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.
Full Cast of Einstein's Big Idea
Aidan McArdle
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Julian Rhind-Tutt
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Shirley Henderson
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Wolf Kahler
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Alex MacQueen
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Christopher Eccleston
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John Lithgow
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Steven Robertson
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Christian Rubeck
Christian Rubeck (born in Moss, 1980) is a Norwegian actor.
Andrew Callaway
Ty Glaser
Andy Crabbe
Daniel D'Alessandro
Brendan Fleming
Gregory Fox-Murphy
Philip Herbert
Chris Jenkinson
Richard Mulholland
Stephen Noonan
Ian Duncan
Crew of Einstein's Big Idea
Full backstage crew list →- Released on October 11, 2005