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Einstein’s Equation of Life and Death (2005)

OpenM1nd — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 22:00:49 +0000

This documentary with dramatised elements tells the story of how his most famous discovery, E=mc2, went from being a mere set of symbols in a notebook to a weapon of mass destruction. The documentary sections of the film explain what E=mc2 actually means; how it was discovered and how it revealed that the universe contained

Einstein’s Unfinished Symphony (2005)

OpenM1nd — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:40:51 +0000

To mark the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s special theory of relativity and his discovery that E=MC squared, this film mixes drama and documentary to tell the story of how Einstein spent the last years of his life trying to produce a theory that would disprove the implications of much of his earlier work. It was

E=mc2: Einstein and the World’s Most Famous Equation

OpenM1nd — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:29:56 +0000

It has changed the way we view the very substance of our being. The take-home message, that matter is equivalent to energy, explains at once why the stars shine, why time travel is possible and how a single bomb can kill 130,000 people. E=mc2 is the world’s most famous equation. The year of 1905 was

Albert Einstein – How I See The World (2006)

DeadSociety — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:00:23 +0000

Albert Einstein is considered one of the greatest scientific thinkers of all time. His theories on the nature of time and space profoundly affected the human conception of the physical world and set the foundations for many of the scientific advances of the twentieth century. As a thinker on the human condition, politics, and all

History Channel: Einstein (2010)

OpenM1nd — Tue, 04 May 2010 16:51:50 +0000

This is the extraordinary story of Albert Einstein and his decades-long battle to prove his Theory of General Relativity amid the violence of war and his tumultuous personal life. In 1907, Einstein challenged two centuries of scientific belief and Sir Isaac Newton with a mind-boggling theory: Gravity is not pulling you down. Instead, massive bodies

Einstein’s Miracle Year (1996)

OpenM1nd — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:24:47 +0000

“I am sending you some papers which may be of interest,” wrote a young patent clerk named Albert Einstein to a friend in 1905. “Only one of them is revolutionary,” he humbly added. Einstein, who was just 26 years old at the time, underestimated the magnitude of his work. In these papers, the young scientist

Einstein Revealed (2004)

OpenM1nd — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:17:40 +0000

Journey into the mind of a genius and visualize the thought experiments Albert Einstein could only imagine: mind-boggling meditations on light, time, and space that would forever change the way we view the universe. This two-hour special offers a penetrating profile of the world’s most renowned physicist, who contributed more than any other to our

Einstein’s Genius (2004)

OpenM1nd — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:12:25 +0000

The misterious story of Einstein’s brain, vanished hours after his death in April 1955, Princeton, NJ. Can Einstein’s brain solve the riddle of Einstein’s genius? Thomas Stoltz Harvey (October 10, 1912 – April 5, 2007) was a pathologist who conducted the autopsy on Albert Einstein in 1955. The autopsy was conducted at Princeton Hospital, Princeton

Einstein’s Brain (1994)

OpenM1nd — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:09:44 +0000

Einstein’s Brain is a 1994 documentary by Kevin Hull following Japanese professor Kenji Sugimoto in his search for Albert Einstein’s brain. It is produced by BBC Films, and is currently not available in any commercial format. This documentary is introduced by a set of titles informing the viewer that Albert Einstein’s brain was extracted after

Einstein’s Biggest Blunder (2000)

OpenM1nd — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:55:06 +0000

According to Einstein’s calculations, there is so much matter in the universe that it ought to be collapsing inwards under its own weight. Since, so far as he could see, the universe was fairly static, he came up with the cosmological constant: a rather vague and mysterious quantity of energy which had got into the

Albert Einstein And The Mind of God (2005)

OpenM1nd — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 19:41:15 +0000

In spring 1951 the most famous scientist in the world celebrated his 72 birthday. This is the extraordinary story how Albert Einstein spent the last years of his life. Battling to destroy the consequences of his own work. It was a quest that would end in his failure and isolation. The dramatic section in this

Theory of Relativity in 1 minute

OpenM1nd — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:59:49 +0000

General relativity or the general theory of relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1915. It is the current description of gravitation in modern physics. It unifies special relativity and Newton’s law of universal gravitation, and describes gravity as a geometric property of space and time, or spacetime. In particular,