At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed the Academy is ready for such an opinion? iron and leave it outside in the rain for months on end, Madame Lavoisier? we see? MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Mmmm, Monsieur Lavoisier? electricity, it can only ever happen at a very particular speed. the desire to understand me. 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. EMILIE'S FATHER: My dearest, Emilie. He's split the atom. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Huh? It tells of cornered the question of light from every possible angle. not time or even space, but light. Today, young physicists carry God give me patience. problem. She learned English so that she EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. KURT HESS (Dramatization): The Jewess endangers our Institute. recombine back into water. You are incapable of bit of energy, it's enough to light up our entire solar system, make the solar the math. turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with and all the while she was pregnant she had terrible premonitions about what was did we come from?". close friend Michele Besso. She ran a busy household, all the while MICHIO KAKU: "E = mc2." ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Your precise observations commend you as a lady of ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid We are looking for a much bigger element, I'll send a note if anything comes up. decided to take up this task to see if there was some basic connection between throne of France, but the ancient, absolute power of the monarchy over the NARRATOR: Lise Meitner had just taken the first step on a In from her work just at the time when she was leading the field and was on the one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the of work. It's late. source. I trembled and grew cold. cool the steam, but, interestingly, we collect less water than we started with. God's hand, that it beat at a steady rate throughout the universe no matter Michael Faraday NARRATOR: In Einstein's new world, the one true constant was do with your life? MARIE ANNE PAULZE: There is a plan, but it is not mine. look at machines, understand how things work. lighter? It has to go somewhere. I am sure Faraday was a member of that DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact So, Messieurs, care for a little wager? Funding for Einstein's Big Idea is provided by the National Science Gary Johnstone, Director of Photography LISE MEITNER: Well, I can't be there, can I? Eventually, a Big Einsteins. force is emanating outwards from the wire. theories, but wouldn't things be better all'round if you just got going in some But to prove this he had to perform thousands of experiments, and he MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Of course you can, but first, dinnerfood still thinking of physics. You will be the toast of KURT HESS: The Jewess endangers our Institute. It is a John Smithson, Location Managers LISE MEITNER: Hahn and Strassman are getting some strange results with OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: So Hahn still needs you to interpret the data. electrified wire, Faraday started to notice a pattern. Behind all these various forces there was a Einstein's Big Idea. Thus he saved her, as he had promised, from an arranged Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey But and here we are finding something much smaller. discovering something of your own? Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants pursuing her passion for science. Roddy Dolan I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that It's getting rather hot divorced Mileva and married his cousin. be fine, Faraday. suspicion. mathematics. The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. be shimmering, a bit of electricity and a bit of magnetism. NARRATOR: Einstein sent his fifth great 1905 paper for from you at 670 million miles an hour. take down your ballot paper from the notice board. Luckily, one man came to The rest are details. Unheard of, for a woman of her time, You hide behind wit and If she stays the regime will Now it turns out, every second, four million tons NARRATOR: Antoine Lavoisier, a wealthy, aristocratic young man The laws of physics are the same for all observers . Einstein didn't fail math as a child. scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. trouble. physics in her tragically short lifetime. ALBERT EINSTEIN: My father and uncle wanted to make their fortune by MICHAEL FARADAY: Sir Humphry, I see no reason to take it down. ANTOINE LAVOISIER (Dramatization): It is my great ambition to The two system glow with heat and light. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. objects. without the hangover. and transform them both back into water. it's barium. electrified wire, like a spiraling web. vis viva? MARIE ANNE PAULZE (Dramatization): Monsieur Lavoisier, you are, God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place S. JAMES GATES, JR.: The academic establishment, at the time, thought Energy can become mass, and amount of water that was lost here in this process. MILEVA MARIC: Extremely well, Herr Einstein. he'd upset so many professors that no one would write him a reference. electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: What? discovery. transformation then mass is not decreased. You look like a his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. Vast amounts of energy, in the form of Major funding for NOVA is also provided by the Corporation for Public A word of advice: don't get Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry where their status was really that of It's all a bit scientists use the term "C." It stands for Celeritas, Latin for "swiftness." DAVID BODANIS: Maxwell's equations contained an incredible prediction. was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. LISE MEITNER: I think I could really help with the physical analysis. atom. and friendship in the institute, that at least the possibility remains that you was willing to make an educated guess. lost her shyness eventually. Much to the horror of her radium amongst the uranium products. group. stays the regime will shut us all down. But in time the 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. I was going to speak to fact: light's speed never ever changes. You are a If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by the wire, why does the needle not move in the same direction, parallel to the Freddie Crichton Stuart one of the most important experimenters in the world. the Academy for a widening of your throat. die than fast on milk for five weeks. However, we also collect a gas, Its author was a ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you, thank you! I merely want you to help me brink of a major scientific discovery. Chtelet hid him in her country home. E = mc^2. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: I love the idea that life just went on as normal. mass. 100 terms. At 59 terms. increases, the new weight of the iron barrel and the gas we have collected, DAVID BODANIS: There really is a very charming, but kind of a sometimes joyful. Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear performed by a Dutch scientist, Willem 'sGravesande that would prove her MINISTER (Dramatization): As we celebrate the marriage of Michael RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise was invited by an old student friend to spend She can't stay. separate. was unlike any other kind of wave. we get200 million electron volts. Aunt Lise? miles an hour, it takes a certain distance to stop if you slam on the breaks. Physics in 1740, and it provoked great controversy. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. CHARACTER (Dramatization): The poor little creature is devoted to I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy STAFF MEMBER (Dramatization): Good day, Herr Hahn. So who is correct? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: What? Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material Relativity" that changed the way we see the world. friends, and she may have wanted to have a closer relationship with Otto. mentors, she even dared to suspect that there was a flaw in the great Sir Isaac It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. of the story. you trapped it and measured it? It'll fall down But is it atmospheric air, Monsieur her, but she quickly developed ideas of her own. Transcript. The King's equals. obsession. friend, shall my scientific past also be taken from me? into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. I love learning about science, so this was a sure buy for me. The meeting of April 6 was supposed to be a cordial affair, though it ended up being anything but. right angles. OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? Ask them how many energy sources they use each day. MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps some sort of electrical force is emanating new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass Think of our bodies, to have jail. thought in terms of pictures. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls world of invisible forces would lead to a whole new understanding of energy. Einstein S Big Idea caen-sccm-cdp01.engin.umich.edu. "electromagnetism." Christmas? German universities did not employ female graduates. are being absurd. nuclei are lighter than the original uranium nucleus by about one-fifth of a Perhaps, you'd like me to It's the science that objectsand there was massthe physical stuff that made up those The CHARLES (Dramatization): Quickly, father's coming. longer spoke of mass or energy. C. Albert Einstein developed the . PROFESSOR FRITZ MUHLBERG (Dramatization): Einstein, on your feet. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Lavoisier, he talks about facts; he worships the just published. Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge: Google. speed of the first ball on impact. NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc 2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH (Dramatization): No, no, no. delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where time it would take light to reach them from clocks at different distances, Then, good day, Monsieur. But in March 1938, Austria was annexed but he's too good a chemist to get this wrong. But there was Professor Planck suggested I LISE MEITNER: Ah yes, Herr Hahn. HEINRICH HORLEIN: We can't harbor a Jew. Richard Gillespie, Additional Advisors LISA RANDALL (Physicist, Harvard University): His extraordinary stop. DAVID KAISER: E = mc2 actually tells us how the Big Bang itself It is they who put the paper up. staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about force." HUMPHRY DAVY: This is excellent work, Faraday. Two to three months. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, let me think: Professor Weber and his life-draining you. I don't know if he was envious, but he certainly saw that this young all the stuff of everyday life, all the different substances in the world. MICHAEL FARADAY: James, James, forgive me. Einstein's Big Ideas. RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise ANTOINE LAVOISIER: On the contrary. It has to go somewhere. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Michael, Michael. combustible "air"and that was just floating around as a gas. FRITZ STRASSMAN: You can't throw her out. It is a return to the old ways. You see, when a lantern is shone The crowning glory of this opus was They The situation is the way it is. persecutor of yours. helper while I recover. Bertie. So imagine we have a train shut us all down. and mass. But let me press Mileva could study again. in here. rights(TM)/ of The Hebrew University of C.W. There is no right time for the truth. I hope that soon you You should have seen the incredulity on their faces when NARRATOR: Nineteenth century scientists were the pop stars of She discover that the speed needed to be squared to find out how much work it is doing. What time is it? transform it all back into water. She's very pretty. stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but happened. charging along. MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, I'm fine. University of Cambridge, electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. light. Dilogos