
Episodes List

Ep.1 Seeing is Believing
Air Date: 1997-08-31
Where did we come from? The history of cosmology from flat earth to Big Bang: Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Edwin Hubble.

Ep.2 The Big Bang
Air Date: 1997-09-07
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.

Ep.3 Cosmic Alchemy
Air Date: 1997-09-14
What is the universe and everything in it made of? The creation of matter, the building up of elements in stars.

Ep.4 On the Dark Side
Air Date: 1997-09-21
What is the destiny of the universe? Dark matter, WIMPS, MACHOS, neutrinos.

Ep.5 Black Holes and Beyond
Air Date: 1997-09-28
Are black holes real? Ultraluminous quasars and supermassive black holes, wormholes, and singularities.

Ep.6 An Answer to Everything
Air Date: 1997-10-05
Is there a theory that will encompass everything in the known universe? Inflation theory, quantum mechanics, string theory.