- Everyone’s heard of it, but what does E=mc2 — the world s most famous equation — really mean? And why did it change the world? With brilliant period recreations, NOVA dramatizes how an obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. An accessible, suspenseful epic, Einstein’s Big Idea re
Everyone’s heard of it, but what does E=mc2 — the world’s most famous equation — really mean? And why did it change the world?
With brilliant period recreations, NOVA dramatizes how an obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. An accessible, suspenseful epic, Einstein’s Big Idea reveals the roots of his astonishing breakthrough in the human stories of men and women whose innovative thinking across four centuries helped lead to E=mc2, and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom.
Here are stories rich with achievement and failure, feuds and duplicity, love and rivalry, politics and revenge: Michael Faraday, the penniless blacksmith’s son who fought the ridicule of the scientific establishment; Antoine Lavoisier, the cool-headed experimenter who fell victim to the guillotine; and Lise Meitner, the physicist who weathered Nazi persecution and personal betrayal on her path to discovering the splitting of the atom.
As one discovery builds on the next, Einstein’s Big Idea shows how Einstein’s saga began with the personal lives of these pioneers and their years of persistence, ingenuity, sacrifice, and heroic struggle against the odds.
The film stars Aidan McArdle (Ella Enchanted) as Einstein, and Shirley Henderson (Bridget Jones and Harry Potter) as Einstein’s first wife, Mileva Maric.
Special DVD features include: materials and activities for educators; a link to the NOVA Web site; scene selections; closed captions; and described video for the visually impaired.
On one DVD5 disc. Region coding: All regions. Audio: Dolby stereo. Screen format: Letterboxed.
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May 2, 2010
#1
You will like this film about one of the brightest that ever lived. However, don’t expect too many details. It is focused towards a general audience.
May 2, 2010
#2
This product arrived on time and in excellent condition. Watching it was most impressive.
May 2, 2010
#3
very good but there is NO spnish subtitles and the narrator is from USA not UK as i have seen time ago.
May 2, 2010
#4
I really like science documentaries that explain both the ideas and theories and examint the lives of the people who discivered them, and this one does that well. It looks critically at the life of Einstein and the people who influenced him in his theories of relativity. It is very engaging and informative.
May 2, 2010
#5
A intriguing look into the history beyond physic’s most transformative equation. Based on David Bodanis’ book, “E=MC2,” the programme strings together the lives of many brilliant individuals who dared to free think and question against opposition and limitation. Rarely does such programming bother to reach beyond conventional knowledge to bring out the truth and support for those lives who’s work might never have been acknowledged nor remembered by the general public or otherwise. This programme sheds light upon the full and wealthy life behind the famous equation E=MC2, and illuminates it enough to show us that it is a very human equation after all.