bit and it's a progressive thing. The clues add up to one clear conclusion. Even without any earthquakes, the earth in this town in the heart of the San Andreas system still slides imperceptibly slowly and effortlessly along. In one sense, the damage that you see here associated with the creeping is clearly sort of under control. But as a geologist, if you start playing that out for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands or millions of years, the consequences of that become enormous. For many years, the creeping ground that moved without earthquakes remained an unsolved mystery. But then the investigation moved 100 miles south to another small community where the land also creeps along. The village of Parkfield has a population of just 37 people and a bridge which spans right across the San Andreas Fault. The bridge separates the Pacific Plate on one side from the North American Plate on the other. And the bridge railings have started to bend. I'm right now on the Pacific Plate on the west side of the San Andreas Fault. And, you know, the San Andreas comes off the flank of that hill and right across that field, right under the bridge, and then right over by the corner of that building or that fence post, and then on off to Middle Mountain. The movement here around the bridge is strikingly similar to the slow, creeping ground of Hollister. But there is one important difference here in Parkfield. Every couple of decades or so, this village does have earthquakes.

They're just little tremors, but they're big enough to be recorded on earthquake-monitoring seismographs. That's why the village proudly boasts of being the earthquake capital of the world. But it's perhaps more accurately called the earthquake study capital because scientists are fascinated by the fact that earthquakes here follow a predictable pattern. Elsewhere, earthquakes always strike without warning. The toll of death and destruction made worse because nobody knew they were coming. So scientists are desperate for any clues that might help predict when an earthquake could happen. And here in Parkfield, the earthquakes happen with astonishing regularity. On average, every couple of decades or so. Minor quakes happened here in 1857, 1881, 1901, 1922, 1934, and 1966. After the '66 earthquake, investigators set up a network of monitoring instruments to see if the fault gave any warning before the next earthquake arrived. They expected it sometime between 1988 and 1993, but it was late, and months of waiting stretched into years. So the scientists waited until finally in December 2004, the long-awaited earthquake arrived and was caught on film from a now slightly worn and damaged camera. The earthquake movie may not have seemed that impressive, but the instruments collected a mass of information. The data didn't help with earthquake prediction. The data didn't, after all, help with earthquake prediction, but it did pinpoint where the earthquake started underground, which told investigators where to look next. Deep down under the park field countryside, starting slightly to one side of the fault, the aim was to angle in and stab into the very heart of the San Andreas. After three years of drilling, long cores of rock were extracted from the exact spot where the earthquake occurred. This was the first time that team leader geologist Mark Zoback had ever seen rocks from the center of the San Andreas. What we're looking at here are cores from the active San Andreas fault from a depth of about two miles. So for the earth science community, these are like moon rocks.

As we were trying to exhume these cores, we had a great deal of drilling difficulty. The San Andreas fault was literally fighting back. After nine weeks of attempting to recover the cores, in the middle of a huge lightning storm, almost a scene directly out of Hollywood, And with the thunder and lightning, these cores came to the surface. And so it was a tremendous feeling of satisfaction. The lightning and thunder just made it that much more dramatic. And we're all wearing gloves. We didn't want any oil from our fingers to affect the core. And the rule was that you touch the core as little as possible, obviously. I'm not going to wait for you guys. Oh, look at this beautiful rock. The reality was we couldn't help ourselves. And it was just such a remarkable thing to be actually looking at the San Andreas fault for the very first time, though we all got to touch it a little bit. Buried within the rock cores, they found a vital clue about the way that land slips along the San Andreas. They found serpentinite. Serpentinite is an unusual rock type. It was originally formed at the base of the ocean crust and exhumed up onto the continent. But the reason that serpentinite is so interesting is that serpentinite is very easily altered to talc. If it allows the rock to slide at very low force levels, its talcum powder is very slippery. Talc's crystalline structure of soft, sliding, flat plates makes it one of the slipperiest rocks known to science. So talc could well be a key mineral in deciding how the fault is actually working in Central California. We see that the secret of the slipping San Andreas fault is actually the rocks themselves. The talc explains the tiny earthquakes of Parkfield. Nobody's yet drilled to investigate the rocks at Hollister. But scientists suspect the talc is present there, too. Cracks in the walls show the land creeps in Hollister. And a bend in the bridge reveals the same creeping ground in a nearby town. Rock cords extracted from the fault contains serpentinite, leading investigators to the softest and slipperiest mineral, talc, which lubricates some parts of the fault. The investigation is having success, but one crucial question remains to be answered. What will the San Andreas fault do next? The investigation into the San Andreas fault is trying to predict when and where its next major earthquake will strike. So far, the only certain prediction is the far distant future of the San Andreas. What will it look like? Look 20 million years ahead. If the plate movements continue to follow their pattern, Los Angeles will end up becoming a suburb of San Francisco. But predictions on a shorter time scale are more difficult. If you were to ask the question, can we predict earthquakes, my answer would be no, because I know what your question really meant is, you know, can we predict that an earthquake is going to occur on a certain fault at a certain time that we can specify in the future? And we cannot do that. But there are many things we can predict. We can predict which faults are likely to produce the big earthquakes.

