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Einstein's Big Idea (2005)

ALL 10/11/2005 (en) Documentary, Drama 120 Min
  • Release
    10/11/2005
  • Production
    ARTE, NDR, Tetra Media, Channel 4 Television
  • Rotten tomato
    72%
  • Original title
    Einstein's Big Idea
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2

Overview

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.

  1. Gary Johnstone

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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  1. Aidan McArdle

    Einstein

  2. Anton Lesser

    Voltaire

  3. Andrew Callaway

    Maupertuis

  4. Julian Rhind-Tutt

    Antoine Lavoisier

  5. Shirley Henderson

    Mileva Maric

  6. Ty Glaser

    Marie Anne Lavoisier

  7. Andy Crabbe

    Habicht

  8. Samuel West

    Humphry Davy

  9. Daniel D'Alessandro

    Algarotti

  10. Brendan Fleming

    Hermann Einstein

  11. Gregory Fox-Murphy

    Brande

  12. Philip Herbert

    Count de Amerval

  13. Chris Jenkinson

    Dr. Haller

  14. Wolf Kahler

    Horlein

  15. George Layton

    Emilie’s Father

  16. Alex MacQueen

    Chater

  17. Richard Mulholland

    Emilie’s Tutor

  18. Stephen Noonan

    Marat

  19. Christopher Eccleston

    Narrator (voice)

  20. John Lithgow

    Narrator (voice) U.S. edition

  21. Steven Robertson

    Michael Faraday

  22. Christian Rubeck

    Otto Hahn

  23. Emily Woof

    Lise Meitner

  24. Ian Duncan

    Charles de Breteuil

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Casts : 24 , Crews : 4

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Einstein's Big Idea (2005) 120 Min

ALL 10/11/2005 (en)
Documentary, Drama
  • Release 10/11/2005
  • Production
    ARTE, NDR, Tetra Media, Channel 4 Television
  • Original title Einstein's Big Idea
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

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

Overview

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.

  1. Gary Johnstone

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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