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Seeing is Believing

Episode number: 1

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

The Big Bang

Episode number: 2

Overview: 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.

Cosmic Alchemy

Episode number: 3

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

On the Dark Side

Episode number: 4

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

Black Holes and Beyond

Episode number: 5

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

An Answer to Everything

Episode number: 6

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