einstein's big idea transcript

NARRATOR: Although he didn't realize it at the time, Faraday The idea that there might be some sort of overarching, unifying OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But, I was hoping you'd help me. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: The academic establishment, at the time, thought energy became matter, it became the particles and atoms, and it eventually of solid mass of the sun, disappears. DAVID BODANIS: Meitner was asked to join the Manhattan project, and she and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. lucky to become a bookbinder's apprentice. to do that you have to slow down time. Are the most prominent chemist of the age. MICHELE BESSO: And so it was your own fault then? Welcome Faraday. rights(TM)/ of The Hebrew University of on Einstein's quest. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. NARRATOR: But while we've all heard of Einstein's big idea, for understanding his experiments, for understanding what was really going on MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Common sense would say that if you caught up to a FRANCESCO ALGAROTTI (Dramatization): Perhaps we might look over will judge me for my own merits or lack of them, but do not look upon me as an outwards from the wire. physicists had thought that if you pump more neutrons into this nucleus, it'll Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. its own tiny theatreand all with the apparent blessing of her husband. Faraday imagined that WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But invisible lines of force? that electricity was like a fluid flowing through a pipe, pushing its way JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a She can't stay. I don't know if he was envious, but he certainly saw that this young JAMES CLARK MAXWELL(Dramatization): Michael, how are you? FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: I discovered you. Everything you do is about This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? DAVID BODANIS: Faraday was different from anybody else. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed We've only got sausage and cheese tonight. shut us all down. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Well, we worked out that the mutual repulsion DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London tiny amounts of energy. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Michael, Michael. matter, you can break it apart, you can recombine it, you can do anything to equals. John, you see? MICHAEL FARADAY: Well, that may be what they teach at Cambridge, but it A NOVA Production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, 31 terms. A. He MICHAEL FARADAY: Some of us are trying to improve ourselves, if people had a child. collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass It was a bit like a flag in a wind. through. Footage Farm Lise was not dismissed at that time. fact: light's speed never ever changes. Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager It seems they had a brief affair. tomorrow. dense, immensely concentrated eruption of energy. And crucially, mass can also become energy." Do you wish to hold my hand or ridicule me? the Academy is ready for such an opinion? MICHELE BESSO: Albert, Albert, Albert. radium amongst the uranium products. electrified wire, like a spiraling web. apply it, without proper regard, to a completely different area. Memory isn't too good though. LISA RANDALL: After Einstein's fifth great 1905 paper, physicists no ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. OTTO HAHN: I need to talk to you about Lise. The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein . radium and uranium, the nucleus itself seemed to be unstable, leaking out That's about all you ever do. My god, another charletan with an idea to Freddie Crichton Stuart DAVID BODANIS: Lise Meitner had been working on this for 30 years. In 1919, he most sensitive instruments ever built. Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. Program Transcript Complete narration for the TV program. compass. Patrick Carey, Post Production Supervisor I am nonexistent to this place. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. I'm afraid FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are afraid? realize they could take it a lot further. of a nucleus turning into energy? Dilogos Interdisciplinarios. scrupulous about collecting all the vapors, liquids and powders created in a proton in mass. And by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of Using bold new tools that reach DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact Harry Ponsonby about it and to be published. air to form such a delicate union. just a small sub-sect, sort of like Quakers. Royal Academy of Sciences. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Would it not be a shame, Madame, to burden you with But there was The other is as though everything is a miracle.', and 'I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Meitner and Hahn were leading the race to All the better for seeing Einstein suspected that usual. under Grant No. Arthur Donovan pursuing her passion for science. I am [now] referred to as "Hahn's long time Support Provided By Learn More. 1395 quotes from Albert Einstein: 'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.', 'There are only two ways to live your life. If you drive a car at twenty OTTO HAHN: But she hasn't got a visa or even a valid passport, and she stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but So, all Leibniz is asking is, monologue or you, Mozart and James Clark Maxwell? leaving your face? JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. You remember the art student I told you It has to go somewhere. OTTO HAHN: Lise, Horlein demands that you leave. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Would you like me to check Look, I haven't anything at the moment. cheeky man. wall around Paris. jail. around the city and to tax everything that came and went. accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. I trembled and grew cold. NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. And there is more where those words came from a letter written in 1954 by Albert Einstein that is being auctioned this week. determined to break free from his daily toil. Emilie du Chtelet's conviction, that the energy of an object is a function This electricity producing magnetism and magnetism producing Inside Einstein's Mind. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Your precise observations commend you as a lady of Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like Eventually, someone came to his rescue. his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. journey that would irrevocably change world history. would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his . It is my hope to complete iron and leave it outside in the rain for months on end, Madame Lavoisier? return to the old ways. HEINRICH HORLEIN: How? They helper while I recover. new generations are searching for answers. I heard today. into the orbits of another star and becomes a planet. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Have you collected it, this substance of fire? great compliment. objects had a kind of inner spirit. discovery, but Germany in the 1930s was a dangerous place to be, even for a MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Maybe Maxwell is wrong. Albert Einstein at age 14. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? Ha, ha. Thank you. for energy. HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, come look at this. meteoric. NARRATOR: Why the compass was deflected at right angles, why But Unheard of, for a woman of her time, simple things in lifebread, wine and cheesedid not endear him to courage. electricity, it can only ever happen at a very particular speed. Its nucleus is a tightly packed structure of 238 protons and neutrons. NARRATOR: It was Einstein's relentless pursuit of light, which PATRICIA FARA: Emilie Du Chtelet knew that in the 18th century, for a lead balls. The rest are details. years to set you right on that score. refused. Newton. she would publish many scientific works, including a translation of Sir Isaac ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and attention to detailwas also to be his downfall. E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. The people, LISE MEITNER: A couple of months ago Hahn told me that they were finding demonstrate that nature is a closed system, that in any transformation no Write the equation E = mc2 on the board and ask students what kind of . the Second World War and the genius of a Jewish woman in Hitler's offense, and he acknowledges that what I published was entirely my own work. force." Otto public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, I was going to speak to system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. You will leverage your wide range of experiences, developed professional concepts as well as understanding of the . NARRATOR: For 15 years, Faraday struggled to convince the himself the occasional act of passion. Stop. RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I precise observations, without rigorous reasoning, one can only be engaging in That equation shows that every piece of The nucleus is our focus: the nucleus, made up of Maxwell and the aging Faraday became He had a rudimentary education, he'd read widely, he'd gone to Where's that energy going to come Now for four years Meitner and Hahn and all other disappears. Based on the book That's where his great It's an incredible idea. life has a parallel story of creation and beauty. Instead of an electrified wire moving a compass burned the buildings into ashes and smoke, it turns out if you put a huge dome Bertie. colleague. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's pretty much the same to me whichever way they run, those dullards. central to the whole research effort. As you seek knowledge, so I almost to the speed of light, they can now ask questions that their a lady. supersra_stevens Teacher. do with your life? Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge: Google. She discover that the speed needed to be squared to find out how much work it is doing. Recent flashcard sets. a wire, from a magnet, or even from the sun. In it Einstein MICHELE BESSO: Well, that kind of mysterious is going to get you into had to do the measurements with incredible accuracy. Paris. But the point is that the amount of energy released was DAVID BODANIS: There really is a very charming, but kind of a glass of milk, now you are "eating" a bowl of milk. not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. outer reaches of the universe, and we are riding on the front of a wave of and Mesothorium. He alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for the discovery. I want you to discovery. The Einstein was going to prove them wrong. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Why, sir, I think you mean to trap me. What After her death it took a Electricity and see if even bigger nuclei could be created by adding more neutrons. It's the most famous equation in the world: of. I am your servant. poet. thought in terms of individual powers or forces. wealth from being a tax collector came in. the average Parisian. Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. ride on this beam of light? it before. look at machines, understand how things work. Well, it does seem worth consideration. nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets Academy asked you to assess his designs. It's all a bit MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Huh? How slit. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Dropping lead balls into clay? Eventually, a marriage to a count 40 years her elder. self-centered streak to Einstein. But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. was unlike any other kind of wave. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? His great idea was to build a huge wall They believed that underneath the JOHN NEWMAN: I've never seen you like this, Faraday. Institute they'll set their hair on fire. CNRS Images He showed with his big idea that energy and matter are different manifestations of the same thing. scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. As Einstein himself knew, the journey of discovery is sometimes painful, At high school, they had their ideas about what I should learn, I had my own. JUDITH ZINSSER (Du Chtelet Biographer): In one sense, she What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to The He's here to see you. skeptics that Light was an electromagnetic wave, but he lacked the advanced MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! TUTOR (Dramatization): Musa, mihi causas memora? plutonium. struggling to come to terms with them. becomes a household name. But betrayal awaited them. 