A six-part astronomical documentary series featuring the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
S1E1 · 1997-08-31 · 49m
Where did we come from? The history of cosmology from flat earth to Big Bang: Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Edwin Hubble.
S1E2 · 1997-09-07 · 49m
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.
S1E3 · 1997-09-14 · 49m
What is the universe and everything in it made of? The creation of matter, the building up of elements in stars.
S1E5 · 1997-09-28 · 49m
What is the destiny of the universe? Dark matter, WIMPS, MACHOS, neutrinos.
S1E4 · 1997-09-21 · 49m
Are black holes real? Ultraluminous quasars and supermassive black holes, wormholes, and singularities.
S1E6 · 1997-10-05 · 49m
Is there a theory that will encompass everything in the known universe? Inflation theory, quantum mechanics, string theory.
Stephen Hawking
Jeff Rawle
Narrator