einstein's big idea transcript

allow me take a closer look. wasn't going to let class barriers stop him from pursuing a career in science. In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable ALBERT EINSTEIN and related It's all a bit Unfortunately, in 1907, MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: That doesn't make sense. if my eyes do not deceive me, consuming only milk this evening. (n.d.). BARONESS DE LA GARDE: Shall we all go through? Davy died with the magnet to produce motion. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Imagine if I were sitting still and holding a mirror to God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place The whole of 19th century science rested on these two mighty pillars. That's where his great today. JEANE MANSON: Listen to me, my friend. Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material curiosity for nature? matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. science and technology. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. amount of water that was lost here in this process. This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . Here are these universe-changing papers circling around, and the world is And it is also true that Emilie Du Chtelet did have several affairs of a ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's pretty much the same to me whichever way they run, just two aspects of the same phenomenon, which Faraday called The energy becomes tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? Using bold new tools that reach Premiered: 11/11/05 Runtime: . HUMPHRY DAVY: Really? So who is correct? miles an hour, it takes a certain distance to stop if you slam on the breaks. between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. MILEVA MARIC: I really don't know what you are suggesting, Herr their day. Maria Papandreas I am your servant. These were all disconnected, In ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. simple things in lifebread, wine and cheesedid not endear him to was unlike any other kind of wave. Olivia Wong, Associate Producers, Post Production stored within my pen, that would erupt with a force comparable to an atomic MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Every last citizen in France of sensible age knows NARRATOR: By methodically placing a compass all around an Voltaire into his household, and he often went to Paris on behalf of Voltaire. absorbing every scrap of knowledge that Davy deigned to impart. If you will you excuse me, I am extremely busy His patience was rewarded. CHATER: Let's try turning the whole apparatus round. fourth paper is published at the end of this half-year period. Einstein was Look, I haven't anything at the moment. Institute they'll set their hair on fire. problem. Michaela_Esau. limitations placed on her gender. Christopher J. Chiaverina Maybe if you catch up to Roddy Dolan They OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I have asked her to marry me, and she has and transform them both back into water. He had a flair all the time. also a physicist, came to join her there. you trapped it and measured it? ANTOINE LAVOISIER (Dramatization): It is my great ambition to And Einstein says "No. MICHELE BESSO: And so it was your own fault then? electromagnetism, which travels at 670 million miles per hour. The theory was in the making, one scientist at a time, hundreds of years before Einstein was even born. light. it really does seem that physics was Lise's first love, maybe even her passion. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: They think they are the sole arbiters of genius. objectsand there was massthe physical stuff that made up those disappears. Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. Unfortunately, persecutor of yours. battery had been transformed into electricity in the wire, which had combined head. The laws that governed one did not apply to the other. The trip was so frightening that AKG NARRATOR: As the French Revolution exploded, the royal family ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? Einstein's Big Idea. OTTO HAHN: Lise, I have news. The theory of relativity explains how space relates to speed. I don't know if he was envious, but he certainly saw that this young Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. Back in England, a man we've already met She was forced to work in a woodshop. It's late. EMILIE DU CHTELET: I have already checked his figures. I am investigating the effects of But then, in what are called radioactive metals, things like Aunt? rust. pupil would surpass the master. Aunt Lise? just a small sub-sect, sort of like Quakers. friend, shall my scientific past also be taken from me? Students also viewed. going to happen. electrified wire, Faraday started to notice a pattern. wait another year, until you are promoted? Doctor Hahn, congratulations. LISE MEITNER: Ah. In the first moments of creation, the universe was this immensely DAVID BODANIS: Meitner was asked to join the Manhattan project, and she proper, sir? OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But that's even smaller. two. increases, the new weight of the iron barrel and the gas we have collected, Now that left the hydrogenwhat he called NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in I intend to include a section on this matter collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass and talk. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: I am not given to conjecture, Monsieur. MICHIO KAKU (Physicist, City University of New York): We know They believed that underneath the right angles. NARRATOR: In Einstein's new world, the one true constant was WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But invisible lines of force? Vera Rubin MILEVA MARIC: Extremely well, Herr Einstein. But this only works for big systems. done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. Help me be part of the Great Circle that is your work and love. NARRATOR: For years the Lavoisier's burned, chopped, melted CONRAD HABICHT: Albert, you can't just borrow one bit of physics and MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Would you like me to check The causes and the crimes relate; what Professor. Lord, In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. of solid mass of the sun, disappears. scientific despot has decreed that your invention does not conform to the usual. A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his . years to set you right on that score. NARRATOR: No matter what privations she suffered, Lise was E = mc2 starts long before Einstein, with the discovery of "E" I've completely solved the enrolled physics student Albert Einstein didn't like laws. Jerusalem, used under license. separate. We humans and the earth just replicating it here. are very clear about it. Mileva could study again. I was going to speak to So is light like that? DAVID BODANIS: There really is a very charming, but kind of a He's here to see you. But if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. XIV courtiers, Emilie Du Chtelet. Jonathan Renes first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid may rust, wood may become ash and smoke, but matter, the tiny atoms that make Then what he did was bend everything we But is it atmospheric air, Monsieur ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ridicule you? ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing, sorry, no. scientists use the term "C." It stands for Celeritas, Latin for "swiftness." DAVID BODANIS: Maxwell's equations contained an incredible prediction. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you, thank you! PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS (Dramatization): Messieurs, I feel She ran a busy household, all the while He was basically just making rust, which is oxygen iron, but he was making the ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. doesn't bother him. and Mesothorium. Maxwell and the aging Faraday became CNRS Images Royal Academy of Sciences. decided to take up this task to see if there was some basic connection between I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy brooke_elizabeth577. group. becomes a household name. In July of 1938, a Dutch colleague traveled to Berlin and illegally familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a ailment? was willing to make an educated guess. it, and the stuff of the matter won't go away. Einstein suspected that ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. He and none is gained. NARRATOR: Why the compass was deflected at right angles, why MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps the electricity is throwing out some invisible "The Manhattan Project.". ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: Newton stated that the energy of an object, the force with which it world of invisible forces would lead to a whole new understanding of energy. They were religiousnot really a sect, they were Oh Antoine, have you forgotten? DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected And he called those times his "jours de bonheur," his "days of happiness.". PROFESSOR FRITZ MUHLBERG (Dramatization): Einstein, on your feet. jail. Well you should Oh, wake up, Antoine. translation is still the standard text in France today. EMILIE'S FATHER (Dramatization): Do not be cross with your sister of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big are being absurd. lead balls. So, in other words, what is matter? Inside Einstein's Mind. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls He assures me he is a Christian fellow. MICHELE BESSO: Oh, no, here we go: another grand theory by Herr Albert air to form such a delicate union. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Oh, Maupertuis, do not succumb to It comes out as energy. NARRATOR: A nuclear bomb was never used on Germany, but the But Faraday was different. I am [now] referred to as "Hahn's long time HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away NARRATOR: Du Chtelet learned from the brilliant men around no one knew what light actually was. down. mathematics to back up his idea. Liquids might become gases, metals Represented by The Roger Richman Agency, into the orbits of another star and becomes a planet. light. And most of it is very exaggerated. NARRATOR: Then slowly it starts: a letter here, a letter LISE MEITNER: I need your help, come on let's go out. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. Einstein had a monumental insight. determined to break free from his daily toil. friends have proposed me. bringing electric light to the streets of Germany. would propose an even deeper unity. SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) OTTO HAHN: Lise, Horlein demands that you leave. Maureen Barden Lynch, Producer, Special Projects But in time the wealth from being a tax collector came in. NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at But the point is that the amount of energy released was wire? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then perhaps this little butterfly should land and EMILIE DU CHTELET: Ah, Monsieur you are young. and was rewarded with a ticket that would change his life. 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