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  • 1997-08-30T23:00:00Z
  • 6h
  • 1d 12h (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
A six-part astronomical documentary series featuring the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

6 episodes

Series Premiere

1997-08-30T23:00:00Z

1x01 Seeing is Believing

Series Premiere

1x01 Seeing is Believing

  • 1997-08-30T23:00:00Z6h

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

1997-09-06T23:00:00Z

1x02 The Big Bang

1x02 The Big Bang

  • 1997-09-06T23:00:00Z6h

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.

1997-09-13T23:00:00Z

1x03 Cosmic Alchemy

1x03 Cosmic Alchemy

  • 1997-09-13T23:00:00Z6h

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

1997-09-20T23:00:00Z

1x04 On the Dark Side

1x04 On the Dark Side

  • 1997-09-20T23:00:00Z6h

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

1997-09-27T23:00:00Z

1x05 Black Holes and Beyond

1x05 Black Holes and Beyond

  • 1997-09-27T23:00:00Z6h

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

Season Finale

1997-10-04T23:00:00Z

1x06 An Answer to Everything

Season Finale

1x06 An Answer to Everything

  • 1997-10-04T23:00:00Z6h

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

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