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Einstein's Big Idea

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2005-10-112h 0m

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The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2

Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary breakthroughs that Einstein made in 1905, including the completion of his special theory of relativity, his identification of proof that atoms exist, and his explanation of the nature of light, which would win him the Nobel Prize in Physics. Among Einstein's ideas, E = mc2 is by far the most famous. Yet how many people know what it really means? In a thought-provoking and engrossing docudrama, NOVA illuminates this deceptively simple formula by unraveling the story of how it came to be.

Directors
Gary Johnstone
Writters
David Bodanis, Gary Johnstone

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  1. Aidan McArdle

    Aidan McArdle

    Einstein

  2. Anton Lesser

    Anton Lesser

    Voltaire

  3. Andrew Callaway

    Andrew Callaway

    Maupertuis

  4. Julian Rhind-Tutt

    Julian Rhind-Tutt

    Antoine Lavoisier

  5. Shirley Henderson

    Shirley Henderson

    Mileva Maric

  6. Ty Glaser

    Ty Glaser

    Marie Anne Lavoisier

  7. Andy Crabbe

    Andy Crabbe

    Habicht

  8. Samuel West

    Samuel West

    Humphry Davy

  9. Daniel D'Alessandro

    Daniel D'Alessandro

    Algarotti

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