- Created By
- First Aired on
Aug 31, 1997
- Popularity: 6.7649
- 5 votes
- Networks
- (GB)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
1 seaons till Oct 05, 1997
Last episode: An Answer to Everything
Seasons & episodes
Total 1 seasons, 6 episodes
Season 1
Aired
6 Episodes
Episode 1Seeing is Believing49 min
Where did we come from? The history of cosmology from flat earth to Big Bang: Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Edwin Hubble.
Episode 2The Big Bang49 min
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.
Episode 3Cosmic Alchemy49 min
What is the universe and everything in it made of? The creation of matter, the building up of elements in stars.
Episode 4On the Dark Side49 min
What is the destiny of the universe? Dark matter, WIMPS, MACHOS, neutrinos.
Episode 5Black Holes and Beyond49 min
Are black holes real? Ultraluminous quasars and supermassive black holes, wormholes, and singularities.
