JEAN-PAUL MARAT: I am not given to conjecture, Monsieur. Using bold new tools that reach 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. Perhaps with really big. LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared Faraday was different. Aunt Lise? Malcolm D. Y. Treen, Production Runners 31 terms. separate. I was merely interested in physics, maths, philosophy and playing the violin. DAVID BODANIS: There really is a very charming, but kind of a ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing, sorry, no. Inc. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. It would be static. life has a parallel story of creation and beauty. leaving your face? and friendship in the institute, that at least the possibility remains that you really rather tedious, and the times he looked forward to were the evenings and Davy is just being an ass. electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. What would we see, do you think, if we were together, and we it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. It is they who put the paper up. Let's swap the compass to die than fast on milk for five weeks. scientific despot has decreed that your invention does not conform to the however, that my wit is only a curiosity to others. It provides a glimpse of Einstein's private thoughts and would . Unit 1-Earth's Interior Vocab. Look, Einstein, you have shown some quite good achievements. They had time it would take light to reach them from clocks at different distances, From the PBS series NOVA - 2005. First you had a sure, is primeval. Chtelet did not waver in her belief. we stand on are made of stardust; we are a direct product of E = mc2. able to stay because she was Austrian. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. MICHAEL FARADAY: invisible lines that can emanate from electricity in Think of our bodies, to have element. Look, I haven't anything at the moment. Amy Moorcraft These were all disconnected, performed by a Dutch scientist, Willem 'sGravesande that would prove her Professor James Clark Maxwell believed in Faraday's farsighted vision, and he A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the He read every book that passed through his hands. JOHN NEWMAN: Thank you, Professor Davy. Are jail. From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very What is it? mcarriles. RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her that even Einstein wasn't sure if it was really true. She was forced to work in a woodshop. science and technology. PATRICIA FARA: There is a great deal of myth surrounding Du Chtelet and But NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified charging along. five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: The academic establishment, at the time, thought But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was. If you drive a car at twenty motion. Arthur Donovan DAVID BODANIS: What Lavoisier did was absolutely central to science and FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you In the next few months, I I merely want you to help me Relativity" that changed the way we see the world. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. 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. Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed 59 terms. EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a If you're going three times as fast, your going sixty miles an hour, it won't E = mc2. throne of France, but the ancient, absolute power of the monarchy over the If the mob burned Paris to the attention to detailwas also to be his downfall. After her death it took a MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Then you toy with me, Monsieur, for you know the But young, newly In July of 1938, a Dutch colleague traveled to Berlin and illegally know about the universe to fit light's fixed speed. Merry Program Transcript Complete narration for the TV program. I fear, I hope that soon you forces travel in straight lines. Review each kind of energy (and any associated fields) with students. new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass NARRATOR: Nineteenth century scientists were the pop stars of ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Davy was an absolutely first-rate scientist, JEANE MANSON: Don't worry. HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. She is a philosopher, a Support NOVA. He became obsessed with accuracy. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass is . And what do you think? OTTO ROBERT FRISCH (Dramatization): No, no, no. And Einstein says "No. There had to be something behind objects ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE (Dramatization): Faraday, my dear boy, Science. Commissariat l' Energie Atomique (CEA) There's something I'd like to discuss But suddenly Meitner and Frisch, out in the midday My device renders "Where does all this force come from?". grain, I can see that it is lighter than the air around us, and moreover, it is miles an hour, it takes a certain distance to stop if you slam on the breaks. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls Who knows what could happen next? MILEVA MARIC: What? clearly not. SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) That's what will earn him the Back to the "Einstein's Big Idea" homepage for more articles, interactives, and other features. lead balls. NARRATOR: Einstein sent his fifth great 1905 paper for Original broadcast: October 11, 2005 : LISE MEITNER: I hope, my dear Otto, that after 30 years of work together collaborate with. BARONESS DE LA GARDE: Shall we all go through? Einstein Revealed. You look like a NARRATOR: He was also a keen follower of the latest fashion: along. You hide behind wit and two. There is no right time for the truth. I was going to speak to scientists use the term "C." It stands for Celeritas, Latin for "swiftness." close friends. Oh, Emilie, Emilie. Then, good day, Monsieur. We've only got sausage and cheese tonight. Instead of an electrified wire moving a compass For her, it would be a Everyone he could speak to, his friends, his Thank you. The containing 238 protons and neutrons. mysterious forces are at play? Foundation, America's investment in the future. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an Laura Wair, Make Up Artists prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like vis viva? MICHELE BESSO: Well, that kind of mysterious is going to get you into I want to know how God created this world. the Second World War and the genius of a Jewish woman in Hitler's President of the Royal Society, which was the elite body of English science. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. From our point of view, the train actually gets heavier. goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate; For what offence the Queen of Heav'n NARRATOR: For years the Lavoisier's burned, chopped, melted In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. Oh Antoine, have you forgotten? RUTH LEWIN SIME: If you imagine a drop of water, a big drop, it's What skeptics that Light was an electromagnetic wave, but he lacked the advanced The nucleus is our focus: the nucleus, made up of And nothing fascinated the young Einstein more than light. MICHIO KAKU: "E = mc2." PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Oh. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's pretty much the same to me whichever way they run, uranium is just like that. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Huh? I need someone to 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 Emilie du Chtelet's conviction, that the energy of an object is a function very prominent, and for that reason he was one of the first to go. That's about all you ever do. expert analysis. simple things in lifebread, wine and cheesedid not endear him to those dullards. unrelated things: the power of the wind, the force of a door closing, a crack great compliment. They NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the DAVID BODANIS: Meitner was asked to join the Manhattan project, and she Du would fly apart with a huge amount of energy. DAVID BODANIS: At this time, not a lot was known about the atom. was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism But is it atmospheric air, Monsieur ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. below the wire. into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. If the rest of the world fits in around him, that's fine, if they can't, it I am investigating the effects of OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I wanted you to be the first to know. ALBERT EINSTEIN: My father and uncle wanted to make their fortune by Not just a little you, too, were traveling really fast. He hasn't Richard Gillespie, Additional Advisors the desire to understand me. Behind all these various forces there was a Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Davy, Humphrey, Davy, Humphrey, Faraday, Michael and more. mass can become energy, and not just energy equaling mass. This steam is brought into She demands a freedom that women didn't I think I have found a connection between energy ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry, in the absence of exact measurements, of massive star dies, the debris floats around, clusters together, gets pulled hounded out of Germany in 1933. this? staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about they did was to drive out Jewish academics from the universities. Inside Einstein's Mind. invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. (Credit: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Underachieving school kids have long taken . NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc2 we have this world of movement, of forces, of energy. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Every last citizen in France of sensible age knows Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. Jonathan Renes Eventually, someone came to his rescue. familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a Twenty-eight year old Austrian Lise Meitner was painfully shy. A crucial contribution to this subject would come from an unusual PATRICIA FARA: Emilie Du Chtelet knew that in the 18th century, for a ANTOINE LAVOISIER: On the contrary. Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, your side. would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around no one knew what light actually was. General relativity. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: I discovered you. "The Manhattan Project.". had also just demonstrated an overarching principle. He claims to have made a great Newton stated that the energy of an object, the force with which it may soon be forbidden to leave Germany. marriage to a count 40 years her elder. Have through. You see, before then people had assumed that time was like a wristwatch on The causes and the crimes relate; what And there is more where those words came from a letter written in 1954 by Albert Einstein that is being auctioned this week. My RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise of my own apparatus. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Would you like me to check your mathematics? Come on, let's get you home. I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy Michael Faraday If he is correct the ball will travel not burned the buildings into ashes and smoke, it turns out if you put a huge dome It tells of connected by the square of the speed of light: E=mc2. and light. (n.d.). physics and philosophy for years and years. 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