Einstein's Big Idea

Name: Einstein's Big Idea
Released: 2005-10-11
Cast: John Lithgow, Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson, Julian Rhind-Tutt

Series: NOVA

Season: Season 33

Episode Number: 3

Air Date: 10/11/2005

Duration: 55 min

Exactly 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. 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 documentary, Einstein's Big Idea illuminates this deceptively simple formula by unrevealing the story of how it came to be.