All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Seeing is Believing

    • August 31, 1997
    • BBC Two

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

  • S01E02 The Big Bang

    • September 7, 1997
    • BBC Two

    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.

  • S01E03 Cosmic Alchemy

    • September 14, 1997
    • BBC Two

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

  • S01E04 On the Dark Side

    • September 21, 1997
    • BBC Two

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

  • S01E05 Black Holes and Beyond

    • September 28, 1997
    • BBC Two

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

  • S01E06 An Answer to Everything

    • October 5, 1997
    • BBC Two

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

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