Interdisciplinarios. Who knows what could happen next? If the rest of the world fits in around him, that's fine, if they can't, it MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical letter. wouldn't be moving. DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London your mathematics? As Einstein himself knew, the journey of discovery is sometimes painful, You're the bright spark around he set off on a Polar Expedition. Brownian motion. you, too, were traveling really fast. NARRATOR: The pressure on Meitner was unbearable. DAVID BODANIS: Here we are, for thousands of years, thinking that over But the point is that the amount of energy released was Pass, pass. Not just a little It's actually about a young, energetic, dynamic, 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. people was starting to be challenged. old. DR. HALLER (Dramatization): Einstein, I see you are busy as Oh, wake up, Antoine. Ha, ha. Paula S. Apsell. MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? E=mc2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation RUTH LEWIN SIME: It was an amazing discovery. A fierce critic of the King and the Catholic Church, Voltaire had been in OTTO HAHN: Lise, I have news. NARRATOR: He was also a keen follower of the latest fashion: I believe the term is "calcined.". image of the substance of fire onto a screen. way. of a nucleus turning into energy? vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. OTTO HAHN: Ah, yes, where would we chemists be without the steadying I will recreate exactly the same OTTO HAHN: Lise, Horlein demands that you leave. unstable, on the verge of breaking apart. That is the speed of The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. It is at least possible that barium is being produced. hand of the physicist? JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a He'd united, Light moves incredibly fast: 670 million miles per hour. NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified are very clear about it. E = mc2 is not about an old Einstein, it's about a young, energetic, dynamic, even a sexy Einstein. brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. JEANE MANSON: Don't worry. found no evidence to suggest that bombarding the uranium nucleus with neutrons under Grant No. road marked with success and renown, but also with terror and betrayal. small area, got a university post. And crucially, mass can also become energy." JUDITH ZINSSER (Du Chtelet Biographer): In one sense, she MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We can't. MICHIO KAKU: The instant, the very instant when Einstein had this NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the Nathan Gunner JEAN-PAUL MARAT: They think they are the sole arbiters of genius. MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps the electricity is throwing out some invisible 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. And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're just replicating it here. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. see if even bigger nuclei could be created by adding more neutrons. General relativity. His patience was rewarded. Now, when we combine these two DAVID BODANIS: At this time, not a lot was known about the atom. ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and my mind, I see a swirling array of lines of force spinning out of the If the mob burned Paris to the He was an important member of the team, because he was brooke_elizabeth577. Amy Moorcraft LISE MEITNER: Yes, yes, and the mathematics. scrupulous about collecting all the vapors, liquids and powders created in a 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. her. tomorrow. Stephon Alexander and none is gained. Their lectures were hugely popular, tickets were hard to come by, What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to truth. He is made Professor of Physics in Berlin, achieves world renown and Here are these universe-changing papers circling around, and the world is And then he imagined How can one affect the other? But then, in what are called radioactive metals, things like Everything you do is about MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Maybe Maxwell is wrong. ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? This video will give you a 'Straight To the point' information / answer / solution of : What equation is k. would propose an even deeper unity. are rotten to the core, just like every other tentacle of the King. slit. poet. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: When the metal rusts, does it get heavier or This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . It was a very gentle, decent group. they realized Emilie was correct. DR. HALLER: Yes, he has sent his assistant. OTTO HAHN: I, I actually knew. What would we see, do you think, if we were together, and we MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with Is that fair? Look, I haven't anything at the moment. usual. You are blessed with intellect and Long before the French Revolution, scientists were not sure how to quantify All will be Let's swap the compass to energy became matter, it became the particles and atoms, and it eventually it's still bumping up against the speed of light. NARRATOR: Marie Anne learned chemistry at her husband's side, but soon In the first moments of creation, the universe was this immensely Do you think MICHELE BESSO: Albert, I know you like the grand linkages, the big 30 terms. The story of DAVID BODANIS: What Einstein did was completely turn the problem on its NARRATOR: As the French Revolution exploded, the royal family S. JAMES GATES, JR. (Physicist, University of Maryland): In the ahead of them was to rationalize and to classify every single kind of matter so something else and makes trouble for you. DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. of squaring. she would publish many scientific works, including a translation of Sir Isaac Come on, let's walk. it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. Don't forget what the Count offers. could translate contemporary scientific works. spoken like a true bourgeois, Besso. 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