Stephen Hawking's Universe
Season 1
1997 • 6 Episodes
Episodes
1. Seeing is Believing
August 31, 1997
Where did we come from? The history of cosmology from flat earth to Big Bang: Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Edwin Hubble.
2. The Big Bang
September 7, 1997
Did the universe have a beginning? The Steady-State theory vs. The Big Bang, Albert Einstein, Georges Lemaître, Fred Hoyle, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, cosmic background radiation.
3. Cosmic Alchemy
September 14, 1997
What is the universe and everything in it made of? The creation of matter, the building up of elements in stars.
4. On the Dark Side
September 21, 1997
What is the destiny of the universe? Dark matter, WIMPS, MACHOS, neutrinos.
5. Black Holes and Beyond
September 28, 1997
Are black holes real? Ultraluminous quasars and supermassive black holes, wormholes, and singularities.
6. An Answer to Everything
October 5, 1997
Is there a theory that will encompass everything in the known universe? Inflation theory, quantum mechanics, string theory.