Einstein's Big Idea
2005 · 120 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 653 VOTES · DIR. Gary Johnstone
Overview
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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00:00:24 100 years ago, a deceptively simple formula was written.
00:05:12 Can I pass, please?
00:09:08 Just stick to your job and do as you're told, and you'll be fine, Faraday.
00:12:32 you could see how everything was connected.
00:16:05 Sadly, no. In fact, he is still vehemently opposed
00:20:46 absolute power of the monarchy over the people was starting to be challenged.
00:25:11 Madame.
00:29:10 and the weight of the iron barrel increases.
00:32:49 Well, no, but, but one can see it.
00:38:05 and weighed all the smoke and all the ashes and all the rubble
00:41:56 I merely want you to help me to understand.
00:46:21 it can only ever happen at a very particular speed.
00:50:33 Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy
00:54:16 Du Châtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire
00:57:34 It is a return to the old ways.
01:01:07 fault was being a woman".
01:06:08 The mathematics are fine, if a little unconventional.
01:09:14 The instant, the very instant when Einstein had this brilliant insight
01:13:46 the culmination of his 10 year journey into light.
01:19:20 to its mass times c, the speed of light, squared.
01:23:59 Yes, well, I have asked her to marry me
01:28:56 and was on the brink of a major scientific discovery.
01:32:41 that it would split in two.
01:37:14 splitting apart their atoms and releasing vast amounts of energy.