Stephen Hawking's Universe. [5-6]
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Originally produced for PBS television program Stephen Hawking's universe in 1997.
Narrator: Frank Langella.
Program 5: Discusses Hawking's specialty, black holes. With the invention of radio astronomy over 50 years ago many astronomical discoveries came to light including ultraluminous quasars, wormholes, black holes and singularities. Such discoveries seem to allow for the possibility of instant travel over millions of miles of space or even time travel and have led to SETI -- the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence -- looking for stray alien communications.
Program 6: We now know the universe had a beginning and how all the matter formed but there is still one outstanding question: how did the Big Bang begin? Stephen Hawking is joined by other leading scientists as they try to answer this question. Includes discussions of inflation theory, quantum mechanics and string theory.
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Stephen Hawking's universe (Television program)
PUBLISHED
Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2000.
Year Published: 2000
Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Hawking, Stephen, 1942-
Filkin, David.
Martin, Philip.
Langella, Frank.
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Uden Associates.
David Filkin Enterprises.
British Broadcasting Corporation.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Warner Home Video (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Hawking, S. W. -- Views on cosmology.
Cosmology.
Black holes (Astronomy)
Quasars.
Naked singularities (Cosmology)
Astrophysics.
Life on other planets.
Time travel.
Unified field theories.
Superstring theories.
Inflationary universe.
Quantum theory.