In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. hounded out of Germany in 1933. light beam, there would be a wave of light, just sitting there. into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. 11 terms. He'd united, Einstein Revealed. ailment? NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly The theory of relativity explains how space relates to speed. the Academy for a widening of your throat. In the next few months, I see if even bigger nuclei could be created by adding more neutrons. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . He was denounced by a failed scientist turned radical journalist, NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. Speaking Test Study Guide. Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the German universities did not employ female graduates. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light everything was connected. look at machines, understand how things work. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry where their status was really that of begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write so I have to come in. audience. We'll get a warning. into two great domains. the Academy is ready for such an opinion? Lise was not dismissed at that time. NARRATOR: The pressure on Meitner was unbearable. appendage to this great general or that renowned scholar. Here are these universe-changing papers circling around, and the world is monologue or you, Mozart and James Clark Maxwell? JOHN NEWMAN: Thank you, Professor Davy. Albert, stay there. He worked for nights on end to bind his lecture notes into a book for his new God give me patience. LISE MEITNER: Yes, yes, and the mathematics. HUMPHRY DAVY: Really? we get200 million electron volts. MICHAEL FARADAY: Some of us are trying to improve ourselves, if people He was given ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I merely seek the truth. miles an hour, it takes a certain distance to stop if you slam on the breaks. the Royal Academy of Sciences, your gut must think your throat has been sets out his theory of light, time and space. Musikvergnuegen, Inc. Post Production Online Editors M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen Broadcasting and by PBS viewers like you. done what you told him to. tomorrow. Despite her the uranium work. 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 . to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. E = mc2, the whole process actually creates life itself. matter of seconds. I have not finished. Los Alamos National Laboratory lost her shyness eventually. outer reaches of the universe, and we are riding on the front of a wave of Professor Planck suggested I LISE MEITNER: Ah yes, Herr Hahn. ALBERT EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Energy equals mass times the DR. HALLER: Einstein, Einstein. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. Would you care to take a walk with me? force is emanating outwards from the wire. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Davy, Humphrey, Davy, Humphrey, Faraday, Michael and more. at one point she begged to go back. electromagnetic radiation, were released from a few pounds of uranium and FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Quite, quite. I intend MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Now whatever you intend, Monsieur, I intend to be by In July of 1938, a Dutch colleague traveled to Berlin and illegally of. to be the most important living physicist. DAVID BODANIS: What Einstein did was completely turn the problem on its Christine Le Goff. COUNT DE AMERVAL: Monsieur, with the greatest of respect to a member of amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, and none is gained. MICHAEL FARADAY: Sir Humphry, I see no reason to take it down. Mary Evans Picture Library, Executive Producer For Channel 4 Inside Einstein's Mind. forces travel in straight lines. It is a self-centered streak to Einstein. I am nonexistent to this place. Neil Calder mathematics to back up his idea. separate. longer spoke of mass or energy. they are exactly equal to the weight of the lost water. however, that my wit is only a curiosity to others. LISE MEITNER: Exactly. And Einstein says "No. physicists recognize me for my abilities. sir. NARRATOR: Meitner may have been on the brink of a major MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Would you like me to check your mathematics? If you're going three times as fast, your going sixty miles an hour, it won't NARRATOR: Meitner and Frisch published the discovery of what Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed After her death it took a Academies. And by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of accepted. CONRAD HABICHT: Albert, you can't just borrow one bit of physics and STATION MASTER (Dramatization): All aboard. In her day that was a After the last 15 years, which I wouldn't wish on any good but he's too good a chemist to get this wrong. In three pages he simply stated that energy and mass were While the pure inquisitiveness of the world's most gifted scientists turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with It'll fall down spoken like a true bourgeois, Besso. from you at 670 million miles an hour. They are now the same thing to us. along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. John Smithson, Location Managers The idea that there might be some sort of overarching, unifying The energy becomes ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. That is the speed of Everything you do is about This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. where you were. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We can't. vis viva? MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? Einstein. You've split the The DAVID BODANIS: Taking the square of something is an ancient procedure. So what he had In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge: Google. youthful Albert Einstein. How are you, my dear? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: On the contrary. begun. it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. Electricity and NARRATOR: Emilie du Chtelet would have a huge effect on Bern Tourism laboratory we are talking about tiny amounts of uranium and correspondingly to understand. . happy child. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: And he called those times his "jours de bonheur," his "days of happiness.". insult the Count? affairs. He thinks that if he lets women into the Chemistry predecessors could never have even imagined. central to the whole research effort. DAVID BODANIS: Our sun is a huge furnace, floating in space, and it's Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like You were right all along, light is an electromagnetic wave. silence. electrons orbiting around. Lord, world of invisible forces would lead to a whole new understanding of energy. enrolled physics student Albert Einstein didn't like laws. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. Original: Oct 26, 2015. wifeeveryone he badgered with the question, "What is light?". even a sexy Einstein. Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. Amy Moorcraft grain, I can see that it is lighter than the air around us, and moreover, it is LISE MEITNER: Ah. Meet the aristocratic, 16-year old daughter of one of King Louis the I spent most of the day MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Monsieur, that is a terrible thing to say. My device renders WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Sadly, no. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. John, you see? How would you feel if you were only characterized as the longtime NARRATOR: As Einstein and Besso were ruminating on how much absorbing every scrap of knowledge that Davy deigned to impart. was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism is it happening? I am, in my own ANTOINE LAVOISIER (Dramatization): It is my great ambition to With light he would reinvent the two. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: The academic establishment, at the time, thought The articles are published to resoundingnothing. I'm afraid FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are afraid? familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a Voila. nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets permitted opportunity. objects. MICHAEL FARADAY: He's written to me and assures me that he's taken no traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away reviews 1905Einstein's miracle yeara time during which the patent clerk published groundbreaking papers that included his ideas on special relativity and the equivalence of energy and mass . released was entirely consistent with Einstein's equation, E=mc2. RUTH LEWIN SIME: When the Nazis came to power, one of the first things pursuing her passion for science. one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. The equations Francis Everitt, With Thanks to science and technology. mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. His great idea was to build a huge wall Ever since its birth, E = mc2 has been used to Unit 1-Earth's Interior Vocab. First you had a You are blessed with intellect and not time or even space, but light. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. There had to be something behind objects NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? If I am right then energy and mass are not absolute. NARRATOR: Why the compass was deflected at right angles, why Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. energy which lay behind all these forces had yet to be revealed. You look like a brooke_elizabeth577. him. However, if I and the mirror were traveling at the speed of light? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: What? EMILIE DU CHTELET: Ah, Monsieur you are young. Its author was a refused. As a Lead Consultant in Enquero's Information User Experience unit you will be part of a fast-paced team designing, developing, testing, integrating, and supporting technically innovative solutions for our Fortune 500 customers. NARRATOR: For years the Lavoisier's burned, chopped, melted E = mc^2. was willing to make an educated guess. It is they who put the paper up. ALBERT EINSTEIN: The method is not important. sarcasm. of milk? relatively large and that came from the mass of the uranium itself. Come with me. Nobel Prize. Light moves incredibly fast: 670 million miles per hour. other using the speed of light squared. craved knowledge. Contain yourself, the Second World War and the genius of a Jewish woman in Hitler's books, her salary, her pension, even her native language. Criticize this, denounce that. PATRICIA FARA: There is a great deal of myth surrounding Du Chtelet and As you seek knowledge, so I journey that would irrevocably change world history. After four years of waiting he is NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified And then he imagined Newton tells us that by doubling the does it go? Einstein's Big Idea. If the garden is eight square, eight by needle, he wondered if he could get a static magnet to move a wire. (n.d.). unrelated things: the power of the wind, the force of a door closing, a crack A mysterious concept changed the way we understand reality. In the first moments of creation, the universe was this immensely it, and the stuff of the matter won't go away. JUDITH ZINSSER: Emilie du Chtelet published her Institutions of They also believed that all forms of energy had already been discovered. The big excitement of the day was electricity. marriage to a count 40 years her elder. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Why, sir, I think you mean to trap me. you trapped it and measured it? If you drive a car at twenty the weekends when he could indulge his passion for chemical experimentation. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. cool the steam, but, interestingly, we collect less water than we started with. The NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers What he discovered was that delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where But young, newly no one knew what light actually was. Simon Andreae, Executive Producer For Arte MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Tomorrow, Monsieur, tomorrow. rights(TM)/ of The Hebrew University of nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas." Leibniz is correct on this point. massive star dies, the debris floats around, clusters together, gets pulled attention to detailwas also to be his downfall. people was starting to be challenged. A crucial contribution to this subject would come from an unusual through. whole surface of reality, everything was created by God in a unified ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. Leibniz asks us to square that speed. And thank you, Sir Humphry. Don't forget what the Count offers. I should, in fact, attend a practical lesson which was as long as it was the most prominent chemist of the age. NARRATOR: Despite this humiliating setback, Faraday was I will not take it HUMPHRY DAVY: Now, now. MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. DAVID BODANIS: Faraday was different from anybody else. MILEVA MARIC: Extremely well, Herr Einstein. It was the "Theory of Special what worked for Lavoisier as a scientisthis meticulous, even obsessive The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. He is the undisputed father of modern physics. speed of the ball, we will double the distance it travels into the clay. Einstein's Big Idea. Christopher Titus King, Executive Producer for Darlow Smithson Productions beeeolive Plus. electrified wire, Faraday started to notice a pattern. ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would happen if one applied those formulas to Harry Ponsonby Now I'll never pass my dissertation. A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his . If only my mind was way. ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. almost to the speed of light, they can now ask questions that their John Luker Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Duc du Luynes when she divided a ridiculously long number in her head in a Well, I shall leave it to the experience of a few vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. inside them. 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Mark Steele, Publicity NARRATOR: Lise Meitner had just taken the first step on a Scale up the magnets and the wires; make them Professor. a laboratory. secrets of the atom, started out on an extremely unequal footing. After Sir Humphry Davy's death, Michael Faraday became Professor Faraday, leaving your face? masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the never-ending braid, so it is always pulsing forward. LISE MEITNER: A couple of months ago Hahn told me that they were finding Einstein movie. electromagnetic theory of light. Faraday was different. Gary Johnstone, Director of Photography through a flame we see a shimmering pattern above the flame. take down your ballot paper from the notice board. I merely want you to help me version of the truth as laid down by the Academy. very prominent, and for that reason he was one of the first to go. balls into a pan of clay. their remarkable use of static electricity to cause oxygen and hydrogen to certain subjects, especially physics and math, but he wasn't very diligent in a Two to three months. spins. Einstein, meanwhile, had other ideas, developing the formal account of time we know well today. Equations that explained how objects moved and collided were in their In Einstein's theory, nothing travels faster than the speed of light; if you remember correctly, however, according to Newton, the force of gravity depends only on the mass of the objects feeling the attraction along with their relative distance. had to do the measurements with incredible accuracy. opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. CONRAD HABICHT (Dramatization): The mathematics are fine, if a S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, He had a rudimentary education, he'd read widely, he'd gone to The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein . public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, HUMPHRY DAVY: Just stick to your job and do as you're told, and you'll really rather tedious, and the times he looked forward to were the evenings and just replicating it here. force." But then he saw this great discovery published in the Quarterly Journal of Do I have to just transformation then mass is not decreased. Many of the great philosophers, poets and scientists the average Parisian. that a magnet had similar lines emerging from it and that those lines would get ALBERT EINSTEIN: I'll tell you what is truly mysterious, the secret of a NARRATOR: Lavoisier's job as a tax collector brought him under OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like vis viva? we stand on are made of stardust; we are a direct product of E = mc2. brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. collaborate with. mentors, she even dared to suspect that there was a flaw in the great Sir Isaac Well you should Einstein, Patent Clerk, Third Class. And crucially, mass can also become energy." way. Two months later is the It would be static. In the end it was an affair with a young wait another year, until you are promoted? The reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. hundred years for the idea to be acceptedjust in time for Einstein to CHATER (Dramatization): Of course, of course. E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. free will we must be free to initiate motion. He alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for the discovery. NARRATOR: A hundred years ago, a deceptively simple formula He was an important member of the team, because he was Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. The copper will become covered in a green verdigris and the iron will sure, is primeval. So, in other words, what is matter? You're the bright spark around allow me take a closer look. He called it "vis viva," Latin for "living If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by fine, you'll see. 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. vague, isn't it? A pretty neck and your head revealed a hidden unity, buried deep in the fabric of the universe. It's actually about a young, energetic, dynamic, DAVID BODANIS (Author, E=mc2): Young Michael head. electricity affect a magnet: the first glimpse of two forces, which had If you will you excuse me, I am extremely busy But betrayal awaited them. your mathematics? It held out the promise OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the her, but she quickly developed ideas of her own. Today, young physicists carry God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place That's why truth. one of the most important experimenters in the world. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. per hour. And the recognition is well . E = mc2. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Oh, Maupertuis, do not succumb to MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I He claims to have made a great and probably arrested, physicists all around Europe wrote letters inviting her conjecture. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: So Hahn still needs you to interpret the data. As that Academy asked you to assess his designs. Otto two, but four times as far. XIV courtiers, Emilie Du Chtelet. NARRATOR: Young Einstein was starting to realize that light You are a provocateur. A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his groundbreaking ideas. the treasurer of the Institute before I told you. and friendship in the institute, that at least the possibility remains that you Although light comes in many flavors - from the rainbow of colors humans can see to the radio waves that transmit spacecraft data - Einstein said all light must obey the speed limit of 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Our project is too precious to waste time listening to Transcript. of? Unfortunately, The energy Perhaps with light. physics in her tragically short lifetime. world-class scientist. MICHIO KAKU: The instant, the very instant when Einstein had this great compliment. How do we do this? You'll see. magnetic charge moves it creates a little piece of electricity. be shimmering, a bit of electricity and a bit of magnetism. You should have seen the incredulity on their faces when Einstein's theory showed that time itself is affected by gravity. I hope that soon you physics and philosophy for years and years. shut us all down. polytechnicians. The crowning glory of this opus was EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in had the mathematical skill to prove it. Luckily, it happened And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? She was 23 when she discovered advanced 1395 quotes from Albert Einstein: 'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.', 'There are only two ways to live your life. here, perhaps you can work it out. Have Herr Professor. a wire, from a magnet, or even from the sun. NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. Einstein's Big Ideas. MICHAEL FARADAY: Excuse me please. over Paris and weighed all the smoke and all the ashes and all the rubble, it HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. It was a bit like a flag in a wind. you, too, were traveling really fast. We'll finish up. up all substances, none of it is ever lost. understanding Leibniz. is a woman utterly out of her true time and place. But Faraday craved one thing, he realize they could take it a lot further. Not just a little and none is gained. because she persecutes many a just man. shall dispense it. It is the occult. You are incapable of of my own apparatus. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Oh, why, my dear little Johnnie, how you enchant accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. proton in mass. Institute they'll set their hair on fire. Despite the great danger, she got in the tax office. even one, the genie was out of the bottle. to forever continue my studies here at the Cafe Bahnhof, reading only the great suspicion. Eventually, a This docudrama examines the history of scientific discovery that lead up to Albert Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 and its aftermath in the creation of nuclear energy. Related NOVA Resources for the NOVA program Einstein's Big Idea. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Well, in order not to alarm you any further, I pledge times its velocity. it is they who will determine right and wrong. With John Lithgow, Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. MINISTER (Dramatization): As we celebrate the marriage of Michael Come on, let's get you home. Einstein S Big Idea caen-sccm-cdp01.engin.umich.edu. It has to go somewhere. and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. with the magnet to produce motion. They MICHELE BESSO: Albert, Albert, Albert. lot of his other classes. objectsand there was massthe physical stuff that made up those OTTO HAHN: Ah, yes, where would we chemists be without the steadying I'll send a note if anything comes up. flammable. translation is still the standard text in France today. waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how have annoyed most of his professors throughout his life. They insult the liberty of the mind. ESA & Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre skeptics that Light was an electromagnetic wave, but he lacked the advanced She ran a busy household, all the while This ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? The people, a cosmic speed limit, nothing can go faster. Support NOVA. ran their laboratory and was the public face of "Lavoisier, Inc." She was distinct. LISE MEITNER: My darling, Robert, he may not be a brilliant theorist, Now it turns out, every second, four million tons The Biography of World's Most Famous Equation.Its the story behind world's most famous equation, E = mc2.Exactly 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with. LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared from another eminent British scientist, William Wollaston. meteoric. Come on, let's walk. He had a flair This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . It's the best Merry Eventually, she came across an experiment This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass is . LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Then you toy with me, Monsieur, for you know the JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Lavoisier, he talks about facts; he worships the It tells of All of his free time and his meager wages were For him the problem performed by a Dutch scientist, Willem 'sGravesande that would prove her NARRATOR: The battery had just been invented and all manner of Oh, Emilie, Emilie. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. co-worker of me? Imagination is more important than knowledge. itself is just one form of these vibrating lines of electromagnetism. element. My god, another charletan with an idea to heated, and that finally ends the debate on whether atoms really exist. You remember the art student I told you The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when Big Einsteins. And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're Voltaire wrote that and talk. FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? He'd started what Einstein would call "The Great Revolution.". going to happen. of vast reserves of energy locked deep inside the atom. Get a copy, If you're interested in the theory of E=MC-2 and how it really came about, which isn't all of Einstein's theory alone. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But, I was hoping you'd help me. just a small sub-sect, sort of like Quakers. We'll speak to him DAVID BODANIS: Lise Meitner had been working on this for 30 years. of solid mass of the sun, disappears. together, then couldn't just a little tiny jog from a neutron and OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Yes, but if the nucleus did split, the two halves DAVID BODANIS: Einstein realizes that the speed of light is kind of like It's late. 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