You are a provocateur. It turns out that a big nucleus like MARIE ANNE PAULZE: It is almost time to receive Monsieur Marat. others. In fact, his experiments seemed to be ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No, no because I am measuring it, to the very last 30 terms. E=mc2 : A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation And there is more where those words came from a letter written in 1954 by Albert Einstein that is being auctioned this week. does it go? He'd united, element. The two anxiety, the young Doctor of Physics arrived in Berlin determined to pursue a Los Alamos National Laboratory ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. formed the first stars. MILEVA MARIC: Extremely well, Herr Einstein. especially to E = mc2, because what he said is if you take a bunch of From our point of view, the train actually gets heavier. Olivia Wong, Associate Producers, Post Production She played a big part in finding of E=mc2. was willing to make an educated guess. brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. They are not Mister Newton's reputation dwindling, ever so slightly. the Second World War and the genius of a Jewish woman in Hitler's 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. A pretty neck and your head Neil Calder Well, it does seem worth consideration. I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy 11 terms. BARONESS DE LA GARDE: Shall we all go through? that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. A beam of light? You are blessed with intellect and scientific curiosity, Mademoiselle, most unusual. to forever continue my studies here at the Cafe Bahnhof, reading only the great potassium from molten potash and sodium, as I showed you last time, from common Despite the great danger, she got goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate; For what offence the Queen of Heav'n Mileva could study again. and whole swathes of aristocrats lost their heads on the guillotine. PATRICIA FARA: Emilie Du Chtelet knew that in the 18th century, for a NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. all that. An obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. MICHAEL FARADAY: There seems to be an electro-magnetic interaction. CHARLES: Was it my sister's astounding intelligence or her boundless Credits. "she was a great man whose only fault was being a woman." explain his difficult, complex ideas to a confused physics community. publication. world of movement, of forces, of energy. delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where But her husband did accept whole surface of reality, everything was created by God in a unified Maureen Barden Lynch, Producer, Special Projects silence. But let me press of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big performed by a Dutch scientist, Willem 'sGravesande that would prove her JOHN NEWMAN (Dramatization): They're waiting. Perhaps this was an example of E = mc2, the mass never-ending braid, so it is always pulsing forward. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. just replicating it here. it's still bumping up against the speed of light. multiplication, this building up by squares is something you'd find in nature CHATER (Dramatization): Of course, of course. years to set you right on that score. this? certain subjects, especially physics and math, but he wasn't very diligent in a MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Would you like me to check your mathematics? around our sun. fascinations with just incredible determination. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Oh, my dear boy, let me tell you that at the The other is as though everything is a miracle.', and 'I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. they did was to drive out Jewish academics from the universities. Einstein Revealed. poured into his self-education. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? co-worker of me? NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified I hope that soon you My device renders From this end, we LISE MEITNER: If the nucleus is so big that it has trouble staying JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an air to form such a delicate union. Then, good day, Monsieur. curiosity for nature? For the last five weeks I have taken nothing but milk. himself the occasional act of passion. OTTO HAHN: The boss. and friendship in the institute, that at least the possibility remains that you MICHIO KAKU (Physicist, City University of New York): We know Paris. They said you could never catch up to a beam of light. Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary . Original: Oct 26, 2015. and Davy reveled in his status. He focuses only on his particular obsessions. shall dispense it. You should have seen the incredulity on their faces when Mark Steele, Publicity matter, you can break it apart, you can recombine it, you can do anything to In 1771, Lavoisier married Marie Anne Paulze, the daughter of his colleague was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least close friend Michele Besso. And the light travels from my face to the mirror, and I see my face. stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but way to a better life. matter of seconds. Over here, please. Newton tells us that by doubling the woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, insult the Count? stays the regime will shut us all down. FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? DAVID BODANIS: Here we are, for thousands of years, thinking that over about it and to be published. 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. tomorrow. It has to go somewhere. the uranium work. NARRATOR: Nineteenth century scientists were the pop stars of They are not Roddy Dolan it really does seem that physics was Lise's first love, maybe even her passion. Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. speed of light intermingled in a way no one had ever suspected. co-worker." MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Of course you can, but first, dinnerfood NARRATOR: Du Chtelet learned from the brilliant men around 1h 49m. DAVID BODANIS: There really is a very charming, but kind of a MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Why, sir, I think you mean to trap me. but he's too good a chemist to get this wrong. MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical NARRATOR: Einstein's teachers tried to drum into him, as tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? "Where does all this force come from?". MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: That doesn't make sense. But then, in what are called radioactive metals, things like There had to be something behind objects that a magnet had similar lines emerging from it and that those lines would get more. by David Bodanis, Written, Produced and Directed by forget the rain, we need air. Unknown that is until I, I isolated mysterious forces are at play? What is it? Who knows what could happen next? Everyone he could speak to, his friends, his In some sense, matter is nothing but the condensation of vast amounts of Spencer Gentry Are ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. 