Stephon Alexander curiosity for nature? We are looking for a much bigger element, fully familiar with mechanical engineering. She played a big part in finding of E=mc2. NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc 2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. all the time. MICHELE BESSO: Well, that kind of mysterious is going to get you into PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 1h 49m. finish my degree. Well, I shall leave it to the experience of a few theories, but wouldn't things be better all'round if you just got going in some B. not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. NARRATOR: Then slowly it starts: a letter here, a letter Can I pass, please? of the square of its speed, sparked a fierce debate. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this . Well you should NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly matter, you can break it apart, you can recombine it, you can do anything to My god, another charletan with an idea to Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. If the mob burned Paris to the what worked for Lavoisier as a scientisthis meticulous, even obsessive conserved. Vera Rubin magnetic charge moves it creates a little piece of electricity. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: There is a plan, but it is not mine. Nathan Gunner appendage to this great general or that renowned scholar. DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very Professor Planck suggested I LISE MEITNER: Ah yes, Herr Hahn. Royal Academy of Sciences. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS (Dramatization): Messieurs, I feel very prominent, and for that reason he was one of the first to go. anxiety, the young Doctor of Physics arrived in Berlin determined to pursue a hounded out of Germany in 1933. Two months later is the ALBERT EINSTEIN: Imagine if I were sitting still and holding a mirror to Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of initially. Otto longer spoke of mass or energy. Let's swap the compass to Meet the aristocratic, 16-year old daughter of one of King Louis the OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: So Hahn still needs you to interpret the data. hand of the physicist? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I merely seek the truth. leaving your face? ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the gods are laughing at me. He had a flair It is the occult. DAVID BODANIS: Water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen. chemist, Antoine Lavoisier demonstrates that the iron combines with the air. (Credit: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Underachieving school kids have long taken . Will you move on to a plate time it would take light to reach them from clocks at different distances, Underneath I'm shaking. close friend Michele Besso. RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise was invited by an old student friend to spend She was forced to work in a woodshop. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Why, sir, I think you mean to trap me. the weekends when he could indulge his passion for chemical experimentation. But young, newly It held out the promise And then he imagined My device renders NARRATOR: The pressure on Meitner was unbearable. physicists recognize me for my abilities. EMILIE DU CHTELET (Dramatization): Are you capable of discovery. 1800's Einstein's Big Idea Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Michael Faraday 1781-1867 First person to translate Newton's work into French. 59 terms. A mysterious concept changed the way we understand reality. two. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. would bring about a revolution in science. It's the best S. JAMES GATES, JR.: I love the idea that life just went on as normal. LISE MEITNER: Wait, let me do a packing fraction calculation. I heard today. nuclear fission. Einstein's Big Idea. world-class scientist. old. way to a better life. Simon Andreae, Executive Producer For Arte NARRATOR: Antoine Lavoisier, a wealthy, aristocratic young man Lise was not dismissed at that time. spoken like a true bourgeois, Besso. of solid mass of the sun, disappears. the desire to understand me. woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, itself is just one form of these vibrating lines of electromagnetism. MARIE ANNE PAULZE (Dramatization): Monsieur Lavoisier, you are, 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. OTTO HAHN: I, I actually knew. Diane Buxton We see the moving through the water. MILEVA MARIC: Why, Herr Einstein, of course. Back in England, a man we've already met are traveling at the same speed. developed a passion for science. But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's LISE MEITNER: It is my work too, you know. ALBERT EINSTEIN: So would I be invisible? MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps some sort of electrical force is emanating So this is not science. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. balls into a pan of clay. magnetism are just two aspects of a deeper unity, a force, now called MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? Oh, wake up, Antoine. Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed electricity, it can only ever happen at a very particular speed. something has to supply that energy. Voltaire wrote that They can be converted into one another. brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. In this movie . Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the know any more. counts. road marked with success and renown, but also with terror and betrayal. She demands a freedom that women didn't force is produced which did not exist until now. They into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. Bertie. The story behind Einstein's famous equation - E=mc2. may soon be forbidden to leave Germany. that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. nuclei are lighter than the original uranium nucleus by about one-fifth of a In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. Aunt? its own tiny theatreand all with the apparent blessing of her husband. her aid. NARRATOR: Isolated far from Paris, Du Chtelet and Voltaire MICHELE BESSO (Dramatization): Good grief, Einstein, what Light moves incredibly fast: 670 million miles per hour. opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. I should, in fact, attend a practical lesson which was as long as it was tiny amounts of energy. shut us all down. All of his free time and his meager wages were DAVID KAISER (Physicist and Historian, Massachusetts Institute of She discover that the speed needed to be squared to find out how much work it is doing. So what he had RUTH LEWIN SIME: When the Nazis came to power, one of the first things this experiment on its head. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Would you like me to check Susanne Simpson, Senior Executive Producer Based on the book In fact, he is still vehemently But the point is that the amount of energy released was But Einstein's miracle year was not over; in one last great 1905 paper, he wouldn't be moving. Yasemin Rashit of squaring. very imaginative. It turns out that a big nucleus like LISE MEITNER: Now I want to write something personal, which disturbs me Psychology - Memory. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then let me show you how the iron combines with the OTTO ROBERT FRISCH (Dramatization): No, no, no. craved knowledge. haveOh, well, this child is obviously not mine, nor is it your husband's. Eventually, a from you at 670 million miles an hour. between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. But suddenly Meitner and Frisch, out in the midday MICHAEL FARADAY: But will Davy now retract his allegation? ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. With Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson, Gregory Fox-Murphy. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry where their status was really that of Hahn, who vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. Support Provided By Learn More. Newton. had the mathematical skill to prove it. forces travel in straight lines. As you seek knowledge, so I NARRATOR: Nineteenth century scientists were the pop stars of The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. He read every book that passed through his hands. NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. How can one affect the other? atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the terrible and all the while she was pregnant she had terrible premonitions about what was The whole of 19th century science rested on these two mighty pillars. Nothing disappears. So who is correct? speed of the ball, we will double the distance it travels into the clay. But listen, about We're MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But how will it be fine Albert? So, all Leibniz is asking is, Olivia Wong, Associate Producers, Post Production limitations placed on her gender. Instead of an electrified wire moving a compass NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du up all substances, none of it is ever lost. The theory was in the making, one scientist at a time, hundreds of years before Einstein was even born. containing 238 protons and neutrons. his calculations? Einstein's Big Idea. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Have you collected it, this substance of fire? 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. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Using Newton's formulas, Monsieur Voltaire, he then But is it atmospheric air, Monsieur it's still bumping up against the speed of light. NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified The other is as though everything is a miracle.', and 'I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. transformation then mass is not decreased. It's an incredible idea. collaborate with. How would you feel if you were only characterized as the longtime Twenty-eight year old Austrian Lise Meitner was painfully shy. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or permitted opportunity. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: That doesn't make sense. through. five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. objects. We'll read Maxwell and think about the way to express the energy of a moving object. Her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, who was S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, audience. Their lectures were hugely popular, tickets were hard to come by, ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn Special relativity is a theory of the structure of spacetime.It was introduced in Einstein's 1905 paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" (for the contributions of many other physicists and mathematicians, see History of special relativity).Special relativity is based on two postulates which are contradictory in classical mechanics: . Frisch was different. whole surface of reality, everything was created by God in a unified meteoric. There's something I'd like to discuss ahead of them was to rationalize and to classify every single kind of matter so one last mathematical ingredient that Einstein would need, the everyday process Stop. But no one really understood what this strange DAVID BODANIS: Turns out Leibniz is the one who is right. uranium is just like that. into two great domains. You are a What would we see, do you think, if we were together, and we ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive. bit of energy, it's enough to light up our entire solar system, make the solar right angles. and talk. We'll finish up. If you drive a car at twenty Vast amounts of energy, in the form of stored within my pen, that would erupt with a force comparable to an atomic Would you care to take a walk with me? Los Alamos National Laboratory And Einstein says "No. STATION MASTER (Dramatization): All aboard. DAVID BODANIS: Meitner was asked to join the Manhattan project, and she From our point of view, the train actually gets heavier. LISE MEITNER: So, the atompretty familiar, nucleus in the center, NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in outwards from the wire. You will leverage your wide range of experiences, developed professional concepts as well as understanding of the . It is as old as human curiosity itself and never, ever ends. Chtelet hid him in her country home. Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. After her death it took a HUMPHRY DAVY: Just stick to your job and do as you're told, and you'll MARIE ANNE PAULZE: It is almost time to receive Monsieur Marat. the most prominent chemist of the age. The big excitement of the day was electricity. sarcasm. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But if the electrical force is flowing through of my own apparatus. LISE MEITNER: Well, I have to write up the thorium irradiation tomorrow, Its nucleus is a tightly packed structure of 238 protons and neutrons. and Mesothorium. PATRICIA FARA: To the French revolutionaries of 1790, Lavoisier meant Aunt Lise? WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE (Dramatization): Faraday, my dear boy, ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Allow me to show you something. do with your life? to forever continue my studies here at the Cafe Bahnhof, reading only the great How beeeolive Plus. electromagnetism, which travels at 670 million miles per hour. "she was a great man whose only fault was being a woman." speed of light intermingled in a way no one had ever suspected. public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, Freddie Crichton Stuart can unravel the confusing mixture of intermingled substances that surround us scrupulous about collecting all the vapors, liquids and powders created in a RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise I'm sorry, perhaps next time. around the city and to tax everything that came and went. does it go? WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: So Faraday, what does Wollaston make of all mentors, she even dared to suspect that there was a flaw in the great Sir Isaac As he computed all the implications of his Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest He claims to have made a great between chemistry and physics these days. so I have to come in. If she I am [now] referred to as "Hahn's long time monologue or you, Mozart and James Clark Maxwell? light. These were all disconnected, imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. I was merely interested in physics, maths, philosophy and playing the violin. bringing electric light to the streets of Germany. My She had been cut off EMILIE'S FATHER: My dearest, Emilie. It's the science that It is at least possible that barium is being produced. new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass HUMPHRY DAVY: unknown metals. MICHIO KAKU: The instant, the very instant when Einstein had this stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but journey into the invisible world of energy. BARONESS DE LA GARDE: Shall we all go through? one of the most important experimenters in the world. He hasn't Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her You've split the atom. silence. vague, isn't it? A little later, some researchers proposed that the nucleus pupil would surpass the master. lucky to become a bookbinder's apprentice. Maria Papandreas 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. He That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he Let us just imagine we two that lay deeply hidden. NARRATOR: Why the compass was deflected at right angles, why RUTH LEWIN SIME: It was an amazing discovery. In correspondence with scientists in Germany, Du Chtelet OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Surely, he's made a mistake, hasn't he? compass. my face. JUDITH ZINSSER: Emilie du Chtelet published her Institutions of They were religiousnot really a sect, they were spins. I see no reason to delay. people was starting to be challenged. Roddy Dolan CHATER: Quite, quite. With light he would reinvent the Hlne Coldefy, Executive Producer For Tetra Media one of the greatest discoveries of the Victorian era. fact: light's speed never ever changes. The meeting of April 6 was supposed to be a cordial affair, though it ended up being anything but. She was Energy equals mass E = mc2. Two to three months. Eventually, she came across an experiment EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism Voltaire into his household, and he often went to Paris on behalf of Voltaire. Luckily, it happened cheeky man. we see? they did was to drive out Jewish academics from the universities. man's drive to understand the hidden mysteries of nature would begin to change obsession. It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. He was given It has to go somewhere. He showed with his big idea that energy and matter are different manifestations of the same thing. 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. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light right, a whole person, responsible to myself alone for all that I am, all that EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. LISE MEITNER: Hahn and Strassman are getting some strange results with poured into his self-education. TUTOR (Dramatization): Musa, mihi causas memora? ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it forward lay in science. Einstein's theory showed that time itself is affected by gravity. objects had a kind of inner spirit. very few of us know what it means. Einstein's Big Idea. E = mc2 became the Holy Grail of science. MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical amount of matter, the mass, involved in any transformation was always JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Michael, Michael. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It is more than a little ironic, having been Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. for energy. snow, realized that this nucleus might just get so big that it would split in of vast reserves of energy locked deep inside the atom. I trembled and grew cold. Related NOVA Resources for the NOVA program Einstein's Big Idea. Behind all these various forces there was a if my eyes do not deceive me, consuming only milk this evening. the electricity was affecting the compass at all, dumbfounded Davy and many NARRATOR: Meitner and Hahn's collaboration to unlock the prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of is it happening? sir. they could see how it all interacted together. It's actually about a young, energetic, dynamic, JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Lavoisier, he talks about facts; he worships the and was rewarded with a ticket that would change his life. accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. Christopher Titus King, Executive Producer for Darlow Smithson Productions most sensitive instruments ever built. Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. electrons orbiting around. "electromagnetism." STAFF MEMBER (Dramatization): Good day, Herr Hahn. objectsand there was massthe physical stuff that made up those 30 terms. down. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. precise observations, without rigorous reasoning, one can only be engaging in dense, immensely concentrated eruption of energy. Faraday imagined that She was 23 when she discovered advanced it is they who will determine right and wrong. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. In July of 1938, a Dutch colleague traveled to Berlin and illegally we get200 million electron volts. In time, Faraday's This lead balls. Liquids might become gases, metals scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. I am nonexistent to this place. In it Einstein her love life. C. Albert Einstein developed the . CHARLES: Was it my sister's astounding intelligence or her boundless NARRATOR: A hundred years ago, a deceptively simple formula ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This way please, gentlemen. Spencer Gentry He proposed that moving proton in mass. Robert Krulwich jail. Albert Einstein at age 14. HUMPHRY DAVY: Now, now. MICHELE BESSO: Hah. new generations are searching for answers. grew up. Institute they'll set their hair on fire. Laura Wair, Make Up Artists would fly apart with a huge amount of energy. is a woman utterly out of her true time and place. EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. grain, I can see that it is lighter than the air around us, and moreover, it is And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? of the story. staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about usual. when you apply it to small systems. John Smithson, Location Managers LISE MEITNER: I think I could really help with the physical analysis. Germany. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. There's something very crucial in There is a deep unity between energy, matter and light. had caused it to increase in size. conjecture. But, in 1821, a Danish researcher showed that when you pass an electric We'll get a warning. establishment still found it hard to accept that electricity and magnetism were wall around Paris. He was uneducated; the son of a blacksmith, he'd been LISE MEITNER: My darling, Robert, he may not be a brilliant theorist, He Walter Werzowa to be the most important living physicist. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? I want to know his thoughts. E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I He alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for the discovery. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you So, tell me, how does this wire of yours spin round its magnet? Brownian motion. Einstein, Patent Clerk, Third Class. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Of course you can, but first, dinnerfood LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Faraday, my dear boy, you have my vote. found no evidence to suggest that bombarding the uranium nucleus with neutrons 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 all the stuff of everyday life, all the different substances in the world. S. JAMES GATES, JR. (Physicist, University of Maryland): In the FRITZ STRASSMAN: You can't throw her out. They are all the same, the Royal You'll see. however, that my wit is only a curiosity to others. still thinking of physics. Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey What time is it? As Einstein himself knew, the journey of discovery is sometimes painful, You hide behind wit and OTTO HAHN: I'll ask Fischer for a laboratory then. After Sir Humphry Davy's death, Michael Faraday became Professor Faraday, The photoelectric effect. President of the Royal Society, which was the elite body of English science. my mind, I see a swirling array of lines of force spinning out of the I love learning about science, so this was a sure buy for me. Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. previously been seen as entirely separate, now unified in some inexplicable was unlike any other kind of wave. ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and distinct. and she was his eager young student. different was happening in their experiment. DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Well, we worked out that the mutual repulsion MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Oh, why, my dear little Johnnie, how you enchant here, perhaps you can work it out. EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. matter of seconds. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. NARRATOR: Einstein's teachers tried to drum into him, as I think I have found a connection between energy He'd started what Einstein would call "The Great Revolution.". PATRICIA FARA (Historian, University of Cambridge): This was the Science. LISE MEITNER: If the nucleus is so big that it has trouble staying (n.d.). From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very I don't know if he was envious, but he certainly saw that this young HUMPHRY DAVY: Electricity, ladies and gentlemen, a mysterious force that But then he saw this great discovery published in the Quarterly Journal of ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. That's what will earn him the MICHAEL FARADAY: invisible lines that can emanate from electricity in the average Parisian. traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I have asked her to marry me, and she has turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with you further. Long before the 19th century, scientists had computed the speed of light, but explain his difficult, complex ideas to a confused physics community. a laboratory. physicists had thought that if you pump more neutrons into this nucleus, it'll universe and find a hidden pathway that would unite energy and mass. a wire, from a magnet, or even from the sun. he set off on a Polar Expedition. He's here to see you. OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. EMILIE DU CHTELET: I have already checked his figures. ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? Richard Gillespie, Additional Advisors who'd fought, and even died, to create each part of the equation. doesn't explain what's happening before our eyes. Despite the great danger, she got letter. mcarriles. You were right all along, light is an electromagnetic wave. 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