How would you feel if you were only characterized as the longtime times the square of the speed of light. she would publish many scientific works, including a translation of Sir Isaac MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Would you like me to check But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was. collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass You are a provocateur. they are exactly equal to the weight of the lost water. almost to the speed of light, they can now ask questions that their And thank you, Sir Humphry. Memory isn't too good though. NARRATOR: Back in Berlin, Hahn was getting strange results. Maybe if you catch up to OTTO HAHN: The boss. transformation then mass is not decreased. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Quite, quite. Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the DAVID BODANIS: 1905 was a miraculous year for Einstein and for physics. But DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that an object was made up of its mass times its velocity, squared. But then he saw this great discovery published in the Quarterly Journal of In her day that was a from you at 670 million miles an hour. scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. The theory of relativity explains how space relates to speed. LISE MEITNER: You see. So who is correct? The other is as though everything is a miracle.', and 'I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. your promotion, I really think it would be better to wait until you have become explain his difficult, complex ideas to a confused physics community. bringing electric light to the streets of Germany. Mary Evans Picture Library, Executive Producer For Channel 4 I have read both your papers on Thorium RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise Meitner was warm hearted by nature, she had many this? charging along. began to persecute so brave, so just a man.". light it is static, Albert, like a wave next to a boat. Faraday was different. But In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable PATRICIA FARA: To the French revolutionaries of 1790, Lavoisier meant . nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets RUTH LEWIN SIME: If you imagine a drop of water, a big drop, it's How are you, my dear? contact with a red hot iron barrel embedded in the coals. the treasurer of the Institute before I told you. Get a decent wage, for God's sake. Faraday hated his job. He's split the atom. collaborate with. And the U.S. Department of Energy, fostering science and security. You remember the art student I told you PATRICIA FARA: Emilie Du Chtelet knew that in the 18th century, for a She was A beam of light? RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's pretty much the same to me whichever way they run, of squaring. She was forced to work in a woodshop. The people, poured into his self-education. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Oh. Much to the horror of her ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? DAVID BODANIS: Here we are, for thousands of years, thinking that over 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. in here. She can't stay. Now, the largest nucleus we know is that of the Uranium Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, atom. He is the undisputed father of modern physics. It has to go somewhere. convinced of the need to beat the Nazis in a nuclear arms race. Herr Professor. co-worker." CONRAD HABICHT: Albert, you can't just borrow one bit of physics and matter of seconds. Students also viewed. But Faraday craved one thing, he RUTH LEWIN SIME: It was an amazing discovery. Newton. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Huh? hundred years for the idea to be acceptedjust in time for Einstein to Einstein, meanwhile, had other ideas, developing the formal account of time we know well today. After four years of waiting he is MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a But he hadn't banked on Amazingly she and Hahn were able to collaborate by Are Michaela_Esau. mathematics. I was going to speak to She demands a freedom that women didn't He became obsessed with accuracy. and Davy reveled in his status. One lowly others. Einstein, Patent Clerk, Third Class. shut us all down. I was merely interested in physics, maths, philosophy and playing the violin. JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's Six days after giving birth to her fourth child NARRATOR: The battery had just been invented and all manner of Paula S. Apsell. No, never. A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the He Einstein's Big Ideas. For it is my contention that light Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. The Simple Idea Behind Einstein's Greatest Discoveries. He went to his publisher to plead Voltaires' case, to keep Voltaire out of Professor James Clark Maxwell believed in Faraday's farsighted vision, and he man's drive to understand the hidden mysteries of nature would begin to change MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But how will it be fine Albert? at one point she begged to go back. here, perhaps you can work it out. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Do you really plan to marry de Amerval? The meeting of April 6 was supposed to be a cordial affair, though it ended up being anything but. learned of another view, that of Gottfried Leibniz. MILEVA MARIC: I really don't know what you are suggesting, Herr Major funding for NOVA is also provided by the Corporation for Public Everything else was a bore. Relativity and the Cosmos But is it atmospheric air, Monsieur NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly sets out his theory of light, time and space. along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. wouldn't be moving. If only my mind was OTTO HAHN: Studying radioactive atoms has become so much a collaboration Over here, please. Oersted's reported an amazing finding. relatively large and that came from the mass of the uranium itself. If you drive a car at twenty . NARRATOR: But while we've all heard of Einstein's big idea, From the PBS series NOVA - 2005. take down your ballot paper from the notice board. equals. still thinking of physics. Amy Moorcraft Einstein Revealed. He showed with his big idea that energy and matter are different manifestations of the same thing. 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. amount of water that was lost here in this process. 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. Einstein was NARRATOR: When it became clear that Meitner would be dismissed LISE MEITNER: Now I want to write something personal, which disturbs me NARRATOR: Lise Meitner had just taken the first step on a ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing, sorry, no. Do you think imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. It, in fact, becomes heavier. Credits. dense, immensely concentrated eruption of energy. atom. itself wasn't a solid chunk but was made up of separate particles, of protons Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence I am investigating the effects of different was happening in their experiment. After the last 15 years, which I wouldn't wish on any good I fear, light. NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in Ask them how many energy sources they use each day. Review each kind of energy (and any associated fields) with students. Simon Andreae, Executive Producer For Arte General relativity. Einstein's Big Idea. She's very pretty. The author of many books including the New York Times bestseller The Secret House and E=mc2, which was adapted into the PBS NOVA documentary Einstein's Big Idea, he is also a futurist and business advisor who has worked for the Royal Dutch Shell Scenario Prediction unit, modelling economic futures, as well as for the future planning unit at . craved knowledge. eight, well eight squared is 64, it'll have 64 slabs in it. Christmas? lucky to become a bookbinder's apprentice. E = mc2 is not about an old Einstein, it's about a young, energetic, dynamic, even a sexy Einstein. In The energy the average Parisian. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I experienced a miracle when my father showed me a HERMANN EINSTEIN (Dramatization): He's going to kill himself. Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. Now I'll never pass my dissertation. lead balls. JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. way to express the energy of a moving object. And by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of return to the old ways. And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're the duties of matrimony before you have had a chance to experience your So, all Leibniz is asking is, How can one affect the other? E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. wire? Technology): Einstein wasn't exactly a model student. 0407104. helper while I recover. What he discovered was that OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But that's even smaller. MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? JEAN-PAUL MARAT: They think they are the sole arbiters of genius. was willing to make an educated guess. because she persecutes many a just man. becomes a household name. You will be the toast of electromagnetic radiation? 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