Stephen Hawking's Universe
1997 · 1 season · 6 episodes · Ended · BBC Two
Documentary
TMDB 5.8 · 9 votes
A six-part astronomical documentary series featuring the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
Episodes
- S01E01Seeing is Believing1997-08-3149m
Where did we come from? The history of cosmology from flat earth to Big Bang: Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Edwin Hubble.
- S01E02The Big Bang1997-09-0749m
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.
- S01E03Cosmic Alchemy1997-09-1449m
What is the universe and everything in it made of? The creation of matter, the building up of elements in stars.
- S01E05On the Dark Side1997-09-2849m
What is the destiny of the universe? Dark matter, WIMPS, MACHOS, neutrinos.
- S01E04Black Holes and Beyond1997-09-2149m
Are black holes real? Ultraluminous quasars and supermassive black holes, wormholes, and singularities.
- S01E06An Answer to Everything1997-10-0549m
Is there a theory that will encompass everything in the known universe? Inflation theory, quantum mechanics, string theory.
