Stephen Hawking's Universe

Season 1

1997 · 6 episodes · 4h 54m in all

Episodes

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   1. Seeing is Believing

   31 Aug 1997 · 49 min

   Where did we come from? The history of cosmology from flat earth to Big Bang: Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Edwin Hubble.

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   2. The Big Bang

   7 Sept 1997 · 49 min

   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.

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   3. Cosmic Alchemy

   14 Sept 1997 · 49 min

   What is the universe and everything in it made of? The creation of matter, the building up of elements in stars.

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   4. Black Holes and Beyond

   21 Sept 1997 · 49 min

   Are black holes real? Ultraluminous quasars and supermassive black holes, wormholes, and singularities.

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   5. On the Dark Side

   28 Sept 1997 · 49 min

   What is the destiny of the universe? Dark matter, WIMPS, MACHOS, neutrinos.

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   6. An Answer to Everything

   5 Oct 1997 · 49 min

   Is there a theory that will encompass everything in the known universe? Inflation theory, quantum mechanics, string theory.