References
Books
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time – From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Bantam Press, London 1988.
Stephen Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell, Bantam Press, London, 2001.
Stephen Hawking, On the Shoulders of Giants – The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy, Penguin, London, 2002.
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design, Bantam Press, London, 2010.
Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, John Murray, London, 2018.
Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe – Superstrings, Higher Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, Vintage, Great Britain, 2000.
Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos, Penguin Books, London, 2005.
Brian Greene, The Hidden Reality – Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2011
Tony Hey and Patrick Walters, The New Quantum Universe, Cambridge 2003.
Edward J Weiler, Hubble – A Journey through Space and Time, Abrams, New York
Marcelo Gleiser, Imperfect Creation, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2010
Paul Davies, The Mind of God, First published 1992, Penguin Australia, Marlborough, Victoria, 2010
A.F. Chalmers, What is this thing called Science? 3rd ed, Hackett, Cambridge. 1999.
David Christian, Maps of Time, An Introduction to Big History, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2011.
Stuart Firestein, Ignorance – How it drives Science, Oxford, New York, 1912.
Robert P. Crease, The Great Equations – Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg, Norton, New York, 2008.
Michael Guillen, Five Equations that changed the world, Hyperion, New York, 1995.
Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing – Why there is something from Nothing, Free Press, New York, 2012.
Adam Hart-Davis (ed), Science- The Definitive Visual Guide, DK, London, 2009.
Vlatko Vedral, Decoding Reality – The Universe as Quantum Information, Oxfor University Press, New York, 2010.
Frank Close, Nothing, A Very Short Introduction, OUP, 2009.
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Broadway Books, 2003
Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II, A Brief History of Creation, Norton, New York, 2016
David Wootton, The Invention of Science - A New History of the Scientific Revolution, HarperCollins, New York, 2016.
John Farrell, The Day Without Yesterday - Lemaître, Einstein and the Birth of Modern Cosmology, Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 2005.
James Gleick, Genius - Richard Feynman and Modern Physics, Little, Brown and Company, London, 1992.
Gavin Hesketh, The Particle Zoo - The Search for the Fundamental Nature of Reality, Hachette, London, 2016.
Carlos I, Calle, Einstein For Dummies. Wiley, 2005. Kindle Edition.
JP McEvoy, Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide, Icon Books Ltd. Kindle Edition
Newspaper and journal articles
“Honouring our own Einstein – relatively”: The Age, July 31, 2005
‘Universe’s big secret – where there’s a wiggle, there’s a way’, SMH 13, Jan 2005.
‘When the universe was just a bub, it looked like this’, SMH, 25-26 May 2002.
“Galaxy Hunters – the search for cosmic dawn”, National Geographic, Ron Cowan, Feb 2003, 2.
‘A glimpse back in time and space’, SMH, 7 Jan 2010.
‘It’s cool, it’s a gas, it’s the birthplace of the stars’, SMH, 11 Nov 2005.
‘Astronomers spot ‘super-earth’ 80 light years away’, SMH, 9 Jan 2010.
‘Hawking changes his mind on black holes’, MSNBC website, 16 July 2004.
‘Black holes turned ‘inside out’’, BBC News, 19 Sep 2004.
‘Meet the Indian who took on Stephen Hawking’, in.rediff.com/news/2004/aug/03hole.htm, 19 Sep 2004.
Deborah Smith, ‘My brilliant idea’, SMH, 16-17 Apr 2005 (Newspaper article summarising Einstein’s achievements and commemorating 100 years since his annus mirabilis:
‘Dark matter proved to be more than a theory’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 Aug 06.
‘Heart of the Milky Way is no place like home’, SMH, 11 Oct 2004.
‘Dust to dust: what survives the death of a solar system’, SMH, 13 Jan 2006.
‘Brief history, big future for Chinese science’, SMH 21 June 2006. (On Stpehen Hawking)
‘Celestial scoop: best sky photos ever’, SMH, 12-13 Sept 2009.
‘Nobel-winning physicist followed in father’s footsteps; (obituary of Aage Bohr, son of Niels Bohr), SMH, 14 Sept 2009.
‘The right comet chemistry points to life throughout the universe’, SMH, 20 Aug 2009.
