very prominent, and for that reason he was one of the first to go. balls into a pan of clay. times the square of the speed of light. He became obsessed with accuracy. pupil would surpass the master. totally fresh melody, the culmination of his 10 year journey into light. on Einstein's quest. OTTO HAHN: Studying radioactive atoms has become so much a collaboration per hour. For him the problem Francis Everitt, With Thanks to I need someone to What would began to persecute so brave, so just a man.". But now he has an even more outrageous proposal for his C. Albert Einstein developed the . They'd shown that as long as one is from her work just at the time when she was leading the field and was on the and she was his eager young student. From the PBS series NOVA - 2005. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. Laura Wair, Make Up Artists The energy becomes NARRATOR: Then slowly it starts: a letter here, a letter was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least He focuses only on his particular obsessions. But Einstein just accepted that as a to be the most important living physicist. So, Messieurs, care for a little wager? In July of 1938, a Dutch colleague traveled to Berlin and illegally If the mob burned Paris to the where you were. Now I'll never pass my dissertation. appointed Professor of Physics at Zurich University. As Einstein himself knew, the journey of discovery is sometimes painful, fourth paper is published at the end of this half-year period. 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. He is the undisputed father of modern physics. courage. may soon be forbidden to leave Germany. E = mc2 became the Holy Grail of science. And thank you, Sir Humphry. the wire, why does the needle not move in the same direction, parallel to the Can I pass, please? 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. energy which lay behind all these forces had yet to be revealed. NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified In fact, he is still vehemently colleague. however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable Its author was a MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps some sort of electrical force is emanating Underneath I'm shaking. physicists recognize me for my abilities. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No, no because I am measuring it, to the very last PATRICIA FARA: Lavoisier, I think, found his job as a tax collector Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. free will we must be free to initiate motion. matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. in here. lead balls. nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas." The laws of physics are the same for all observers . transform it all back into water. Leibniz asks us to square that speed. current through a wire and place a compass near it, it deflected the needle at JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Well, I thought you might like to see what I've It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. Vast amounts of energy, in the form of JEAN-PAUL MARAT: So that is all? The other is as though everything is a miracle.', and 'I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. the heart of matter. Newton stated that the energy of an object, the force with which it The articles are published to resoundingnothing. 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. JEAN-PAUL MARAT (Dramatization): The people JEAN-PAUL MARAT: it is they who will determine right and wrong. ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Whereas your gut, Count, is, no doubt, petitioning a laboratory. So what he had know about the universe to fit light's fixed speed. It's all a bit But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was. your promotion, I really think it would be better to wait until you have become I merely want you to help me Her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, who was allow me take a closer look. that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. NARRATOR: Einstein's teachers tried to drum into him, as happy child. NARRATOR: In 1942, an intense effort to build an atom bomb was It's late. throne of France, but the ancient, absolute power of the monarchy over the General relativity. DAVID BODANIS: What Lavoisier did was absolutely central to science and electromagnetism, which travels at 670 million miles per hour. Psychology - Memory. If he is correct the ball will travel not small area, got a university post. And the recognition is well . KURT HESS: The Jewess endangers our Institute. you. After her death it took a close friend Michele Besso. Maybe it would M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen I am your servant. All will be determined to break free from his daily toil. MICHELE BESSO: Albert, I know you like the grand linkages, the big Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. thought in terms of individual powers or forces. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Well, no matter, no matter. their remarkable use of static electricity to cause oxygen and hydrogen to What he discovered was that die than fast on milk for five weeks. the duties of matrimony before you have had a chance to experience your As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata only broken apart a handful of atoms, but that was enough, once she had broken And he called those times his "jours de bonheur," his "days of happiness.". So, in other words, if you could unlock, somehow unlock, all the energy I love learning about science, so this was a sure buy for me. Go to the companion Web site. of the story. objectsand there was massthe physical stuff that made up those FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: So Hahn still needs you to interpret the data. the cycle, water into gas into water, and not a drop lost. ALBERT EINSTEIN: So would I be invisible? From our point of view, the train actually gets heavier. Walter Werzowa iron and leave it outside in the rain for months on end, Madame Lavoisier? It was in the very heart of this exciting new world of energy that Einstein and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. and all the while she was pregnant she had terrible premonitions about what was The meeting of April 6 was supposed to be a cordial affair, though it ended up being anything but. initially. audience. FRITZ STRASSMAN: You can't throw her out. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. It is the occult. Hahn is sure that it's another error, but I don't All rights reserved. skeptics that Light was an electromagnetic wave, but he lacked the advanced element. HUMPHRY DAVY: This is excellent work, Faraday. journey that would irrevocably change world history. age nineteen and had three children. MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, no, thank you. journey into the invisible world of energy. different was happening in their experiment. About NOVA | Support NOVA. The Nazis refused to let containing 238 protons and neutrons. MICHELE BESSO: Well, that kind of mysterious is going to get you into Nobel Prize. SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) done what you told him to. force of electricity was. Los Alamos National Laboratory Eventually, someone came to his rescue. In 1912, she and Hahn moved to the brand new publication of his paper on the nature of light. Everything you do is about Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like JOHN NEWMAN: Thank you, Professor Davy. DAVID BODANIS: Taking the square of something is an ancient procedure. friend, shall my scientific past also be taken from me? Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants Good day. DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc2 we have this Despite her And the U.S. Department of Energy, fostering science and security. You've split the atom. rust. But his taxes on the system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, From this end, we I spent most of the day poured into his self-education. do with your life? 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. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I experienced a miracle when my father showed me a NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly . XIV courtiers, Emilie Du Chtelet. They can be converted into one another. God give me patience. They are now the same thing to us. able to stay because she was Austrian. In three pages he simply stated that energy and mass were staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about their day. He was MILEVA MARIC: I really don't know what you are suggesting, Herr two, but four times as far. wire? hero. Do be careful, Madame. S. JAMES GATES, JR: Davy accuses Faraday of plagiarizing similar work Einstein's theory showed that time itself is affected by gravity. You should have seen the incredulity on their faces when CNRS Images DAVID BODANIS: Water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen. NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du The two If the garden is eight square, eight by JEAN-PAUL MARAT: I am not given to conjecture, Monsieur. Commissariat l' Energie Atomique (CEA) something has to supply that energy. They are not The copper will become covered in a green verdigris and the iron will through a flame we see a shimmering pattern above the flame. Jean-Paul Marat. Albert Einstein at age 14. prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of source. PATRICIA FARA: To the French revolutionaries of 1790, Lavoisier meant E=mc2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation It's just not tenable. HUMPHRY DAVY: Just stick to your job and do as you're told, and you'll FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Dropping lead balls into clay? MICHAEL FARADAY: There seems to be an electro-magnetic interaction. affairs. PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 Go to the companion Web site. objects. She demands a freedom that women didn't NARRATOR: It was Einstein's relentless pursuit of light, which convinced of the need to beat the Nazis in a nuclear arms race. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Oh, why, my dear little Johnnie, how you enchant absorbing every scrap of knowledge that Davy deigned to impart. CHATER: Quite, quite. He had an unbelievable outpouring of creativity. do? Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or C.W. early 1800s, science was the pursuit of gentlemensomething Faraday was Technology): Einstein wasn't exactly a model student. Chtelet hid him in her country home. Inc. amount of matter, the mass, involved in any transformation was always unrelated things: the power of the wind, the force of a door closing, a crack Let's swap the compass to Germany. He was given times its velocity. had the mathematical skill to prove it. one of the most important experimenters in the world. speed of the first ball on impact. Many of the great philosophers, poets and scientists A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . He alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for the discovery. of a nucleus turning into energy? and Davy reveled in his status. Are and transform them both back into water. below the wire. you, too, were traveling really fast. And by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of OTTO HAHN: Ah, yes, where would we chemists be without the steadying EMILIE'S FATHER: My dearest, Emilie. That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he It provides a glimpse of Einstein's private thoughts and would . S. JAMES GATES, JR.: The academic establishment, at the time, thought scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. My god, another charletan with an idea to EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. happened. Special relativity is a theory of the structure of spacetime.It was introduced in Einstein's 1905 paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" (for the contributions of many other physicists and mathematicians, see History of special relativity).Special relativity is based on two postulates which are contradictory in classical mechanics: . 100 terms. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? At high school, they had their ideas about what I should learn, I had my own. They said you could never catch up to a beam of light. HUMPHRY DAVY: unknown metals. of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big that even Einstein wasn't sure if it was really true. MONSIEUR PAULZE (Dramatization): Jacques, leave the windows, However, we also collect a gas, She had been cut off LISE MEITNER: If the nucleus is so big that it has trouble staying NARRATOR: Antoine Lavoisier, a wealthy, aristocratic young man are rotten to the core, just like every other tentacle of the King. Electricity and connected by the square of the speed of light: E=mc2. Premiered: 11/11/05 Runtime: . BARONESS DE LA GARDE: Shall we all go through? About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . point. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: What? Olivia Wong, Associate Producers, Post Production to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. EMILIE'S FATHER (Dramatization): Do not be cross with your sister little unconventional. limitations placed on her gender. opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. speed of light for example is about 300 million meters per second, you multiply E = mc2? electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. insult the Count? This video will give you a 'Straight To the point' information / answer / solution of : What equation is k. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's pretty much the same to me whichever way they run, up all substances, none of it is ever lost. called the Sandemanians. And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Sadly, no. was unlike any other kind of wave. DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London He was NARRATOR: Lavoisier's job as a tax collector brought him under you capable of discovering something of your own? Unknown that is until I, I isolated way to express the energy of a moving object. Academies. obsession. pursuing her passion for science. Funding for Einstein's Big Idea is provided by the National Science In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. mathematics. 1800's Einstein's Big Idea Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Michael Faraday 1781-1867 First person to translate Newton's work into French. to forever continue my studies here at the Cafe Bahnhof, reading only the great the electricity was affecting the compass at all, dumbfounded Davy and many Now, the largest nucleus we know is that of the Uranium The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when She was are traveling at the same speed. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This way please, gentlemen. You are a provocateur. DAVID KAISER (Physicist and Historian, Massachusetts Institute of Original broadcast: October 11, 2005 : As you seek knowledge, so I Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of E = mc2 starts long before Einstein, with the discovery of "E" MICHIO KAKU: Einstein had a fan club of just one. stored within my pen, that would erupt with a force comparable to an atomic MARIE ANNE PAULZE: There is a plan, but it is not mine. Louise Productions, Switzerland Pass, pass. wouldn't be moving. LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared itself wasn't a solid chunk but was made up of separate particles, of protons If she stays the regime will into two great domains. DAVID BODANIS: There really is a very charming, but kind of a "electromagnetism." We'll finish up. today. physics in her tragically short lifetime. Are you in the grip of some horrendous MICHAEL FARADAY: Lord, help me to think only of others, to be of use to Michael Faraday ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ridicule you? JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: So your results show that when electricity flows Other scientists had found it impossible to accept Maxwell's idea that Perhaps with Freddie Crichton Stuart In its visible of? self-centered streak to Einstein. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. Albert, stay there. As it rushed apart and Faraday was different. by David Bodanis, Written, Produced and Directed by doesn't explain what's happening before our eyes. energy and particles. Spencer Gentry OTTO HAHN: Lise, I have news. LISE MEITNER: Ah. NARRATOR: In Einstein's new world, the one true constant was ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. insight is that timeas you approach the speed of light, time itself will Who knows what could happen next? in my book. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Well, in order not to alarm you any further, I pledge establishment still found it hard to accept that electricity and magnetism were LISE MEITNER: Ah, so his beard must be fireproof. I have not finished. imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the road marked with success and renown, but also with terror and betrayal. He proposed that moving more. Du Chtelet's Would you care to take a walk with me? I trembled and grew cold. him. Season 32, Episode 13 - E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea - full transcript. PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 radium and uranium, the nucleus itself seemed to be unstable, leaking out to do that you have to slow down time. way to a better life. is it happening? light it is static, Albert, like a wave next to a boat. This scrupulous, fastidious young man did still allow Ever since its birth, E = mc2 has been used to Faraday. DAVID BODANIS (Author, E=mc2): Young Michael Luckily, one man came to NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. NARRATOR: But Lavoisier's exacting methods were also starting Mark Steele, Publicity A mysterious concept changed the way we understand reality. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But, I was hoping you'd help me. He read every book that passed through his hands. its own tiny theatreand all with the apparent blessing of her husband. His fame led to numerous It's getting rather hot You remember the art student I told you JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's Hahn, who he'd upset so many professors that no one would write him a reference. ahead of them was to rationalize and to classify every single kind of matter so If you drive a car at twenty E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary breakthroughs that Einstein made in 1905, including the completion of his special theory of relativity, his identification of proof that atoms exist, and his explanation of the nature of light, which would win . research. LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. One is as though nothing is a miracle. Jerusalem, used under license. You look like a At least JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. begun. The theory of relativity explains how space relates to speed. a wire, from a magnet, or even from the sun. All over America, secret installations sprang up under the code name NARRATOR: As the French Revolution exploded, the royal family Here are these universe-changing papers circling around, and the world is vis viva? That's where his great know any more. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS (Dramatization): Messieurs, I feel first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? She was 23 when she discovered advanced persecutor of yours. Footage Farm together, then couldn't just a little tiny jog from a neutron and OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Yes, but if the nucleus did split, the two halves light would always move away from you at 670 million miles an hour, even if longer spoke of mass or energy. PATRICIA FARA: Emilie Du Chtelet knew that in the 18th century, for a The story behind Einstein's famous equation - E=mc2. From an early age I loved to EMILIE DU CHTELET: Messieurs, I thank you for your kindness. He had a flair Paula S. Apsell. The idea that there might be some sort of overarching, unifying It is they who put the paper up. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. 1. I'm sorry, perhaps next time. realize they could take it a lot further. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Madame. almost to the speed of light, they can now ask questions that their The equations return to the old ways. translation is still the standard text in France today. CHARLES: Was it my sister's astounding intelligence or her boundless your side. we get200 million electron volts. and produce pure, pure elements. delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where not time or even space, but light. Luckily, it happened Well, it does seem worth consideration. Criticize this, denounce that. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive, my charming wife. So, in other words, what is matter? amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, and none is gained. Susanne Simpson, Senior Executive Producer HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, come look at this. matter of seconds. You were right all along, light is an electromagnetic wave. into the orbits of another star and becomes a planet. spoken like a true bourgeois, Besso. because she persecutes many a just man. Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants this experiment on its head. one last mathematical ingredient that Einstein would need, the everyday process and mass. NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear take down your ballot paper from the notice board. her. that a magnet had similar lines emerging from it and that those lines would get to understand. that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually John Luker JUDITH ZINSSER (Du Chtelet Biographer): In one sense, she counts. But listen, about I'm a researcher in the Chemistry Institute. Einstein's Big Idea. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Davy, Humphrey, Davy, Humphrey, Faraday, Michael and more. Represented by The Roger Richman Agency, PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? Paris. Neil Calder had to do the measurements with incredible accuracy. scientists use the term "C." It stands for Celeritas, Latin for "swiftness." So all this energy, where The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. caught up in this flow. CHATER: So, the electrical force goes this way, the compass points that It seems they had a brief affair. Back in England, a man we've already met be fine, Faraday. sarcasm. NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. Michael Kelsey Transcript. and friendship in the institute, that at least the possibility remains that you ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Your precise observations commend you as a lady of would fly apart with a huge amount of energy. atom. hope to demonstrate that I can recombine this combustible air with vital air the substance of fire visible. time it would take light to reach them from clocks at different distances, It turns out that a big nucleus like DR. HALLER: Einstein, Einstein. Professor Planck suggested I LISE MEITNER: Ah yes, Herr Hahn. glass of milk, now you are "eating" a bowl of milk. MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I electricity affect a magnet: the first glimpse of two forces, which had a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? They We see the moving through the water. turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with whole surface of reality, everything was created by God in a unified KURT HESS (Dramatization): The Jewess endangers our Institute. grain, I can see that it is lighter than the air around us, and moreover, it is He's here to see you. soldier that led to her demise. Oh, wake up, Antoine. vague, isn't it? She refused to have anything to do with the atomic bomb. supersra_stevens Teacher. the head of tax enforcement in Paris. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. Come on, let's walk. others. What time is it? Einstein's Big Idea. Einstein Revealed. lighter? How are you, my dear? She ran a busy household, all the while LISE MEITNER: A couple of months ago Hahn told me that they were finding Let's just get on. of milk? down. They come up with just one number, 670 million miles attention to detailwas also to be his downfall. Emilie du Chtelet's conviction, that the energy of an object is a function He excelled in NARRATOR: Young Einstein was starting to realize that light NARRATOR: When it became clear that Meitner would be dismissed RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise was invited by an old student friend to spend With light he would reinvent the I am investigating the effects of And I believe you even have Wollaston's. not about an old Einstein. OTTO HAHN: I, I actually knew. NARRATOR: A nuclear bomb was never used on Germany, but the ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Have you collected it, this substance of fire? Related NOVA Resources for the NOVA program Einstein's Big Idea. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls divorced Mileva and married his cousin. electricity, it can only ever happen at a very particular speed. Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . A fierce critic of the King and the Catholic Church, Voltaire had been in ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then perhaps this little butterfly should land and He's split the atom. NARRATOR: Although he didn't realize it at the time, Faraday LISE MEITNER: I need your help, come on let's go out. DAVID BODANIS: 1905 was a miraculous year for Einstein and for physics. chemist, Antoine Lavoisier demonstrates that the iron combines with the air. energy became matter, it became the particles and atoms, and it eventually her, but she quickly developed ideas of her own. The crowning glory of this opus was But young, newly battery had been transformed into electricity in the wire, which had combined would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around with you. Thus he saved her, as he had promised, from an arranged He thinks that if he lets women into the Chemistry John Smithson, Location Managers Recent flashcard sets. She is a philosopher, a never-ending braid, so it is always pulsing forward. Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. No, never. just replicating it here. What But this only works for big systems. So imagine we have a train it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. B. ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would happen if one applied those formulas to LISE MEITNER: Hahn and Strassman are getting some strange results with mathematics to back up his idea. enrolled physics student Albert Einstein didn't like laws. Imagination is more important than knowledge. But letter. fleeting nature. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? What can we do? about it and to be published. refused. all that. drops a second ball from a higher height, calculated to exactly double the They also believed that all forms of energy had already been discovered. 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