We can predict how big the earthquakes are likely to be. And we can even predict the probability of the earthquake occurrence over some period of several decades. Predictions are most crucial where the San Andreas runs to the south of LA. Here in the Coachella Valley desert, geological evidence of earthquakes stretches back 1,500 years and more. And they follow a regular pattern. Major earthquakes strike here with monotonous regularity every 200 years. But the latest one is long overdue. There hasn't been an earthquake here for more than 300 years. that's a concern because parts of the San Andreas fault system run straight from here towards the city of Los Angeles. The faults will transmit earthquake shocks in a straight line towards California's biggest city. Geologist Yuri Fialko regularly monitors how the ground moves on either side of the fault line. He lines up his GPS equipment precisely over a series of metal pegs fixed into the ground. This information is crucial for estimating how fast the fault slips at depths and what is the rate of accumulation of strain in the crust. In other words, how close the crust is brought to failure by slip of the fault at depths. The repeated, ultra-precise measurements reveal that land here, on the surface, hardly moves at all. This is a problem because deep underground, the stresses and strains are still building up. The fault is moving at depths at a fairly high speed. And this deformation is growing and growing and growing with time. Miles underground, the deep fault is moving at more than an inch a year. Miles underground, which tells Fialko that in the centuries since the last quake, the surface should have shifted 300 inches, 25 feet or more. But it hasn't. So sooner or later, something's got to give. And Fialko knows what that something will be. The rocks themselves. And one example is this type of rock, which is called granite. This is, in fact, the rock out of which most of the Earth's crust is made. A microscope reveals the crystalline structure of the granite. The crystals make the rocks tough, but they have a hidden weakness. The bonds between them may suddenly crack under stress. Basically, once this material solidifies, it is able to crack and be sheared on the fault surface.

And the brittle behavior of these rocks is what lies behind the physics of first quakes. Granite rocks underlie all of the San Andreas Fault. But right here, the rocks under greater stress than anywhere else, because it's so many centuries since a major quake occurred. And now we're over the 300-year limit. And so it means that the strain, the amount of strain that has been accumulated on the fault at this point is very close to the maximum strain that this fault has ever seen through its geologic record. And this is a fault that is capable of generating great destructive earthquakes. narrator: Fialco believes the coming quake could be the big one that people have been talking about for years. And the effects could be horrific because of the population density of Southern California. When the last huge quake occurred 300 years ago, Los Angeles was just a tiny Spanish mission community with fewer than 100 people. Now it's America's second largest city, with almost 11 million people living in the earthquake-vulnerable metropolitan area. People who live in California probably experience a small or moderate-sized earthquake every year. Few things moving in your house, but it's really actually kind of fun. There is no major destruction.