‘NASA’s space oddity: a fluffy foam planet’, SMH, 6 Jan 2020.
‘Small glimpse led to massive new vision’ (on Galileo), SMH, 13 Aug 2009.
‘Scientists get together to probe holes in our material world’, SMH, 1 July 2005.
‘Buffy grabs the spotlight’, concerning a newly found rock found in the Kuiper Belt (the flock of object’s beyond Neptune’s orbit, believed to be left over rubble from the Solar System’s building phase), SMH, 2005.
‘Stargazing that led to a Nobel Prize’ (obituary of Raymond Davis, 1914-2006), SMH 2006.
‘Fiction turned fact – it’s just a matter of antimatter’, SMH, 5-6 Feb 2005
“Particle smasher heads for collision course”, SMH, 30 March 2010. See also Telegraph, London, 31 March 2010.
“Pluto’s reputation further dwarfed”, SMH, 12 April 2010.
“Watch this space: a 20-year gaze”, SMH, 15 April 2010.
“2010 space odyssey: vision of a star nursery 7500 light years away”, Sun-Herald, 25 April 2010
“Physicist advanced medical imaging”, SMH obituary, 26 April 2010 (on Robert Pound, who showed that gravity can change the frequency of light, as predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity).
“Exploding star rattles us right to our bones”, SMH, 21 May 2010.
“Hubble catches planet being devoured by its star”, SMH, 26 May 2010.
“We can’t know everything”, SMH 23 September 2010 (on Stephen Hawking’s new book The Grand Design).
SMH Cosmic Sleuths series:
“From the Big Bang to the Big Rip”. SMH. 14 September 2010 (on whether dark energy is the repulsive force driving the universe’s expansion).
“Hunt for clues to a universal mystery”, SMH. 15 September 2010 (on the search for gravitational waves).
“Dark matter discovery hopes raised at US mine”, SMH. 16 September 2010
“Science students get stars in their eyes”, The Washington Post, 5 October 2010 (on the discovery of pulsars).
“Galaxy may have gobs of Earth-size planets”, The Washington Post, 29 October 2010.
“The quantum time machine”, Justin Mullins, New Scientist, 20 November 2010, pp 35-37
The Standard Model of Particle Physics, A simplified summary by Ben Best: http://www.benbest.com/science/standard.html
“Goldilocks Black Holes”, Scientific American, January 2012, Jenny E. Greene, 28-35.
“The Quantum Universe – Is space digital - Could foamlike fluctuations rule spacetime at the tiniest scales?”, Scientific American, February 2012, Michael Moyer, 20- 27.
“Waiting for the Higgs”, Tim Folger, Scientific American, October 2011, 58-63 at 61-62.
“Quintessential Universe”, Scientific American, January 2001 by Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Paul J. Steinhardt: http://dhushara.freehosting.net/book/upd/aug201/cos4.htm.
John C. Baez and John Harris, “The strangest numbers in String Theory”, Scientific American, May 2011, 46-49.
Frank Wilczek, “Happy Birthday, Electron”, Scientific American, June 2012, 11.
“The far, far future of stars”, Donald Goldsmith, New Scientist, 26 at 32-33.
“About time: Countdown to the Theory of Everything”, Amanda Gefter, New Scientist, 10 October 2011.
Lisa Grossman, “A curious case of missing darkness”, New Scientist, 28 April 2012, 6.
“About time: Countdown to the Theory of Everything”, Amanda Gefter, New Scientist, 10 October 2011.
“Telescope takes hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy on a plane”, SMH, 15 June 2012, (reproduced from Agence France-Presse).
Background Radiation, Deborah Smith, ‘My brilliant idea’, SMH, 16-17 Apr 2005, Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopaedia, 2009, contributed by Jay M. Pasachoff.
‘Cosmic cannibals and massive black holes’, Optus website, 4 Sep 2009.
Michael S Turner, “Origin of the Universe”, Scientific American: Special Collector’s Edition: Extreme Physics, Probing the Mysteries of the Cosmos, August 2013, 37
Sundry other articles from Scientific American and New Scientist, 2011 to 2019, as referred to in the body of the text.
