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Summary:

This collector's set spins an enthralling intergalactic detective story, rich with mystery, unexpected twists and astonishing revelations.
Seeing is believing. Today we take for granted many things about the universe -- that the Earth is round, that we orbit the sun. But these things are not obvious -- our knowledge today is built on the foundations laid down by thousands of years of scientific inquiry and ingenuity. This program explores mathematics and how it revolutionized our view of the Universe. Recollect Ptolemy's theory of the motion of the planets, moon and sun; Newton's picture of the universe with everything governed by gravity; Einstein's revolutionized theory of physics; and Edwin Hubble's invention of the telescope that saw the expansion of the universe.
The big bang. Our sun at the center of our solar system is just one star among billions in the Milky Way galaxy. Around us are billions and billions of other galaxies. Where could this entire universe come from? Was it always this way or did the universe have a beginning? The church has always believed that the universe came from a moment of creation-- a time when the universe began. Meanwhile, scientists developed two theories: the Big Bang and the Steady State theories. In this century, science has come to understand how the universe began from a tiny point, fifteen billions year ago. No matter how incredible it sounds, it seems that the church's ideas of moment of creation were right from the beginning.

Table of Contents:

• Seeing is believing
• Big bang.

Contributors:

Hawking, Stephen, 1942-2018

PBS Home Video

Paramount Home Video (Firm)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.
Closed-captioned.

Other Related Resources:

Other format: Stephen Hawkings Universe

Subjects:

Cosmology

Big bang theory

Expanding universe

Celestial mechanics

Genres:

Motion pictures

Educational films

Video recordings for the hearing impaired

System Details:

DVD, region 1, full screen presentation, region 1; Dolby surround stereo.

General Notes:

Title from container.
Originally broadcast on PBS in 1997.
(Copy 2) Gift: Bequest of Joe Morris, November 2013.

Audience:

MPAA rating: Not rated.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; polychrome

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical

Digital Characteristics:

video file; DVD video; region 1

Call Numbers:

QB991.B54 STE 1997 DVD v.1

ISBNs:

1415702357 (set)
9781415702352 (set)

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 097368857049
Publisher Number, Paramount Home Video (set): 88570

OCLC Numbers:

60381217