People just go on with their life. Much bigger events, on the other hand, are quite a bit different story. narrator: With the threat to Los Angeles becoming ever clearer, the investigation is nearing its conclusion. Data from repeated GPS measurements in the desert reveal evidence that stress is building up. While examination of the rocks of the crust show they may not take the strain for much longer. All the evidence points towards a potentially huge earthquake building up in Southern California. And new experiments suggest the coming quake could be far worse than anyone had ever imagined. There is new urgency in the investigation into the San Andreas Fault, as revealed by recent evidence compiled by 300 of America's most respected scientists. They warned that Los Angeles will be devastated if a major quake strikes along the southern section of the fault line. While there hasn't been a major quake for hundreds of years, even small ones can still be deadly. Like the Northridge earthquake, which struck this LA suburb in 1994. Rupturing along an offshoot of the main San Andreas Fault, the quake was only a magnitude 6.7, considered moderate on the scale of earthquake measurement. They still killed 72 people and injured 12,000 more. And new evidence suggests Mother Nature might have a lot more in store for Los Angeles. Scientists have long known that earthquakes generate several distinct sets of waves. They travel at different speeds, each spreading damage and destruction out from the epicenter. Modern city buildings in earthquake-prone areas like California are engineered to cope with such waves.

Now, new research by geophysicist Professor Ares Rosakis suggests that the San Andreas may offer a new and even more deadly threat. Rosakis researches how earthquakes rupture along straight line faults, just like the San Andreas, where it approaches Los Angeles. He creates his own mini earthquakes, representing the San Andreas Fault by a hairline crack in a thick, transparent block. This special material shows up internal stress lines when it's lit by a laser. And the earthquake is triggered by a tiny explosion. Three, two, one, zero. The load has dropped. And the explosion was big enough that we even have a crack. An ultra-high-speed camera capturing 10 million frames a second reveals a startling and newly discovered phenomenon. This frozen picture reveals stress lines speeding along the mini San Andreas in the milliseconds after the explosion. The cone to the left of this frame is a previously unrecognized type of shockwave racing along the rupture line from the earthquake center. On a microscopic scale, it looks and moves exactly like the sonic boom produced when a supersonic aircraft such as Concorde breaks the sound barrier. The danger comes because we also see muck cones, lines that are emitted from the rapture tips as from the tips of moving airplanes. And just like a sonic boom, it can be dangerous. In the same sense that we hear the sonic boom from the Concorde, you're going to feel the sonic boom from the rapture. The danger comes because many high-rises just aren't built to cope with extra stress from this newly discovered type of shockwave. So if you are an old building, for example, you will shake one wave, you will accumulate some damage, and very soon after that, you will get very strong ground shaking because of other types of waves coming also. The high-speed ruptures that Rosakis calls super-shear happen where faults run in a straight line. Which might help explain a 100-year-old mystery surrounding the Great San Francisco quake, the natural disaster which launched the entire San Andreas investigation. The overwhelming damage in San Francisco has long seemed surprisingly out of proportion to the 7.8 magnitude of the quake. And there's a particularly straight section of the San Andreas approaching San Francisco. So many scientists now believe that the damage was greater than expected because the 1906 quake had travelled at super-shear speed. Of greater concern to modern emergency services is not what happened a century ago, but what could happen tomorrow. Because there is a similar straight section of faulted ground heading straight towards Los Angeles. And if a super-shear earthquake develops on that line, then the consequences could be disastrous. All of the investigation's warnings about the San Andreas came together in the fall of 2008, with the biggest earthquake drill ever held in California. If this earthquake would have happened in reality, there would have been buildings coming down, we know that there would be no water now in certain areas. So that's what this exercise is all about. But what are the real chances of Los Angeles soon being hit by a massive earthquake? Frighteningly, the best scientific consensus now warns that there's a 99% chance of a major quake in Southern California within the next 30 years. To better understand the threat to LA, the geologists produced their study jointly with experts in charge of the city's disaster planning. And none of them doubt that the big quake is coming. It really isn't even a question of "if" anymore. The shaking is going to be severe for two to three minutes. And then it's going to stop. And then you're going to have that moment of silence that often happens before you start hearing the car alarms and all those other sounds that you have in a disaster like this. The study estimates that a major earthquake in the L.A. Metro area would cause 2,000 deaths, 50,000 injuries, and $200 billion of damage. You're going to have conflagrations developing. Tens of blocks will be on fire. The water lines have ruptured. There is no water coming out of the fire hydrant. That's the kind of nightmare scenario that we're looking at. This specter of disaster to California's people and cities motivates the search to unravel the secrets of the San Andreas Fault. All the evidence is finally in. The damage reports from the 1906 disaster show the fault's 800-mile path. The different types of rock at Mussel Rock provide clues to how the fault was created 20 million years ago. The river bends prove how fast the land is moving. The mineral talp explains why some parts slip without major quakes. The brittle granite rocks reveal a threat to Los Angeles. And recent lab experiments uncover new and more dangerous earthquake shockwaves. But one goal has eluded the rock detectives who study the greatest fault line on Earth. When will the sleeping San Andreas come to life once again? It could be any time. The only certainty is that nothing is certain in the ever-evolving story of how the Earth was made. It could be any time for it. It could be any time for it. It could be any time for it. It could be any time for it. It could be any time for it. It could be any time for it. Earth, a 4.5 billion-year-old planet, still evolving.

