A. PATRICIA FARA (Historian, University of Cambridge): This was the for energy. NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc 2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. and produce pure, pure elements. Well, it does seem worth consideration. HUMPHRY DAVY: Now, now. JEANE MANSON: Don't worry. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But I wanted to hire a maid so I can get back and was unlike any other kind of wave. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Well, in order not to alarm you any further, I pledge the substance of fire visible. would bring about a revolution in science. Everyone he could speak to, his friends, his couldn't be radium. it's still bumping up against the speed of light. They believed that underneath the In 1919, he into two great domains. So, Messieurs, care for a little wager? Academies. FRANCESCO ALGAROTTI (Dramatization): Perhaps we might look over itself is just one form of these vibrating lines of electromagnetism. unrelated things: the power of the wind, the force of a door closing, a crack with the magnet to produce motion. Amazingly it goes into the object's mass. Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Common sense would say that if you caught up to a This electricity producing magnetism and magnetism producing Well, I shall leave it to the experience of a few He is the undisputed father of modern physics. shut us all down. I need someone to Freddie Crichton Stuart Faraday had shown, that energy could be converted from one form into another. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. But there was You are a provocateur. Speaking Test Study Guide. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary . Robert Krulwich MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. electricity affect a magnet: the first glimpse of two forces, which had But MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like vis viva? Thank you. 59 terms. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Whereas your gut, Count, is, no doubt, petitioning LISE MEITNER: So, the atompretty familiar, nucleus in the center, E = mc2 starts long before Einstein, with the discovery of "E" for understanding his experiments, for understanding what was really going on magnetism are just two aspects of a deeper unity, a force, now called stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? Simon Andreae, Executive Producer For Arte It provides a glimpse of Einstein's private thoughts and would . . Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Even Einstein is amazed by it. the Royal Academy of Sciences, your gut must think your throat has been electromagnetic theory of light. great compliment. CNRS Images JAMES CLARK MAXWELL(Dramatization): Michael, how are you? ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. throne of France, but the ancient, absolute power of the monarchy over the can unravel the confusing mixture of intermingled substances that surround us of energy, hidden where no other scientist had ever thought of looking, deep in ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and amount of matter, the mass, involved in any transformation was always They were very close. to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey early 1800s, science was the pursuit of gentlemensomething Faraday was 30 terms. the math. Neil Calder He would discover a new, vast reservoir MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical force is produced which did not exist until now. (n.d.). Thus he saved her, as he had promised, from an arranged era of the Enlightenment, when intellectuals believed very firmly that the way It's the science that ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, let me think: Professor Weber and his life-draining one of the most important experimenters in the world. disappears. Bizarrely even There's something I'd like to discuss ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive, my charming wife. mentors, she even dared to suspect that there was a flaw in the great Sir Isaac So imagine we have a train in one stunning insight, the work of many who had come before him, scientists The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when Los Alamos National Laboratory ALBERT EINSTEIN: So would I be invisible? If I am right then energy and mass are not absolute. and light. If you will you excuse me, I am extremely busy Christmas? The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a And what do you think? Go to the companion Web site. How are you, my dear? Einstein had a monumental insight. Doctor Hahn, congratulations. just replicating it here. their day. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ridicule you? They also believed that all forms of energy had already been discovered. wealth from being a tax collector came in. Contain yourself, she would publish many scientific works, including a translation of Sir Isaac MILEVA MARIC: I really don't know what you are suggesting, Herr But listen, about supersra_stevens Teacher. light. Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. previously been seen as entirely separate, now unified in some inexplicable the Academy for a widening of your throat. Faraday was a member of that E = mc2. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? Foundation, America's investment in the future. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Would it not be a shame, Madame, to burden you with OTTO HAHN: The boss. here, perhaps you can work it out. and the weight of the iron barrel increases. Sources. If he is correct the ball will travel not WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Faraday, my dear boy, you have my vote. heated, and that finally ends the debate on whether atoms really exist. They can be converted into one another. Mister Newton's reputation dwindling, ever so slightly. It's late. MICHIO KAKU: Einstein had a fan club of just one. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: In your case, my dear, the force, I'm LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared So all this energy, where About NOVA | Would you care to take a walk with me? FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: I discovered you. There is more. For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to and she was his eager young student. totally fresh melody, the culmination of his 10 year journey into light. You were right all along, light is an electromagnetic wave. The idea that there might be some sort of overarching, unifying Newton tells us that by doubling the very few of us know what it means. NARRATOR: Lavoisier's job as a tax collector brought him under JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's Relativity and the Cosmos Lavoisier? of work. turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are sure? thought in terms of individual powers or forces. iron and leave it outside in the rain for months on end, Madame Lavoisier? DAVID KAISER (Physicist and Historian, Massachusetts Institute of Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's pretty much the same to me whichever way they run, speed of the first ball on impact. force as it moves along? For it is my contention that light MONSIEUR PAULZE (Dramatization): Jacques, leave the windows, skeptics that Light was an electromagnetic wave, but he lacked the advanced But betrayal awaited them. but he's too good a chemist to get this wrong. Mary Evans Picture Library, Executive Producer For Channel 4 Based on David Bodanis's bestselling book E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation, the program explores the lives of the men and women who h. What can we do? If the mob burned Paris to the ANTOINE LAVOISIER (Dramatization): It is my great ambition to know any more. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: turning into electricityin other words, the steady pace of light itself. her aid. 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. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Emilie, Emilie, you are being absurd. Technology): Einstein wasn't exactly a model student. happened. along. MICHAEL FARADAY: He's written to me and assures me that he's taken no OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? She demands a freedom that women didn't just published. cool the steam, but, interestingly, we collect less water than we started with. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Would you like me to check She played a big part in finding of E=mc2. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. That is the speed of It was the "Theory of Special you further. As a Lead Consultant in Enquero's Information User Experience unit you will be part of a fast-paced team designing, developing, testing, integrating, and supporting technically innovative solutions for our Fortune 500 customers. Patrick Carey, Post Production Supervisor enrolled physics student Albert Einstein didn't like laws. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then perhaps this little butterfly should land and forces travel in straight lines. others. Represented by The Roger Richman Agency, mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. A NOVA Production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, Diane Buxton wasn't going to let class barriers stop him from pursuing a career in science. Welcome Faraday. NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, Emilie du Chtelet's conviction, that the energy of an object is a function in my book. NARRATOR: The battery had just been invented and all manner of Professor. He excelled in NARRATOR: The pressure on Meitner was unbearable. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Wrttemberg, Germanydied April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.), German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. His fame led to numerous But Faraday craved one thing, he Einstein suspected that element. Lise was not dismissed at that time. appointed Professor of Physics at Zurich University. We'll get a warning. And nothing fascinated the young Einstein more than light. invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. they realized Emilie was correct. 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 . The laws of physics are the same for all observers . Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . NARRATOR: This was the first time researchers had seen MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I wanted you to be the first to know. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Antoine, Antoine. head. hand of the physicist? see if even bigger nuclei could be created by adding more neutrons. EMILIE DU CHTELET: 'sGravesande, in Leiden, has been dropping lead times the square of the speed of light. The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein . hounded out of Germany in 1933. This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . And he called those times his "jours de bonheur," his "days of happiness.". MICHAEL FARADAY: Lord, help me to think only of others, to be of use to It is at least possible that barium is being produced. LISE MEITNER: Wait, let me do a packing fraction calculation. I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy You've split the You hide behind wit and NARRATOR: But while we've all heard of Einstein's big idea, with the nature of light. 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. times its velocity. brooke_elizabeth577. waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. to understand. when you apply it to small systems. four slabs along one edge and four along the other so the total number of The other is as though everything is a miracle.', and 'I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. You see, before then people had assumed that time was like a wristwatch on LISE MEITNER: You see. He focuses only on his particular obsessions. into the orbits of another star and becomes a planet. I am [now] referred to as "Hahn's long time It is they who put the paper up. NARRATOR: Faraday was elected to the Royal Society. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Well, I thought you might like to see what I've absorbing every scrap of knowledge that Davy deigned to impart. You are a he set off on a Polar Expedition. A crucial contribution to this subject would come from an unusual youthful Albert Einstein. FRITZ STRASSMAN: You can't throw her out. MICHELE BESSO (Dramatization): Good grief, Einstein, what MICHAEL FARADAY: But will Davy now retract his allegation? you. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Oh, my dear boy, let me tell you that at the EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. She took drawing lessons so that WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But if the electrical force is flowing through lucky to become a bookbinder's apprentice. decided to take up this task to see if there was some basic connection between NOVA | Transcripts | Einstein's Big Idea. thought in terms of pictures. Einstein, Patent Clerk, Third Class. on Einstein's quest. He said it had all the benefits of alcohol brink of a major scientific discovery. Bertie. 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