Exhibitions and Courses
From Earth to the Universe, Power House Museum exhibition, Sydney, Sept 11 2009 – 30 May 2010.
CCE course, Sydney University Physics Department, Dr Helen Johnston, Origins: From the Big Bang to Life, March 2011 (CCE, Origins).
CCE course, Sydney University: Stephen Hawking: The Grand Design, Presenter: Assoc Professor Ray Younis, 6 August 2011
CCE courses, Sydney University: Philosophy for Science I: The Language and Logic of Science; II: What must the world be like; III: Bodies in Motion – Classical Physics from Democritus to Einstein; IV: Where Classical Physics ends and Quantum Mechanics begins. Presenter: Tibor G. Molnar, March to December 2011.
David Christian, From Vodka to Aliens – Big History and the Big History Project, Macquarie University Colloquium Series, 24 May 2012 (reproduced on YouTube).
David Christian, The history of our world in 18 minutes, TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqc9zX04DXs
David Christian, Big History Project: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/chapters/1#intro
Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, USA - sections on the Origins of the Universe and the Origins of Life on Earth, August 2015.
Science Museum London's Large Hadron Collider Exhibition, on display at the Powerhouse, Museum, Sydney, August - October 2016.
Honorary Associate Professor Michael Box, What are Atoms made of? WEA course, Sydney, 26 October - 30 November 2016.
Documentaries, DVDs, television and Internet productions
Genius, National Geographic presentation on Einstein's life and ideas in ten episodes, trailers at http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/genius/
The Elegant Universe, presented by Brian Greene, WGBH Educational Foundation, Madman 2003.
Hubble, 15 years of discovery, Astrovisuals in conjunction with ESA, 2005
The Universe, All the latest discoveries about the Cosmos, Astrovisuals in conjunction with ESA
The new solar system, All the latest discoveries from NASA and ESA, Astrovisuals in conjunction with ESA
Wonders of the Solar System, Presented by Professor Brian Cox, BBC, 2010.
Wonders of the Universe, Presented by Professor Brian Cox, BBC, 2011.
What on earth is wrong with gravity? Professor Brian Cox, BBC, 2008.
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking: The Story of Everything, 2010 science documentary television mini-series written by British physicist Stephen Hawking for Discovery Channel.
Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design: Did God create the Universe? TV mini-series documentary, Discovery Channel, 2012.
The story of Science – Power, Proof and Passion, BBC, Presenter: Michael Mosley, 2011
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, Lawrence Krauss – YouTube video, published 30 March 2012 by the Science Foundation
MoCA Public Lecture Series, Monash Centre for Astrophysical Physics, 15 February 2011, Lecture by Brian P Schmidt, 2011 Noble Laureate for Physics; “Universe could end in Big Rip”, SMH 19 July 2012, with accompanying video from a public talk by Professor Schmidt at the Australian Astronomical Observatory, Sydney, on 18 July 2012
Hidden Universe 3D, documentary produced by Stephen Amezdroz in association with MacGillivray Freeman Films. Film Victoria, Swinburne University and the European Southern University (ESO), 2013
Jim Al-Khalili, Everything and Nothing, 2 Part series, 1st part – “Everything”; 2nd part - “Nothing”, BBC documentary, 2011, repeated SBS 23 Feb 2014. See partial transcript at http://hassers.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/how-everything-was-formed-from-nothing.html
Derek Muller, television documentary Uranium – Twisting the Dragon’s tail, Part 1: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x37o8t7
Professor Brian Cox, Life of a Universe (2017),
Part 1 - Creation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or2Itbzxo6A
Part 2 - End of days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ZhS9Tya-8
Einstein and Hawking, Masters of the Universe, (2 Parts), (tells a brief history of relativity), February 1st, 2020, Sony BBC Earth; precis at https://in.mashable.com/science/10936/einstein-and-hawking-masters-of-our-universe-tells-a-brief-history-of-relativity
Sundry Videos recorded on TV, including Black Holes (1997); Death Star (2002); The Information Paradox, Black Holes – Stephen Hawking (2005).
Elwyn Elms
January 2010
Last revised: Oct 2020
Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time – From the Big Bang to Black Holes, Bantam Press, London 1988.
