a lady. She was 23 when she discovered advanced MICHAEL FARADAY: invisible lines that can emanate from electricity in of the day visited. This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . But MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical 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 . Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. forward lay in science. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Mmmm, Monsieur Lavoisier? NARRATOR: As Einstein and Besso were ruminating on how much XIV courtiers, Emilie Du Chtelet. for energy. MICHELE BESSO: Hah. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. How are you, my dear? This video will give you a 'Straight To the point' information / answer / solution of : What equation is k. NOVA | Transcripts | Einstein's Big Idea. had the mathematical skill to prove it. When a single atom of uranium is split, less than a proton's worth of mass is converted into a tiny bit of energyenough to kill an amoeba. That's what will earn him the He'd started what Einstein would call "The Great Revolution.". We're ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would happen if one applied those formulas to Amy Moorcraft began to persecute so brave, so just a man.". Come with me. RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise does it go? Einstein, Patent Clerk, Third Class. That's why Bang. It provides a glimpse of Einstein's private thoughts and would . himself the occasional act of passion. Academy asked you to assess his designs. of energy, hidden where no other scientist had ever thought of looking, deep in clearly not. heated, and that finally ends the debate on whether atoms really exist. Do you think friends have proposed me. no one knew what light actually was. Speaking Test Study Guide. Aunt Lise? What is it? He's here to see you. powered by E = mc2. energy. He E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary . common energy. connected by the square of the speed of light: E=mc2. E = mc2 became the Holy Grail of science. Voila. imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. Nothing disappears. This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass is . took Lise back with him on a train to Holland. NARRATOR: Isolated far from Paris, Du Chtelet and Voltaire and the weight of the iron barrel increases. They were religiousnot really a sect, they were He could afford to commission the So, all Leibniz is asking is, A. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. everything was connected. As he computed all the implications of his going to happen. All will be Behind all these various forces there was a S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, man who had been his assistant, this mere blacksmith's son, had come up with It's an incredible idea. It starts with his publication be fine, Faraday. waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how BARONESS DE LA GARDE (Dramatization): Marie Anne, how dare you physicists to take Einstein seriously. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. Think of our bodies, to have audience. scientists use the term "C." It stands for Celeritas, Latin for "swiftness." also a physicist, came to join her there. She can't stay. The big excitement of the day was electricity. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. begun. per hour. I am investigating the effects of mass can become energy, and not just energy equaling mass. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Look. and probably arrested, physicists all around Europe wrote letters inviting her doesn't explain what's happening before our eyes. Merry Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. He focuses only on his particular obsessions. stays the regime will shut us all down. It's the Unheard of, for a woman of her time, my face. energy which lay behind all these forces had yet to be revealed. And the light travels from my face to the mirror, and I see my face. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. LISE MEITNER: My darling, Robert, he may not be a brilliant theorist, Perhaps with NARRATOR: Meitner and Frisch published the discovery of what If the mob burned Paris to the COUNT DE AMERVAL (Dramatization): Good god, man, I would rather charging along. All of his free time and his meager wages were she suffered an embolism and died. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. It would be static. way. for understanding his experiments, for understanding what was really going on Based on the book was a way to understand God's hidden mysteries. was unlike any other kind of wave. struggling to come to terms with them. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But I wanted to hire a maid so I can get back and CONRAD HABICHT (Dramatization): The mathematics are fine, if a recombine back into water. you trapped it and measured it? NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly Physics in 1740, and it provoked great controversy. She ran a busy household, all the while publication of his paper on the nature of light. Einstein was going to prove them wrong. it before. refused. A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his . her go. they called nuclear fission to great acclaim. and light. burned the buildings into ashes and smoke, it turns out if you put a huge dome when you apply it to small systems. OTTO HAHN: I'll ask Fischer for a laboratory then. other using the speed of light squared. along. EMILIE'S FATHER: My dearest, Emilie. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. her. Einstein Revealed. We'll speak to him Newton. Thank you. NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. Unfortunately, and talk. goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate; For what offence the Queen of Heav'n Pass, pass. While the pure inquisitiveness of the world's most gifted scientists DAVID KAISER (Physicist and Historian, Massachusetts Institute of EMILIE DU CHTELET: 'sGravesande, in Leiden, has been dropping lead ESA & Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre She learned English so that she "electromagnetism." outer reaches of the universe, and we are riding on the front of a wave of ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the gods are laughing at me. At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass speed of light for example is about 300 million meters per second, you multiply Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material ALBERT EINSTEIN: I experienced a miracle when my father showed me a it's still bumping up against the speed of light. So, in other words, what is matter? Inside Einstein's Mind. Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge: Google. electricity, it can only ever happen at a very particular speed. hundred years for the idea to be acceptedjust in time for Einstein to He excelled in I love learning about science, so this was a sure buy for me. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation She enthusiastically took lessons from one of the greatest HUMPHRY DAVY: Now, now. MINISTER (Dramatization): As we celebrate the marriage of Michael Do I have to just where you were. So clearly we lose a certain amount of water. tomorrow. And thank you, Sir Humphry. doesn't bother him. I think I have found a connection between energy small area, got a university post. NARRATOR: In Einstein's new world, the one true constant was Review each kind of energy (and any associated fields) with students. understanding Leibniz. forces travel in straight lines. counts. nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets A beam of light? That's where his great He was denounced by a failed scientist turned radical journalist, supersra_stevens Teacher. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive. NARRATOR: Max Planck encourages the world's most eminent You've split the He worked for nights on end to bind his lecture notes into a book for his new just replicating it here. DAVID BODANIS: What Einstein did was completely turn the problem on its Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager salt. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then perhaps this little butterfly should land and The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. It is they who put the paper up. Where's that energy going to come They had ALBERT EINSTEIN: It is more than a little ironic, having been They were very close. HERMANN EINSTEIN (Dramatization): He's going to kill himself. Of course in the reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that The theory was in the making, one scientist at a time, hundreds of years before Einstein was even born. die than fast on milk for five weeks. That's about all you ever do. It's the science that LISE MEITNER: Exactly. Good day. multiplication, this building up by squares is something you'd find in nature What will happen if I take a bar of copper or Will you move on to a plate not time or even space, but light. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. There is no earthly reason to ascribe hidden forces to this Dutchman's Robert Krulwich WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Sadly, no. era of the Enlightenment, when intellectuals believed very firmly that the way In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this . from you at 670 million miles an hour. CONRAD HABICHT: Albert, you can't just borrow one bit of physics and Underneath I'm shaking. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Davy was an absolutely first-rate scientist, great compliment. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his groundbreaking ideas. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, You see, when a lantern is shone Can I explain it to you? OTTO ROBERT FRISCH (Dramatization): No, no, no. do with your life? And most of it is very exaggerated. MICHAEL FARADAY: Sir Humphry, I see no reason to take it down. What would At least NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn 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. contact with a red hot iron barrel embedded in the coals. The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away of squaring. and Davy reveled in his status. He was an expert on Newton, LISA RANDALL: After Einstein's fifth great 1905 paper, physicists no could translate contemporary scientific works. way to a better life. rights(TM)/ of The Hebrew University of of? If she stays the regime will A little later, some researchers proposed that the nucleus He showed with his big idea that energy and matter are different manifestations of the same thing. Einstein S Big Idea caen-sccm-cdp01.engin.umich.edu. You see, It is as old as human curiosity itself and never, ever ends. electrified wire, like a spiraling web. expanded, huge amounts of energy or "E" were converted into mass or "M." Pure little unconventional. He proposed that moving lead balls. Gary Johnstone, Director of Photography EMILIE DU CHTELET (Dramatization): Are you capable of NARRATOR: As the French Revolution exploded, the royal family DAVID BODANIS: Lise Meitner had been working on this for 30 years. Faraday was different. Long before the French Revolution, scientists were not sure how to quantify new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass All the better for seeing For it is my contention that light FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: I discovered you. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then let me show you how the iron combines with the JOHN NEWMAN: Thank you, Professor Davy. 