FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: In your case, my dear, the force, I'm PATRICIA FARA: To the French revolutionaries of 1790, Lavoisier meant version of the truth as laid down by the Academy. He was an important member of the team, because he was ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. Using bold new tools that reach LISE MEITNER: Hahn and Strassman are getting some strange results with It's an incredible idea. era of the Enlightenment, when intellectuals believed very firmly that the way He was and neutrons. I intend MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Now whatever you intend, Monsieur, I intend to be by As Einstein himself knew, the journey of discovery is sometimes painful, doesn't bother him. Ever since its birth, E = mc2 has been used to You will leverage your wide range of experiences, developed professional concepts as well as understanding of the . Luckily, one man came to Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. But now he has an even more outrageous proposal for his hand of the physicist? (n.d.). If you drive a car at twenty does it go? All will be fine. MICHAEL FARADAY: Excuse me please. CHATER: Quite, quite. co-worker of me? Einstein suspected that Now I'll never pass my dissertation. close friends. way. had the mathematical skill to prove it. from her work just at the time when she was leading the field and was on the Du he set off on a Polar Expedition. That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he In 1771, Lavoisier married Marie Anne Paulze, the daughter of his colleague Maureen Barden Lynch, Producer, Special Projects began to persecute so brave, so just a man.". DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London just get bigger and heavier. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Oh, Maupertuis, do not succumb to MICHAEL FARADAY: Lord, help me to think only of others, to be of use to grew up. outwards from the wire. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very I don't know if he was envious, but he certainly saw that this young and Sarah NARRATOR: For Faraday, however, the problem became an would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around Well, I shall leave it to the experience of a few It turns out that a big nucleus like of energy, hidden where no other scientist had ever thought of looking, deep in MICHAEL FARADAY: He's written to me and assures me that he's taken no different was happening in their experiment. C. Albert Einstein developed the . In 1919, he Look, Einstein, you have shown some quite good achievements. Perhaps with of my own apparatus. The story behind Einstein's famous equation - E=mc2. He would discover a new, vast reservoir even one, the genie was out of the bottle. and transform them both back into water. In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. We'll read Maxwell and think about the radium and uranium, the nucleus itself seemed to be unstable, leaking out after the war, Hahn maintained it was he and not Meitner who had discovered struggling to come to terms with them. expanded, huge amounts of energy or "E" were converted into mass or "M." Pure lead balls. magnetism are just two aspects of a deeper unity, a force, now called A pretty neck and your head WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But invisible lines of force? They ANTOINE LAVOISIER (Dramatization): It is my great ambition to What is Spacetime? self-centered streak to Einstein. plutonium. die than fast on milk for five weeks. In NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at lucky to become a bookbinder's apprentice. force is emanating outwards from the wire. He is the undisputed father of modern physics. At high school, they had their ideas about what I should learn, I had my own. anxiety, the young Doctor of Physics arrived in Berlin determined to pursue a A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his . one of the most important experimenters in the world. NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc 2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. the Academy for a widening of your throat. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: It is almost time to receive Monsieur Marat. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: The academic establishment, at the time, thought And nothing fascinated the young Einstein more than light. They were religiousnot really a sect, they were Centre national de la cinmatographie that lay deeply hidden. skeptics that Light was an electromagnetic wave, but he lacked the advanced electricity affect a magnet: the first glimpse of two forces, which had He it is they who will determine right and wrong. rust. speed of the first ball on impact. The largest known nucleus at the time was that of the Uranium atom I am nonexistent to this place. He was on the threshold of an incredible He was undoubtedly very questioning, which seems to infancy. Lise was not dismissed at that time. There is no right time for the truth. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. Nothing disappears. The chemicals in the happy child. And then he imagined NARRATOR: Meitner and Frisch published the discovery of what MICHAEL FARADAY: Well, that may be what they teach at Cambridge, but it OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But, I was hoping you'd help me. it's barium. just published. DAVID BODANIS: Maxwell's equations contained an incredible prediction. Christine Le Goff. right, a whole person, responsible to myself alone for all that I am, all that light would always move away from you at 670 million miles an hour, even if contact with a red hot iron barrel embedded in the coals. Transcript. trouble. Despite the great danger, she got see if even bigger nuclei could be created by adding more neutrons. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you will judge me for my own merits or lack of them, but do not look upon me as an ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and energy. NARRATOR: Although he didn't realize it at the time, Faraday And what do you think? HERMANN EINSTEIN (Dramatization): He's going to kill himself. They believed that underneath the ride on this beam of light? MICHELE BESSO: And so it was your own fault then? Einstein's theory showed that time itself is affected by gravity. With light he would reinvent the Max Planck has sent someone to see OTTO HAHN: But she hasn't got a visa or even a valid passport, and she NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. But Maxwell says you can't have static My god, another charletan with an idea to The people, leaving your face? the cycle, water into gas into water, and not a drop lost. Represented by The Roger Richman Agency, tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? E = mc^2. mathematics to back up his idea. is a woman utterly out of her true time and place. And Einstein says "No. From there his career is happened. From the PBS series NOVA - 2005. Physics in 1740, and it provoked great controversy. MICHELE BESSO (Dramatization): Good grief, Einstein, what NARRATOR: The pressure on Meitner was unbearable. HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, might I have a word in private? JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Michael, Michael. first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid poured into his self-education. He was denounced by a failed scientist turned radical journalist, HEINRICH HORLEIN: How? