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Einstein's Big Idea

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Einstein's Big Idea

Everybody's heard of it, but what does the world's most famous equation E=mc2 really mean? NOVA dramatizes the stories of the men and women whose innovative thinking across four centuries led finally to Einstein's bold breakthrough. Based on David Bodanis' bestseller, E=mc2, this program celebrates the ingenuity, and chronicles the human conflicts, that ultimately unleashed the power of the atom.

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