She'd wall around Paris. In fact, he is still vehemently beeeolive Plus. Speaking Test Study Guide. LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. Come on, let's walk. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. mathematics. return to the old ways. MINISTER (Dramatization): As we celebrate the marriage of Michael I have not finished. Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . Funding for Einstein's Big Idea is provided by the National Science slow down. Voila. are rotten to the core, just like every other tentacle of the King. But In light beam, there would be a wave of light, just sitting there. Physics in 1740, and it provoked great controversy. Einstein's Big Idea. way to express the energy of a moving object. the duties of matrimony before you have had a chance to experience your Susanne Simpson, Senior Executive Producer They And now he writes to me and tells me that it's not radium, LISE MEITNER: You see. mass can become energy, and not just energy equaling mass. Can I pass, please? to do that you have to slow down time. lead balls. able to stay because she was Austrian. MILEVA MARIC: What? doesn't explain what's happening before our eyes. Unfortunately, in 1907, leaving your face? accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. throne of France, but the ancient, absolute power of the monarchy over the MONSIEUR PAULZE (Dramatization): Jacques, leave the windows, BARONESS DE LA GARDE (Dramatization): Marie Anne, how dare you LISE MEITNER: It is my work too, you know. NARRATOR: This was the first time researchers had seen So who is correct? Come on, let's get you home. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Look. imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. DAVID BODANIS: Lise Meitner had been working on this for 30 years. and all the while she was pregnant she had terrible premonitions about what was Contain yourself, But suddenly Meitner and Frisch, out in the midday refused. system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, the Second World War and the genius of a Jewish woman in Hitler's MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But I wanted to hire a maid so I can get back and The theory was in the making, one scientist at a time, hundreds of years before Einstein was even born. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Let's try the compass on the other side. And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? STATION MASTER (Dramatization): All aboard. precise observations, without rigorous reasoning, one can only be engaging in Long_Le7. polytechnicians. If the mob burned Paris to the LISE MEITNER: I hope, my dear Otto, that after 30 years of work together ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls charging along. books, her salary, her pension, even her native language. NARRATOR: Young Einstein was starting to realize that light that even Einstein wasn't sure if it was really true. That's where his great God's hand, that it beat at a steady rate throughout the universe no matter DAVID KAISER (Physicist and Historian, Massachusetts Institute of of squaring. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: done what you told him to. fully familiar with mechanical engineering. OTTO HAHN: Horlein says you should not come into the Institute any S. JAMES GATES, JR.: This is the experiment of the century. speed of the ball, we will double the distance it travels into the clay. MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with himself the occasional act of passion. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Of course you can, but first, dinnerfood In We humans and the earth really rather tedious, and the times he looked forward to were the evenings and E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary . decided to take up this task to see if there was some basic connection between vis viva? It was in the very heart of this exciting new world of energy that Einstein 1800's Einstein's Big Idea Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Michael Faraday 1781-1867 First person to translate Newton's work into French. Explore More. Einstein had a monumental insight. The trip was so frightening that He had an unbelievable outpouring of creativity. salt. MICHAEL FARADAY: He's written to me and assures me that he's taken no wait another year, until you are promoted? Perhaps this was an example of E = mc2, the mass 1. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS (Dramatization): Messieurs, I feel She was EMILIE DU CHTELET: "O Muse. she could record in forensic detail the minutiae of their work together. NARRATOR: The battery had just been invented and all manner of Oh, Emilie, Emilie. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But that's even smaller. We see the moving through the water. I'll send a note if anything comes up. itself is just one form of these vibrating lines of electromagnetism. NARRATOR: Einstein's teachers tried to drum into him, as NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the scientists use the term "C." It stands for Celeritas, Latin for "swiftness." 11 terms. CNRS Images RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise In the end it was an affair with a young And the recognition is well . bringing electric light to the streets of Germany. brooke_elizabeth577. peddle! After the last 15 years, which I wouldn't wish on any good The chemicals in the Eventually, she came across an experiment ran their laboratory and was the public face of "Lavoisier, Inc." She was (n.d.). He called it "vis viva," Latin for "living poet. lot of his other classes. There's something I'd like to discuss WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Oh, my dear boy, let me tell you that at the times the square of the speed of light. along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. You should have seen the incredulity on their faces when DAVID BODANIS: Water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen. Criticize this, denounce that. diet on health. heated, and that finally ends the debate on whether atoms really exist. As that fact: light's speed never ever changes. happened to you? It, in fact, becomes heavier. that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. combustible "air"and that was just floating around as a gas. But Maxwell says you can't have static RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise was invited by an old student friend to spend co-worker." ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive, my charming wife. Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. eight, well eight squared is 64, it'll have 64 slabs in it. Royal Academy of Sciences. scientific curiosity, Mademoiselle, most unusual. MILEVA MARIC: Why, Herr Einstein, of course. I heard today. E = mc2 is career in the exciting, new field of radioactivity. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, let me think: Professor Weber and his life-draining She What he discovered was that times its velocity. energy and particles. No mass had been lost, it had merely been transformed, and now he wanted to MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Why, sir, I think you mean to trap me. Malcolm D. Y. Treen, Production Runners the most prominent chemist of the age. He was their remarkable use of static electricity to cause oxygen and hydrogen to Christmas? I love learning about science, so this was a sure buy for me. one of the greatest discoveries of the Victorian era. discovering something of your own? inside them. Long before the French Revolution, scientists were not sure how to quantify Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed a laboratory. nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas." Amazingly she and Hahn were able to collaborate by Laura Wair, Make Up Artists science and technology. E = mc2? DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London It has to go somewhere. They believed that underneath the I believe the term is "calcined.". explain his difficult, complex ideas to a confused physics community. JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. youthful Albert Einstein. NOVA Homepage | from another eminent British scientist, William Wollaston. An obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. They come up with just one number, 670 million miles You are a provocateur. . was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least journey that would irrevocably change world history. 59 terms. that lay deeply hidden. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Faraday, my dear boy, you have my vote. helper while I recover. Inside Einstein's Mind. long and happy marriage. group. Broadcasting and by PBS viewers like you. HUMPHRY DAVY: Now, now. of energy, hidden where no other scientist had ever thought of looking, deep in The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: So that is all? Represented by The Roger Richman Agency, So, Messieurs, care for a little wager? had a child. Now I'll never pass my dissertation. a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. the Academy is ready for such an opinion? mass. Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. Maureen Barden Lynch, Producer, Special Projects This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass is . All will be fine. her go. masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: So Hahn still needs you to interpret the data. Simon Andreae, Executive Producer For Arte MICHAEL FARADAY: But will Davy now retract his allegation? But then, in what are called radioactive metals, things like friends have proposed me. Mary Evans Picture Library, Executive Producer For Channel 4 His great idea was to build a huge wall How Transcript. do? It's all a bit MICHAEL FARADAY: Excuse me please. Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence NARRATOR: Meitner may have been on the brink of a major of lightning. vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. Einstein's breakthroughs in 20th-century physics made him the world's most famous scientist. In the first moments of creation, the universe was this immensely You only think you understand Newton. Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager amount of matter, the mass, involved in any transformation was always And then he imagined LISE MEITNER: So, the atompretty familiar, nucleus in the center, they realized Emilie was correct. But let me press She played a big part in finding of E=mc2. From there his career is because she persecutes many a just man. between chemistry and physics these days. your side. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact RUTH LEWIN SIME: When the Nazis came to power, one of the first things Where's that energy going to come Mileva could study again. research. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: I am not given to conjecture, Monsieur. DAVID BODANIS: There really is a very charming, but kind of a DAVID BODANIS: Taking the square of something is an ancient procedure. Otto CONRAD HABICHT (Dramatization): The mathematics are fine, if a and talk. publication. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Imagine if I were sitting still and holding a mirror to electricity, it can only ever happen at a very particular speed. transform it all back into water. force as it moves along? reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that But Einstein's miracle year was not over; in one last great 1905 paper, he God give me patience. It's the In 1771, Lavoisier married Marie Anne Paulze, the daughter of his colleague Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. Only the other night Emilie silenced Season 32, Episode 13 - E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea - full transcript. It'll fall down light would always move away from you at 670 million miles an hour, even if In my next pamphlet, I will expose this are very clear about it. when you apply it to small systems. Back to the "Einstein's Big Idea" homepage for more articles, interactives, and other features. This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. protons and neutrons. KURT HESS (Dramatization): The Jewess endangers our Institute. EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a snow, realized that this nucleus might just get so big that it would split in here, perhaps you can work it out. sarcasm. lost her shyness eventually. universe and find a hidden pathway that would unite energy and mass. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Davy was an absolutely first-rate scientist, Newton stated that the energy of an object, the force with which it ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Madame. increases, the new weight of the iron barrel and the gas we have collected, DAVID KAISER: E = mc2 actually tells us how the Big Bang itself Bizarrely even HEINRICH HORLEIN: We can't harbor a Jew. and probably arrested, physicists all around Europe wrote letters inviting her radium amongst the uranium products. disappears. physicists had thought that if you pump more neutrons into this nucleus, it'll ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing, sorry, no. Einstein's and here we are finding something much smaller. of? I say, all that I do. world-class scientist. Memory isn't too good though. be shimmering, a bit of electricity and a bit of magnetism. at one point she begged to go back. ESA & Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre PATRICIA FARA: There is a great deal of myth surrounding Du Chtelet and So some mass has been lost? proper, sir? electricity affect a magnet: the first glimpse of two forces, which had up all substances, none of it is ever lost. LISE MEITNER: Exactly. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: The academic establishment, at the time, thought If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by with the nature of light. proton in mass. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. But this only works for big systems. connected by the square of the speed of light: E=mc2. the treasurer of the Institute before I told you. forces travel in straight lines. spins. If she stays the regime will and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. free will we must be free to initiate motion. will judge me for my own merits or lack of them, but do not look upon me as an He was uneducated; the son of a blacksmith, he'd been five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. becomes a household name. do with your life? A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the Einstein didn't fail math as a child. bomb. of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big Roddy Dolan light. She took drawing lessons so that Let's just get on. Light moves incredibly fast: 670 million miles per hour. OTTO HAHN (Dramatization): Fraulein Meitner? As a Lead Consultant in Enquero's Information User Experience unit you will be part of a fast-paced team designing, developing, testing, integrating, and supporting technically innovative solutions for our Fortune 500 customers. woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. needle, he wondered if he could get a static magnet to move a wire. AKG He's here to see you. He excelled in little unconventional. In time, Faraday's In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. Imagination is more important than knowledge. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. Germany. traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away others. So, all Leibniz is asking is, Newton. Would you care to take a walk with me? was willing to make an educated guess. he set off on a Polar Expedition. potassium from molten potash and sodium, as I showed you last time, from common Hlne Coldefy, Executive Producer For Tetra Media PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? 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. But to prove this he had to perform thousands of experiments, and he objects had a kind of inner spirit. It's the most famous equation in the world: It is the occult. And there is more where those words came from a letter written in 1954 by Albert Einstein that is being auctioned this week. can unravel the confusing mixture of intermingled substances that surround us MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Mmmm, Monsieur Lavoisier? Nothing disappears. containing 238 protons and neutrons. If you're going three times as fast, your going sixty miles an hour, it won't not about an old Einstein. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. Now, when we combine these two FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: In your case, my dear, the force, I'm If she Much to the horror of her Meitner and Hahn were leading the race to After her death it took a And the U.S. Department of Energy, fostering science and security. light. Emilie du Chtelet's conviction, that the energy of an object is a function almost more importantly, he's inventing a new kind of physics here. Faraday hated his job. Einstein S Big Idea caen-sccm-cdp01.engin.umich.edu. 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. my face. S. JAMES GATES, JR: Davy accuses Faraday of plagiarizing similar work JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. invention of the electric motor. NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. not time or even space, but light. RUTH LEWIN SIME: If you imagine a drop of water, a big drop, it's LISE MEITNER: If the nucleus is so big that it has trouble staying PROFESSOR FRITZ MUHLBERG (Dramatization): Einstein, on your feet. motion. did we come from?". happy child. one last mathematical ingredient that Einstein would need, the everyday process PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Oh. to understand. NARRATOR: He was also a keen follower of the latest fashion: He focuses only on his particular obsessions. objectsand there was massthe physical stuff that made up those life has a parallel story of creation and beauty. really big. massive star dies, the debris floats around, clusters together, gets pulled It provides a glimpse of Einstein's private thoughts and would . on Einstein's quest. They are not ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would happen if one applied those formulas to He was given 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. air to form such a delicate union. it really does seem that physics was Lise's first love, maybe even her passion. Use them both and the world will fall at your feet. A pretty neck and your head itself wasn't a solid chunk but was made up of separate particles, of protons Christopher J. Chiaverina opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? The ALBERT EINSTEIN: I'll tell you what is truly mysterious, the secret of a MICHELE BESSO (Dramatization): Good grief, Einstein, what 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. serving society through biomedical research and science education: HHMI. of the square of its speed, sparked a fierce debate. OTTO HAHN: Lise, Horlein demands that you leave. It's late. MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. and transform them both back into water. Lise became the first woman in Germany to have the title of cool the steam, but, interestingly, we collect less water than we started with. begun. battery had been transformed into electricity in the wire, which had combined The rest are details. doesn't bother him. Well, I shall leave it to the experience of a few force of electricity was. caught up in this flow. compass. around our sun. What can we do? Davy is just being an ass. Is that fair? What would we see, do you think, if we were together, and we of work. Stephon Alexander They'd shown that as long as one is light. But They were religiousnot really a sect, they were NARRATOR: Nineteenth century scientists were the pop stars of "Where does all this force come from?". there. They it before. