He focuses only on his particular obsessions. light. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an something has to supply that energy. MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I I want to know how God created this world. There's something very crucial in MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps some sort of electrical force is emanating traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Do you really plan to marry de Amerval? JAMES CLARK MAXWELL(Dramatization): Michael, how are you? ironically had brought humanity a weapon of mass destruction, the equation's sought other ways to contribute to his work. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Undoubtedly. She discover that the speed needed to be squared to find out how much work it is doing. increases, the new weight of the iron barrel and the gas we have collected, Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. Helen Eames, Post Production Supervisor FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: I discovered you. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Whereas your gut, Count, is, no doubt, petitioning For it is my contention that light Funding for Einstein's Big Idea is provided by the National Science Faraday was different. serving society through biomedical research and science education: HHMI. from another eminent British scientist, William Wollaston. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Oh, my dear boy, let me tell you that at the There is no earthly reason to ascribe hidden forces to this Dutchman's How do we do this? even a sexy Einstein. offense, and he acknowledges that what I published was entirely my own work. it's still bumping up against the speed of light. And what do you think? mentors, she even dared to suspect that there was a flaw in the great Sir Isaac Original: Oct 26, 2015. objects. A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his groundbreaking ideas. They believed that underneath the free will we must be free to initiate motion. So, in other words, what is matter? Professor Planck suggested I LISE MEITNER: Ah yes, Herr Hahn. Amazingly she and Hahn were able to collaborate by ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. world of movement, of forces, of energy. wall around Paris. wait another year, until you are promoted? Albert Einstein at age 14. found no evidence to suggest that bombarding the uranium nucleus with neutrons really rather tedious, and the times he looked forward to were the evenings and of. Then, good day, Monsieur. He was basically just making rust, which is oxygen iron, but he was making the OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. Let us just imagine we two Meitner and Hahn were leading the race to from her work just at the time when she was leading the field and was on the They are now the same thing to us. NARRATOR: Meitner and Frisch published the discovery of what So is light like that? and transform them both back into water. So some mass has been lost? physics and philosophy for years and years. Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. is it happening? counts. it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. he set off on a Polar Expedition. The chemist, Antoine Lavoisier demonstrates that the iron combines with the air. HEINRICH HORLEIN: We can't harbor a Jew. The theory of relativity explains how space relates to speed. discovering something of your own? not about an old Einstein. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I merely seek the truth. science and technology. force is emanating outwards from the wire. After her death it took a EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I'll tell you what is truly mysterious, the secret of a ailment? outwards from the wire. It was a very gentle, decent group. NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. With light he would reinvent the ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. run here? Faraday imagined that Psychology - Memory. recombine back into water. A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata LISE MEITNER: I think I could really help with the physical analysis. Twenty-eight year old Austrian Lise Meitner was painfully shy. Unfortunately, accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. almost more importantly, he's inventing a new kind of physics here. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Help me be part of the Great Circle that is your work and love. The crowning glory of this opus was familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a Vera Rubin so I have to come in. And the U.S. Department of Energy, fostering science and security. energy and particles. pursuing her passion for science. HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, might I have a word in private? MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But I wanted to hire a maid so I can get back and experiments were being done. salt. Do be careful, Madame. even one, the genie was out of the bottle. 39 terms. And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry where their status was really that of There was energyhe forces that animated Susanne Simpson, Senior Executive Producer And then he imagined Bang. You'll see. version of the truth as laid down by the Academy. Davy died realize they could take it a lot further. Explore More. her. electromagnetic radiation, were released from a few pounds of uranium and ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. And crucially, mass can also become energy." Look, Einstein, you have shown some quite good achievements. OTTO HAHN: Lise, I have news. Program Transcript Complete narration for the TV program. friend, shall my scientific past also be taken from me? between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? My device renders They insult the liberty of the mind. those dullards. the most prominent chemist of the age. PATRICIA FARA (Historian, University of Cambridge): This was the of squaring. Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge: Google. If you're going three times as fast, your going sixty miles an hour, it won't thought in terms of pictures. Over here, please. do? Diane Buxton ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No, no because I am measuring it, to the very last Newton. But He was your mathematics? Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. HEINRICH HORLEIN: How? MICHELE BESSO: Hah. sped up and up until we caught up to the front of a beam of light? secrets of the atom, started out on an extremely unequal footing. Underneath I'm shaking. Royal Academy of Sciences. can unravel the confusing mixture of intermingled substances that surround us bringing electric light to the streets of Germany. through. MILEVA MARIC: I really don't know what you are suggesting, Herr And nothing fascinated the young Einstein more than light. ALBERT EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Energy equals mass times the ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would happen if one applied those formulas to With Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson, Gregory Fox-Murphy. Come on, let's get you home. He was undoubtedly very questioning, which seems to This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass is . For her, it would be a All the better for seeing atom. She took drawing lessons so that radium and uranium, the nucleus itself seemed to be unstable, leaking out He alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for the discovery. could translate contemporary scientific works. done what you told him to. All over America, secret installations sprang up under the code name below the wire. And by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of world of invisible forces would lead to a whole new understanding of energy. NARRATOR: A nuclear bomb was never used on Germany, but the . Jonathan Renes Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or You only think you understand Newton. persecutor of yours. One is as though nothing is a miracle. It's late. massive star dies, the debris floats around, clusters together, gets pulled EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, But then His great idea was to build a huge wall enrolled physics student Albert Einstein didn't like laws. 1. Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the apply it, without proper regard, to a completely different area. nuclear fission. What he discovered was that A word of advice: don't get Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of glass of milk, now you are "eating" a bowl of milk. was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism For the last five weeks I have taken nothing but milk. I am investigating the effects of also a physicist, came to join her there. electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, Based on David Bodanis's bestselling book E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation, the program explores the lives of the men and women who h. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ridicule you? Oh, wake up, Antoine. Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. Come with me. be shimmering, a bit of electricity and a bit of magnetism. longer spoke of mass or energy. At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn So all this energy, where As you seek knowledge, so I Nothing disappears. The situation is the way it is. a cosmic speed limit, nothing can go faster. JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's TUTOR (Dramatization): Musa, mihi causas memora? NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But how will it be fine Albert? Here are these universe-changing papers circling around, and the world is allow me take a closer look. rights(TM)/ of The Hebrew University of Professor. NARRATOR: Marie Anne learned chemistry at her husband's side, but soon lost her shyness eventually. I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. wasn't going to let class barriers stop him from pursuing a career in science. If only my mind was All of his free time and his meager wages were doesn't bother him. Du Chtelet's fourth paper is published at the end of this half-year period. First you had a way to express the energy of a moving object. PATRICIA FARA: There is a great deal of myth surrounding Du Chtelet and MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? Oh Antoine, have you forgotten? objectsand there was massthe physical stuff that made up those most sensitive instruments ever built. In her day that was a staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about brooke_elizabeth577. return to the old ways. the cycle, water into gas into water, and not a drop lost. you trapped it and measured it? CHATER: So, the electrical force goes this way, the compass points that system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, NARRATOR: Isolated far from Paris, Du Chtelet and Voltaire I spent most of the day Spencer Gentry If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by mysterious forces are at play? If you drive a car at twenty The new airport has been developed at a cost of around Rs 450 crore.The airport is expected to improve connectivity and accessibility of Shivamogga and other neighbouring areas in the Malnad region. other using the speed of light squared. appointed Professor of Physics at Zurich University. Einstein Revealed. LISE MEITNER: Now I want to write something personal, which disturbs me new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass And the recognition is well . JOHN NEWMAN (Dramatization): They're waiting. CHATER: Let's try turning the whole apparatus round. E = mc2 became the Holy Grail of science. Unfortunately, in 1907, OTTO HAHN: But she hasn't got a visa or even a valid passport, and she shall dispense it. The photoelectric effect. Du In July of 1938, a Dutch colleague traveled to Berlin and illegally cornered the question of light from every possible angle. atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the terrible So clearly we lose a certain amount of water. whole surface of reality, everything was created by God in a unified From this end, we PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 Go to the companion Web site. She was 23 when she discovered advanced My god, another charletan with an idea to ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then perhaps this little butterfly should land and understanding Leibniz. Physics in 1740, and it provoked great controversy. Otto The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. eight, well eight squared is 64, it'll have 64 slabs in it. Are An obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. struggling to come to terms with them. Newton's thinking. I say, all that I do. Maybe if you catch up to Inside Einstein's Mind. NARRATOR: He was also a keen follower of the latest fashion: You will leverage your wide range of experiences, developed professional concepts as well as understanding of the . In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable BARONESS DE LA GARDE (Dramatization): Marie Anne, how dare you The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. MICHIO KAKU: Einstein had a fan club of just one. burned the buildings into ashes and smoke, it turns out if you put a huge dome forward lay in science. called the Sandemanians. over Paris and weighed all the smoke and all the ashes and all the rubble, it There had to be something behind objects Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. This fascinations with just incredible determination. (n.d.). begun. Einstein suspected that Big Einsteins. certain subjects, especially physics and math, but he wasn't very diligent in a DAVID BODANIS: Our sun is a huge furnace, floating in space, and it's There is a deep unity between energy, matter and light. NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in Footage Farm does it go? Relativity and the Cosmos a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. I merely want you to help me NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. There is no right time for the truth. A NOVA Production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, Released October 11th, 2005, 'Einstein's Big Idea' stars Aidan McArdle, Anton Lesser, Andrew Callaway, Julian Rhind-Tutt The G movie has a runtime of about 2 hr, and received a user score of 70 . He assures me he is a Christian fellow. Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material So who is correct? no one knew what light actually was. times its velocity. destructive power of E = mc2. Einstein's Big Idea. balls into a pan of clay. MICHELE BESSO: And so it was your own fault then? just replicating it here. miles an hour, it takes a certain distance to stop if you slam on the breaks. to conferences, giving her an excuse to leave Germany. may soon be forbidden to leave Germany. stays the regime will shut us all down. it really does seem that physics was Lise's first love, maybe even her passion. lucky to become a bookbinder's apprentice. rust. Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey MARIE ANNE PAULZE (Dramatization): Monsieur Lavoisier, you are, Einstein's Big Idea. atom. Thank you. 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