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Einstein's Big Idea
Friday, December 12, 2008 - Noa Rotkop
Home >> Site Of The Week >> Physics

Nova's Einstein's Big Idea website tells the story behind the world's most famous equation, E= mc2. Various inquiries and articles can be found here, such as the theory behind the equation, the legacy of E = mc2, and the equation today – where three promising young physicists describe how E = mc2 plays out in their work. It is also very interesting to listen online to10 top physicists—two Nobel Prize winners among them—as they describe Einstein's equation to curious non-physicists. One can also find out why the speed of light isn't always 186,000 miles per second, explore time dilation in an interactive version of Einstein's "twin paradox", or take a quiz about the power of tiny things.