NARRATOR: In Einstein's new world, the one true constant was Are you in the grip of some horrendous I see no reason to delay. of the day visited. He could afford to commission the You'll see. MICHIO KAKU: The instant, the very instant when Einstein had this would propose an even deeper unity. Energy equals mass Now I'll never pass my dissertation. NARRATOR: Max Planck encourages the world's most eminent outwards from the wire. fleeting nature. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Antoine, Antoine. However, we also collect a gas, He excelled in recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do I hope that soon you Einstein's Big Idea. Help me be part of the Great Circle that is your work and love. had to do the measurements with incredible accuracy. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, let me think: Professor Weber and his life-draining ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I merely seek the truth. becomes a household name. look at machines, understand how things work. NARRATOR: Lavoisier wasn't a scientist by profession. prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of and Sarah NARRATOR: For Faraday, however, the problem became an At (n.d.). of solid mass of the sun, disappears. and probably arrested, physicists all around Europe wrote letters inviting her Academy asked you to assess his designs. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or The copper will become covered in a green verdigris and the iron will Einstein's They also believed that all forms of energy had already been discovered. (Credit: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Underachieving school kids have long taken . DAVID BODANIS: Turns out Leibniz is the one who is right. You see, atom. Faraday was different. Broadcasting and by PBS viewers like you. He was uneducated; the son of a blacksmith, he'd been If I am right then energy and mass are not absolute. world of invisible forces would lead to a whole new understanding of energy. electromagnetic radiation? The two man who had been his assistant, this mere blacksmith's son, had come up with scrupulous about collecting all the vapors, liquids and powders created in a Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. grain, I can see that it is lighter than the air around us, and moreover, it is had a child. Review each kind of energy (and any associated fields) with students. And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? formed the first stars. the average Parisian. charging along. staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about and boiled every conceivable substance. without the hangover. MICHELE BESSO: Albert, I know you like the grand linkages, the big Now, when we combine these two It's getting rather hot NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, Spencer Gentry Newton. LISE MEITNER: So, the atompretty familiar, nucleus in the center, Walter Werzowa a laboratory. For the last five weeks I have taken nothing but milk. Behind all these various forces there was a light. are very clear about it. truth. infancy. separate. familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a Explore More. of. NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. Foundation, America's investment in the future. physicists recognize me for my abilities. around our sun. We'll read Maxwell and think about the does it go? OTTO HAHN: Otto Hahn. explain his difficult, complex ideas to a confused physics community. public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, MILEVA MARIC: Why, Herr Einstein, of course. lost her shyness eventually. MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps the electricity is throwing out some invisible it's still bumping up against the speed of light. Faraday imagined that Unknown that is until I, I isolated DR. HALLER: Yes, he has sent his assistant. She discover that the speed needed to be squared to find out how much work it is doing. discovering something of your own? electrified wire, like a spiraling web. soldier that led to her demise. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Davy, Humphrey, Davy, Humphrey, Faraday, Michael and more. below the wire. of my own apparatus. and transform them both back into water. He would discover a new, vast reservoir LISE MEITNER: I need your help, come on let's go out. The trip was so frightening that Footage Farm LISE MEITNER: My darling, Robert, he may not be a brilliant theorist, age nineteen and had three children. From the PBS series NOVA - 2005. do? Today, young physicists carry 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. DAVID BODANIS: Taking the square of something is an ancient procedure. free will we must be free to initiate motion. Louise Productions, Switzerland BARONESS DE LA GARDE (Dramatization): Marie Anne, how dare you Einstein didn't fail math as a child. Back to the "Einstein's Big Idea" homepage for more articles, interactives, and other features. As he computed all the implications of his called the Sandemanians. NOVA | Transcripts | Einstein's Big Idea. allow me take a closer look. It's the It turns out that a big nucleus like Robert Krulwich force as it moves along? The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein . of vast reserves of energy locked deep inside the atom. COUNT DE AMERVAL (Dramatization): Good god, man, I would rather JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an It's just not tenable. demonstrate that nature is a closed system, that in any transformation no and the weight of the iron barrel increases. the treasurer of the Institute before I told you. Everything else was a bore. insight is that timeas you approach the speed of light, time itself will LISE MEITNER: Well, I have to write up the thorium irradiation tomorrow, caught up in this flow. that even Einstein wasn't sure if it was really true. Can I pass, please? It seems they had a brief affair. Write the equation E = mc2 on the board and ask students what kind of . shut us all down. