Tagged: Michael Faraday

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. 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 … Ler mais