Stephen Hawking, The Universe in a Nutshell, Bantam Press, London, 2001.
Stephen Hawking, On the Shoulders of Giants – The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy, Penguin, London, 2002.
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design, Bantam Press, London, 2010.
Stephen Hawking, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, John Murray, London, 2018.
Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe – Superstrings, Higher Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, Vintage, Great Britain, 2000.
Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos, Penguin Books, London, 2005.
Brian Greene, The Hidden Reality – Parallel Universes and the Deep Laws of the Cosmos, Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2011
Tony Hey and Patrick Walters, The New Quantum Universe, Cambridge 2003.
Edward J Weiler, Hubble – A Journey through Space and Time, Abrams, New York
Marcelo Gleiser, Imperfect Creation, Black Inc, Melbourne, 2010
Paul Davies, The Mind of God, First published 1992, Penguin Australia, Marlborough, Victoria, 2010
A.F. Chalmers, What is this thing called Science? 3rd ed, Hackett, Cambridge. 1999.
David Christian, Maps of Time, An Introduction to Big History, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2011.
Stuart Firestein, Ignorance – How it drives Science, Oxford, New York, 1912.
Robert P. Crease, The Great Equations – Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg, Norton, New York, 2008.
Michael Guillen, Five Equations that changed the world, Hyperion, New York, 1995.
Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing – Why there is something from Nothing, Free Press, New York, 2012.
Adam Hart-Davis (ed), Science- The Definitive Visual Guide, DK, London, 2009.
Vlatko Vedral, Decoding Reality – The Universe as Quantum Information, Oxfor University Press, New York, 2010.
Frank Close, Nothing, A Very Short Introduction, OUP, 2009.
Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Broadway Books, 2003
Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II, A Brief History of Creation, Norton, New York, 2016
David Wootton, The Invention of Science - A New History of the Scientific Revolution, HarperCollins, New York, 2016.
John Farrell, The Day Without Yesterday - Lemaître, Einstein and the Birth of Modern Cosmology, Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 2005.
James Gleick, Genius - Richard Feynman and Modern Physics, Little, Brown and Company, London, 1992.
Gavin Hesketh, The Particle Zoo - The Search for the Fundamental Nature of Reality, Hachette, London, 2016.
Carlos I, Calle, Einstein For Dummies. Wiley, 2005. Kindle Edition.
JP McEvoy, Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide, Icon Books Ltd. Kindle Edition
Newspaper and journal articles
“Honouring our own Einstein – relatively”: The Age, July 31, 2005
‘Universe’s big secret – where there’s a wiggle, there’s a way’, SMH 13, Jan 2005.
‘When the universe was just a bub, it looked like this’, SMH, 25-26 May 2002.
“Galaxy Hunters – the search for cosmic dawn”, National Geographic, Ron Cowan, Feb 2003, 2.
‘A glimpse back in time and space’, SMH, 7 Jan 2010.
‘It’s cool, it’s a gas, it’s the birthplace of the stars’, SMH, 11 Nov 2005.
‘Astronomers spot ‘super-earth’ 80 light years away’, SMH, 9 Jan 2010.
‘Hawking changes his mind on black holes’, MSNBC website, 16 July 2004.
‘Black holes turned ‘inside out’’, BBC News, 19 Sep 2004.
‘Meet the Indian who took on Stephen Hawking’, in.rediff.com/news/2004/aug/03hole.htm, 19 Sep 2004.
Deborah Smith, ‘My brilliant idea’, SMH, 16-17 Apr 2005 (Newspaper article summarising Einstein’s achievements and commemorating 100 years since his annus mirabilis:
‘Dark matter proved to be more than a theory’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 Aug 06.
‘Heart of the Milky Way is no place like home’, SMH, 11 Oct 2004.
‘Dust to dust: what survives the death of a solar system’, SMH, 13 Jan 2006.
‘Brief history, big future for Chinese science’, SMH 21 June 2006. (On Stpehen Hawking)
‘Celestial scoop: best sky photos ever’, SMH, 12-13 Sept 2009.
‘Nobel-winning physicist followed in father’s footsteps; (obituary of Aage Bohr, son of Niels Bohr), SMH, 14 Sept 2009.
