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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Aidan McArdle as Einstein
Anton Lesser as Voltaire
Andrew Callaway as Maupertuis
Julian Rhind-Tutt as Antoine Lavoisier
Shirley Henderson as Mileva Maric
Ty Glaser as Marie Anne Lavoisier
Andy Crabbe as Habicht
Samuel West as Humphry Davy
Daniel D'Alessandro as Algarotti
Brendan Fleming as Hermann Einstein
Gregory Fox-Murphy as Brande
Philip Herbert as Count de Amerval
Chris Jenkinson as Dr. Haller
Wolf Kahler as Horlein
George Layton as Emilie’s Father
Alex MacQueen as Chater
Richard Mulholland as Emilie’s Tutor
Stephen Noonan as Marat
Christopher Eccleston as Narrator (voice)
John Lithgow as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition
Steven Robertson as Michael Faraday
Christian Rubeck as Otto Hahn
Emily Woof as Lise Meitner
Ian Duncan as Charles de Breteuil
James Tovell as Manson
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