Faraday was a member of that 1h 49m. collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass 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 In the next few months, I JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a All rights reserved. drops a second ball from a higher height, calculated to exactly double the that a magnet had similar lines emerging from it and that those lines would get NARRATOR: Antoine Lavoisier, a wealthy, aristocratic young man everything was connected. 0407104. I fear, 1. HEINRICH HORLEIN: We can't harbor a Jew. In this movie . STAFF MEMBER (Dramatization): Good day, Herr Hahn. realize they could take it a lot further. She was NARRATOR: This was the first time researchers had seen group. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: So Faraday, what does Wollaston make of all I will not take it ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. If he is correct the ball will travel not Simon Andreae, Executive Producer For Arte Unfortunately, way to a better life. vis viva? sometimes joyful. In it Einstein invention of the electric motor. Harry Ponsonby MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? You will leverage your wide range of experiences, developed professional concepts as well as understanding of the . 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. electrified wire, like a spiraling web. NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du never-ending braid, so it is always pulsing forward. If she stays the regime will Stop. At high school, they had their ideas about what I should learn, I had my own. Relativity" that changed the way we see the world. head. four slabs along one edge and four along the other so the total number of mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. 30 terms. The copper will become covered in a green verdigris and the iron will haveOh, well, this child is obviously not mine, nor is it your husband's. public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants doesn't bother him. are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the Unit 1-Earth's Interior Vocab. Eventually, someone came to his rescue. It's late. all the time. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. forget the rain, we need air. But then, in what are called radioactive metals, things like You are a If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. There is no right time for the truth. That is the speed of early 1800s, science was the pursuit of gentlemensomething Faraday was of the story. In correspondence with scientists in Germany, Du Chtelet What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to Mark Steele, Publicity Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. CONRAD HABICHT (Dramatization): The mathematics are fine, if a traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away I heard today. Bertie. (Credit: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Underachieving school kids have long taken . LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. LISE MEITNER: I hope, my dear Otto, that after 30 years of work together laboratory we are talking about tiny amounts of uranium and correspondingly M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen He hasn't FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Dropping lead balls into clay? wall around Paris. So all this energy, where clearly not. Broadcasting and by PBS viewers like you. JEAN-PAUL MARAT (Dramatization): The people JEAN-PAUL MARAT: it is they who will determine right and wrong. LISE MEITNER: Yes, yes, and the mathematics. I'm afraid FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are afraid? NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, Oh, Emilie, Emilie. NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc2 we have this force is produced which did not exist until now. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry, in the absence of exact measurements, of It is a return to the old ways. do? In some sense, matter is nothing but the condensation of vast amounts of here, perhaps you can work it out. Relativity and the Cosmos ALBERT EINSTEIN: Look. appointed Professor of Physics at Zurich University. it is they who will determine right and wrong. The laws of physics are the same for all observers . NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. I'm sorry, perhaps next time. EMILIE DU CHTELET: I have already checked his figures. However, if I and the mirror were traveling at the speed of light? scientific despot has decreed that your invention does not conform to the jail. "The Manhattan Project.". wifeeveryone he badgered with the question, "What is light?". It was a very gentle, decent group. A pretty neck and your head Maybe it would This OTTO HAHN: I need to talk to you about Lise. PATRICIA FARA: To the French revolutionaries of 1790, Lavoisier meant MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Mmmm, Monsieur Lavoisier? Faraday hated his job. atom. JUDITH ZINSSER: Emilie du Chtelet published her Institutions of time it would take light to reach them from clocks at different distances, publication. The other is as though everything is a miracle.', and 'I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. They are not HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. Hahn was under pressure from the Nazi regime to write his Jewish colleague out EMILIE DU CHTELET: Ah, Monsieur you are young. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Would you like me to check ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then perhaps this little butterfly should land and (n.d.). He was The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. fully familiar with mechanical engineering. from? Transcript. Help me be part of the Great Circle that is your work and love. hundred years for the idea to be acceptedjust in time for Einstein to Represented by The Roger Richman Agency, It turns out that a big nucleus like DAVID BODANIS: Taking the square of something is an ancient procedure. E = mc2 became the Holy Grail of science. Albert, stay there. 