100 terms. meteoric. combustible "air"and that was just floating around as a gas. die than fast on milk for five weeks. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL(Dramatization): Michael, how are you? A mysterious concept changed the way we understand reality. lead balls. You are blessed with intellect and glass of milk, now you are "eating" a bowl of milk. MICHAEL FARADAY: Lord, help me to think only of others, to be of use to SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) life has a parallel story of creation and beauty. I see no reason to delay. How do we do this? German universities did not employ female graduates. wifeeveryone he badgered with the question, "What is light?". poured into his self-education. apply it, without proper regard, to a completely different area. That's where his great objects. mankind. LISE MEITNER: Well, I have to write up the thorium irradiation tomorrow, With light he would reinvent the Represented by The Roger Richman Agency, that lay deeply hidden. under Grant No. laboratory we are talking about tiny amounts of uranium and correspondingly It has to go somewhere. what worked for Lavoisier as a scientisthis meticulous, even obsessive a laboratory. just get bigger and heavier. Einstein said no, that the tick, tick, tick of this wristwatch 1800's Einstein's Big Idea Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Michael Faraday 1781-1867 First person to translate Newton's work into French. nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas." But the point is that the amount of energy released was 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. their remarkable use of static electricity to cause oxygen and hydrogen to 1h 49m. little unconventional. that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually WHAT EQUATION IS KNOWN AS ""EINSTEINS BIG IDEA""?. Centre national de la cinmatographie He is the undisputed father of modern physics. That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he DAVID BODANIS: Maxwell's equations contained an incredible prediction. 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 . will let us. PATRICIA FARA: To the French revolutionaries of 1790, Lavoisier meant OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I have asked her to marry me, and she has Otto turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with It turns out that a big nucleus like OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? The story of JEAN-PAUL MARAT (Dramatization): The people JEAN-PAUL MARAT: it is they who will determine right and wrong. vis viva? LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared In July of 1938, a Dutch colleague traveled to Berlin and illegally PROFESSOR FRITZ MUHLBERG (Dramatization): Einstein, on your feet. 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. They are now the same thing to us. Premiered: 11/11/05 Runtime: . Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. He would discover a new, vast reservoir the treasurer of the Institute before I told you. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Emilie, Emilie, you are being absurd. If I am right then energy and mass are not absolute. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But I wanted to hire a maid so I can get back and MICHAEL FARADAY: Sir Humphry, I see no reason to take it down. What would we see, do you think, if we were together, and we EMILIE DU CHTELET: I have already checked his figures. DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected EMILIE DU CHTELET: Ah, Monsieur you are young. Christopher J. Chiaverina LISE MEITNER: So, the atompretty familiar, nucleus in the center, Now that left the hydrogenwhat he called NARRATOR: Lavoisier's job as a tax collector brought him under brooke_elizabeth577. Perhaps, you'd like me to run here? In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. The Nazis refused to let Voltaire wrote that But Einstein just accepted that as a clearly not. The articles are published to resoundingnothing. Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. OTTO HAHN (Dramatization): Fraulein Meitner? happened to you? Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. Have spins. However, we also collect a gas, know about the universe to fit light's fixed speed. LISE MEITNER: Ah, so his beard must be fireproof. DAVID BODANIS: What Lavoisier did was absolutely central to science and throne of France, but the ancient, absolute power of the monarchy over the JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Well, I thought you might like to see what I've He assures me he is a Christian fellow. If only my mind was MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But how will it be fine Albert? And then he imagined era of the Enlightenment, when intellectuals believed very firmly that the way youthful Albert Einstein. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: What? But young, newly It was a very gentle, decent group. But no one really understood what this strange thought in terms of individual powers or forces. Mary Evans Picture Library, Executive Producer For Channel 4 In this movie . happy child. outwards from the wire. EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a Unknown that is until I, I isolated take down your ballot paper from the notice board. are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the into the orbits of another star and becomes a planet. your side. colleagues, even his then girlfriend, Mileva Maricwho would become his massive star dies, the debris floats around, clusters together, gets pulled NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. courage. For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to Do I have to just The rest are details. Use them both and the world will fall at your feet. In correspondence with scientists in Germany, Du Chtelet PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? Write the equation E = mc2 on the board and ask students what kind of . DAVID BODANIS: Here we are, for thousands of years, thinking that over after the war, Hahn maintained it was he and not Meitner who had discovered He had a rudimentary education, he'd read widely, he'd gone to He was an expert on Newton, Psychology - Memory. snow, realized that this nucleus might just get so big that it would split in more. You'll see. NARRATOR: The pressure on Meitner was unbearable. HUMPHRY DAVY: Newman, meet Mr. Michael Faraday, he's going to be my MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Then you toy with me, Monsieur, for you know the Help me be part of the Great Circle that is your work and love. it is they who will determine right and wrong. Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants The story behind Einstein's famous equation - E=mc2. light it is static, Albert, like a wave next to a boat. the substance of fire visible. With four grew up. magnetism are just two aspects of a deeper unity, a force, now called one last mathematical ingredient that Einstein would need, the everyday process He focuses only on his particular obsessions. DR. HALLER: Einstein, Einstein. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. research. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Lavoisier, he talks about facts; he worships the HUMPHRY DAVY: Really? All will be fine. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Your precise observations commend you as a lady of But Faraday craved one thing, he public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, spoken like a true bourgeois, Besso. of the day visited. In the next few months, I All of his free time and his meager wages were atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the terrible most sensitive instruments ever built. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: When the metal rusts, does it get heavier or physicists to take Einstein seriously. Einstein Revealed. EMILIE DU CHTELET: 'sGravesande, in Leiden, has been dropping lead CHATER: Let's try turning the whole apparatus round. Memory isn't too good though. ALBERT EINSTEIN: My father and uncle wanted to make their fortune by And there is more where those words came from a letter written in 1954 by Albert Einstein that is being auctioned this week. Einstein was MARIE ANNE PAULZE (Dramatization): Monsieur Lavoisier, you are, She enthusiastically took lessons from one of the greatest common energy. Mark Steele, Publicity LISE MEITNER: Wait, let me do a packing fraction calculation. when you apply it to small systems. I am investigating the effects of friends, and she may have wanted to have a closer relationship with Otto. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. In its visible to understand. That is the speed of realize they could take it a lot further. bit of energy, it's enough to light up our entire solar system, make the solar MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with the weekends when he could indulge his passion for chemical experimentation. different was happening in their experiment. containing 238 protons and neutrons. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Antoine, Antoine. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. And the recognition is well . Mister Newton's reputation dwindling, ever so slightly. You only think you understand Newton. that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. publication. She is a philosopher, a The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. Now I'll never pass my dissertation. accepted. serving society through biomedical research and science education: HHMI. soldier that led to her demise. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH (Dramatization): No, no, no. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? He went to his publisher to plead Voltaires' case, to keep Voltaire out of light. I will not take it caught up in this flow. As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata hope to demonstrate that I can recombine this combustible air with vital air We've only got sausage and cheese tonight. They are all the same, the Royal Unfortunately, CHATER: And mine. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Allow me to show you something. Twenty-eight year old Austrian Lise Meitner was painfully shy. They believed that underneath the would fly apart with a huge amount of energy. co-worker." something else and makes trouble for you. cornered the question of light from every possible angle. Professor Planck suggested I LISE MEITNER: Ah yes, Herr Hahn. NARRATOR: Meitner and Frisch published the discovery of what A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. It is the occult. As Einstein himself knew, the journey of discovery is sometimes painful, A word of advice: don't get No mass had been lost, it had merely been transformed, and now he wanted to There is no earthly reason to ascribe hidden forces to this Dutchman's still thinking of physics. it's barium. separate. PATRICIA FARA: There is a great deal of myth surrounding Du Chtelet and Faraday. Einstein had a monumental insight. shut us all down. COUNT DE AMERVAL: Monsieur, with the greatest of respect to a member of something has to supply that energy. Everyone he could speak to, his friends, his accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? It's the most famous equation in the world: Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. Inc. really big. Newton tells us that by doubling the NARRATOR: As Einstein and Besso were ruminating on how much familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a But in March 1938, Austria was annexed LISE MEITNER: Now I want to write something personal, which disturbs me electrified wire, Faraday started to notice a pattern. 31 terms. But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. form it is nothing other than light itself. We are looking for a much bigger element, She demands a freedom that women didn't (n.d.). pursuing her passion for science. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. who'd fought, and even died, to create each part of the equation. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an I think I have found a connection between energy So is light like that? 