• Air date: 31 Aug '97 6 episodes
      A six-part astronomical documentary series featuring the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
  • List of Episodes (6)
    • 1. Seeing is Believing

      31 Aug '97
      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

      07 Sep '97
      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

      14 Sep '97
      What is the universe and everything in it made of? The creation of matter, the building up of elements in stars.
    • 4. On the Dark Side

      21 Sep '97
      What is the destiny of the universe? Dark matter, WIMPS, MACHOS, neutrinos.
    • 5. Black Holes and Beyond

      28 Sep '97
      Are black holes real? Ultraluminous quasars and supermassive black holes, wormholes, and singularities.
    • 6. An Answer to Everything

      05 Oct '97
      Is there a theory that will encompass everything in the known universe? Inflation theory, quantum mechanics, string theory.