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

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Published On: 2015-11-09

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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.
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."
We'll let Chester take it from there:

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.
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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