Einstein's Big Idea (2005)
2h
Running Time
October 11, 2005Release Date
Einstein's Big Idea (2005)
2h
Running Time
October 11, 2005Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.

Aidan McArdle
Einstein

Anton Lesser
Voltaire

Andrew Callaway
Maupertuis

Julian Rhind-Tutt
Antoine Lavoisier

Shirley Henderson
Mileva Maric

Ty Glaser
Marie Anne Lavoisier

Andy Crabbe
Habicht

Samuel West
Humphry Davy

Daniel D'Alessandro
Algarotti

Michael Sarne
Professeur Fritz Muhlberg

Brendan Fleming
Hermann Einstein

Gregory Fox-Murphy
Brande

Philip Herbert
Count de Amerval

Chris Jenkinson
Dr. Haller

Wolf Kahler
Horlein

George Layton
Emilie’s Father

Michael J. McEvoy
Composer

Alex MacQueen
Chater

Richard Mulholland
Emilie’s Tutor

Christopher Titus King
Cinematographer

Stephen Noonan
Marat

Rick Aplin
Editor

Stéphanie Gaurier
Editor

Christopher Eccleston
Narrator (voice)
Media.

Details.
Release DateOctober 11, 2005
StatusReleased
Running Time2h
Content RatingG
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