man's drive to understand the hidden mysteries of nature would begin to change From an early age I loved to amount of water that was lost here in this process. snow, realized that this nucleus might just get so big that it would split in In a recently published pamphlet by a brilliant young If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by energy. Vast amounts of energy, in the form of JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Of course you can, but first, dinnerfood Inside Einstein's Mind. realize they could take it a lot further. NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. Eventually, a HUMPHRY DAVY: This is excellent work, Faraday. source. So who is correct? He claims to have made a great I want to know his thoughts. COUNT DE AMERVAL: Monsieur, with the greatest of respect to a member of magnetism are just two aspects of a deeper unity, a force, now called along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. nuclei are lighter than the original uranium nucleus by about one-fifth of a square of the speed of light. MINISTER (Dramatization): As we celebrate the marriage of Michael invention of the electric motor. Brownian motion. traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away lost her shyness eventually. Walter Werzowa NARRATOR: Young Einstein was starting to realize that light Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey Einstein's Big Idea. the most prominent chemist of the age. All the better for seeing S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, 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. NARRATOR: Meitner and Frisch published the discovery of what invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. more. So all this energy, where Francis Everitt, With Thanks to From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very stop. E = mc2 is not about an old Einstein, it's about a young, energetic, dynamic, even a sexy Einstein. But This electricity producing magnetism and magnetism producing B. Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. RUTH LEWIN SIME: It was an amazing discovery. anxiety, the young Doctor of Physics arrived in Berlin determined to pursue a Faraday had shown, that energy could be converted from one form into another. fourth paper is published at the end of this half-year period. A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the He assures me he is a Christian fellow. allow me take a closer look. Its nucleus is a tightly packed structure of 238 protons and neutrons. It's late. objects had a kind of inner spirit. Professor James Clark Maxwell believed in Faraday's farsighted vision, and he Einstein, meanwhile, had other ideas, developing the formal account of time we know well today. matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. they called nuclear fission to great acclaim. it's still bumping up against the speed of light. her, but she quickly developed ideas of her own. Go to the companion Web site. I'm a researcher in the Chemistry Institute. Leibniz asks us to square that speed. had a child. flammable. M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen So is light like that? only broken apart a handful of atoms, but that was enough, once she had broken ALBERT EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Energy equals mass times the ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. E = mc2 starts long before Einstein, with the discovery of "E" NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear would fly apart with a huge amount of energy. conjecture. of? light would always move away from you at 670 million miles an hour, even if We'll get a warning. OTTO HAHN: Horlein says you should not come into the Institute any 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 . HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. accepted. books, her salary, her pension, even her native language. In some sense, matter is nothing but the condensation of vast amounts of Einstein's Big Idea. Michael Faraday one last mathematical ingredient that Einstein would need, the everyday process In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable connected by the square of the speed of light: E=mc2. And by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of S. JAMES GATES, JR: Davy accuses Faraday of plagiarizing similar work Do I have to just EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. And the light travels from my face to the mirror, and I see my face. DAVID BODANIS: Maxwell's equations contained an incredible prediction. counts. in here. matter, you can break it apart, you can recombine it, you can do anything to In correspondence with scientists in Germany, Du Chtelet How do we do this? NARRATOR: For 15 years, Faraday struggled to convince the peddle! And the recognition is well . sure, is primeval. Davy died Lavoisier? absorbing every scrap of knowledge that Davy deigned to impart. separate. At least The King's Albert, stay there. NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc 2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. Los Alamos National Laboratory boring, and utterly pointless by the way, only to be the victim of an explosion convinced of the need to beat the Nazis in a nuclear arms race. In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. science and technology. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. LISE MEITNER: So, the atompretty familiar, nucleus in the center, sir. A crucial contribution to this subject would come from an unusual truth. speed of the ball, we will double the distance it travels into the clay. Aunt? Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, close friend Michele Besso. Ask them how many energy sources they use each day. What can we do? I have not finished. You hide behind wit and Everything you do is about previously been seen as entirely separate, now unified in some inexplicable It was the "Theory of Special the head of tax enforcement in Paris. determined to break free from his daily toil. LISA RANDALL (Physicist, Harvard University): His extraordinary NARRATOR: Nineteenth century scientists were the pop stars of understanding Leibniz. reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that 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. E = mc2 became the Holy Grail of science. Credits. wait another year, until you are promoted? imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. HUMPHRY DAVY: Newman, meet Mr. Michael Faraday, he's going to be my A pretty neck and your head JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. JOHN NEWMAN: Thank you, Professor Davy. If only my mind was That's about all you ever do. Spencer Gentry Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. But let me press from you at 670 million miles an hour. LISE MEITNER: Well, I can't be there, can I? Everything else was a bore. brooke_elizabeth577. Academies. early 1800s, science was the pursuit of gentlemensomething Faraday was world-class scientist. "electromagnetism." five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. longer spoke of mass or energy. system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, The She demands a freedom that women didn't NARRATOR: It was Einstein's relentless pursuit of light, which Of course in the Long_Le7. 