‘The right comet chemistry points to life throughout the universe’, SMH, 20 Aug 2009.
‘NASA’s space oddity: a fluffy foam planet’, SMH, 6 Jan 2020.
‘Small glimpse led to massive new vision’ (on Galileo), SMH, 13 Aug 2009.
‘Scientists get together to probe holes in our material world’, SMH, 1 July 2005.
‘Buffy grabs the spotlight’, concerning a newly found rock found in the Kuiper Belt (the flock of object’s beyond Neptune’s orbit, believed to be left over rubble from the Solar System’s building phase), SMH, 2005.
‘Stargazing that led to a Nobel Prize’ (obituary of Raymond Davis, 1914-2006), SMH 2006.
‘Fiction turned fact – it’s just a matter of antimatter’, SMH, 5-6 Feb 2005
“Particle smasher heads for collision course”, SMH, 30 March 2010. See also Telegraph, London, 31 March 2010.
“Pluto’s reputation further dwarfed”, SMH, 12 April 2010.
“Watch this space: a 20-year gaze”, SMH, 15 April 2010.
“2010 space odyssey: vision of a star nursery 7500 light years away”, Sun-Herald, 25 April 2010
“Physicist advanced medical imaging”, SMH obituary, 26 April 2010 (on Robert Pound, who showed that gravity can change the frequency of light, as predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity).
“Exploding star rattles us right to our bones”, SMH, 21 May 2010.
“Hubble catches planet being devoured by its star”, SMH, 26 May 2010.
“We can’t know everything”, SMH 23 September 2010 (on Stephen Hawking’s new book The Grand Design).
SMH Cosmic Sleuths series:
“From the Big Bang to the Big Rip”. SMH. 14 September 2010 (on whether dark energy is the repulsive force driving the universe’s expansion).
“Hunt for clues to a universal mystery”, SMH. 15 September 2010 (on the search for gravitational waves).
“Dark matter discovery hopes raised at US mine”, SMH. 16 September 2010
“Science students get stars in their eyes”, The Washington Post, 5 October 2010 (on the discovery of pulsars).
“Galaxy may have gobs of Earth-size planets”, The Washington Post, 29 October 2010.
“The quantum time machine”, Justin Mullins, New Scientist, 20 November 2010, pp 35-37
The Standard Model of Particle Physics, A simplified summary by Ben Best: http://www.benbest.com/science/standard.html
“Goldilocks Black Holes”, Scientific American, January 2012, Jenny E. Greene, 28-35.
“The Quantum Universe – Is space digital - Could foamlike fluctuations rule spacetime at the tiniest scales?”, Scientific American, February 2012, Michael Moyer, 20- 27.
“Waiting for the Higgs”, Tim Folger, Scientific American, October 2011, 58-63 at 61-62.
“Quintessential Universe”, Scientific American, January 2001 by Jeremiah P. Ostriker and Paul J. Steinhardt: http://dhushara.freehosting.net/book/upd/aug201/cos4.htm.
John C. Baez and John Harris, “The strangest numbers in String Theory”, Scientific American, May 2011, 46-49.
Frank Wilczek, “Happy Birthday, Electron”, Scientific American, June 2012, 11.
“The far, far future of stars”, Donald Goldsmith, New Scientist, 26 at 32-33.
“About time: Countdown to the Theory of Everything”, Amanda Gefter, New Scientist, 10 October 2011.
Lisa Grossman, “A curious case of missing darkness”, New Scientist, 28 April 2012, 6.
“About time: Countdown to the Theory of Everything”, Amanda Gefter, New Scientist, 10 October 2011.
“Telescope takes hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy on a plane”, SMH, 15 June 2012, (reproduced from Agence France-Presse).
Background Radiation, Deborah Smith, ‘My brilliant idea’, SMH, 16-17 Apr 2005, Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopaedia, 2009, contributed by Jay M. Pasachoff.
‘Cosmic cannibals and massive black holes’, Optus website, 4 Sep 2009.
Michael S Turner, “Origin of the Universe”, Scientific American: Special Collector’s Edition: Extreme Physics, Probing the Mysteries of the Cosmos, August 2013, 37
Sundry other articles from Scientific American and New Scientist, 2011 to 2019, as referred to in the body of the text.
