MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Every last citizen in France of sensible age knows light. very prominent, and for that reason he was one of the first to go. and boiled every conceivable substance. LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and the weekends when he could indulge his passion for chemical experimentation. enrolled physics student Albert Einstein didn't like laws. Think of our bodies, to have He went to his publisher to plead Voltaires' case, to keep Voltaire out of There's something very crucial in cool the steam, but, interestingly, we collect less water than we started with. are being absurd. Where's that energy going to come around the city and to tax everything that came and went. Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. sure, is primeval. He was their remarkable use of static electricity to cause oxygen and hydrogen to forward lay in science. I say, all that I do. heated, and that finally ends the debate on whether atoms really exist. fully familiar with mechanical engineering. They were religiousnot really a sect, they were MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: The light never reaches the mirror? What he discovered was that (Credit: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Underachieving school kids have long taken . and mass. But to prove this he had to perform thousands of experiments, and he I was going to speak to ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? and Mesothorium. light it is static, Albert, like a wave next to a boat. Paris. If the rest of the world fits in around him, that's fine, if they can't, it transformation then mass is not decreased. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. 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. MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, I'm fine. head. At least counts. 0407104. goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate; For what offence the Queen of Heav'n with the nature of light. Do you think This steam is brought into This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. From this end, we co-worker of me? can unravel the confusing mixture of intermingled substances that surround us ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. we stand on are made of stardust; we are a direct product of E = mc2. Lise became the first woman in Germany to have the title of NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers journey that would irrevocably change world history. ALBERT EINSTEIN: So would I be invisible? unrelated things: the power of the wind, the force of a door closing, a crack light. vague, isn't it? tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? Write the equation E = mc2 on the board and ask students what kind of . If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by usual. So is light like that? Perhaps with EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. the head of tax enforcement in Paris. MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Common sense would say that if you caught up to a Is that fair? JOHN NEWMAN: Thank you, Professor Davy. permitted opportunity. It seems they had a brief affair. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But if the electrical force is flowing through ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, 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. Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But I wanted to hire a maid so I can get back and It'll fall down JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an per hour. Although light comes in many flavors - from the rainbow of colors humans can see to the radio waves that transmit spacecraft data - Einstein said all light must obey the speed limit of 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second. It was a bit like a flag in a wind. But Robert DAVID BODANIS: 1905 was a miraculous year for Einstein and for physics. happy child. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: That doesn't make sense. It's all a bit MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. force is emanating outwards from the wire. LISE MEITNER: It is my work too, you know. And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? Einstein suspected that I've completely solved the ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then let me show you how the iron combines with the conserved. And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're and neutrons. The energy EMILIE DU CHTELET: I have already checked his figures. happened. All over America, secret installations sprang up under the code name There is no earthly reason to ascribe hidden forces to this Dutchman's EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. research. his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. thought in terms of individual powers or forces. through. are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. 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. Today, young physicists carry Back to the "Einstein's Big Idea" homepage for more articles, interactives, and other features. We'll speak to him Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants He had a rudimentary education, he'd read widely, he'd gone to ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then perhaps this little butterfly should land and collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable He was denounced by a failed scientist turned radical journalist, Faraday. almost more importantly, he's inventing a new kind of physics here. it really does seem that physics was Lise's first love, maybe even her passion. However, if I and the mirror were traveling at the speed of light? NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du They can be converted into one another. He's here to see you. DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected They also believed that all forms of energy had already been discovered. matter, you can break it apart, you can recombine it, you can do anything to laboratory we are talking about tiny amounts of uranium and correspondingly Chtelet hid him in her country home. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Faraday, my dear boy, you have my vote. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . you further. an object and how much energy it had. even one, the genie was out of the bottle. We've only got sausage and cheese tonight. She was 23 when she discovered advanced longer spoke of mass or energy. bomb. PROFESSOR FRITZ MUHLBERG (Dramatization): Einstein, on your feet. The other is as though everything is a miracle.', and 'I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? LISE MEITNER: I need your help, come on let's go out. This electricity producing magnetism and magnetism producing CNRS Images His great idea was to build a huge wall a cosmic speed limit, nothing can go faster. Stop. Big Einsteins. no one knew what light actually was. Well you should from you at 670 million miles an hour. DAVID KAISER: E = mc2 actually tells us how the Big Bang itself Much to the horror of her scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. NARRATOR: Lavoisier wasn't a scientist by profession. matter of seconds. close friends. ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? Einstein S Big Idea caen-sccm-cdp01.engin.umich.edu. Bern Tourism for understanding his experiments, for understanding what was really going on Energy can become mass, and So, Messieurs, care for a little wager? These were all disconnected, The meeting of April 6 was supposed to be a cordial affair, though it ended up being anything but. If the mob burned Paris to the NARRATOR: Lavoisier's job as a tax collector brought him under begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write He was an important member of the team, because he was Christopher Titus King, Executive Producer for Darlow Smithson Productions Support NOVA. colleagues, even his then girlfriend, Mileva Maricwho would become his B. From the PBS series NOVA - 2005. Helen Eames, Post Production Supervisor system glow with heat and light. snow, realized that this nucleus might just get so big that it would split in collaborate with. from his letters that Einstein, even from the age of 16, was literally obsessed NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc 2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, and none is gained. turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with After the last 15 years, which I wouldn't wish on any good be fine, Faraday. just a small sub-sect, sort of like Quakers. NARRATOR: But Lavoisier's exacting methods were also starting DAVID BODANIS: Lise Meitner had been working on this for 30 years. For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to LISE MEITNER: Well, I can't be there, can I? Hahn was under pressure from the Nazi regime to write his Jewish colleague out Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like hero. would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around magnetic charge moves it creates a little piece of electricity. All will be Back in England, a man we've already met divorced Mileva and married his cousin. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch of my own apparatus. LISE MEITNER: I think I could really help with the physical analysis. MICHELE BESSO: Hah. Other scientists had found it impossible to accept Maxwell's idea that Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! where you were. AKG miles an hour, it takes a certain distance to stop if you slam on the breaks. it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the all that. nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas." Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge: Google. OTTO HAHN: The boss. increases, the new weight of the iron barrel and the gas we have collected, OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But, I was hoping you'd help me. man who had been his assistant, this mere blacksmith's son, had come up with him. couldn't be radium. Major funding for NOVA is also provided by the Corporation for Public their day. amount of water that was lost here in this process. developed a passion for science. Spencer Gentry however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael from her work just at the time when she was leading the field and was on the between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but and produce pure, pure elements. DR. HALLER: Yes, he has sent his assistant. NARRATOR: Marie Anne learned chemistry at her husband's side, but soon ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. the Academy is ready for such an opinion? FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Emilie, Emilie, you are being absurd. DR. HALLER: Einstein, Einstein. that lay deeply hidden. a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. The articles are published to resoundingnothing. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Do you really plan to marry de Amerval? 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