The story of the cosmosits beginning and its changes through timehas been a topic
of much speculation and myth. It also has attracted intense attention from scientists. There are many
questions about the universe's size, stability, growth, and its ultimate cause. This presentation also
addresses such colorful cosmic topics as red shifts, white dwarfs, black holes, super strings, and the
"big bang".

The Science and Discovery series recreates one of history's most successful journeysfour thousand
years of scientific efforts to better understand and control the physical world. Science has often challenged
and upset conventional wisdom or accepted practices; this is a story of vested interests and independent
thinkers, experiments and theories, change and progress. Aristotle, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton,
Darwin, Einstein, and many others are featured.

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