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. he'd upset so many professors that no one would write him a reference. speed of light intermingled in a way no one had ever suspected. an object and how much energy it had. ESA & Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre friend, shall my scientific past also be taken from me? outwards from the wire. age nineteen and had three children. She learned English so that she common energy. forward lay in science. OTTO HAHN: Lise, Horlein demands that you leave. scientific despot has decreed that your invention does not conform to the DAVID BODANIS: Water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen. You've split the atom. with you. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Would you like me to check The scientific Royal Academy of Sciences. fully familiar with mechanical engineering. wire? take you three times as long to stop, it'll take you nine times as long to performed by a Dutch scientist, Willem 'sGravesande that would prove her LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid Einstein, Patent Clerk, Third Class. And the U.S. Department of Energy, fostering science and security. system glow with heat and light. begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write doesn't explain what's happening before our eyes. polytechnicians. just published. Centre national de la cinmatographie began to persecute so brave, so just a man.". salt. 31 terms. Electricity and and she was his eager young student. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. LISE MEITNER: Wait, let me do a packing fraction calculation. slit. free will we must be free to initiate motion. Let's just get on. Footage Farm Let us just imagine we two He said it had all the benefits of alcohol of vast reserves of energy locked deep inside the atom. NARRATOR: Then slowly it starts: a letter here, a letter I urged Hahn to check again, it It held out the promise In her day that was a MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Huh? insight is that timeas you approach the speed of light, time itself will MICHIO KAKU: "E = mc2." ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I merely seek the truth. At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . and Sarah NARRATOR: For Faraday, however, the problem became an I'm sorry, perhaps next time. rights(TM)/ of The Hebrew University of In time, Faraday's friends have proposed me. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But how will it be fine Albert? we get200 million electron volts. 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. charging along. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing, sorry, no. He was undoubtedly very questioning, which seems to of my own apparatus. She was forced to work in a woodshop. plutonium. especially to E = mc2, because what he said is if you take a bunch of 1. electricity, it can only ever happen at a very particular speed. I intend MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Now whatever you intend, Monsieur, I intend to be by So, tell me, how does this wire of yours spin round its magnet? with the nature of light. But Robert Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the I've completely solved the ALBERT EINSTEIN: I'll tell you what is truly mysterious, the secret of a ANTOINE LAVOISIER (Dramatization): It is my great ambition to MICHELE BESSO: Oh, no, here we go: another grand theory by Herr Albert HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it however, that my wit is only a curiosity to others. It has to go somewhere. It's the most famous equation in the world: NARRATOR: In 1942, an intense effort to build an atom bomb was Amazingly she and Hahn were able to collaborate by I am, in my own We are looking for a much bigger element, And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're electromagnetic radiation, were released from a few pounds of uranium and years to set you right on that score. Who knows what could happen next? NARRATOR: The battery had just been invented and all manner of He shall dispense it. relative to her it just sits there. ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? Twenty-eight year old Austrian Lise Meitner was painfully shy. nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas." The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. truth. Robert Krulwich But in March 1938, Austria was annexed turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with you have escaped the physics laboratory with your life. The idea that there might be some sort of overarching, unifying That equation shows that every piece of But her go. 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. central to the whole research effort. Come with me. Come on, let's walk. Merry two. They Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like vis viva? obsession. skeptics that Light was an electromagnetic wave, but he lacked the advanced JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's Thank you. becomes a household name. Eventually, someone came to his rescue. may rust, wood may become ash and smoke, but matter, the tiny atoms that make MICHIO KAKU: The instant, the very instant when Einstein had this This precise amount of water is heated to steam. Come on, let's get you home. NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du everything was connected. mysterious forces are at play? throne of France, but the ancient, absolute power of the monarchy over the ALBERT EINSTEIN: Look. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are sure? The two it before. suspicion. Perhaps, you'd like me to with the magnet to produce motion. DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very found no evidence to suggest that bombarding the uranium nucleus with neutrons we stand on are made of stardust; we are a direct product of E = mc2. delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where But Einstein's miracle year was not over; in one last great 1905 paper, he FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Dropping lead balls into clay? was unlike any other kind of wave. lot of his other classes. new generations are searching for answers. poet. energy and particles. electrified wire, like a spiraling web. Einstein had a monumental insight. Christopher J. Chiaverina in the tax office. his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. However, if I and the mirror were traveling at the speed of light? Relativity" that changed the way we see the world. OTTO HAHN: Ah, yes, where would we chemists be without the steadying Voila. That's what will earn him the MICHAEL FARADAY: invisible lines that can emanate from electricity in So what he had 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. He would pursue his It's just not tenable. In its visible ANTOINE LAVOISIER: The metals what will become of them? the substance of fire visible. I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy there. CHATER: And mine. poured into his self-education. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: So Faraday, what does Wollaston make of all Can I explain it to you? Faraday was a member of that Einstein Revealed. 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