Stephen Hawking's Universe - Series (1997)
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Category: Science: Physics
6-part documentary series from arguably the greatest scientific mind in the world, the wheelchair-bound Stephen Hawking, which describes all current thinking on the Big Bang, origins of the universe, dark matter, black holes, etc. Includes interviews with leading astronomers and scientists, some commentary from the great man himself, and computer models of the theories.
S01E01 - Seeing is Believing
(31 August 1997)
Where did we come from? The history of cosmology from flat earth to Big Bang, Eratosthenes and Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Edwin Hubble.
Thinking that we are at the center of the universe becomes a natural assumption, though it’s our remarkable ability to reach beyond these obvious conclusions that has opened our eyes to the real universe.
The idea that the earth’s surface was flat remained part of popular consciousness even at the time of Christopher Columbus, but the Greeks proved that the earth is round more than 4000 years ago. This first step away from the most simplistic view of the universe came thanks to the great philosopher Aristotle, who in the 4th century B.C. cited several arguments for why the Earth had to be a sphere.
S01E02 - In the Beginning
(7 September 1997)
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.
A scant 100 years ago, at the dawn of the 20th century, most scientists felt they knew how the universe began. Or, to be more precise, they felt that the universe had never really begun. To them the universe had just always been landscape on which time stretched infinitely into the past and would extend forever into the future. The story of 20th-century cosmology has been the realization that this view is flawed, that the universe really did have a beginning.
S01E03 - Cosmic Alchemy
(14 September 1997)
What is the universe and everything in it made of? The creation of matter, the building up of elements in stars. Out of the white-hot heat of the Big Bang arose everything that exists in the universe today.
The long road that leads from this ultra-dense soup of elementary particles and radiation to atoms, stars, planets, and life becomes one of the central paths in cosmologists efforts to understand how the universe is put together. Ironically, the physicists who unravelled the structure of the atom paved the way for those who ultimately figured out how the atoms themselves came to be.
S01E04 - On the Dark Side
(21 September 1997)
Within this series Steven Hawking explains the complexities of the Universe and the wonder within it. What is the destiny of the universe? Dark matter, WIMPS, MACHOS, neutrinos. What governs the final destiny of the cosmos?
All the matter in the universe exerts a gravitational tug that tries to pull the galaxies back together again. But the universe is expanding rapidly, so it will take an awful lot of mass to halt the expansion. It’s like trying to launch a spacecraft from the surface of Earth.
S01E05 - Black Holes and Beyond
(28 September 1997)
Within this series Steven Hawking explains the complexities of the Universe and the wonder within it. At the heart of general relativity-the theory that best describes the structure and evolution of our universe-lurks a tiny problem. A very tiny problem.
For in the intricacies of the theory lies the possibility of a region of space-time so unimaginably small and so incredibly bizarre that the theory ceases to work. Yet this region, known as a singularity, apparently describes the state of the universe when it was born.
S01E06 - An Answer to Everything
(5 October 1997)
Within this series Steven Hawking explains the complexities of the Universe and the wonder within it. Is there a theory that will encompass everything in the known universe? Inflation theory, quantum mechanics, string theory.
Einsteins general theory of relativity does a brilliant job of describing the universe we see. Whether describing planets orbiting the Sun, light bending as it passes a massive object, or the large-scale structure of the universe, general relativity performs beautifully. It even predicted that the universe was expanding well before skeptical scientists (including Einstein himself) were convinced by observations.
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