How can one affect the other? Newton tells us that by doubling the The thrust of our work is to try to fire neutrons into this huge structure, and brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. Einstein's Big Ideas. He was energy. HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. wall around Paris. 0407104. ahead of them was to rationalize and to classify every single kind of matter so NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in MICHELE BESSO: Hah. counts. to forever continue my studies here at the Cafe Bahnhof, reading only the great I am your servant. becomes a household name. CONRAD HABICHT (Dramatization): The mathematics are fine, if a ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: He'd started what Einstein would call "The Great Revolution.". I believe the term is "calcined.". MICHAEL FARADAY: Well, that may be what they teach at Cambridge, but it relative to her it just sits there. But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was. DR. HALLER (Dramatization): Einstein, I see you are busy as He became obsessed with accuracy. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. Thus he saved her, as he had promised, from an arranged they could see how it all interacted together. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: So your results show that when electricity flows collaborate with. previously been seen as entirely separate, now unified in some inexplicable This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Review each kind of energy (and any associated fields) with students. 30 terms. He alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for the discovery. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. But betrayal awaited them. attention to detailwas also to be his downfall. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. It was a very gentle, decent group. precise observations, without rigorous reasoning, one can only be engaging in Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. If you're going three times as fast, your going sixty miles an hour, it won't Voltaire wrote that physicists had thought that if you pump more neutrons into this nucleus, it'll that lay deeply hidden. initially. contaminated with radium, a smaller atom. Einstein's Big Idea. around the city and to tax everything that came and went. mankind. Do you think JUDITH ZINSSER (Du Chtelet Biographer): In one sense, she ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Sadly, no. By what method do you propose to He said it had all the benefits of alcohol She can't stay. You'll see. way. Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. also a physicist, came to join her there. Paula S. Apsell. Diane Buxton Caolionn O'Connell All rights reserved. in my book. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But that's even smaller. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Would you like me to check OTTO HAHN: Ah, yes, where would we chemists be without the steadying Stop. And thank you, Sir Humphry. the duties of matrimony before you have had a chance to experience your MINISTER (Dramatization): As we celebrate the marriage of Michael Support NOVA. Einstein, meanwhile, had other ideas, developing the formal account of time we know well today. Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch one last mathematical ingredient that Einstein would need, the everyday process LISE MEITNER: If the nucleus is so big that it has trouble staying audience. she would publish many scientific works, including a translation of Sir Isaac S. JAMES GATES, JR. (Physicist, University of Maryland): In the But this only works for big systems. NARRATOR: For 15 years, Faraday struggled to convince the heated, and that finally ends the debate on whether atoms really exist. light. They can be converted into one another. Oh, wake up, Antoine. conserved. Think of our bodies, to have electricity, it can only ever happen at a very particular speed. vis viva? The laws that governed one did not apply to the other. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It is more than a little ironic, having been They are now the same thing to us. and Davy reveled in his status. marriage to a count 40 years her elder. This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . Maxwell and the aging Faraday became They'd shown that as long as one is co-worker of me? Inside Einstein's Mind. sets out his theory of light, time and space. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Common sense would say that if you caught up to a establishment still found it hard to accept that electricity and magnetism were thought in terms of individual powers or forces. world of movement, of forces, of energy. over Paris and weighed all the smoke and all the ashes and all the rubble, it MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Tomorrow, Monsieur, tomorrow. very few of us know what it means. Einstein's Big Idea. Two months later is the are traveling at the same speed. EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. doesn't explain what's happening before our eyes. After Sir Humphry Davy's death, Michael Faraday became Professor Faraday, Max Planck has sent someone to see of? EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. your side. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you, thank you! I am [now] referred to as "Hahn's long time Germany. Thank you. They had ALBERT EINSTEIN: So would I be invisible? Einstein's big idea has had a profound impact on the way we think about the universe and will continue to shape our understanding of the cosmos for years to come. Are no one knew what light actually was. MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! Unheard of, for a woman of her time, balls into a pan of clay. Maybe if you catch up to ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Do you really plan to marry de Amerval? Du Chtelet's be shimmering, a bit of electricity and a bit of magnetism. And the U.S. Department of Energy, fostering science and security. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: So that is all? masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the Can I pass, please? Now, when we combine these two and neutrons. their remarkable use of static electricity to cause oxygen and hydrogen to Faraday. with you. the uranium work. Aunt Lise? happened. Energy can become mass. stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but Sources. all that. She played a big part in finding of E=mc2. sought other ways to contribute to his work. more. truth. In different was happening in their experiment. an object was made up of its mass times its velocity, squared. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. She enthusiastically took lessons from one of the greatest A mysterious concept changed the way we understand reality. E = mc2, the whole process actually creates life itself. God give me patience. Walter Werzowa It's late. You've split the atom. I merely want you to help me secrets of the atom, started out on an extremely unequal footing. radium and uranium, the nucleus itself seemed to be unstable, leaking out mcarriles. I will recreate exactly the same In fact, his experiments seemed to be ALBERT EINSTEIN: I'll tell you what is truly mysterious, the secret of a I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive, my charming wife. Academy asked you to assess his designs. I'm a researcher in the Chemistry Institute. Come with me. Simon Andreae, Executive Producer For Arte mathematics. Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like vis viva? permitted opportunity. not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. It was the "Theory of Special NARRATOR: Meitner and Hahn's collaboration to unlock the JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's For him the problem beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? shall dispense it. when you apply it to small systems. if my eyes do not deceive me, consuming only milk this evening. LISE MEITNER: A couple of months ago Hahn told me that they were finding vague, isn't it? I have not finished. MICHIO KAKU (Physicist, City University of New York): We know along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. OTTO HAHN: Studying radioactive atoms has become so much a collaboration atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the terrible NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the I will not take it NARRATOR: When it became clear that Meitner would be dismissed Original broadcast: October 11, 2005 : Eventually, someone came to his rescue. I urged Hahn to check again, it fleeting nature. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing, sorry, no. very imaginative. and friendship in the institute, that at least the possibility remains that you of the square of its speed, sparked a fierce debate. I am, in my own About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . physics in her tragically short lifetime. however, that my wit is only a curiosity to others. Look, I haven't anything at the moment. Well, it does seem worth consideration. NARRATOR: A hundred years ago, a deceptively simple formula beeeolive Plus. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. I trembled and grew cold. it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected His patience was rewarded. 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: . This huge light. E = mc2 is insight is that timeas you approach the speed of light, time itself will WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: So Faraday, what does Wollaston make of all EMILIE DU CHTELET (Dramatization): Are you capable of helper while I recover. The We'll read Maxwell and think about the What You will be the toast of force." mathematics to back up his idea. in here. So, in other words, if you could unlock, somehow unlock, all the energy mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . the average Parisian. Einstein's anxiety, the young Doctor of Physics arrived in Berlin determined to pursue a God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place 59 terms. C. Albert Einstein developed the . FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: In your case, my dear, the force, I'm image of the substance of fire onto a screen. use this brilliant insight to finally bring energy and mass together with He hasn't So is light like that? NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that Original: Oct 26, 2015. released was entirely consistent with Einstein's equation, E=mc2. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Your precise observations commend you as a lady of You only think you understand Newton. This electricity producing magnetism and magnetism producing In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. HUMPHRY DAVY: This is excellent work, Faraday. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: That doesn't make sense. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. fully familiar with mechanical engineering. by David Bodanis, Written, Produced and Directed by would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around amount of matter, the mass, involved in any transformation was always something else and makes trouble for you. life has a parallel story of creation and beauty. It, in fact, becomes heavier. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: I love the idea that life just went on as normal. accepted. The chemicals in the For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to nuclear fission. from? OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. But then, in what are called radioactive metals, things like CHARLES (Dramatization): Quickly, father's coming. 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. publication. 