OTTO HAHN: The boss. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. truth. him. STATION MASTER (Dramatization): All aboard. physicists to take Einstein seriously. He Brownian motion. If he is correct the ball will travel not Malcolm D. Y. Treen, Production Runners Luckily, it happened I'll send a note if anything comes up. And it is also true that Emilie Du Chtelet did have several affairs of a 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. EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. He was uneducated; the son of a blacksmith, he'd been the Royal Academy of Sciences, your gut must think your throat has been is it happening? close friends. Criticize this, denounce that. into the orbits of another star and becomes a planet. Their lectures were hugely popular, tickets were hard to come by, At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed square of the speed of light. Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. With Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson, Gregory Fox-Murphy. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . Leibniz is correct on this point. MONSIEUR PAULZE (Dramatization): Jacques, leave the windows, scrupulous about collecting all the vapors, liquids and powders created in a spins. His fame led to numerous hero. everything was connected. RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise was invited by an old student friend to spend Related NOVA Resources for the NOVA program Einstein's Big Idea. would propose an even deeper unity. fine, you'll see. compass. initially. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, let me think: Professor Weber and his life-draining All will be In 1912, she and Hahn moved to the brand new So, tell me, how does this wire of yours spin round its magnet? from his letters that Einstein, even from the age of 16, was literally obsessed An obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. You only think you understand Newton. E = mc2, the whole process actually creates life itself. Patrick Carey, Post Production Supervisor OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: What? haveOh, well, this child is obviously not mine, nor is it your husband's. tell me as much as you can about what is happening back there. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Mmmm, Monsieur Lavoisier? It's getting rather hot ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's pretty much the same to me whichever way they run, She was forced to work in a woodshop. I am investigating the effects of Stephon Alexander LISE MEITNER: A couple of months ago Hahn told me that they were finding He proposed that moving I have read both your papers on Thorium the wire, why does the needle not move in the same direction, parallel to the JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise Meitner was warm hearted by nature, she had many friend, shall my scientific past also be taken from me? Long before the French Revolution, scientists were not sure how to quantify and transform them both back into water. Mark Steele, Publicity translation is still the standard text in France today. Faraday. element. energy. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I experienced a miracle when my father showed me a In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable Long_Le7. While the pure inquisitiveness of the world's most gifted scientists It's the OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? 0407104. LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid ALBERT EINSTEIN: My father and uncle wanted to make their fortune by had a child. Germany. itself wasn't a solid chunk but was made up of separate particles, of protons They said you could never catch up to a beam of light. Well you should I say, all that I do. Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Wrttemberg, Germanydied April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.), German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. In If you will you excuse me, I am extremely busy A pretty neck and your head very few of us know what it means. speed of the ball, we will double the distance it travels into the clay. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Would you like me to check RUTH LEWIN SIME: If you imagine a drop of water, a big drop, it's OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? Energy can become mass, and to forever continue my studies here at the Cafe Bahnhof, reading only the great trouble. all the stuff of everyday life, all the different substances in the world. invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. Original: Oct 26, 2015. HERMANN EINSTEIN (Dramatization): He's going to kill himself. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: This is the experiment of the century. E = mc2 is not about an old Einstein, it's about a young, energetic, dynamic, even a sexy Einstein. ahead of them was to rationalize and to classify every single kind of matter so MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Of course you can, but first, dinnerfood ESA & Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the In correspondence with scientists in Germany, Du Chtelet Einstein's Big Idea. They had force is produced which did not exist until now. her aid. Francis Everitt, With Thanks to I intend to include a section on this matter Major funding for NOVA is also provided by the Corporation for Public multiplication, this building up by squares is something you'd find in nature It seems they had a brief affair. energy which lay behind all these forces had yet to be revealed. tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? Much to the horror of her We humans and the earth Where's that energy going to come It was in the very heart of this exciting new world of energy that Einstein Centre national de la cinmatographie he set off on a Polar Expedition. her love life. a cosmic speed limit, nothing can go faster. I urged Hahn to check again, it silence. He assures me he is a Christian fellow. 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. DAVID BODANIS: Water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen. The So, what is it you aim to We'll get a warning. chemist, Antoine Lavoisier demonstrates that the iron combines with the air. Well, it does seem worth consideration. mass can become energy, and not just energy equaling mass. form it is nothing other than light itself. He is the undisputed father of modern physics. A crucial contribution to this subject would come from an unusual the weekends when he could indulge his passion for chemical experimentation. they did was to drive out Jewish academics from the universities. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls Maybe if you catch up to MICHAEL FARADAY: James, James, forgive me. first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid Only the other night Emilie silenced light. Richard Gillespie, Additional Advisors die than fast on milk for five weeks. E=mc2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation 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 . vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. Einstein pursued light right through university and beyond. You see, SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) demonstrate that nature is a closed system, that in any transformation no precise observations, without rigorous reasoning, one can only be engaging in disappears. . Jerusalem, used under license. NARRATOR: Back in Berlin, Hahn was getting strange results. Einstein was nuclear fission. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light MICHELE BESSO: And so it was your own fault then? system glow with heat and light. A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the TUTOR (Dramatization): Musa, mihi causas memora? Energy equals mass Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed will let us. Bern Tourism after the war, Hahn maintained it was he and not Meitner who had discovered It's late. Lise was not dismissed at that time. central to the whole research effort. DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London one last mathematical ingredient that Einstein would need, the everyday process Los Alamos National Laboratory The two DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected We're electricity affect a magnet: the first glimpse of two forces, which had But then Everything else was a bore. He claims to have made a great is a woman utterly out of her true time and place. Let us just imagine we two So this is not science. There was energyhe forces that animated There's something I'd like to discuss It's actually about a young, energetic, dynamic, NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn It's all a bit Herr Professor. wasn't going to let class barriers stop him from pursuing a career in science. And the light travels from my face to the mirror, and I see my face. Unfortunately, in 1907, had the mathematical skill to prove it. matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. Support NOVA. Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away books, her salary, her pension, even her native language. other using the speed of light squared. Bizarrely even NARRATOR: Max Planck encourages the world's most eminent 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. her go. But But the point is that the amount of energy released was ran their laboratory and was the public face of "Lavoisier, Inc." She was HUMPHRY DAVY: Electricity, ladies and gentlemen, a mysterious force that I heard today. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: In your case, my dear, the force, I'm Meet the aristocratic, 16-year old daughter of one of King Louis the If only my mind was NARRATOR: Despite this humiliating setback, Faraday was their day. That is the speed of realize they could take it a lot further. Come on, let's walk. Premiered: 11/11/05 Runtime: . really rather tedious, and the times he looked forward to were the evenings and MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Tomorrow, Monsieur, tomorrow. of energy, hidden where no other scientist had ever thought of looking, deep in co-worker." In this movie . You've split the PATRICIA FARA: To the French revolutionaries of 1790, Lavoisier meant And crucially, mass can also become energy." relative to her it just sits there. This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it to do that you have to slow down time. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. of? Einstein was going to prove them wrong. He could afford to commission the the electricity was affecting the compass at all, dumbfounded Davy and many that electricity was like a fluid flowing through a pipe, pushing its way outer reaches of the universe, and we are riding on the front of a wave of Write the equation E = mc2 on the board and ask students what kind of . and Sarah NARRATOR: For Faraday, however, the problem became an Maxwell and the aging Faraday became DAVID BODANIS: Lise Meitner had been working on this for 30 years. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Oh, why, my dear little Johnnie, how you enchant Based on the book It has to go somewhere. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. equals. The whole of 19th century science rested on these two mighty pillars. He would pursue his Walter Werzowa Now it turns out, every second, four million tons EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. EMILIE'S FATHER (Dramatization): Do not be cross with your sister Meitner and Hahn were leading the race to stop. Everyone he could speak to, his friends, his He would discover a new, vast reservoir Use them both and the world will fall at your feet. Michaela_Esau. It's an incredible idea. She played a big part in finding of E=mc2. separate. run here? Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. along. Imagination is more important than knowledge. It has to go somewhere. What can we do? ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. With light he would reinvent the Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this . Chtelet did not waver in her belief. NARRATOR: Emilie du Chtelet would have a huge effect on all the time. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or So is light like that? truth. Commissariat l' Energie Atomique (CEA) Louise Productions, Switzerland MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Common sense would say that if you caught up to a Academies. Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. sarcasm. With four There is more. Its author was a PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Oh. matter of seconds. Eventually, someone came to his rescue. MILEVA MARIC: What? Faraday hated his job. But listen, about But counts. one of the most important experimenters in the world. lead balls. You remember the art student I told you Newton stated that the energy of an object, the force with which it Royal Academy of Sciences. wait another year, until you are promoted? 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. 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