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Podcast title NOVA E = mc2 | PBS
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Description To celebrate the centennial of Einstein's E = mc2, NOVA asked 10 top physicists--two Nobel Prize winners among them--how they would describe the equation to curious non-physicists. Subscribe to our podcast to hear a different physics luminary each week. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. This podcast was produced by Lexi Krock and David Levin.
Updated Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:30:37 EDT
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1. NOVA E = mc2 | Frank Wilczek
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Description: Frank Wilczek, Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Laureate, MIT: "Ninety-five percent of the mass of matter as we know it comes from energy."

2. NOVA E = mc2 | Lene Hau
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Description: Lene Hau, Experimental Physicist, Harvard University: "You can get access to parts of nature you have never been able to get access to before."

3. NOVA E = mc2 | Michio Kaku
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Description: Michio Kaku, Theoretical Physicist, City University of New York: "E = mc2 is the secret of the stars."

4. NOVA E = mc2 | Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Description: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History: "It's something that doesn't happen in your kitchen or in everyday life."

5. NOVA E = mc2 | Tim Halpin-Healy
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Description: Tim Halpin-Healy, Theoretical Physicist, Barnard College, Columbia University: "Moving clocks run slow, moving meter sticks are shortened -- how does that happen?"

6. NOVA E = mc2 | Alan Guth
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Description: Alan Guth, Theoretical Physicist, MIT: "It's easiest to explain by how things looked from the point of view of Newton."

7. NOVA E = mc2 | Nima Arkani-Hamed
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Description: Nima Arkani-Hamed, Theoretical Physicist, Harvard University: "Things that seem incredibly different can really be manifestations of the same underlying phenomena."

8. NOVA E = mc2 | Sheldon Glashow
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Description: Sheldon Glashow, Theoretical Physicist and Nobel Laureate, Boston University: "When an object emits light, say, a flashlight, it gets lighter."

9. NOVA E = mc2 | Janet Conrad
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Description: Janet Conrad, Experimental Physicist, Columbia University: "For me there's a lot more to the equation than E = mc2."

10. NOVA E = mc2 | Brian Greene
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Description: Brian Greene, Theoretical Physicist, Columbia University: "It certainly is not an equation that reveals all its subtlety in the few symbols that it takes to write down."