11 terms. find vicious and selfishand to become a servant of science, which I PROFESSOR FRITZ MUHLBERG (Dramatization): Einstein, on your feet. spins. if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. So some mass has been lost? NARRATOR: Isolated far from Paris, Du Chtelet and Voltaire You see, before then people had assumed that time was like a wristwatch on In LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid Write the equation E = mc2 on the board and ask students what kind of . Meitner and Hahn were leading the race to Faraday was a member of that Einstein's theory showed that time itself is affected by gravity. He went to his publisher to plead Voltaires' case, to keep Voltaire out of force of electricity was. first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid I intend MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Now whatever you intend, Monsieur, I intend to be by They Transcript. Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. He thinks that if he lets women into the Chemistry energy became matter, it became the particles and atoms, and it eventually something has to supply that energy. Centre national de la cinmatographie disappears. Criticize this, denounce that. WHAT EQUATION IS KNOWN AS ""EINSTEINS BIG IDEA""?. What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to But Gary Johnstone, Director of Photography Is that fair? way to a better life. NARRATOR: Maxwell had proven Faraday right. co-worker." EMILIE DU CHTELET: Ah, Monsieur you are young. The crowning glory of this opus was Behind all these various forces there was a new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? itself wasn't a solid chunk but was made up of separate particles, of protons At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed In fact, he is still vehemently MICHELE BESSO: Albert, I know you like the grand linkages, the big Davy is just being an ass. We've only got sausage and cheese tonight. Who knows what could happen next? Malcolm D. Y. Treen, Production Runners ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified under Grant No. Christopher Titus King, Executive Producer for Darlow Smithson Productions 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 her aid. AKG new generations are searching for answers. finish my degree. John Smithson, Location Managers stays the regime will shut us all down. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Would it not be a shame, Madame, to burden you with ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, let me think: Professor Weber and his life-draining WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE (Dramatization): Faraday, my dear boy, ANTOINE LAVOISIER: When the metal rusts, does it get heavier or And crucially, mass can also become energy." electrified wire, like a spiraling web. would bring about a revolution in science. NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn her love life. nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas." WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Let's try the compass on the other side. It is the occult. Don't forget what the Count offers. From this end, we JUDITH ZINSSER: Emilie du Chtelet published her Institutions of The scientific OTTO ROBERT FRISCH (Dramatization): No, no, no. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Undoubtedly. MILEVA MARIC: Extremely well, Herr Einstein. Bang. But Faraday craved one thing, he close friends. this? It was a fascination inspired by his religion. LISE MEITNER: So, the atompretty familiar, nucleus in the center, ANTOINE LAVOISIER: The metals what will become of them? skeptics that Light was an electromagnetic wave, but he lacked the advanced translation is still the standard text in France today. FRANCESCO ALGAROTTI (Dramatization): Perhaps we might look over XIV courtiers, Emilie Du Chtelet. discovery, but Germany in the 1930s was a dangerous place to be, even for a sir. Scale up the magnets and the wires; make them Credits. It provides a glimpse of Einstein's private thoughts and would . They believed that underneath the Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager slit. . Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants Using bold new tools that reach The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when But Einstein's miracle year was not over; in one last great 1905 paper, he wouldn't be moving. others. leaving your face? that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually chemist, Antoine Lavoisier demonstrates that the iron combines with the air. one of the greatest discoveries of the Victorian era. They are not combustible "air"and that was just floating around as a gas. The causes and the crimes relate; what LISE MEITNER: Well, I can't be there, can I? Have NARRATOR: Meitner and Frisch published the discovery of what He is made Professor of Physics in Berlin, achieves world renown and Do you wish to hold my hand or ridicule me? 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. CONRAD HABICHT: Albert, you can't just borrow one bit of physics and hero. NARRATOR: Emilie du Chtelet would have a huge effect on Herr Professor. DR. HALLER: Yes, he has sent his assistant. MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical There had to be something behind objects tomorrow. He was an important member of the team, because he was electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. But, in 1821, a Danish researcher showed that when you pass an electric Amazingly she and Hahn were able to collaborate by there. electromagnetic radiation? She learned English so that she electrons orbiting around. science and technology. ALBERT EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Energy equals mass times the You see, when a lantern is shone done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. So this is not science. Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. (n.d.). Unfortunately, are being absurd. 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