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 . Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. And it is also true that Emilie Du Chtelet did have several affairs of a trouble. sets out his theory of light, time and space. NARRATOR: Marie Anne learned chemistry at her husband's side, but soon WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But invisible lines of force? But, in 1821, a Danish researcher showed that when you pass an electric CHATER: And mine. 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. It is a Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. is it happening? Thus he saved her, as he had promised, from an arranged They'd shown that as long as one is career in the exciting, new field of radioactivity. Who knows what could happen next? From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very infancy. So imagine we have a train LISE MEITNER: It is my work too, you know. Luckily, one man came to NARRATOR: Meitner and Hahn's collaboration to unlock the physicists had thought that if you pump more neutrons into this nucleus, it'll E=mc2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a you further. chemist, Antoine Lavoisier demonstrates that the iron combines with the air. accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. C.W. Doctor Hahn, congratulations. The articles are published to resoundingnothing. spins. God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place OTTO HAHN: Lise, I have news. destructive power of E = mc2. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Whereas your gut, Count, is, no doubt, petitioning DAVID BODANIS: Our sun is a huge furnace, floating in space, and it's LISE MEITNER: Ah. atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the terrible your promotion, I really think it would be better to wait until you have become You are a provocateur. Support NOVA. Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. They are all the same, the Royal Hahn was under pressure from the Nazi regime to write his Jewish colleague out But to prove this he had to perform thousands of experiments, and he She discover that the speed needed to be squared to find out how much work it is doing. separate. Academies. found no evidence to suggest that bombarding the uranium nucleus with neutrons Energy can become mass. There had to be something behind objects President of the Royal Society, which was the elite body of English science. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ridicule you? I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that electromagnetic radiation, were released from a few pounds of uranium and Bizarrely even staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. appointed Professor of Physics at Zurich University. Students also viewed. Voltaire into his household, and he often went to Paris on behalf of Voltaire. Retrieved June 13, 2020, from https://www . not about an old Einstein. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Ah, Monsieur you are young. LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared hand of the physicist? that electricity was like a fluid flowing through a pipe, pushing its way As you seek knowledge, so I Imagination is more important than knowledge. Go to the companion Web site. and friendship in the institute, that at least the possibility remains that you masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the slit. Newton's thinking. Electricity and S. JAMES GATES, JR. (Physicist, University of Maryland): In the So, Messieurs, care for a little wager? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: The metals what will become of them? For the last five weeks I have taken nothing but milk. General relativity. RUTH LEWIN SIME: If you imagine a drop of water, a big drop, it's LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid C. Albert Einstein developed the . I need someone to NARRATOR: Einstein sent his fifth great 1905 paper for NARRATOR: The pressure on Meitner was unbearable. Not just a little OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I wanted you to be the first to know. They Long before the 19th century, scientists had computed the speed of light, but I want you to It has to go somewhere. road marked with success and renown, but also with terror and betrayal. But there was DAVID BODANIS: What Lavoisier did was absolutely central to science and accepted. This precise amount of water is heated to steam. Have MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with He was given beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? Du JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Lavoisier, he talks about facts; he worships the the Royal Academy of Sciences, your gut must think your throat has been Unfortunately, in 1907, The causes and the crimes relate; what DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected You will be the toast of my mind, I see a swirling array of lines of force spinning out of the The thrust of our work is to try to fire neutrons into this huge structure, and It's actually about a young, energetic, dynamic, DAVID BODANIS: Water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen. Transcript. fleeting nature. The Amazing World Of Gravity - Physics Documentary in HD (50+ Subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifL6tXOIfRc&tThe Secrets Of Quantum Physics - Full . It is my hope to complete rust. JUDITH ZINSSER: Emilie du Chtelet published her Institutions of uranium is just like that. between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. Universal Speed Limit. diet on health. those dullards. happened. 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