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Breakthrough Prize-winning teen explains Einstein's special theory of relativity

2015-11-09 102 Dailymotion

Flanked by celebrities including Seth McFarlane, Pharrell Williams and Hilary Swank, Mark Zuckerberg - along with his wife, Pricilla Chan , Jack Ma, Yuri Milner , Sergey Brin and other collaborators - handed out $22 million in prizes to esteemed scientists Sunday.<br />Future scientists like Ohio teen Ryan Chester, a senior at North Royalton High School, who earned $400,000 in scholarships and awards at this year's Breakthroughs for his video called "Some Cool Ways to Understand the Special Theory of Relativity and What It Means About Time."<br />We'll let Chester take it from there:<br /><br />The film major hopeful won a $250,000 scholarship, $50,000 for his AP physics teacher and a $100,000 upgrade for his school's science lab.<br />Five fundamental physics teams - including 2015 Nobel Prize winners Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald - were awarded $3 million for their work investigating neutrino oscillation, expanding the standard model of particle physics.

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