Einstein's Big Idea

Overview

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.

Episode Information

Guest Stars

John Lithgow

Narrator

Aidan McArdle

Albert Einstein

Shirley Henderson

Mileva Maric

Steven Robertson

Michael Faraday

Julian Rhind-Tutt

Antoine Lavoisier

Ty Glaser

Marie Anne Lavoisier