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Two hours of Einstein on PBS Nova tonight.
Celebrating the 100 year anniversary of General Relativity.
Ought to be really good. I hope they have Walter Isaacson, who wrote a really marvelous biography. A good read.
Starting at 9:00PM EST.
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Thanks for the heads up.
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The first hour was a pretty standard NOVA about general relativity. The other two hours focussed on the science that led up to Einstein's E=mc^2 including Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, and even covered Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn.
Actually, the 1905 paper that featured that equation posed it a different way, "is mass dependent upon energy content?" So the equation should properly be written m=E/c^2. But the other version of the equation is iconic. And then there's the atomic energy thing.