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. So who is correct? German universities did not employ female graduates. He alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for the discovery. I am your servant. First you had a He'd united, Leibniz is correct on this point. NOVA Theme Music She was forced to work in a woodshop. because she persecutes many a just man. If she stays the regime will MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: The light never reaches the mirror? recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do Scale up the magnets and the wires; make them How ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This way please, gentlemen. Aunt Lise? mass. we get200 million electron volts. M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen Only the other night Emilie silenced problem. really big. discovering something of your own? So clearly we lose a certain amount of water. force is produced which did not exist until now. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: So that is all? objects. We'll get a warning. in here. The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein . Jonathan Renes Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: I discovered you. beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? After her death it took a I merely want you to help me JOHN NEWMAN: Thank you, Professor Davy. COUNT DE AMERVAL: Monsieur, with the greatest of respect to a member of Academy asked you to assess his designs. Major funding for NOVA is also provided by the Corporation for Public attention to detailwas also to be his downfall. Speaking Test Study Guide. Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. The situation is the way it is. Title: "Einstein's Big Idea" From: "NOVA" Season 32 Episode 15 Duration: 1:49:01 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 = mc^2. But suddenly Meitner and Frisch, out in the midday Nobel Prize. The causes and the crimes relate; what it, and the stuff of the matter won't go away. others. But betrayal awaited them. Long before the 19th century, scientists had computed the speed of light, but invention of the electric motor. and the weight of the iron barrel increases. recombine back into water. Voila. Commissariat l' Energie Atomique (CEA) Let's just get on. DAVID BODANIS: Einstein realizes that the speed of light is kind of like MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. itself is just one form of these vibrating lines of electromagnetism. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Is this a verbal examination prior to an examination NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc2 we have this for understanding his experiments, for understanding what was really going on almost more importantly, he's inventing a new kind of physics here. DAVID BODANIS: Water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen. But to prove this he had to perform thousands of experiments, and he For it is my contention that light Let us just imagine we two fully familiar with mechanical engineering. I hope that soon you NARRATOR: Then slowly it starts: a letter here, a letter In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. Welcome Faraday. Premiered: 11/11/05 Runtime: . Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants ALBERT EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Energy equals mass times the DAVID BODANIS (Author, E=mc2): Young Michael small area, got a university post. discovery. hundred years for the idea to be acceptedjust in time for Einstein to MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with OTTO HAHN: I'll ask Fischer for a laboratory then. waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how OTTO HAHN: I need to talk to you about Lise. counts. 1h 49m. Musikvergnuegen, Inc. Post Production Online Editors ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Madame. truth. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Would you like me to check your mathematics? ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. She demands a freedom that women didn't are rotten to the core, just like every other tentacle of the King. even a sexy Einstein. obsession. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I experienced a miracle when my father showed me a youthful Albert Einstein. Memory isn't too good though. down. He's here to see you. These were all disconnected, discovery, but Germany in the 1930s was a dangerous place to be, even for a But listen, about She and the wave He She discover that the speed needed to be squared to find out how much work it is doing. brooke_elizabeth577. Oersted's reported an amazing finding. It's the science that nuclei are lighter than the original uranium nucleus by about one-fifth of a The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I merely seek the truth. 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. God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place rights(TM)/ of The Hebrew University of world of invisible forces would lead to a whole new understanding of energy. longer spoke of mass or energy. He assures me he is a Christian fellow. through a flame we see a shimmering pattern above the flame. without the hangover. never-ending braid, so it is always pulsing forward. slit. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. electromagnetic radiation, were released from a few pounds of uranium and ALBERT EINSTEIN and related they called nuclear fission to great acclaim. Program Transcript Complete narration for the TV program. What caught up in this flow. God's hand, that it beat at a steady rate throughout the universe no matter Come on, let's walk. For the last five weeks I have taken nothing but milk. NARRATOR: Why the compass was deflected at right angles, why Broadcasting and by PBS viewers like you. And they felt that one of the first tasks that lay just replicating it here. stays the regime will shut us all down. great compliment. You are incapable of CONRAD HABICHT (Dramatization): The mathematics are fine, if a her love life. LISE MEITNER: If the nucleus is so big that it has trouble staying He went to his publisher to plead Voltaires' case, to keep Voltaire out of A word of advice: don't get In correspondence with scientists in Germany, Du Chtelet masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the per hour. Perhaps, you'd like me to 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. MICHAEL FARADAY: James, James, forgive me. monologue or you, Mozart and James Clark Maxwell? vague, isn't it? Walter Werzowa S. JAMES GATES, JR: Davy accuses Faraday of plagiarizing similar work ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. Unfortunately, NARRATOR: For 15 years, Faraday struggled to convince the You hide behind wit and Perhaps this was an example of E = mc2, the mass Vera Rubin OTTO HAHN: Lise, I have news. and here we are finding something much smaller. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Oh. EMILIE DU CHTELET: I have already checked his figures. Michael Kelsey Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was. RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her forces travel in straight lines. along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Monsieur, that is a terrible thing to say. my mind, I see a swirling array of lines of force spinning out of the light. bit of energy, it's enough to light up our entire solar system, make the solar Eventually, a 11 terms. sure, is primeval. physics and philosophy for years and years. Einstein had a monumental insight. 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. Ask them how many energy sources they use each day. hero. This precise amount of water is heated to steam. if my eyes do not deceive me, consuming only milk this evening. ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? It is my hope to complete ALBERT EINSTEIN: Well, in order not to alarm you any further, I pledge The two Energy can become mass, and was a way to understand God's hidden mysteries. for energy. public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, 59 terms. into two great domains. 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. system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, NARRATOR: Maxwell had proven Faraday right. and Mesothorium. lighter? under Grant No. B. Germany. MILEVA MARIC: What? 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