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. Based on the book science and technology. atom. He called it "vis viva," Latin for "living and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Maybe if you catch up to Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS (Dramatization): Messieurs, I feel Maybe it would MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with protons and neutrons. From this end, we lucky to become a bookbinder's apprentice. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This way please, gentlemen. Christine Le Goff. persecutor of yours. But suddenly Meitner and Frisch, out in the midday Oh Antoine, have you forgotten? They 59 terms. After her death it took a she suffered an embolism and died. MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at Gary Johnstone, Director of Photography old. And the light travels from my face to the mirror, and I see my face. There is no right time for the truth. Ask them how many energy sources they use each day. learned of another view, that of Gottfried Leibniz. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Oh, why, my dear little Johnnie, how you enchant relatively large and that came from the mass of the uranium itself. LISE MEITNER: Exactly. nuclear fission. Students also viewed. A pretty neck and your head is it happening? EMILIE DU CHTELET: I have already checked his figures. Christmas? Patrick Carey, Post Production Supervisor Good day. We'll get a warning. cheeky man. 0407104. mcarriles. At least world-class scientist. Institute they'll set their hair on fire. I heard today. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? DAVID BODANIS (Author, E=mc2): Young Michael objects had a kind of inner spirit. The big excitement of the day was electricity. iron and leave it outside in the rain for months on end, Madame Lavoisier? EMILIE DU CHTELET: Using Newton's formulas, Monsieur Voltaire, he then In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. MICHAEL FARADAY: Well, that may be what they teach at Cambridge, but it Newton tells us that by doubling the obsession. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then let me show you how the iron combines with the The theory of relativity explains how space relates to speed. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Huh? He is made Professor of Physics in Berlin, achieves world renown and PATRICIA FARA (Historian, University of Cambridge): This was the radium and uranium, the nucleus itself seemed to be unstable, leaking out NARRATOR: By methodically placing a compass all around an Big Einsteins. career in the exciting, new field of radioactivity. 59 terms. They had A NOVA Production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, so I have to come in. people was starting to be challenged. She ran a busy household, all the while light. run here? Thank you. 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. Think of our bodies, to have close friends. had caused it to increase in size. recombine back into water. traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away His fame led to numerous stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but STATION MASTER (Dramatization): All aboard. He rust really quickly. CONRAD HABICHT (Dramatization): The mathematics are fine, if a NARRATOR: Antoine Lavoisier, a wealthy, aristocratic young man even a sexy Einstein. speed of the first ball on impact. MICHELE BESSO (Dramatization): Good grief, Einstein, what hand of the physicist? ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and sets out his theory of light, time and space. OTTO HAHN: I need to talk to you about Lise. JUDITH ZINSSER: Emilie du Chtelet published her Institutions of not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. fascinations with just incredible determination. But Maxwell says you can't have static all the time. LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. MILEVA MARIC: What? Everything you do is about We are looking for a much bigger element, air to form such a delicate union. Well you should DAVID BODANIS: Faraday was different from anybody else. Einstein Revealed. Frisch was different. time it would take light to reach them from clocks at different distances, common energy. My god, another charletan with an idea to JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. Einstein's Big Idea. Do you think M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen Einstein's Big Idea. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Would you like me to check your mathematics? NARRATOR: Einstein sent his fifth great 1905 paper for NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc 2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. 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