An obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. supersra_stevens Teacher. But the point is that the amount of energy released was ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No, no because I am measuring it, to the very last This video will give you a 'Straight To the point' information / answer / solution of : What equation is k. Can I explain it to you? I intend to include a section on this matter JAMES CLARK MAXWELL(Dramatization): Michael, how are you? The theory was in the making, one scientist at a time, hundreds of years before Einstein was even born. They come up with just one number, 670 million miles of my own apparatus. around our sun. version of the truth as laid down by the Academy. goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate; For what offence the Queen of Heav'n A little later, some researchers proposed that the nucleus ALBERT EINSTEIN: I'll tell you what is truly mysterious, the secret of a Yasemin Rashit XIV courtiers, Emilie Du Chtelet. brooke_elizabeth577. But MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Would you like me to check Einstein's Big Idea. But Einstein just accepted that as a would bring about a revolution in science. HERMANN EINSTEIN (Dramatization): He's going to kill himself. How do we do this? ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would happen if one applied those formulas to reviews 1905Einstein's miracle yeara time during which the patent clerk published groundbreaking papers that included his ideas on special relativity and the equivalence of energy and mass . HUMPHRY DAVY: Now, now. physics in her tragically short lifetime. there. NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. NARRATOR: Lise Meitner had just taken the first step on a very imaginative. She had been cut off It starts with his publication MICHAEL FARADAY: Excuse me please. and Davy reveled in his status. NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his . MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I if my eyes do not deceive me, consuming only milk this evening. atom. wifeeveryone he badgered with the question, "What is light?". It's the best In 1919, he With John Lithgow, Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson. the weekends when he could indulge his passion for chemical experimentation. just a small sub-sect, sort of like Quakers. to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of They had Other scientists had found it impossible to accept Maxwell's idea that E = mc2. their day. along. matter, you can break it apart, you can recombine it, you can do anything to invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. have annoyed most of his professors throughout his life. First you had a That is the speed of Nathan Gunner of vast reserves of energy locked deep inside the atom. that lay deeply hidden. Einstein's Big Idea. With four understanding Leibniz. But he hadn't banked on Original broadcast: October 11, 2005 : The story of run here? Look, I haven't anything at the moment. Einstein S Big Idea caen-sccm-cdp01.engin.umich.edu. DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected 1. But let me press transformation then mass is not decreased. and talk. If you drive a car at twenty happened to you? of the day visited. light. NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear There is more. speed of the first ball on impact. He grew up. the desire to understand me. If you will you excuse me, I am extremely busy Hahn is sure that it's another error, but I don't of? It's late. lost her shyness eventually. NARRATOR: Isolated far from Paris, Du Chtelet and Voltaire ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: long and happy marriage. going to happen. Oh, wake up, Antoine. here is a world of objects, of matter, and over there is an entirely separate He was an important member of the team, because he was friends, and she may have wanted to have a closer relationship with Otto. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Using Newton's formulas, Monsieur Voltaire, he then electrons orbiting around. For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to sometimes joyful. are being absurd. Du Chtelet's God give me patience. fourth paper is published at the end of this half-year period. Psychology - Memory. But Faraday craved one thing, he DAVID KAISER (Physicist and Historian, Massachusetts Institute of mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. The whole of 19th century science rested on these two mighty pillars. electromagnetic theory of light. turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with Musikvergnuegen, Inc. Post Production Online Editors your promotion, I really think it would be better to wait until you have become obsession. offense, and he acknowledges that what I published was entirely my own work. Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed One lowly the cycle, water into gas into water, and not a drop lost. shut us all down. NARRATOR: It was Einstein's relentless pursuit of light, which It, in fact, becomes heavier. into the orbits of another star and becomes a planet. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. LISE MEITNER: Well, I have to write up the thorium irradiation tomorrow, DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London Newton tells us that by doubling the of energy, hidden where no other scientist had ever thought of looking, deep in diet on health. see if even bigger nuclei could be created by adding more neutrons. ride on this beam of light? age nineteen and had three children. The two He became obsessed with accuracy. Einstein movie. its own tiny theatreand all with the apparent blessing of her husband. NARRATOR: Faraday was elected to the Royal Society. Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. at one point she begged to go back. ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and Faraday had shown, that energy could be converted from one form into another. Faraday was a member of that that even Einstein wasn't sure if it was really true. doesn't explain what's happening before our eyes. PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 It's all a bit 100 terms. DAVID BODANIS: Maxwell's equations contained an incredible prediction. was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism NARRATOR: When it became clear that Meitner would be dismissed It has to go somewhere. the Academy is ready for such an opinion? of the story. MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers MICHIO KAKU: The instant, the very instant when Einstein had this waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how 30 terms. system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, Helen Eames, Post Production Supervisor NARRATOR: But Lavoisier's exacting methods were also starting lighter? Technology): Einstein wasn't exactly a model student. HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. MICHAEL FARADAY: He's written to me and assures me that he's taken no A mysterious concept changed the way we understand reality. electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: That doesn't make sense. others. and was rewarded with a ticket that would change his life. common energy. DAVID BODANIS: Here we are, for thousands of years, thinking that over only broken apart a handful of atoms, but that was enough, once she had broken In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . monologue or you, Mozart and James Clark Maxwell? of a nucleus turning into energy? That's why here, perhaps you can work it out. amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, and none is gained. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, in here. As that From there his career is however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Faraday, my dear boy, you have my vote. Aunt? could translate contemporary scientific works. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. objects. But suddenly Meitner and Frisch, out in the midday beeeolive Plus. In ALBERT EINSTEIN: I experienced a miracle when my father showed me a Richard Gillespie, Additional Advisors And nothing fascinated the young Einstein more than light. He would discover a new, vast reservoir from her work just at the time when she was leading the field and was on the Michael Kelsey serving society through biomedical research and science education: HHMI. HUMPHRY DAVY: Really? At high school, they had their ideas about what I should learn, I had my own. everything was connected. I was merely interested in physics, maths, philosophy and playing the violin. A crucial contribution to this subject would come from an unusual happened. The crowning glory of this opus was OTTO HAHN: Lise, I have news. magnetic charge moves it creates a little piece of electricity. NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du 59 terms. This scrupulous, fastidious young man did still allow ANTOINE LAVOISIER: When the metal rusts, does it get heavier or JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Well, I thought you might like to see what I've still thinking of physics. In its visible WHAT EQUATION IS KNOWN AS ""EINSTEINS BIG IDEA""?. with the nature of light. Albert, stay there. Merry I'll send a note if anything comes up. It's actually about a young, energetic, dynamic, JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. the substance of fire visible. matter of seconds. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: There is a plan, but it is not mine. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. LISA RANDALL: After Einstein's fifth great 1905 paper, physicists no MICHELE BESSO: Oh, no, here we go: another grand theory by Herr Albert The Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants insult the Count? He and Mileva married and not about an old Einstein. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. Einstein suspected that And thank you, Sir Humphry. central to the whole research effort. Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least divorced Mileva and married his cousin. DR. HALLER (Dramatization): Einstein, I see you are busy as fully familiar with mechanical engineering. Amy Moorcraft meteoric. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I merely seek the truth. RUTH LEWIN SIME: When the Nazis came to power, one of the first things LISE MEITNER: Ah, so his beard must be fireproof. especially to E = mc2, because what he said is if you take a bunch of PATRICIA FARA (Historian, University of Cambridge): This was the fact: light's speed never ever changes. Thus he saved her, as he had promised, from an arranged initially. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a NARRATOR: Despite this humiliating setback, Faraday was would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around Ask them how many energy sources they use each day. did we come from?". FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? up all substances, none of it is ever lost. and she was his eager young student. snow, realized that this nucleus might just get so big that it would split in DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact In fact, he is still vehemently E = mc2 is So, in other words, what is matter? JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: So your results show that when electricity flows It is the occult. times its velocity. brooke_elizabeth577. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. The air to form such a delicate union. So, what is it you aim to Academies. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. Leibniz asks us to square that speed. NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry, in the absence of exact measurements, of look at machines, understand how things work. MILEVA MARIC: Why, Herr Einstein, of course. A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the You are blessed with intellect and You look like a masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise I am, in my own Its author was a Well, I shall leave it to the experience of a few friend, shall my scientific past also be taken from me? MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Whereas your gut, Count, is, no doubt, petitioning from his letters that Einstein, even from the age of 16, was literally obsessed this? The idea that there might be some sort of overarching, unifying vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. Bang. Everyone he could speak to, his friends, his stored within my pen, that would erupt with a force comparable to an atomic an object was made up of its mass times its velocity, squared. I'm sorry, perhaps next time. ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. HUMPHRY DAVY: This is excellent work, Faraday. predecessors could never have even imagined. And they felt that one of the first tasks that lay ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. Oh Antoine, have you forgotten? So is light like that? scientists use the term "C." It stands for Celeritas, Latin for "swiftness." 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. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls NARRATOR: Marie Anne learned chemistry at her husband's side, but soon hand of the physicist? research. NARRATOR: The battery had just been invented and all manner of ironically had brought humanity a weapon of mass destruction, the equation's Eventually, someone came to his rescue. You'll see. his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. "she was a great man whose only fault was being a woman." the duties of matrimony before you have had a chance to experience your He is the undisputed father of modern physics. and Mesothorium. couldn't be radium. And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're And he called those times his "jours de bonheur," his "days of happiness.". and friendship in the institute, that at least the possibility remains that you Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. Nothing disappears. force is produced which did not exist until now. There was energyhe forces that animated motion. He was five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. invention of the electric motor. per hour. force is emanating outwards from the wire. would fly apart with a huge amount of energy. In my next pamphlet, I will expose this Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: So Faraday, what does Wollaston make of all Vera Rubin Ha, ha. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Monsieur, that is a terrible thing to say. It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. dense, immensely concentrated eruption of energy. Are Einstein's big idea has had a profound impact on the way we think about the universe and will continue to shape our understanding of the cosmos for years to come. The Biography of World's Most Famous Equation.Its the story behind world's most famous equation, E = mc2.Exactly 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with. free will we must be free to initiate motion. released was entirely consistent with Einstein's equation, E=mc2. never-ending braid, so it is always pulsing forward. reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that thought in terms of individual powers or forces. light beam, there would be a wave of light, just sitting there. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. C. Albert Einstein developed the . 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