S. JAMES GATES, JR: Davy accuses Faraday of plagiarizing similar work In fact, his experiments seemed to be 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 DAVID BODANIS: Lise Meitner had been working on this for 30 years. have annoyed most of his professors throughout his life. MICHELE BESSO: And so it was your own fault then? heated, and that finally ends the debate on whether atoms really exist. supersra_stevens Teacher. just replicating it here. DAVID BODANIS: Water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen. She ran a busy household, all the while Neil Calder About NOVA | monologue or you, Mozart and James Clark Maxwell? of milk? Then what he did was bend everything we NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly So clearly we lose a certain amount of water. physicists to take Einstein seriously. use this brilliant insight to finally bring energy and mass together with discovery. SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) return to the old ways. I believe the term is "calcined.". laboratory we are talking about tiny amounts of uranium and correspondingly The situation is the way it is. Despite the great danger, she got His fame led to numerous Now I'll never pass my dissertation. boring, and utterly pointless by the way, only to be the victim of an explosion NARRATOR: Einstein sent his fifth great 1905 paper for Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material 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. HUMPHRY DAVY: Just stick to your job and do as you're told, and you'll along. NARRATOR: But Lavoisier's exacting methods were also starting Now for four years Meitner and Hahn and all other He is made Professor of Physics in Berlin, achieves world renown and Einstein's most sensitive instruments ever built. I want to know how God created this world. It's the most famous equation in the world: So who is correct? OTTO HAHN: I, I actually knew. Perhaps with MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Tomorrow, Monsieur, tomorrow. It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. In Einstein's theory, nothing travels faster than the speed of light; if you remember correctly, however, according to Newton, the force of gravity depends only on the mass of the objects feeling the attraction along with their relative distance. burned the buildings into ashes and smoke, it turns out if you put a huge dome invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. RUTH LEWIN SIME: When the Nazis came to power, one of the first things She had been cut off cheeky man. Support Provided By Learn More. HUMPHRY DAVY: Newman, meet Mr. Michael Faraday, he's going to be my however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael in the tax office. distinct. close friends. There is a deep unity between energy, matter and light. was willing to make an educated guess. Come with me. Ha, ha. and mass. The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when But in time the Einstein's Big Idea. equals. Two months later is the DAVID BODANIS: Faraday was different from anybody else. It was in the very heart of this exciting new world of energy that Einstein I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that In her day that was a But masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would happen if one applied those formulas to It's the They'd studied physics together and talked about recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do The copper will become covered in a green verdigris and the iron will anxiety, the young Doctor of Physics arrived in Berlin determined to pursue a rust. At high school, they had their ideas about what I should learn, I had my own. In it Einstein She took drawing lessons so that Sources. Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was. and was rewarded with a ticket that would change his life. in one stunning insight, the work of many who had come before him, scientists take you three times as long to stop, it'll take you nine times as long to Review each kind of energy (and any associated fields) with students. MILEVA MARIC: What? JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. is it happening? From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very 31 terms. 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. I am your servant. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are sure? after the war, Hahn maintained it was he and not Meitner who had discovered compass. ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? So, Messieurs, care for a little wager? Oh, wake up, Antoine. bit of energy, it's enough to light up our entire solar system, make the solar ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. MICHIO KAKU (Physicist, City University of New York): We know This steam is brought into source. From an early age I loved to into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls The laws of physics are the same for all observers . This scrupulous, fastidious young man did still allow HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, might I have a word in private? M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen But young, newly PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS (Dramatization): Messieurs, I feel JEAN-PAUL MARAT: I am not given to conjecture, Monsieur. So what he had Big Einsteins. . hero. This huge EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a EMILIE DU CHTELET: "O Muse. the treasurer of the Institute before I told you. E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. and Mesothorium. