This award-winning 13-part series, produced by Films for the Humanities and Sciences, serves as a virtual tour of our solar system and the wider universe. The Complete Cosmos series offers an expert glimpse at a wide variety of topics ripe with scientific relevance. Each 20-minute episode is packed with images of our neighboring planets and beyond. In The Complete Cosmos: The Expanding Universe: From Big Bang to Big Crunch the often contentious, widely accepted theory of the Big Bang is explored in informative detail. Evidence that the universe is still expanding is presented by astronomers and physicists whose theories often require as much a leap of faith as required by religion. Does the acceptance of the mathematics of the Big Bang require the acceptance of the theory that at some point the energy released by the Big Bang will expire, leading to what has been termed the Big Crunch? These important questions are explored.
by Sean Hurley
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