Einstein: The Real Story of the Man Behind the Theory
by Ken Druckerman
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Actor: Albert EinsteinDirector: Ken Druckerman
Brand: A and E Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-02-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E HOME VIDEO
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- 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.For centuries, Isaac Newton s Law of Gravity stood untouched. But in 1915, Einstein attacked Newton with a mind-boggling theory: Gravity is not pulling you down . instead, massive bodies like the Sun and the Earth are be
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DVD Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very fine documentary on the events leading up to and surrounding the ultimate confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity. Besides the scientific information, you learn a lot about Einstein's personal and professional life, which was more eventful for a retiring academic than one would think, including something about his family life and his two wives. It took eight tense years for Einstein to finally get confirmation during a solar eclipse of his theory. Marginal photographic equipment, uncooperative weather, remote and hard to reach locations--even a world war--interfered with these eclipse expeditions, until one (William Wallace Campbell's, whose first expedition had failed) finally succeeded. The film includes interesting archival footage shot from a WWI biplane of the Lick Observatory atop Mt. Hamilton, which for a time housed the largest reflector in the world (100 inches), before the 200-inch Palomar telescope exceeded it, and the second largest refracting telescope (36 inches), which was interesting to see also. As a young amateur astronomer 30 years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend an open house there once and got to look through the Hooker 36-inch refractor. With commentary by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, Einstein expert and historian of science Diana L. Kormos-Buchwald, and other experts to flesh out the story, it's an excellent account of this important event in science.
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Description of Einstein: The Real Story of the Man Behind the Theory
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.For centuries, Isaac Newton's Law of Gravity stood untouched. But in 1915, Einstein attacked Newton with a mind-boggling theory: Gravity is not pulling you down ... instead, massive bodies like the Sun and the Earth are bending space and time around you, pushing you down. During a total solar eclipse, he predicted, that warp in space-time should reveal itself. Fiercely competitive astronomers raced each other to exotic locations to see if Einstein was right... or wrong. Hardships, weather, and war foiled their expeditions again and again. When, against all odds, a blazing glimpse was finally captured, the humble Einstein exploded into a global icon.
This rich DVD from HISTORY® moves beyond theories and the cult of personality to breathe new life into the man, not the myth.
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