Einstein's Big Idea

Einstein's Big Idea by Gary Johnstone

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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.

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Cast

Aidan McArdle

Aidan McArdle as Einstein

Anton Lesser

Anton Lesser as Voltaire

Andrew Callaway

Andrew Callaway as Maupertuis

Julian Rhind-Tutt

Julian Rhind-Tutt as Antoine Lavoisier

Shirley Henderson

Shirley Henderson as Mileva Maric

Ty Glaser

Ty Glaser as Marie Anne Lavoisier

Andy Crabbe

Andy Crabbe as Habicht

Samuel West

Samuel West as Humphry Davy

Daniel D'Alessandro

Daniel D'Alessandro as Algarotti

Brendan Fleming

Brendan Fleming as Hermann Einstein

Gregory Fox-Murphy

Gregory Fox-Murphy as Brande

Philip Herbert

Philip Herbert as Count de Amerval

Chris Jenkinson

Chris Jenkinson as Dr. Haller

Wolf Kahler

Wolf Kahler as Horlein

George Layton

George Layton as Emilie’s Father

Alex MacQueen

Alex MacQueen as Chater

Richard Mulholland

Richard Mulholland as Emilie’s Tutor

Stephen Noonan

Stephen Noonan as Marat

Christopher Eccleston

Christopher Eccleston as Narrator (voice)

John Lithgow

John Lithgow as Narrator (voice) U.S. edition

Steven Robertson

Steven Robertson as Michael Faraday

Christian Rubeck

Christian Rubeck as Otto Hahn

Emily Woof

Emily Woof as Lise Meitner

Ian Duncan

Ian Duncan as Charles de Breteuil

James Tovell

James Tovell as Manson

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