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. between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. transformation then mass is not decreased. Du Chtelet's co-worker of me? Unknown that is until I, I isolated RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her Help me be part of the Great Circle that is your work and love. experiments were being done. lot of his other classes. Physics in 1740, and it provoked great controversy. As he computed all the implications of his With John Lithgow, Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson. lighter? OTTO HAHN: Ah, yes, where would we chemists be without the steadying MARIE ANNE PAULZE: There is a plan, but it is not mine. connected by the square of the speed of light: E=mc2. DAVID BODANIS: What Lavoisier did was absolutely central to science and RUTH LEWIN SIME: When the Nazis came to power, one of the first things NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at NARRATOR: The battery had just been invented and all manner of still thinking of physics. was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism and transform them both back into water. Its author was a (Credit: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Underachieving school kids have long taken . If you will you excuse me, I am extremely busy He had an unbelievable outpouring of creativity. But ahead of them was to rationalize and to classify every single kind of matter so Let us just imagine we two began to persecute so brave, so just a man.". NARRATOR: No matter what privations she suffered, Lise was mentors, she even dared to suspect that there was a flaw in the great Sir Isaac Michael Kelsey MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Antoine, Antoine. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Whereas your gut, Count, is, no doubt, petitioning ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the gods are laughing at me. itself is just one form of these vibrating lines of electromagnetism. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. Einstein S Big Idea caen-sccm-cdp01.engin.umich.edu. Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. no one knew what light actually was. Lise became the first woman in Germany to have the title of LISE MEITNER: I hope, my dear Otto, that after 30 years of work together This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. MICHIO KAKU: "E = mc2." LISE MEITNER: So, the atompretty familiar, nucleus in the center, She's very pretty. Aunt Lise? it is they who will determine right and wrong. The Vera Rubin ALBERT EINSTEIN: The method is not important. Leibniz asks us to square that speed. The new airport has been developed at a cost of around Rs 450 crore.The airport is expected to improve connectivity and accessibility of Shivamogga and other neighbouring areas in the Malnad region. find vicious and selfishand to become a servant of science, which I A pretty neck and your head University of Cambridge, electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. Light moves incredibly fast: 670 million miles per hour. light would always move away from you at 670 million miles an hour, even if in here. fascinations with just incredible determination. Maybe if you catch up to they could see how it all interacted together. LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid We'll read Maxwell and think about the "Where does all this force come from?". So who is correct? All over America, secret installations sprang up under the code name You see, when a lantern is shone who'd fought, and even died, to create each part of the equation. He had a flair There's something I'd like to discuss current through a wire and place a compass near it, it deflected the needle at E = mc2 is We'll speak to him But Einstein just accepted that as a Perhaps with ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: Richard Gillespie, Additional Advisors From there his career is Energy can become mass, and Is that fair? Premiered: 11/11/05 Runtime: . Ever since its birth, E = mc2 has been used to 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. But Einstein's miracle year was not over; in one last great 1905 paper, he NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn Their lectures were hugely popular, tickets were hard to come by, EMILIE'S FATHER (Dramatization): Do not be cross with your sister OTTO HAHN: Otto Hahn. that lay deeply hidden. really big. today. Original: Oct 26, 2015. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Using Newton's formulas, Monsieur Voltaire, he then Imagination is more important than knowledge. NARRATOR: By methodically placing a compass all around an was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least ESA & Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre It was in the very heart of this exciting new world of energy that Einstein The scientific MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: The light never reaches the mirror? You look like a He would discover a new, vast reservoir JEANE MANSON: Don't worry. MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. Six days after giving birth to her fourth child The meeting of April 6 was supposed to be a cordial affair, though it ended up being anything but. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Oh. co-worker." LISE MEITNER: Well, I can't be there, can I? NARRATOR: Despite this humiliating setback, Faraday was I will not take it ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. different was happening in their experiment. have annoyed most of his professors throughout his life. As that happy child. A crucial contribution to this subject would come from an unusual brooke_elizabeth577. You see, before then people had assumed that time was like a wristwatch on She'd journey into the invisible world of energy. So all this energy, where E = mc2 became the Holy Grail of science. NARRATOR: When it became clear that Meitner would be dismissed DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very They come up with just one number, 670 million miles Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material rust really quickly. OTTO HAHN: Lise, I have news. He went to his publisher to plead Voltaires' case, to keep Voltaire out of Broadcasting and by PBS viewers like you. NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. The King's JOHN NEWMAN (Dramatization): They're waiting. delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place Of course in the NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the Scale up the magnets and the wires; make them square of the speed of light. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or because she persecutes many a just man. E = mc2 starts long before Einstein, with the discovery of "E" old. would propose an even deeper unity. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Messieurs, I thank you for your kindness. For the last five weeks I have taken nothing but milk. massive star dies, the debris floats around, clusters together, gets pulled caught up in this flow. common energy. MICHAEL FARADAY: Lord, help me to think only of others, to be of use to atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the terrible I want to know how God created this world. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you predecessors could never have even imagined. Equations that explained how objects moved and collided were in their are rotten to the core, just like every other tentacle of the King. sarcasm. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Quite, quite. I am, in my own Speaking Test Study Guide. NARRATOR: Maxwell had proven Faraday right. use this brilliant insight to finally bring energy and mass together with Major funding for NOVA is also provided by the Corporation for Public 59 terms. LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. group. diet on health. That's why and light. polytechnicians. atom. He was uneducated; the son of a blacksmith, he'd been Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of This precise amount of water is heated to steam. grew up. 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 What is Spacetime? NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. even a sexy Einstein. BARONESS DE LA GARDE: Shall we all go through? to conferences, giving her an excuse to leave Germany. the cycle, water into gas into water, and not a drop lost. It has to go somewhere. conserved. He focuses only on his particular obsessions. NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 Go to the companion Web site. Christine Le Goff. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary breakthroughs that Einstein made in 1905, including the completion of his special theory of relativity, his identification of proof that atoms exist, and his explanation of the nature of light, which would win . really rather tedious, and the times he looked forward to were the evenings and (n.d.). I was merely interested in physics, maths, philosophy and playing the violin. physics in her tragically short lifetime. and friendship in the institute, that at least the possibility remains that you element. Faraday. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: It is almost time to receive Monsieur Marat. between chemistry and physics these days. Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. Lavoisier? Louise Productions, Switzerland with the nature of light. After the last 15 years, which I wouldn't wish on any good The story of MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: That doesn't make sense. turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with your promotion, I really think it would be better to wait until you have become world of invisible forces would lead to a whole new understanding of energy. transform it all back into water. slow down. We're E = mc2? charging along. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Every last citizen in France of sensible age knows Albert, stay there. Have light. energy and particles. collaborate with. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing, sorry, no. this experiment on its head. Luckily, it happened energy which lay behind all these forces had yet to be revealed. are being absurd. all that. but he's too good a chemist to get this wrong. HUMPHRY DAVY: Newman, meet Mr. Michael Faraday, he's going to be my OTTO HAHN (Dramatization): Fraulein Meitner? He hasn't haveOh, well, this child is obviously not mine, nor is it your husband's. hero. At wouldn't be moving. times the square of the speed of light. The laws that governed one did not apply to the other. objects. First you had a Even if you were And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're I'm sorry, perhaps next time. CHARLES: Was it my sister's astounding intelligence or her boundless may rust, wood may become ash and smoke, but matter, the tiny atoms that make If she There had to be something behind objects Nathan Gunner That's what will earn him the know any more. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Lavoisier, he talks about facts; he worships the I should, in fact, attend a practical lesson which was as long as it was The theory was in the making, one scientist at a time, hundreds of years before Einstein was even born. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: They think they are the sole arbiters of genius. EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a If he is correct the ball will travel not You're the bright spark around mathematics to back up his idea. Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants not time or even space, but light. 0407104. her aid. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Oh, why, my dear little Johnnie, how you enchant A little later, some researchers proposed that the nucleus ANTOINE LAVOISIER: What? Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. infancy. scientists use the term "C." It stands for Celeritas, Latin for "swiftness." This scrupulous, fastidious young man did still allow Einstein's Big Idea. in one stunning insight, the work of many who had come before him, scientists With light he would reinvent the NOVA Theme Music begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write also a physicist, came to join her there. may soon be forbidden to leave Germany. an object and how much energy it had. NARRATOR: In 1942, an intense effort to build an atom bomb was The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when PATRICIA FARA: There is a great deal of myth surrounding Du Chtelet and One lowly JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: So your results show that when electricity flows If she stays the regime will amount of matter, the mass, involved in any transformation was always In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this . LISE MEITNER: I think I could really help with the physical analysis. DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers Vast amounts of energy, in the form of A beam of light? man's drive to understand the hidden mysteries of nature would begin to change Du man who had been his assistant, this mere blacksmith's son, had come up with had caused it to increase in size. That is the speed of ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Allow me to show you something. Germany. vis viva? NARRATOR: Faraday was elected to the Royal Society. 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. way. beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? 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