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Einstein Revealed
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Program Overview
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This two-hour program chronicles Albert Einstein's life and
scientific achievements from his birth in 1879 to his death in 1955.
The first hour follows Einstein in his quest to understand the
nature of light. Graphics depict some of Einstein's famous thought
experiments, including his eventual understanding of the interplay
between the speed of light and time and his development of the
special theory of relativity. The program also goes into great depth
about Einstein's personal life, including his romance with and
marriage to fellow student Mileva Maric and the death of his father.
The second hour unfolds with Einstein preoccupied with finding a
theory that accounts for gravitation and determining what orders the
universe. Einstein addresses gravitation in the universe with his
general theory of relativity. This is confirmed experimentally in
1919 when a solar eclipse reveals stars in positions that could best
be explained by his theory: that gravity causes light to bend.
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