But there are two figures who are simply off the charts. Isaac Newton is one. The other is Albert Einstein. If pressed, physicists give Newton pride of place, but it's a photo finish—and no one ...

So what does all this have to do with the NOVA program "Einstein's Big Idea"? Well, I just wanted to point out that I tend to be overreceptive to stories that demonstrate the deep unity of ...

One of Albert Einstein's greatest insights was realizing that time is relative. It speeds up or slows down depending on how fast one thing is moving relative to something else. How much does it ...

In 1998, buoyed by the success of the 1996 broadcast of "Einstein Revealed," a two-hour biography that explored Einstein's personal life as well as his science, NOVA set out to launch a bigger ...

When you hear the name Albert Einstein, what do you think of? Many people picture a brilliant but absent-minded man with wild white hair. But like all of us, Einstein started out as a kid.

Einstein's most famous equation, E = mc 2, indicates the calculation is straightforward: the energy released would be equivalent to the mass times the speed of light squared. Yet the answer is far ...

"The state of mind which enables a man to do work of this kind ... is akin to that of the religious worshipper or the lover; the daily effort comes from no deliberate intention or program, but ...

Enter fuzziness NOVA: Can you give us an example of something concrete that string theory does for physics that goes beyond previous theories? Witten: In Einstein's general relativity the ...

Ever since Einstein revealed his special theory of relativity, we've known that time travel—at least moving forward through time—is possible. Einstein didn't pull this theory, or even the ...

ultimately realizing that his results represented the splitting of the atom—nuclear fission—in accordance with Einstein's equation E = mc 2. Hahn claimed the discovery for himself and accepted ...