As continents shift and clash, volcanoes erupt, and glaciers grow and recede, the Earth's crust is carved in numerous and fascinating ways, leaving a trail of geological mysteries behind. In this episode, the Marianas Trench, the deepest point on Earth, is explored. Its sheer walls cut seven miles into the Pacific Ocean. The mystery of what created this deep, dark chasm takes science detectives on some of the most dangerous dives ever attempted, deep into the abyss. Scouring the ocean floor, scientists uncover a strange undersea world of fiery mountains, bizarre mud volcanoes, and the largest geological structure on Earth. Discoveries from this unique underwater world will revolutionize our understanding of the powerful forces that shape not just the trench, but the Earth itself. Hidden deep beneath the waves of the Western Pacific lies the Marianas Trench, the deepest point of all the oceans. The first step on the journey of what created this mysterious scar in the Earth's crust, and how it continues to mold the planet, takes us back to 1872, when a British research vessel, HMS Challenger, set out on the first ever mission to map the ocean floor. Throughout most recorded history, men had just assumed that beyond a certain level, the sea was pretty flat, pretty dead, fairly lifeless. They weren't expecting to find anything very interesting. For four years, the Challenger crisscrossed the oceans, covering 70,000 miles, a third of the distance to the moon. The crew plumbed the depths every 140 miles, using a total of 249 miles of rope and hundreds of pounds of lead weight. It was tedious, back-breaking work, but at the time it was the only way to measure the depth of the ocean floor. When they got to the Western Pacific, 200 miles off the island of Guam, the crew routinely lowered the rope for a measurement. But the weight kept on dropping and dropping. It's a big surprise. Nobody thought the ocean was this deep. So, all of a sudden, we've got scientists saying, "Why is that?" The scientists would be going, "Wow, we've found something. And what does it mean?"

"Is it a little hole? Is it a big hole? What kind of feature is it down there?" There's a whole lot of questions you get when you find this one spectacular reading. The Challenger expedition marked the birth of modern oceanography and provided the first crude map of the ocean floor. It showed how the ocean floor gently slopes away from the land and then plummets thousands of feet into vast, flat plains. But the Western Pacific is different. It drops off again into the five-mile deep hole, a hole that blew right out of the water the long-held belief that the sea floor was flat and featureless. And it spawned a mystery, because nobody could understand how this strange underwater feature came about. It would be 75 years before any answers emerged. It took a revolutionary new technology, sonar, to push the investigation forward to the next crucial stage. Sonar was first developed in the early 1900s and then perfected during the 1940s to detect submarines lurking in the deep. The system works by pumping sound waves through the water. The waves bounce off solid objects and are reflected back to a detector. By measuring the time it takes for the sound waves to bounce back, scientists realized they could build a remarkably accurate picture of the world beneath the waves. The world's major navy spend a lot of time and effort developing submarine hunting technology. Then the hydrographers discover that you can use this to chart the bottom of the sea. And it's an awful lot cheaper and easier than using a large number of sailors pulling on ropes. In 1951, a British Navy research ship returned to the deep hole found by the Challenger expedition. But this time they were armed with sophisticated new sonar equipment. And the results were amazing. Detailed sonar maps revealed that the deep hole in the Pacific Ocean floor isn't a hole at all, but part of a massive trench, 30 times deeper than the Empire State Building is high. It runs twice the length of California, 1500 miles from the southeast of Guam to the northwest of the Mariana Islands. People were probably astounded by what they were seeing because clearly the ocean floor had enormous changes in relief, was very mountainous in some places, had great deeps in other places. To a geologist, this would be extremely exciting. Even within the trench itself, there are remarkable variations. At its southern end lies the greatest surprise of all.

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