Overview - Einstein's Big Idea
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- English
- Deutsch
Production companies
Name: ARTE
Production country France
Name: NDR
Production country Germany
Name: Tetra Media
Production country France
Name: Channel 4 Television
Production country United Kingdom
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.
Cast
Name: Aidan McArdle
Character: Einstein
Popularity: 1.1763
Name: Anton Lesser
Character: Voltaire
Popularity: 2.7869
Name: Andrew Callaway
Character: Maupertuis
Popularity: 0.5855
Name: Julian Rhind-Tutt
Character: Antoine Lavoisier
Popularity: 1.7025
Name: Shirley Henderson
Character: Mileva Maric
Popularity: 2.6248
Name: Ty Glaser
Character: Marie Anne Lavoisier
Popularity: 0.7987
Name: Andy Crabbe
Character: Habicht
Popularity: 0.2381
Name: Samuel West
Character: Humphry Davy
Popularity: 2.2832