Exhibitions and Courses
From Earth to the Universe, Power House Museum exhibition, Sydney, Sept 11 2009 – 30 May 2010.
CCE course, Sydney University Physics Department, Dr Helen Johnston, Origins: From the Big Bang to Life, March 2011 (CCE, Origins).
CCE course, Sydney University: Stephen Hawking: The Grand Design, Presenter: Assoc Professor Ray Younis, 6 August 2011
CCE courses, Sydney University: Philosophy for Science I: The Language and Logic of Science; II: What must the world be like; III: Bodies in Motion – Classical Physics from Democritus to Einstein; IV: Where Classical Physics ends and Quantum Mechanics begins. Presenter: Tibor G. Molnar, March to December 2011.
David Christian, From Vodka to Aliens – Big History and the Big History Project, Macquarie University Colloquium Series, 24 May 2012 (reproduced on YouTube).
David Christian, The history of our world in 18 minutes, TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqc9zX04DXs
David Christian, Big History Project: https://www.bighistoryproject.com/chapters/1#intro
Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Dallas, USA - sections on the Origins of the Universe and the Origins of Life on Earth, August 2015.
Science Museum London's Large Hadron Collider Exhibition, on display at the Powerhouse, Museum, Sydney, August - October 2016.
Honorary Associate Professor Michael Box, What are Atoms made of? WEA course, Sydney, 26 October - 30 November 2016.
Documentaries, DVDs, television and Internet productions
Genius, National Geographic presentation on Einstein's life and ideas in ten episodes, trailers at http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/genius/
The Elegant Universe, presented by Brian Greene, WGBH Educational Foundation, Madman 2003.
Hubble, 15 years of discovery, Astrovisuals in conjunction with ESA, 2005
The Universe, All the latest discoveries about the Cosmos, Astrovisuals in conjunction with ESA
The new solar system, All the latest discoveries from NASA and ESA, Astrovisuals in conjunction with ESA
Wonders of the Solar System, Presented by Professor Brian Cox, BBC, 2010.
Wonders of the Universe, Presented by Professor Brian Cox, BBC, 2011.
What on earth is wrong with gravity? Professor Brian Cox, BBC, 2008.
Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking: The Story of Everything, 2010 science documentary television mini-series written by British physicist Stephen Hawking for Discovery Channel.
Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design: Did God create the Universe? TV mini-series documentary, Discovery Channel, 2012.
The story of Science – Power, Proof and Passion, BBC, Presenter: Michael Mosley, 2011
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, Lawrence Krauss – YouTube video, published 30 March 2012 by the Science Foundation
MoCA Public Lecture Series, Monash Centre for Astrophysical Physics, 15 February 2011, Lecture by Brian P Schmidt, 2011 Noble Laureate for Physics; “Universe could end in Big Rip”, SMH 19 July 2012, with accompanying video from a public talk by Professor Schmidt at the Australian Astronomical Observatory, Sydney, on 18 July 2012
Hidden Universe 3D, documentary produced by Stephen Amezdroz in association with MacGillivray Freeman Films. Film Victoria, Swinburne University and the European Southern University (ESO), 2013
Jim Al-Khalili, Everything and Nothing, 2 Part series, 1st part – “Everything”; 2nd part - “Nothing”, BBC documentary, 2011, repeated SBS 23 Feb 2014. See partial transcript at http://hassers.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/how-everything-was-formed-from-nothing.html
Derek Muller, television documentary Uranium – Twisting the Dragon’s tail, Part 1: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x37o8t7
Professor Brian Cox, Life of a Universe (2017),
Part 1 - Creation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or2Itbzxo6A
Part 2 - End of days:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ZhS9Tya-8
Einstein and Hawking, Masters of the Universe, (2 Parts), (tells a brief history of relativity), February 1st, 2020, Sony BBC Earth; precis at https://in.mashable.com/science/10936/einstein-and-hawking-masters-of-our-universe-tells-a-brief-history-of-relativity
Sundry Videos recorded on TV, including Black Holes (1997); Death Star (2002); The Information Paradox, Black Holes – Stephen Hawking (2005).
Elwyn Elms
January 2010
Last revised: Oct 2020