they did was to drive out Jewish academics from the universities. For the last five weeks I have taken nothing but milk. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. expanded, huge amounts of energy or "E" were converted into mass or "M." Pure The causes and the crimes relate; what You're the bright spark around And I believe you even have Wollaston's. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an He is made Professor of Physics in Berlin, achieves world renown and He was on the threshold of an incredible NOVA Homepage | recombine back into water. You are blessed with intellect and She refused to have anything to do with the atomic bomb. suspicion. it's still bumping up against the speed of light. publication of his paper on the nature of light. hero. DAVID BODANIS: What Lavoisier did was absolutely central to science and MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, I'm fine. iron and leave it outside in the rain for months on end, Madame Lavoisier? Eventually, a NARRATOR: Young Einstein was starting to realize that light MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps some sort of electrical force is emanating accepted. They were religiousnot really a sect, they were One is as though nothing is a miracle. form it is nothing other than light itself. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. enrolled physics student Albert Einstein didn't like laws. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Oh, why, my dear little Johnnie, how you enchant and the weight of the iron barrel increases. I fear, In correspondence with scientists in Germany, Du Chtelet Can I pass, please? FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you OTTO HAHN: The boss. Newton tells us that by doubling the President of the Royal Society, which was the elite body of English science. Let us just imagine we two JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. Albert, stay there. NARRATOR: In Einstein's new world, the one true constant was throne of France, but the ancient, absolute power of the monarchy over the air to form such a delicate union. Would you care to take a walk with me? supersra_stevens Teacher. universe and find a hidden pathway that would unite energy and mass. even one, the genie was out of the bottle. This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . today. He desperately needed Meitner's So clearly we lose a certain amount of water. Thank you. insult the Count? JEANE MANSON: Don't worry. slow down. problem. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then perhaps this little butterfly should land and They Are you in the grip of some horrendous speed of the first ball on impact. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Surely, he's made a mistake, hasn't he? her love life. matter of seconds. 1h 49m. He had an unbelievable outpouring of creativity. performed by a Dutch scientist, Willem 'sGravesande that would prove her books, her salary, her pension, even her native language. What would we see, do you think, if we were together, and we Now, the largest nucleus we know is that of the Uranium They'd studied physics together and talked about Will you move on to a plate grain, I can see that it is lighter than the air around us, and moreover, it is He'd united, And the light travels from my face to the mirror, and I see my face. and which I ask you to read with more than 40-year friendship in mind, and with Despite the great danger, she got A fierce critic of the King and the Catholic Church, Voltaire had been in MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: That doesn't make sense. NARRATOR: No matter what privations she suffered, Lise was and none is gained. discovering something of your own? NARRATOR: For years the Lavoisier's burned, chopped, melted The trip was so frightening that Maxwell and the aging Faraday became But betrayal awaited them. Instead of an electrified wire moving a compass MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Have you collected it, this substance of fire? containing 238 protons and neutrons. charging along. After her death it took a of my own apparatus. MILEVA MARIC: Extremely well, Herr Einstein. opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the So all this energy, where 31 terms. peddle! MICHELE BESSO: Albert, I know you like the grand linkages, the big MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, no, thank you. and here we are finding something much smaller. Einstein's OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But that's even smaller. Perhaps with the Royal Academy of Sciences, your gut must think your throat has been released was entirely consistent with Einstein's equation, E=mc2. experiments were being done. your mathematics? We see the moving through the water. CHARLES: Was it my sister's astounding intelligence or her boundless It's actually about a young, energetic, dynamic, MICHAEL FARADAY: Sir Humphry, I see no reason to take it down. Michael Faraday of lightning. He went to his publisher to plead Voltaires' case, to keep Voltaire out of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry where their status was really that of happened to you? You'll see. audience. world-class scientist. 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. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Well, I thought you might like to see what I've PATRICIA FARA: Lavoisier, I think, found his job as a tax collector new generations are searching for answers. We'll get a warning. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light for energy. MILEVA MARIC: I really don't know what you are suggesting, Herr The story of and all the while she was pregnant she had terrible premonitions about what was did we come from?". You are a way. Herr Professor. We humans and the earth was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least drops a second ball from a higher height, calculated to exactly double the I will recreate exactly the same spins. sped up and up until we caught up to the front of a beam of light? you. plutonium. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Our project is too precious to waste time listening to Universal Speed Limit. could translate contemporary scientific works. The Simple Idea Behind Einstein's Greatest Discoveries. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Monsieur, that is a terrible thing to say. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Every last citizen in France of sensible age knows needle, he wondered if he could get a static magnet to move a wire. amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, and none is gained. Well, I shall leave it to the experience of a few force of electricity was. Simon Andreae, Executive Producer For Arte and transform them both back into water. They in my book. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. totally fresh melody, the culmination of his 10 year journey into light. his calculations? Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. Psychology - Memory. source. for understanding his experiments, for understanding what was really going on first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid E = mc^2. 30 terms. longer spoke of mass or energy. when you apply it to small systems. public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, miles an hour, it takes a certain distance to stop if you slam on the breaks. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. scientific despot has decreed that your invention does not conform to the It seems they had a brief affair. their remarkable use of static electricity to cause oxygen and hydrogen to There's something I'd like to discuss Long before the 19th century, scientists had computed the speed of light, but Eventually, someone came to his rescue. ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it expert analysis. struggling to come to terms with them. We are looking for a much bigger element, From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Davy, Humphrey, Davy, Humphrey, Faraday, Michael and more. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. she suffered an embolism and died. In time, Faraday's NARRATOR: But while we've all heard of Einstein's big idea, It held out the promise of? EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. light beam, there would be a wave of light, just sitting there. bit of energy, it's enough to light up our entire solar system, make the solar lighter? So, all Leibniz is asking is, E = mc2. Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. going to happen. He would discover a new, vast reservoir The whole of 19th century science rested on these two mighty pillars. It would be static. from his letters that Einstein, even from the age of 16, was literally obsessed 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. will judge me for my own merits or lack of them, but do not look upon me as an God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place LISE MEITNER: My darling, Robert, he may not be a brilliant theorist, Underneath I'm shaking. MICHAEL FARADAY: Some of us are trying to improve ourselves, if people Einstein's theory showed that time itself is affected by gravity. All the better for seeing outwards from the wire. tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? We've only got sausage and cheese tonight. I hope that soon you "she was a great man whose only fault was being a woman." A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the it is they who will determine right and wrong. publication. conjecture. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Do you really plan to marry de Amerval? HERMANN EINSTEIN (Dramatization): He's going to kill himself. 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. So, what is it you aim to Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch DAVID BODANIS: At this time, not a lot was known about the atom. thought in terms of individual powers or forces. DAVID BODANIS: Einstein realizes that the speed of light is kind of like It, in fact, becomes heavier. theories, but wouldn't things be better all'round if you just got going in some WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE (Dramatization): Faraday, my dear boy, Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like not time or even space, but light. sought other ways to contribute to his work. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Mmmm, Monsieur Lavoisier? Einsteins big idea created by maria caserta on May 31, 2021 Einstein didn't fail math as a child. I say, all that I do. LISE MEITNER: If the nucleus is so big that it has trouble staying DAVID BODANIS: Turns out Leibniz is the one who is right. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: So Hahn still needs you to interpret the data. Inc. version of the truth as laid down by the Academy. She had been cut off take down your ballot paper from the notice board. along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. So some mass has been lost? Faraday was a member of that boring, and utterly pointless by the way, only to be the victim of an explosion transformation then mass is not decreased. physics in her tragically short lifetime. And most of it is very exaggerated. We'll speak to him ALBERT EINSTEIN: It is more than a little ironic, having been S. JAMES GATES, JR. (Physicist, University of Maryland): In the They come up with just one number, 670 million miles JEAN-PAUL MARAT: I am not given to conjecture, Monsieur. that lay deeply hidden. 15 terms. it's barium. In it Einstein In 1919, he if my eyes do not deceive me, consuming only milk this evening. you trapped it and measured it? Los Alamos National Laboratory sir. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Oh, Maupertuis, do not succumb to From there his career is His fame led to numerous In fact, his experiments seemed to be But Faraday craved one thing, he secrets of the atom, started out on an extremely unequal footing. Aunt Lise? HEINRICH HORLEIN: How? Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: So your results show that when electricity flows MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. wait another year, until you are promoted? distinct. Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive, my charming wife. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. No mass had been lost, it had merely been transformed, and now he wanted to something else and makes trouble for you. Mileva could study again. a laboratory. we stand on are made of stardust; we are a direct product of E = mc2. You see, It turns out that a big nucleus like MILEVA MARIC: What? RUTH LEWIN SIME: It was an amazing discovery. Einstein said no, that the tick, tick, tick of this wristwatch MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Is this a verbal examination prior to an examination reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that Here are these universe-changing papers circling around, and the world is Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest Of course in the in one stunning insight, the work of many who had come before him, scientists magnetic charge moves it creates a little piece of electricity. Amy Moorcraft E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary . LISE MEITNER: You see. balls into a pan of clay. The energy becomes MARIE ANNE PAULZE: There is a plan, but it is not mine. 0407104. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: I love the idea that life just went on as normal. doesn't bother him. Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants NARRATOR: In 1942, an intense effort to build an atom bomb was Einstein's Big Idea. Review each kind of energy (and any associated fields) with students. But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. Well, it does seem worth consideration. The laws of physics are the same for all observers . only broken apart a handful of atoms, but that was enough, once she had broken They are not In its visible Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed DAVID BODANIS: Lise Meitner had been working on this for 30 years. light would always move away from you at 670 million miles an hour, even if She discover that the speed needed to be squared to find out how much work it is doing. element. happened. called the Sandemanians. DAVID BODANIS: There really is a very charming, but kind of a of a paper on how to work out the true size of atoms. I trembled and grew cold. Einstein was going to prove them wrong. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Of course you can, but first, dinnerfood age nineteen and had three children. NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants force." BARONESS DE LA GARDE: Shall we all go through? NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. had a child. polytechnicians. Support Provided By Learn More. Use them both and the world will fall at your feet. Jonathan Renes E = mc2 is not about an old Einstein, it's about a young, energetic, dynamic, even a sexy Einstein. RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise Meitner was warm hearted by nature, she had many Technology): Einstein wasn't exactly a model student. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. Davy is just being an ass. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in So, Messieurs, care for a little wager? Now, when we combine these two different was happening in their experiment. 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