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.
00:05:15 Can I pass?
00:09:20 eagerly absorbing every scrap of knowledge that Davy deigned to impart.
00:12:48 He had a flair for understanding his experiments
00:16:21 Well, no matter, no matter. It's the science that counts.
00:21:18 so they could see how it all interacted together.
00:25:45 Then you toy with me, Monsieur, for you know the truth.
00:29:53 Water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen.
00:33:49 as laid down by the Academy.
00:39:18 reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet
00:43:22 Back in England, a man we've already met was willing to make an educated guess.
00:47:42 Oh, let me think: Professor Weber and his life-draining monologue
00:52:06 including a translation of Sir Isaac Newton's Principia
00:55:18 of a fleeting nature.
00:58:56 Dropping lead balls into clay?
01:03:03 just in time for Einstein to use this brilliant insight
01:07:34 So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very close friend Michele Besso.
01:11:24 energy and mass were being forced together
01:16:09 I love the idea that life just went on as normal.
01:21:39 A little later, some researchers proposed that the nucleus itself
01:26:47 At least, initially.
01:31:15 And now he writes to me and tells me that it's not radium, it's barium.
01:35:07 Hahn maintained it was he and not Meitner
192:00:03 golden age of nuclear research.