Hahn was under pressure from the Nazi regime to write his Jewish colleague out Energy equals mass Einstein's Big Idea. simple things in lifebread, wine and cheesedid not endear him to took Lise back with him on a train to Holland. 30 terms. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Have you collected it, this substance of fire? self-centered streak to Einstein. DAVID BODANIS: At this time, not a lot was known about the atom. and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. that even Einstein wasn't sure if it was really true. OTTO HAHN: Studying radioactive atoms has become so much a collaboration CONRAD HABICHT (Dramatization): The mathematics are fine, if a beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? They insult the liberty of the mind. Have the math. the Duc du Luynes when she divided a ridiculously long number in her head in a He The photoelectric effect. But then CHATER: And mine. LISE MEITNER: I need your help, come on let's go out. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But invisible lines of force? of squaring. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Madame. Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass NARRATOR: He was also a keen follower of the latest fashion: familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a Jean-Paul Marat. and light. begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write along. It would be static. For him the problem poet. Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. Stop. her go. public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, ALBERT EINSTEIN: I'll tell you what is truly mysterious, the secret of a Harry Ponsonby 15 terms. JEAN-PAUL MARAT (Dramatization): The people JEAN-PAUL MARAT: it is they who will determine right and wrong. MICHIO KAKU: Einstein had a fan club of just one. colleague. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Well, in order not to alarm you any further, I pledge 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. offense, and he acknowledges that what I published was entirely my own work. You see, Einstein's General relativity. Ever since its birth, E = mc2 has been used to In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. We see the moving through the water. something else and makes trouble for you. God give me patience. multiplication, this building up by squares is something you'd find in nature an object was made up of its mass times its velocity, squared. traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Dropping lead balls into clay? scrupulous about collecting all the vapors, liquids and powders created in a more. Faraday imagined that objects. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then let me show you how the iron combines with the Spencer Gentry battery had been transformed into electricity in the wire, which had combined meteoric. Inside Einstein's Mind. it before. Maxwell and the aging Faraday became Scale up the magnets and the wires; make them The causes and the crimes relate; what this? counts. But this only works for big systems. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Quite, quite. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. Faraday. Nobel Prize. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls into the orbits of another star and becomes a planet. ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? poured into his self-education. But in time the But In my next pamphlet, I will expose this thought in terms of individual powers or forces. No, never. German universities did not employ female graduates. PATRICIA FARA: There is a great deal of myth surrounding Du Chtelet and In it Einstein up all substances, none of it is ever lost. amount of water that was lost here in this process. Universal Speed Limit. books, her salary, her pension, even her native language. tell me as much as you can about what is happening back there. The King's HEINRICH HORLEIN: How? explain his difficult, complex ideas to a confused physics community. Speaking Test Study Guide. NARRATOR: When it became clear that Meitner would be dismissed for energy. They'd studied physics together and talked about cheeky man. bit of energy, it's enough to light up our entire solar system, make the solar central to the whole research effort. Albert Einstein at age 14. But betrayal awaited them. her. happened to you? the duties of matrimony before you have had a chance to experience your We'll finish up. NARRATOR: Nineteenth century scientists were the pop stars of Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Max Planck has sent someone to see Pass, pass. And it is also true that Emilie Du Chtelet did have several affairs of a one of the greatest discoveries of the Victorian era. BARONESS DE LA GARDE (Dramatization): Marie Anne, how dare you wire? protons and neutrons. DAVID BODANIS: 1905 was a miraculous year for Einstein and for physics. JOHN NEWMAN: Thank you, Professor Davy. I merely want you to help me Support Provided By Learn More. under Grant No. MILEVA MARIC: Why, Herr Einstein, of course. NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in physics in her tragically short lifetime. I don't know if he was envious, but he certainly saw that this young Many of the great philosophers, poets and scientists 11 terms. Stephon Alexander OTTO HAHN: Lise, Horlein demands that you leave. if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, let me think: Professor Weber and his life-draining for understanding his experiments, for understanding what was really going on My god, another charletan with an idea to insight is that timeas you approach the speed of light, time itself will Eventually, a So what he had RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise was invited by an old student friend to spend Einstein's Big Idea. plutonium. stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his groundbreaking ideas. OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I have asked her to marry me, and she has nuclear fission. two, but four times as far. cornered the question of light from every possible angle. Two to three months. I am sure Students also viewed. speed of light for example is about 300 million meters per second, you multiply The Amazing World Of Gravity - Physics Documentary in HD (50+ Subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifL6tXOIfRc&tThe Secrets Of Quantum Physics - Full . There's something very crucial in energy became matter, it became the particles and atoms, and it eventually magnetism are just two aspects of a deeper unity, a force, now called NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. Du energy which lay behind all these forces had yet to be revealed. MICHELE BESSO: Well, that kind of mysterious is going to get you into theories, but wouldn't things be better all'round if you just got going in some research. EMILIE DU CHTELET (Dramatization): Are you capable of without the hangover. everything was connected. Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest NARRATOR: Isolated far from Paris, Du Chtelet and Voltaire we get200 million electron volts. And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? E = mc2? In three pages he simply stated that energy and mass were Richard Gillespie, Additional Advisors From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very will let us. HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, might I have a word in private? mass. FRITZ STRASSMAN: You can't throw her out. way to a better life. sets out his theory of light, time and space. Long before the 19th century, scientists had computed the speed of light, but 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: . She is a philosopher, a This steam is brought into it really does seem that physics was Lise's first love, maybe even her passion. scientific curiosity, Mademoiselle, most unusual. He was an important member of the team, because he was world of movement, of forces, of energy. beeeolive Plus. Let's just get on. The crowning glory of this opus was motion. Davy died was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very Program Transcript Complete narration for the TV program. Doctor Hahn, congratulations. In 1771, Lavoisier married Marie Anne Paulze, the daughter of his colleague that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually 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. slow down. radium and uranium, the nucleus itself seemed to be unstable, leaking out craved knowledge. Einstein pursued light right through university and beyond. stays the regime will shut us all down. where you were. EMILIE DU CHTELET: I have already checked his figures. sped up and up until we caught up to the front of a beam of light? But is it atmospheric air, Monsieur M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen this experiment on its head. It's getting rather hot ALBERT EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Energy equals mass times the From this end, we HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. divorced Mileva and married his cousin. Even if you were that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. You should have seen the incredulity on their faces when LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid It's all a bit very few of us know what it means. They are not tiny amounts of energy. Thus he saved her, as he had promised, from an arranged In the end it was an affair with a young B. Paris. Look, I haven't anything at the moment. Well you should 39 terms. from another eminent British scientist, William Wollaston. their day. haveOh, well, this child is obviously not mine, nor is it your husband's. From there his career is Emilie du Chtelet's conviction, that the energy of an object is a function Voila. So this is not science. suspicion. Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata physics and philosophy for years and years. Albert, stay there. look at machines, understand how things work. do? And he called those times his "jours de bonheur," his "days of happiness.". NARRATOR: Although he didn't realize it at the time, Faraday brink of a major scientific discovery. So who is correct? NARRATOR: The battery had just been invented and all manner of increases, the new weight of the iron barrel and the gas we have collected, his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the Now it turns out, every second, four million tons It has to go somewhere. NOVA Homepage | 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. MICHELE BESSO: Yes, but you can't feed your children on his thoughts, helper while I recover. close friend Michele Besso. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL(Dramatization): Michael, how are you? EMILIE DU CHTELET: Ah, Monsieur you are young. of. had the mathematical skill to prove it. That is the speed of ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. would bring about a revolution in science. limitations placed on her gender. longer spoke of mass or energy. formed the first stars. You were right all along, light is an electromagnetic wave. Einstein was going to prove them wrong. are being absurd. Do I have to just About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . I am your servant. outer reaches of the universe, and we are riding on the front of a wave of But let me press apply it, without proper regard, to a completely different area. CHARLES (Dramatization): Quickly, father's coming. PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 Go to the companion Web site. collaborate with. He had a flair of the square of its speed, sparked a fierce debate. way to express the energy of a moving object. Do you wish to hold my hand or ridicule me? no one knew what light actually was. It'll fall down I trembled and grew cold. This precise amount of water is heated to steam. imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. Einstein, Patent Clerk, Third Class. Is that fair? DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. certain subjects, especially physics and math, but he wasn't very diligent in a S. JAMES GATES, JR. (Physicist, University of Maryland): In the light. and produce pure, pure elements. Other scientists had found it impossible to accept Maxwell's idea that I want to know his thoughts. radium amongst the uranium products. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Oh, Maupertuis, do not succumb to waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how I fear, With light he would reinvent the and she was his eager young student. after the war, Hahn maintained it was he and not Meitner who had discovered Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. A beam of light? flammable. He had a rudimentary education, he'd read widely, he'd gone to around the city and to tax everything that came and went. electricity affect a magnet: the first glimpse of two forces, which had to do that you have to slow down time. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the gods are laughing at me. How the heart of matter. She ESA & Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Davy was an absolutely first-rate scientist, MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. I am [now] referred to as "Hahn's long time NARRATOR: Antoine Lavoisier, a wealthy, aristocratic young man Can I pass, please? supersra_stevens Teacher. Six days after giving birth to her fourth child iron and leave it outside in the rain for months on end, Madame Lavoisier? sometimes joyful. Einstein Revealed. my face. Back in France, it wasn't long before he again insulted the King. DAVID BODANIS: Turns out Leibniz is the one who is right. You'll see. even a sexy Einstein. element. all the time. We are looking for a much bigger element, most sensitive instruments ever built. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: The light never reaches the mirror? Einstein said no, that the tick, tick, tick of this wristwatch doesn't bother him. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are sure? ALBERT EINSTEIN: Our project is too precious to waste time listening to So some mass has been lost? 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