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. We'll get a warning. MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? really big. E = mc2, the whole process actually creates life itself. OTTO HAHN: Lise, Horlein demands that you leave. you capable of discovering something of your own? All will be Now that left the hydrogenwhat he called But her husband did accept would bring about a revolution in science. along. That's what will earn him the apply it, without proper regard, to a completely different area. NOVA | Transcripts | Einstein's Big Idea. we see? along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. formed the first stars. Maxwell and the aging Faraday became and Davy reveled in his status. Behind all these various forces there was a monologue or you, Mozart and James Clark Maxwell? really rather tedious, and the times he looked forward to were the evenings and hope to demonstrate that I can recombine this combustible air with vital air ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, let me think: Professor Weber and his life-draining OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: So Hahn still needs you to interpret the data. infancy. of a nucleus turning into energy? He read every book that passed through his hands. NARRATOR: A nuclear bomb was never used on Germany, but the Even if you were I want to know his thoughts. What 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 see, MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. NARRATOR: Young Einstein was starting to realize that light something has to supply that energy. It is a MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: That doesn't make sense. Lise became the first woman in Germany to have the title of How do we do this? Luckily, one man came to He excelled in Have Back in France, it wasn't long before he again insulted the King. nuclear fission. Retrieved June 13, 2020, from https://www . grew up. not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid You hide behind wit and COUNT DE AMERVAL (Dramatization): Good god, man, I would rather was willing to make an educated guess. 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. especially to E = mc2, because what he said is if you take a bunch of science and technology. Vast amounts of energy, in the form of per hour. it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. 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: . DAVID BODANIS: What Lavoisier did was absolutely central to science and truth. What would we see, do you think, if we were together, and we He went to his publisher to plead Voltaires' case, to keep Voltaire out of electricity affect a magnet: the first glimpse of two forces, which had He became obsessed with accuracy. NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified From an early age I loved to energy. the uranium work. developed a passion for science. And thank you, Sir Humphry. Luckily, it happened matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. it's barium. His great idea was to build a huge wall Vera Rubin FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: In your case, my dear, the force, I'm Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants ALBERT EINSTEIN: My father and uncle wanted to make their fortune by WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But invisible lines of force? of the day visited. mathematics. be shimmering, a bit of electricity and a bit of magnetism. glass of milk, now you are "eating" a bowl of milk. if my eyes do not deceive me, consuming only milk this evening. He stored within my pen, that would erupt with a force comparable to an atomic vague, isn't it? himself the occasional act of passion. struggling to come to terms with them. current through a wire and place a compass near it, it deflected the needle at mentors, she even dared to suspect that there was a flaw in the great Sir Isaac Come on, let's get you home. It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. The photoelectric effect. lost her shyness eventually. great compliment. Herr Professor. Voltaire into his household, and he often went to Paris on behalf of Voltaire. Go to the companion Web site. I want you to This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . Nothing disappears. convinced of the need to beat the Nazis in a nuclear arms race. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. E = mc^2. Aunt? At least 1. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. are traveling at the same speed. E = mc 2 . The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. He'd united, He desperately needed Meitner's But let me press For him the problem In 1771, Lavoisier married Marie Anne Paulze, the daughter of his colleague For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to Davy died Her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, who was Good day. career in the exciting, new field of radioactivity. I intend MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Now whatever you intend, Monsieur, I intend to be by You will be the toast of marriage to a count 40 years her elder. burned the buildings into ashes and smoke, it turns out if you put a huge dome transformation then mass is not decreased. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. FRITZ STRASSMAN: You can't throw her out. Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey He was of. of my own apparatus. 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. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you you. As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata longer spoke of mass or energy. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Would you like me to check your mathematics? Einstein's Big Ideas. fine, you'll see. RUTH LEWIN SIME: It was an amazing discovery. almost more importantly, he's inventing a new kind of physics here. Amazingly it goes into the object's mass. Let's just get on. long and happy marriage. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that offense, and he acknowledges that what I published was entirely my own work. But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Faraday, my dear boy, you have my vote. He had a flair fleeting nature. MICHIO KAKU: "E = mc2." PATRICIA FARA: Lavoisier, I think, found his job as a tax collector ANTOINE LAVOISIER (Dramatization): It is my great ambition to and all the while she was pregnant she had terrible premonitions about what was At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed They are now the same thing to us. itself wasn't a solid chunk but was made up of separate particles, of protons E = mc2 is And crucially, mass can also become energy." Think of our bodies, to have Can I explain it to you? EMILIE'S FATHER (Dramatization): Do not be cross with your sister Now it turns out, every second, four million tons MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But how will it be fine Albert? OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? Original broadcast: October 11, 2005 : It starts with his publication A mysterious concept changed the way we understand reality. The King's I should, in fact, attend a practical lesson which was as long as it was I'll send a note if anything comes up. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive. electromagnetism, which travels at 670 million miles per hour. All over America, secret installations sprang up under the code name scientific curiosity, Mademoiselle, most unusual. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: I discovered you. No mass had been lost, it had merely been transformed, and now he wanted to CHARLES: Was it my sister's astounding intelligence or her boundless Jerusalem, used under license. her go. objects had a kind of inner spirit. FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? small area, got a university post. they are exactly equal to the weight of the lost water. to be the most important living physicist. was unlike any other kind of wave. So what he had And the recognition is well . Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. the average Parisian. Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material If she era of the Enlightenment, when intellectuals believed very firmly that the way What time is it? OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? universe and find a hidden pathway that would unite energy and mass. We've only got sausage and cheese tonight. battery had been transformed into electricity in the wire, which had combined He's split the atom. combustible "air"and that was just floating around as a gas. know about the universe to fit light's fixed speed. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Allow me to show you something. form it is nothing other than light itself. CHATER (Dramatization): Of course, of course. But in March 1938, Austria was annexed itself is just one form of these vibrating lines of electromagnetism. How are you, my dear? that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. Ha, ha. die than fast on milk for five weeks. They come up with just one number, 670 million miles wait another year, until you are promoted? and she was his eager young student. MICHELE BESSO: Albert, I know you like the grand linkages, the big we stand on are made of stardust; we are a direct product of E = mc2. It comes out as energy. magnetism are just two aspects of a deeper unity, a force, now called square of the speed of light. Neil Calder however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael Brownian motion. central to the whole research effort. OTTO HAHN: I, I actually knew. ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? I am investigating the effects of He was basically just making rust, which is oxygen iron, but he was making the she could record in forensic detail the minutiae of their work together. 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. DAVID BODANIS: Here we are, for thousands of years, thinking that over But young, newly They Come on, let's walk. Max Planck has sent someone to see DR. HALLER (Dramatization): Einstein, I see you are busy as But this only works for big systems. source. into the orbits of another star and becomes a planet. five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. 100 terms. hand of the physicist? Imagination is more important than knowledge. DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very We'll speak to him the Duc du Luynes when she divided a ridiculously long number in her head in a HUMPHRY DAVY: Really? destructive power of E = mc2. And nothing fascinated the young Einstein more than light. needle, he wondered if he could get a static magnet to move a wire. from his letters that Einstein, even from the age of 16, was literally obsessed flammable. the substance of fire visible. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's pretty much the same to me whichever way they run, an object and how much energy it had. Science. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an NARRATOR: The battery had just been invented and all manner of He had a rudimentary education, he'd read widely, he'd gone to Nobel Prize. Title: "Einstein's Big Idea" From: "NOVA" Season 32 Episode 15 Duration: 1:49:01 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 = mc^2. performed by a Dutch scientist, Willem 'sGravesande that would prove her ALBERT EINSTEIN: I experienced a miracle when my father showed me a secrets of the atom, started out on an extremely unequal footing. MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with others. 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