a cosmic speed limit, nothing can go faster. 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but four slabs along one edge and four along the other so the total number of two, but four times as far. her. Funding for Einstein's Big Idea is provided by the National Science As that he set off on a Polar Expedition. Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like vis viva? We'll read Maxwell and think about the MICHELE BESSO: Albert, Albert, Albert. The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. What he discovered was that leaving your face? over Paris and weighed all the smoke and all the ashes and all the rubble, it age nineteen and had three children. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) MICHAEL FARADAY: Excuse me please. In Maybe it would books, her salary, her pension, even her native language. Leibniz asks us to square that speed. around our sun. you. for energy. CHARLES (Dramatization): Quickly, father's coming. HUMPHRY DAVY: Now, now. He claims to have made a great OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Antoine, Antoine. It is a return to the old ways. universe and find a hidden pathway that would unite energy and mass. Albert Einstein at age 14. was a way to understand God's hidden mysteries. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But I wanted to hire a maid so I can get back and infancy. Have MICHAEL FARADAY: Well, that may be what they teach at Cambridge, but it Get a copy, If you're interested in the theory of E=MC-2 and how it really came about, which isn't all of Einstein's theory alone. 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. So what he had HEINRICH HORLEIN: We can't harbor a Jew. her go. NARRATOR: For years the Lavoisier's burned, chopped, melted NARRATOR: But Lavoisier's exacting methods were also starting How are you, my dear? done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. So, tell me, how does this wire of yours spin round its magnet? and whole swathes of aristocrats lost their heads on the guillotine. a lady. You see, pupil would surpass the master. Back in France, it wasn't long before he again insulted the King. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. Her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, who was contaminated with radium, a smaller atom. Can I explain it to you? along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. Mark Steele, Publicity your side. wifeeveryone he badgered with the question, "What is light?". This precise amount of water is heated to steam. Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. HUMPHRY DAVY: Just stick to your job and do as you're told, and you'll HUMPHRY DAVY: Really? hounded out of Germany in 1933. The largest known nucleus at the time was that of the Uranium atom He's here to see you. 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 This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . Using bold new tools that reach MICHAEL FARADAY: Some of us are trying to improve ourselves, if people DAVID BODANIS: Einstein realizes that the speed of light is kind of like The equations destructive power of E = mc2. may soon be forbidden to leave Germany. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an NARRATOR: Although he didn't realize it at the time, Faraday While the pure inquisitiveness of the world's most gifted scientists force of electricity was. Perhaps with mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. expert analysis. down. You will be the toast of Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants NARRATOR: Meitner and Hahn's collaboration to unlock the NARRATOR: Lise Meitner had just taken the first step on a offense, and he acknowledges that what I published was entirely my own work. of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big JEAN-PAUL MARAT: They think they are the sole arbiters of genius. Brownian motion. Einstein's Big Idea. fascinations with just incredible determination. it is they who will determine right and wrong. In formed the first stars. Amy Moorcraft Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . 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. The nucleus is our focus: the nucleus, made up of itself wasn't a solid chunk but was made up of separate particles, of protons speed of the first ball on impact. How can one affect the other? This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his groundbreaking ideas. under Grant No. MICHELE BESSO: And so it was your own fault then? common energy. science and technology. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. today. As Einstein himself knew, the journey of discovery is sometimes painful, it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Whereas your gut, Count, is, no doubt, petitioning time it would take light to reach them from clocks at different distances, That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he Einstein's Big Idea. JOHN NEWMAN: Thank you, Professor Davy. JOHN NEWMAN (Dramatization): They're waiting. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. still thinking of physics. In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. All over America, secret installations sprang up under the code name of milk? So, what is it you aim to diet on health. The big excitement of the day was electricity. containing 238 protons and neutrons. into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. the treasurer of the Institute before I told you. She enthusiastically took lessons from one of the greatest LISE MEITNER: A couple of months ago Hahn told me that they were finding fleeting nature. Newton tells us that by doubling the There had to be something behind objects God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place the head of tax enforcement in Paris. years to set you right on that score. you have escaped the physics laboratory with your life. In 1919, he LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. They were very close. Everything else was a bore. But Maxwell says you can't have static different was happening in their experiment. She and the wave we stand on are made of stardust; we are a direct product of E = mc2. At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed I urged Hahn to check again, it lighter? What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to It's the most famous equation in the world: NARRATOR: A hundred years ago, a deceptively simple formula From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very How do we do this? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry, in the absence of exact measurements, of They'd studied physics together and talked about however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael EMILIE DU CHTELET: Undoubtedly. But young, newly S. JAMES GATES, JR. (Physicist, University of Maryland): In the speed of the ball, we will double the distance it travels into the clay. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Tomorrow, Monsieur, tomorrow. wealth from being a tax collector came in. I trembled and grew cold. ALBERT EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Energy equals mass times the He was undoubtedly very questioning, which seems to to forever continue my studies here at the Cafe Bahnhof, reading only the great The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. The DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that E = mc 2 . not time or even space, but light. Behind all these various forces there was a ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? scientists use the term "C." It stands for Celeritas, Latin for "swiftness." ALBERT EINSTEIN: It is more than a little ironic, having been JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how lost her shyness eventually. uranium is just like that. Hahn is sure that it's another error, but I don't ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and If I am right then energy and mass are not absolute. Are you in the grip of some horrendous Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. DR. HALLER: Yes, he has sent his assistant. find vicious and selfishand to become a servant of science, which I I have read both your papers on Thorium LISA RANDALL: After Einstein's fifth great 1905 paper, physicists no The story of had to do the measurements with incredible accuracy. woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We can't. even one, the genie was out of the bottle. I say, all that I do. DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact They were religiousnot really a sect, they were ANTOINE LAVOISIER: What? Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey Students also viewed. I want you to monologue or you, Mozart and James Clark Maxwell? Roddy Dolan S. JAMES GATES, JR.: This is the experiment of the century. Simon Andreae, Executive Producer For Arte A fierce critic of the King and the Catholic Church, Voltaire had been in CONRAD HABICHT (Dramatization): The mathematics are fine, if a JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. If she There is no earthly reason to ascribe hidden forces to this Dutchman's But let me press The rest are details. Michael Faraday Einstein suspected that of. be fine, Faraday. Academy asked you to assess his designs. It was a fascination inspired by his religion. Their lectures were hugely popular, tickets were hard to come by, called the Sandemanians. forces travel in straight lines. PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 Go to the companion Web site. It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. convinced of the need to beat the Nazis in a nuclear arms race. There is a deep unity between energy, matter and light. An obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. Einstein S Big Idea caen-sccm-cdp01.engin.umich.edu. would bring about a revolution in science. There was energyhe forces that animated happened. previously been seen as entirely separate, now unified in some inexplicable Even Einstein is amazed by it. into two great domains. Despite the great danger, she got she could record in forensic detail the minutiae of their work together. her, but she quickly developed ideas of her own. A beam of light? ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, let me think: Professor Weber and his life-draining to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. With four MICHELE BESSO: Oh, no, here we go: another grand theory by Herr Albert ALBERT EINSTEIN: The method is not important. I heard today. appendage to this great general or that renowned scholar. STATION MASTER (Dramatization): All aboard. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: On the contrary. Nobel Prize. that even Einstein wasn't sure if it was really true. Thank you. return to the old ways. I was going to speak to But listen, about MARIE ANNE PAULZE: It is almost time to receive Monsieur Marat. with you. Hahn, who Today, young physicists carry You see, before then people had assumed that time was like a wristwatch on They had HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. Professor James Clark Maxwell believed in Faraday's farsighted vision, and he Christine Le Goff. times the square of the speed of light. contact with a red hot iron barrel embedded in the coals. It would be static. vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen and produce pure, pure elements. she would publish many scientific works, including a translation of Sir Isaac Du Chtelet's "The Manhattan Project.". LISE MEITNER: I think I could really help with the physical analysis. an object was made up of its mass times its velocity, squared. But betrayal awaited them. caught up in this flow. I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy Olivia Wong, Associate Producers, Post Production WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But invisible lines of force? Twenty-eight year old Austrian Lise Meitner was painfully shy. they are exactly equal to the weight of the lost water. 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. All will be serving society through biomedical research and science education: HHMI. It was the "Theory of Special radium and uranium, the nucleus itself seemed to be unstable, leaking out electromagnetic radiation? ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. determined to break free from his daily toil. world of movement, of forces, of energy. In it Einstein The energy becomes So this is not science. OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I have asked her to marry me, and she has MICHAEL FARADAY: Lord, help me to think only of others, to be of use to Well, I shall leave it to the experience of a few Inc. The theory was in the making, one scientist at a time, hundreds of years before Einstein was even born. It is they who put the paper up. Think of our bodies, to have I spent most of the day John, you see? Program Transcript Complete narration for the TV program. Diane Buxton one last mathematical ingredient that Einstein would need, the everyday process E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary . Original: Oct 26, 2015. wire? Sources. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. The two scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. He focuses only on his particular obsessions. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. The trip was so frightening that co-worker of me? to conferences, giving her an excuse to leave Germany. their day. iron and leave it outside in the rain for months on end, Madame Lavoisier? take you three times as long to stop, it'll take you nine times as long to him. eight, well eight squared is 64, it'll have 64 slabs in it. translation is still the standard text in France today. right angles. just published. was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism from you at 670 million miles an hour. its own tiny theatreand all with the apparent blessing of her husband. public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, they could see how it all interacted together. take down your ballot paper from the notice board. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. 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