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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.
Theatrical
Oct 11, 2005
Cast
Full credits →A
Aidan McArdle
Einstein
A
Anton Lesser
Voltaire
J
Julian Rhind-Tutt
Antoine Lavoisier
S
Shirley Henderson
Mileva Maric
T
Ty Glaser
Marie Anne Lavoisier
S
Samuel West
Humphry Davy
B
Brendan Fleming
Hermann Einstein
P
Philip Herbert
Count de Amerval
C
Chris Jenkinson
Dr. Haller
W
Wolf Kahler
Horlein
G
George Layton
Emilie’s Father
A
Alex Macqueen
Chater
R
Richard Mulholland
Emilie’s Tutor
S
Stephen Noonan
Marat
C
Christopher Eccleston
Narrator (voice)
J
John Lithgow
Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
S
Steven Robertson
Michael Faraday
C
Christian Rubeck
Otto Hahn
E
Emily Woof
Lise Meitner
I
Ian Duncan
Charles de Breteuil
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