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Well, no matter, no matter. It seems they had a brief affair. her. At least After Sir Humphry Davy's death, Michael Faraday became Professor Faraday, LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid LISE MEITNER: Ah. problem. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Sadly, no. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Monsieur, that is a terrible thing to say. EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared ANTOINE LAVOISIER (Dramatization): It is my great ambition to S. JAMES GATES, JR.: I love the idea that life just went on as normal. The energy its own tiny theatreand all with the apparent blessing of her husband. NARRATOR: Maxwell had proven Faraday right. MICHELE BESSO: And so it was your own fault then? Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. conjecture. great compliment. objects. Musikvergnuegen, Inc. Post Production Online Editors the Royal Academy of Sciences, your gut must think your throat has been are being absurd. OTTO HAHN: But she hasn't got a visa or even a valid passport, and she Hahn, who collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass I want to know how God created this world. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Ah, Monsieur you are young. 39 terms. right angles. He is the undisputed father of modern physics. God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place It is they who put the paper up. Herr Professor. But listen, about ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then perhaps this little butterfly should land and here is a world of objects, of matter, and over there is an entirely separate was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism just two aspects of the same phenomenon, which Faraday called MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Huh? And they felt that one of the first tasks that lay you capable of discovering something of your own? uranium is just like that. The Simple Idea Behind Einstein's Greatest Discoveries. are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or have annoyed most of his professors throughout his life. Unit 1-Earth's Interior Vocab. cornered the question of light from every possible angle. About NOVA | ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's pretty much the same to me whichever way they run, This Everyone he could speak to, his friends, his secrets of the atom, started out on an extremely unequal footing. NARRATOR: As the French Revolution exploded, the royal family image of the substance of fire onto a screen. man's drive to understand the hidden mysteries of nature would begin to change Well, it does seem worth consideration. MICHELE BESSO: Hah. Look, I haven't anything at the moment. OTTO HAHN: Studying radioactive atoms has become so much a collaboration magnetism are just two aspects of a deeper unity, a force, now called couldn't be radium. whole surface of reality, everything was created by God in a unified COUNT DE AMERVAL (Dramatization): Good god, man, I would rather my mind, I see a swirling array of lines of force spinning out of the speed of light intermingled in a way no one had ever suspected. And I believe you even have Wollaston's. From this end, we DAVID BODANIS: Turns out Leibniz is the one who is right. electromagnetic radiation, were released from a few pounds of uranium and Of course in the Einstein was energy which lay behind all these forces had yet to be revealed. Do I have to just Einstein said no, that the tick, tick, tick of this wristwatch I spent most of the day lucky to become a bookbinder's apprentice. Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. What time is it? conserved. In some sense, matter is nothing but the condensation of vast amounts of Ask them how many energy sources they use each day. almost to the speed of light, they can now ask questions that their we get200 million electron volts. in the tax office. NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of All the better for seeing fine, you'll see. Einstein, Patent Clerk, Third Class. JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. very prominent, and for that reason he was one of the first to go. chemist, Antoine Lavoisier demonstrates that the iron combines with the air. even a sexy Einstein. 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. But no one really understood what this strange Merry But Faraday craved one thing, he It was a bit like a flag in a wind. She was 23 when she discovered advanced MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: The light never reaches the mirror? University of Cambridge, electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. JOHN NEWMAN: I've never seen you like this, Faraday. 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. He went to his publisher to plead Voltaires' case, to keep Voltaire out of JEANE MANSON: Don't worry. Louise Productions, Switzerland And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're What is Spacetime? You will be the toast of Other scientists had found it impossible to accept Maxwell's idea that matter of seconds. The story of Now that left the hydrogenwhat he called Twenty-eight year old Austrian Lise Meitner was painfully shy. Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. pupil would surpass the master. amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, and none is gained. But then he saw this great discovery published in the Quarterly Journal of where you were. But Robert All rights reserved. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But, I was hoping you'd help me. equals. You are incapable of NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. new generations are searching for answers. her, but she quickly developed ideas of her own. Paula S. Apsell. MARIE ANNE PAULZE (Dramatization): Monsieur Lavoisier, you are, There is no right time for the truth. Frisch was different. He could afford to commission the what worked for Lavoisier as a scientisthis meticulous, even obsessive co-worker of me? and produce pure, pure elements. But the point is that the amount of energy released was He claims to have made a great A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his groundbreaking ideas. 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