Stephen Hawking's Universe

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  E1

  Seeing is Believing

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

  1997-08-31 · 49m
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  E2

  The Big Bang

  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.

  1997-09-07 · 49m
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  E3

  Cosmic Alchemy

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

  1997-09-14 · 49m
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  E5

  On the Dark Side

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

  1997-09-28 · 49m
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  E4

  Black Holes and Beyond

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

  1997-09-21 · 49m
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  E6

  An Answer to Everything

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

  1997-10-05 · 49m
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Top cast

Stephen Hawking

Jeff Rawle

Narrator