Season 1
Episodes
1. Seeing is Believing
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.
2. The Big Bang
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.
3. Cosmic Alchemy
1997-09-14
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
1997-09-21
What is the destiny of the universe? Dark matter, WIMPS, MACHOS, neutrinos.
5. Black Holes and Beyond
1997-09-28
Are black holes real? Ultraluminous quasars and supermassive black holes, wormholes, and singularities.
6. An Answer to Everything
1997-10-05
Is there a theory that will encompass everything in the known universe? Inflation theory, quantum mechanics, string theory.