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NOVA Episode 33.03 Einstein's Big Idea
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NOVA Episode 33.03 Einstein's Big Idea

Episode Premiere
October 11, 2005
Genre
Documentary
Production Company
GBH
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
Episode Premiere
October 11, 2005
Genre
Documentary
Period
1974 -
Production Co
GBH
Distributor
PBS
Official Site
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
Director
Gary Johnstone
Screenwriter
Gary Johnstone
Additional Cast
  • John Lithgow
  • Aidan McArdle
  • Shirley Henderson
  • Steven Robertson
  • Julian Rhind-Tutt

Exactly 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.

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 documentary, Einstein's Big Idea illuminates this deceptively simple formula by unrevealing the story of how it came to be.