Stephen Hawking's Universe

  • Premiered: Aug 1997
  • Episodes: 6
  • Followers: 4
  • Ended
  • BBC Two
  • Unknown
  • Documentary

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Season 1
1x1
Seeing is Believing
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 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.
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The Big Bang
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 07, 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.
1x3
Cosmic Alchemy
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 14, 1997
What is the universe and everything in it made of? The creation of matter, the building up of elements in stars.
1x4
On the Dark Side
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 21, 1997
What is the destiny of the universe? Dark matter, WIMPS, MACHOS, neutrinos.
1x5
Black Holes and Beyond
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 28, 1997
Are black holes real? Ultraluminous quasars and supermassive black holes, wormholes, and singularities.
1x6 Show finale
An Answer to Everything
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 05, 1997
Is there a theory that will encompass everything in the known universe? Inflation theory, quantum mechanics, string theory.

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