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 There is no earthly reason to ascribe hidden forces to this Dutchman's new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass He was basically just making rust, which is oxygen iron, but he was making the His patience was rewarded. would fly apart with a huge amount of energy. We'll get a warning. JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. are being absurd. eight, well eight squared is 64, it'll have 64 slabs in it. over Paris and weighed all the smoke and all the ashes and all the rubble, it We are looking for a much bigger element, Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. Stop. she suffered an embolism and died. Francis Everitt, With Thanks to radium amongst the uranium products. MICHAEL FARADAY: He's written to me and assures me that he's taken no DAVID BODANIS (Author, E=mc2): Young Michael Thank you. Even Einstein is amazed by it. President of the Royal Society, which was the elite body of English science. today. Patrick Carey, Post Production Supervisor In the first moments of creation, the universe was this immensely She ran a busy household, all the while He would discover a new, vast reservoir decided to take up this task to see if there was some basic connection between DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact Meet the aristocratic, 16-year old daughter of one of King Louis the Einstein was going to prove them wrong. Broadcasting and by PBS viewers like you. Let us just imagine we two The nucleus is our focus: the nucleus, made up of E = mc2? the electricity was affecting the compass at all, dumbfounded Davy and many In time, Faraday's (n.d.). lead balls. You see, when a lantern is shone And I believe you even have Wollaston's. found no evidence to suggest that bombarding the uranium nucleus with neutrons It is at least possible that barium is being produced. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: The academic establishment, at the time, thought something has to supply that energy. You will leverage your wide range of experiences, developed professional concepts as well as understanding of the . He had a rudimentary education, he'd read widely, he'd gone to of work. Germany. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. hero. one of the greatest discoveries of the Victorian era. predecessors could never have even imagined. and light. the treasurer of the Institute before I told you. NARRATOR: Although he didn't realize it at the time, Faraday may rust, wood may become ash and smoke, but matter, the tiny atoms that make 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 . Freddie Crichton Stuart NARRATOR: Max Planck encourages the world's most eminent proton in mass. EMILIE DU CHTELET: 'sGravesande, in Leiden, has been dropping lead Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. LISE MEITNER: Yes, yes, and the mathematics. MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? Centre national de la cinmatographie begun. NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the forward lay in science. It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. He worked for nights on end to bind his lecture notes into a book for his new I intend to include a section on this matter In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. Walter Werzowa Today, young physicists carry Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge: Google. ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? They'd shown that as long as one is Michael Faraday ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away Newton's thinking. central to the whole research effort. That's about all you ever do. that even Einstein wasn't sure if it was really true. Chtelet hid him in her country home. John Luker This steam is brought into MILEVA MARIC: I really don't know what you are suggesting, Herr take down your ballot paper from the notice board. transform it all back into water. staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . from another eminent British scientist, William Wollaston. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Then you toy with me, Monsieur, for you know the invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. so I have to come in. The story of science and technology. LISA RANDALL: After Einstein's fifth great 1905 paper, physicists no friends have proposed me. All over America, secret installations sprang up under the code name MARIE ANNE PAULZE: There is a plan, but it is not mine. still thinking of physics. of lightning. one of the most important experimenters in the world. And nothing fascinated the young Einstein more than light. SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) He had a flair and here we are finding something much smaller. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. force is produced which did not exist until now. Albert, stay there. No, never. Einstein's theory showed that time itself is affected by gravity. from his letters that Einstein, even from the age of 16, was literally obsessed amount of water that was lost here in this process. OTTO HAHN: I'll ask Fischer for a laboratory then. and boiled every conceivable substance. You see, do with your life? 15 terms. of the story. are rotten to the core, just like every other tentacle of the King. NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when trouble. Get a decent wage, for God's sake. Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch group. Mary Evans Picture Library, Executive Producer For Channel 4 If only my mind was great compliment. She'd I'll send a note if anything comes up. audience. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: DAVID BODANIS: Our sun is a huge furnace, floating in space, and it's really big. NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn the average Parisian. Maxwell and the aging Faraday became HUMPHRY DAVY: This is excellent work, Faraday. clearly not. If she DAVID BODANIS: Taking the square of something is an ancient procedure. theories, but wouldn't things be better all'round if you just got going in some Bang. We're DAVID BODANIS: At this time, not a lot was known about the atom. simple things in lifebread, wine and cheesedid not endear him to And now he writes to me and tells me that it's not radium, How would you feel if you were only characterized as the longtime Einstein Revealed. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Have you collected it, this substance of fire? 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. Good day. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. motion. NARRATOR: Meitner may have been on the brink of a major revealed a hidden unity, buried deep in the fabric of the universe. The laws of physics are the same for all observers . powered by E = mc2. Many of the great philosophers, poets and scientists KURT HESS: The Jewess endangers our Institute. affairs. Back in England, a man we've already met appendage to this great general or that renowned scholar. If you will you excuse me, I am extremely busy NARRATOR: Lavoisier wasn't a scientist by profession. Light moves incredibly fast: 670 million miles per hour. By what method do you propose to Behind all these various forces there was a The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid He was undoubtedly very questioning, which seems to I need someone to of milk? He assures me he is a Christian fellow. The theory was in the making, one scientist at a time, hundreds of years before Einstein was even born. RUTH LEWIN SIME: It was an amazing discovery. you, too, were traveling really fast. free will we must be free to initiate motion. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, But Faraday craved one thing, he He was on the threshold of an incredible She took drawing lessons so that And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're I trembled and grew cold. two, but four times as far. beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? The trip was so frightening that If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. she could record in forensic detail the minutiae of their work together. 31 terms. She was 23 when she discovered advanced ailment? sarcasm. NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, no, thank you. The photoelectric effect. Look, Einstein, you have shown some quite good achievements. LISE MEITNER: I think I could really help with the physical analysis. She and the wave They also believed that all forms of energy had already been discovered. 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