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Einstein's Big Idea

E3    Oct 11, 2005    55m    TV-PG
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.
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Cast of Einstein's Big Idea
  • John LithgowNarrator
  • Aidan McArdleAlbert Einstein
  • Shirley HendersonMileva Maric
  • Steven RobertsonMichael Faraday
  • Julian Rhind-TuttAntoine Lavoisier
  • Ty GlaserMarie Anne Lavoisier
  • Brendan FlemingHermann Einstein
  • Stephen NoonanMarat
  • Anton LesserVoltaire
  • Emily WoofLise Meitner
  • Christian PedersenOtto Hahn
  • Alex MacQueenChater
  • Samuel WestHumphry Davy
  • Robert StylesNewman
  • Philip HerbertCount de Amerval
  • Di TrevisBaroness de la Garde
  • James TovellManson

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