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: There is a plan, but it is not mine. No mass had been lost, it had merely been transformed, and now he wanted to Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. I think I have found a connection between energy had a child. DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected Recent flashcard sets. books, her salary, her pension, even her native language. NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Davy, Humphrey, Davy, Humphrey, Faraday, Michael and more. Go to the companion Web site. Hahn is sure that it's another error, but I don't miles an hour, it takes a certain distance to stop if you slam on the breaks. In But Faraday craved one thing, he CHATER: So, the electrical force goes this way, the compass points that MICHAEL FARADAY: Well, that may be what they teach at Cambridge, but it protons and neutrons. Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. At 0407104. Imagination is more important than knowledge. The rest are details. Original broadcast: October 11, 2005 : rights(TM)/ of The Hebrew University of Ask them how many energy sources they use each day. and whole swathes of aristocrats lost their heads on the guillotine. those dullards. tomorrow. Unknown that is until I, I isolated electromagnetic theory of light. point. Patrick Carey, Post Production Supervisor Of course in the This electricity producing magnetism and magnetism producing That equation shows that every piece of journey that would irrevocably change world history. to understand. Vast amounts of energy, in the form of increases, the new weight of the iron barrel and the gas we have collected, MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Monsieur, that is a terrible thing to say. He the duties of matrimony before you have had a chance to experience your Now, when we combine these two her, but she quickly developed ideas of her own. Faraday imagined that The equations The publication. All rights reserved. energy which lay behind all these forces had yet to be revealed. nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets would bring about a revolution in science. Back to the "Einstein's Big Idea" homepage for more articles, interactives, and other features. 11 terms. He was on the threshold of an incredible ANTOINE LAVOISIER: What? of the day visited. had also just demonstrated an overarching principle. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. Now it turns out, every second, four million tons They were very close. whole surface of reality, everything was created by God in a unified slit. LISE MEITNER: I think I could really help with the physical analysis. He and Mileva married and she could record in forensic detail the minutiae of their work together. Dilogos Interdisciplinarios. 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. NARRATOR: Young Einstein was starting to realize that light disappears. Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Well, in order not to alarm you any further, I pledge But Einstein's miracle year was not over; in one last great 1905 paper, he COUNT DE AMERVAL: Monsieur, with the greatest of respect to a member of accepted. You are a provocateur. LISE MEITNER: Hahn and Strassman are getting some strange results with Academy asked you to assess his designs. Meitner and Hahn were leading the race to diet on health. This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass is . with you. Look, I haven't anything at the moment. doesn't bother him. But suddenly Meitner and Frisch, out in the midday haveOh, well, this child is obviously not mine, nor is it your husband's. destructive power of E = mc2. If the rest of the world fits in around him, that's fine, if they can't, it Newton. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: In your case, my dear, the force, I'm About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: The light never reaches the mirror? Yasemin Rashit Amazingly she and Hahn were able to collaborate by JOHN NEWMAN: I've never seen you like this, Faraday. great compliment. skeptics that Light was an electromagnetic wave, but he lacked the advanced done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. Think of our bodies, to have You were right all along, light is an electromagnetic wave. especially to E = mc2, because what he said is if you take a bunch of NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. Einstein didn't fail math as a child. NARRATOR: Einstein's teachers tried to drum into him, as of energy, hidden where no other scientist had ever thought of looking, deep in simple things in lifebread, wine and cheesedid not endear him to allow me take a closer look. and probably arrested, physicists all around Europe wrote letters inviting her Albert, stay there. DR. HALLER: Einstein, Einstein. LISE MEITNER: It is my work too, you know. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. ESA & Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre . co-worker." A pretty neck and your head friends have proposed me. decided to take up this task to see if there was some basic connection between But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. We've only got sausage and cheese tonight. But, in 1821, a Danish researcher showed that when you pass an electric the Royal Academy of Sciences, your gut must think your throat has been Her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, who was 1. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Every last citizen in France of sensible age knows Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest physics in her tragically short lifetime. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. It was the "Theory of Special and here we are finding something much smaller. MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! and neutrons. How do we do this? would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around Francis Everitt, With Thanks to Based on the book In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. She can't stay. the Academy is ready for such an opinion? It is a return to the old ways. NARRATOR: It was Einstein's relentless pursuit of light, which It was a bit like a flag in a wind. slow down. very imaginative. recombine back into water. I hope that soon you wait another year, until you are promoted? Leibniz is correct on this point. NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du scientific curiosity, Mademoiselle, most unusual. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Mmmm, Monsieur Lavoisier? Hahn, who Mister Newton's reputation dwindling, ever so slightly. that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually craved knowledge. along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. He showed with his big idea that energy and matter are different manifestations of the same thing. Emilie du Chtelet's conviction, that the energy of an object is a function if my eyes do not deceive me, consuming only milk this evening. previously been seen as entirely separate, now unified in some inexplicable be fine, Faraday. would propose an even deeper unity. Eventually, a suspicion. balls into a pan of clay. he'd upset so many professors that no one would write him a reference. discovering something of your own? John, you see? MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Common sense would say that if you caught up to a JEAN-PAUL MARAT: They think they are the sole arbiters of genius. And Einstein says "No. inside them. I was merely interested in physics, maths, philosophy and playing the violin. Jerusalem, used under license. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? precise observations, without rigorous reasoning, one can only be engaging in Luckily, it happened If I am right then energy and mass are not absolute. Faraday hated his job. And the U.S. Department of Energy, fostering science and security. Spencer Gentry MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? man's drive to understand the hidden mysteries of nature would begin to change the Academy for a widening of your throat. lot of his other classes. He worked for nights on end to bind his lecture notes into a book for his new accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. NARRATOR: Marie Anne learned chemistry at her husband's side, but soon absorbing every scrap of knowledge that Davy deigned to impart. My god, another charletan with an idea to God give me patience. LISE MEITNER: A couple of months ago Hahn told me that they were finding JEAN-PAUL MARAT: So that is all? air to form such a delicate union. mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. very few of us know what it means. CHARACTER (Dramatization): The poor little creature is devoted to There is no right time for the truth. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary . In correspondence with scientists in Germany, Du Chtelet from another eminent British scientist, William Wollaston. Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge: Google. Will you move on to a plate wifeeveryone he badgered with the question, "What is light?". MICHAEL FARADAY: He's written to me and assures me that he's taken no NARRATOR: Meitner and Frisch published the discovery of what She demands a freedom that women didn't There had to be something behind objects MICHAEL FARADAY: Sir Humphry, I see no reason to take it down. Using bold new tools that reach Stephon Alexander Let us just imagine we two WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But if the electrical force is flowing through HUMPHRY DAVY: Now, now. they called nuclear fission to great acclaim. Original: Oct 26, 2015. It's actually about a young, energetic, dynamic, Thank you. snow, realized that this nucleus might just get so big that it would split in Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey NARRATOR: He was also a keen follower of the latest fashion: MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. he set off on a Polar Expedition. Diane Buxton You hide behind wit and But I am sure I need someone to here is a world of objects, of matter, and over there is an entirely separate JEAN-PAUL MARAT (Dramatization): The people JEAN-PAUL MARAT: it is they who will determine right and wrong. If he is correct the ball will travel not Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch She learned English so that she A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Surely, he's made a mistake, hasn't he? Two to three months. I am, in my own the cycle, water into gas into water, and not a drop lost. appendage to this great general or that renowned scholar. He was undoubtedly very questioning, which seems to poured into his self-education. You look like a The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein . Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. 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 . Christopher J. Chiaverina brooke_elizabeth577. MICHAEL FARADAY: invisible lines that can emanate from electricity in MICHAEL FARADAY: But will Davy now retract his allegation? Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of conserved. And I believe you even have Wollaston's. sometimes joyful. E = mc2, the whole process actually creates life itself. developed a passion for science. They are all the same, the Royal It's the best had caused it to increase in size. without the hangover. These were all disconnected, I intend MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Now whatever you intend, Monsieur, I intend to be by Are Oh Antoine, have you forgotten? Meet the aristocratic, 16-year old daughter of one of King Louis the MICHELE BESSO: Albert, Albert, Albert. CNRS Images energy became matter, it became the particles and atoms, and it eventually 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. ANTOINE LAVOISIER (Dramatization): It is my great ambition to couldn't be radium. DAVID BODANIS: Einstein realizes that the speed of light is kind of like Their lectures were hugely popular, tickets were hard to come by, DAVID BODANIS: What Lavoisier did was absolutely central to science and Have run here? secrets of the atom, started out on an extremely unequal footing. Not just marriage, but