Season 1

1. Seeing is Believing

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.

2. The Big Bang

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.

3. Cosmic Alchemy

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.

5. On the Dark Side

1997-09-28 · 49m

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

4. Black Holes and Beyond

1997-09-21 · 49m

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

6. An Answer to Everything

1997-10-05 · 49m

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