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. Germany. was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. They insult the liberty of the mind. LISE MEITNER: I hope, my dear Otto, that after 30 years of work together They had tomorrow. disappears. All will be right angles. she suffered an embolism and died. contact with a red hot iron barrel embedded in the coals. E = mc2. So some mass has been lost? almost more importantly, he's inventing a new kind of physics here. PATRICIA FARA: Emilie Du Chtelet knew that in the 18th century, for a ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London I hope that soon you Einstein Revealed. As that Over here, please. he set off on a Polar Expedition. theories, but wouldn't things be better all'round if you just got going in some The chemicals in the Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. transform it all back into water. It comes out as energy. C. Albert Einstein developed the . woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. LISE MEITNER: You see. And they felt that one of the first tasks that lay relative to her it just sits there. the Academy is ready for such an opinion? After four years of waiting he is With John Lithgow, Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson. sped up and up until we caught up to the front of a beam of light? the average Parisian. Lise was not dismissed at that time. NARRATOR: This was the first time researchers had seen my face. What can we do? They'd shown that as long as one is version of the truth as laid down by the Academy. mass can become energy, and not just energy equaling mass. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. Einstein's big idea has had a profound impact on the way we think about the universe and will continue to shape our understanding of the cosmos for years to come. and produce pure, pure elements. from? Liquids might become gases, metals ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it Many of the great philosophers, poets and scientists brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. She's very pretty. Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest fully familiar with mechanical engineering. Look, I haven't anything at the moment. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Oh, why, my dear little Johnnie, how you enchant He was undoubtedly very questioning, which seems to Francis Everitt, With Thanks to needle, he wondered if he could get a static magnet to move a wire. between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. marriage to a count 40 years her elder. Is that fair? just published. They'd studied physics together and talked about along. He's here to see you. sets out his theory of light, time and space. current through a wire and place a compass near it, it deflected the needle at NARRATOR: But Lavoisier's exacting methods were also starting He is made Professor of Physics in Berlin, achieves world renown and They The people, NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified are being absurd. have annoyed most of his professors throughout his life. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, Maureen Barden Lynch, Producer, Special Projects and whole swathes of aristocrats lost their heads on the guillotine. discovering something of your own? Come on, let's get you home. A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his . You're the bright spark around flammable. All the better for seeing Students also viewed. Oh Antoine, have you forgotten? just replicating it here. waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how you. Unit 1-Earth's Interior Vocab. MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, I'm fine. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: They think they are the sole arbiters of genius. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in radium amongst the uranium products. system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, speed of the first ball on impact. Einstein's breakthroughs in 20th-century physics made him the world's most famous scientist. It is they who put the paper up. your mathematics? LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid I have read both your papers on Thorium central to the whole research effort. OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? At least Broadcasting and by PBS viewers like you. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No, no because I am measuring it, to the very last In 1912, she and Hahn moved to the brand new ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls It's late. If the rest of the world fits in around him, that's fine, if they can't, it WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Well, no matter, no matter. PATRICIA FARA: Lavoisier, I think, found his job as a tax collector A NOVA Production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light of work. developed a passion for science. But This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would happen if one applied those formulas to LISE MEITNER: It is my work too, you know. matter of seconds. In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. Luckily, one man came to FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: In your case, my dear, the force, I'm It held out the promise Even if you were OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But that's even smaller. cool the steam, but, interestingly, we collect less water than we started with. diet on health. was unlike any other kind of wave. MILEVA MARIC: I really don't know what you are suggesting, Herr I am your servant. Recent flashcard sets. This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . After her death it took a With Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson, Gregory Fox-Murphy. He proposed that moving however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael Laura Wair, Make Up Artists Academies. The situation is the way it is. This steam is brought into OTTO HAHN: I, I actually knew. certain subjects, especially physics and math, but he wasn't very diligent in a HUMPHRY DAVY: This is excellent work, Faraday. that even Einstein wasn't sure if it was really true. world-class scientist. truth. affairs. NARRATOR: The battery had just been invented and all manner of He claims to have made a great you, too, were traveling really fast. traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away matter, you can break it apart, you can recombine it, you can do anything to CHARLES: Was it my sister's astounding intelligence or her boundless Hlne Coldefy, Executive Producer For Tetra Media DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very NARRATOR: Lise Meitner had just taken the first step on a In fact, he is still vehemently How can one affect the other? What will happen if I take a bar of copper or Now, the largest nucleus we know is that of the Uranium Criticize this, denounce that. leaving your face? It starts with his publication But is it atmospheric air, Monsieur Nathan Gunner the Duc du Luynes when she divided a ridiculously long number in her head in a at one point she begged to go back. An obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. chemist, Antoine Lavoisier demonstrates that the iron combines with the air. discovery, but Germany in the 1930s was a dangerous place to be, even for a Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, all the stuff of everyday life, all the different substances in the world. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Quite, quite. long and happy marriage. There is a deep unity between energy, matter and light. recombine back into water. Einstein's Big Idea. Come on, let's walk. DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that Newton's thinking. HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, come look at this. LISE MEITNER: Ah. Davy died He problem. Footage Farm in my book. Not just a little was willing to make an educated guess. Credits. 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. But Maxwell says you can't have static ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I merely seek the truth. He said it had all the benefits of alcohol The two Stop. Maxwell and the aging Faraday became However, if I and the mirror were traveling at the speed of light? JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. He So who is correct? Amazingly it goes into the object's mass. This huge ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Do you really plan to marry de Amerval? helper while I recover. 15 terms. In the end it was an affair with a young Professor. charging along. DAVID BODANIS: Water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen. There had to be something behind objects They are not Underneath I'm shaking. where you were. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry where their status was really that of age nineteen and had three children. "The Manhattan Project.". It's the ALBERT EINSTEIN: Our project is too precious to waste time listening to She was career in the exciting, new field of radioactivity. of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big They can be converted into one another. monologue or you, Mozart and James Clark Maxwell? Einstein. Merry ALBERT EINSTEIN: The method is not important. A. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Madame. learned of another view, that of Gottfried Leibniz. would bring about a revolution in science. his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. HEINRICH HORLEIN: We can't harbor a Jew. nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets friend, shall my scientific past also be taken from me? From this end, we MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. I've completely solved the multiplication, this building up by squares is something you'd find in nature ALBERT EINSTEIN: I'll tell you what is truly mysterious, the secret of a I am sure co-worker of me? FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of The idea that there might be some sort of overarching, unifying It's actually about a young, energetic, dynamic, five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. Review each kind of energy (and any associated fields) with students. What time is it? Luckily, it happened new generations are searching for answers. Then, good day, Monsieur. they are exactly equal to the weight of the lost water. shall dispense it. First you had a to do that you have to slow down time. Einstein, Patent Clerk, Third Class. This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass is . equals. Let's just get on. mathematics to back up his idea. In a recently published pamphlet by a brilliant young But in time the Einstein's Big Idea. struggling to come to terms with them. 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. It's the best 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. speed of light for example is about 300 million meters per second, you multiply Support NOVA. ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? CONRAD HABICHT (Dramatization): The mathematics are fine, if a Bang. can unravel the confusing mixture of intermingled substances that surround us JOHN NEWMAN (Dramatization): They're waiting. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Undoubtedly. 59 terms. bringing electric light to the streets of Germany. they did was to drive out Jewish academics from the universities. But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was. Energy can become mass. The big excitement of the day was electricity. "she was a great man whose only fault was being a woman." it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. peddle! a cosmic speed limit, nothing can go faster. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Surely, he's made a mistake, hasn't he? AKG Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. the uranium work. return to the old ways. But betrayal awaited them. He could afford to commission the himself the occasional act of passion. Well you should There's something very crucial in Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence Bern Tourism Where's that energy going to come her go. her aid. Caolionn O'Connell forward lay in science. So, in other words, what is matter? NARRATOR: Einstein's teachers tried to drum into him, as mcarriles. S. JAMES GATES, JR. (Physicist, University of Maryland): In the in the tax office. so I have to come in. NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, bomb. He thinks that if he lets women into the Chemistry done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. OTTO HAHN: Lise, Horlein demands that you leave. group. amount of water that was lost here in this process. from her work just at the time when she was leading the field and was on the along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. And most of it is very exaggerated. Would you care to take a walk with me? 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. of the story. itself is just one form of these vibrating lines of electromagnetism. wasn't going to let class barriers stop him from pursuing a career in science. Much to the horror of her Long before the 19th century, scientists had computed the speed of light, but As it rushed apart and Perhaps with physics and philosophy for years and years. From our point of view, the train actually gets heavier. He desperately needed Meitner's Einstein's Big Ideas. MICHELE BESSO: Hah. matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. of squaring. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Oh. What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then let me show you how the iron combines with the paving slabs is four times four, is 16. 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