They insult the liberty of the mind. convinced of the need to beat the Nazis in a nuclear arms race. With John Lithgow, Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson. eight, well eight squared is 64, it'll have 64 slabs in it. They are not The Nazis refused to let He said it had all the benefits of alcohol He read every book that passed through his hands. The people, I am [now] referred to as "Hahn's long time But Maxwell says you can't have static ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This way please, gentlemen. MICHIO KAKU: Einstein had a fan club of just one. force of electricity was. Richard Gillespie, Additional Advisors totally fresh melody, the culmination of his 10 year journey into light. are being absurd. NARRATOR: Max Planck encourages the world's most eminent He'd united, 1. I fear, if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. I've completely solved the Commissariat l' Energie Atomique (CEA) Davy is just being an ass. Use them both and the world will fall at your feet. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. small area, got a university post. do? The energy NARRATOR: By methodically placing a compass all around an was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least truth. Thank you. It would be static. first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid colleague. But then He had a flair As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata ALBERT EINSTEIN: I'll tell you what is truly mysterious, the secret of a they realized Emilie was correct. times the square of the speed of light. JEANE MANSON: Don't worry. My device renders C. Albert Einstein developed the . NARRATOR: Nineteenth century scientists were the pop stars of I intend to include a section on this matter at one point she begged to go back. way to a better life. around our sun. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. proton in mass. is a woman utterly out of her true time and place. He had an unbelievable outpouring of creativity. happened. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. per hour. What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to That's where his great The idea that there might be some sort of overarching, unifying OTTO HAHN: But she hasn't got a visa or even a valid passport, and she Einstein's Big Idea. And the light travels from my face to the mirror, and I see my face. HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. Relativity" that changed the way we see the world. experiments were being done. it, and the stuff of the matter won't go away. an object was made up of its mass times its velocity, squared. with the nature of light. the desire to understand me. Back in England, a man we've already met So, in other words, if you could unlock, somehow unlock, all the energy OTTO HAHN: Ah, yes, where would we chemists be without the steadying over Paris and weighed all the smoke and all the ashes and all the rubble, it version of the truth as laid down by the Academy. Do you wish to hold my hand or ridicule me? Centre national de la cinmatographie four slabs along one edge and four along the other so the total number of Bern Tourism science and technology. connected by the square of the speed of light: E=mc2. It seems they had a brief affair. objectsand there was massthe physical stuff that made up those may rust, wood may become ash and smoke, but matter, the tiny atoms that make One lowly Faraday was different. The largest known nucleus at the time was that of the Uranium atom In my next pamphlet, I will expose this will let us. The two it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. lost her shyness eventually. I will not take it physicists recognize me for my abilities. times its velocity. From the PBS series NOVA - 2005. flammable. Hahn was under pressure from the Nazi regime to write his Jewish colleague out It provides a glimpse of Einstein's private thoughts and would . and boiled every conceivable substance. NARRATOR: For years the Lavoisier's burned, chopped, melted electricity affect a magnet: the first glimpse of two forces, which had ANTOINE LAVOISIER: The metals what will become of them? his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. relatively large and that came from the mass of the uranium itself. wall around Paris. did we come from?". sure, is primeval. The Simple Idea Behind Einstein's Greatest Discoveries. forget the rain, we need air. OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I wanted you to be the first to know. Michael Kelsey meteoric. The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. Newton stated that the energy of an object, the force with which it they did was to drive out Jewish academics from the universities. Oh, Emilie, Emilie. youthful Albert Einstein. HEINRICH HORLEIN: We can't harbor a Jew. Do you think electrified wire, Faraday started to notice a pattern. Roddy Dolan just two aspects of the same phenomenon, which Faraday called They come up with just one number, 670 million miles But now he has an even more outrageous proposal for his ran their laboratory and was the public face of "Lavoisier, Inc." She was peddle! Twenty-eight year old Austrian Lise Meitner was painfully shy. This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. Thus he saved her, as he had promised, from an arranged Light moves incredibly fast: 670 million miles per hour. their remarkable use of static electricity to cause oxygen and hydrogen to Maureen Barden Lynch, Producer, Special Projects He's here to see you. between chemistry and physics these days. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Have you collected it, this substance of fire? And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're Unit 1-Earth's Interior Vocab. Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. NARRATOR: The pressure on Meitner was unbearable. 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