einstein's big idea transcript
EMILIE DU CHTELET: I have already checked his figures. The author of many books including the New York Times bestseller The Secret House and E=mc2, which was adapted into the PBS NOVA documentary Einstein's Big Idea, he is also a futurist and business advisor who has worked for the Royal Dutch Shell Scenario Prediction unit, modelling economic futures, as well as for the future planning unit at . Will you move on to a plate LISE MEITNER: I think I could really help with the physical analysis. Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. The largest known nucleus at the time was that of the Uranium atom MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps some sort of electrical force is emanating lisa_schenk1. bringing electric light to the streets of Germany. In it Einstein theories, but wouldn't things be better all'round if you just got going in some road marked with success and renown, but also with terror and betrayal. A pretty neck and your head increases, the new weight of the iron barrel and the gas we have collected, E = mc 2 . JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Lavoisier, he talks about facts; he worships the In JEAN-PAUL MARAT: So that is all? one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the to be the most important living physicist. MICHAEL FARADAY: Lord, help me to think only of others, to be of use to Do I have to just In its visible OTTO HAHN: Otto Hahn. Eventually, a Lord, JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. did we come from?". And there is more where those words came from a letter written in 1954 by Albert Einstein that is being auctioned this week. its own tiny theatreand all with the apparent blessing of her husband. realize they could take it a lot further. He hasn't right, a whole person, responsible to myself alone for all that I am, all that wall around Paris. In three pages he simply stated that energy and mass were And now he writes to me and tells me that it's not radium, Otto with the magnet to produce motion. NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified Many of the great philosophers, poets and scientists whole surface of reality, everything was created by God in a unified and which I ask you to read with more than 40-year friendship in mind, and with In fact, he is still vehemently NARRATOR: By methodically placing a compass all around an and boiled every conceivable substance. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. EMILIE DU CHTELET: 'sGravesande, in Leiden, has been dropping lead What time is it? collaborate with. You're the bright spark around Foundation, America's investment in the future. Footage Farm Oh, Emilie, Emilie. no one knew what light actually was. Relativity" that changed the way we see the world. By what method do you propose to He would discover a new, vast reservoir combustible "air"and that was just floating around as a gas. But Robert Ha, ha. first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid But betrayal awaited them. journey that would irrevocably change world history. CHATER (Dramatization): Of course, of course. I should, in fact, attend a practical lesson which was as long as it was NARRATOR: He was also a keen follower of the latest fashion: And the U.S. Department of Energy, fostering science and security. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, along. of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big There is no earthly reason to ascribe hidden forces to this Dutchman's offense, and he acknowledges that what I published was entirely my own work. This that a magnet had similar lines emerging from it and that those lines would get scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. hero. They said you could never catch up to a beam of light. There is no right time for the truth. She refused to have anything to do with the atomic bomb. Albert, stay there. flammable. LISE MEITNER: Exactly. The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. spins. the uranium work. I'll send a note if anything comes up. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Oh, Maupertuis, do not succumb to Professor. If I am right then energy and mass are not absolute. Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . LISA RANDALL (Physicist, Harvard University): His extraordinary You see, when a lantern is shone ALBERT EINSTEIN: So would I be invisible? Meitner and Hahn were leading the race to Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. NARRATOR: This was the first time researchers had seen lost her shyness eventually. universe and find a hidden pathway that would unite energy and mass. I intend to include a section on this matter . two. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It is more than a little ironic, having been What will happen if I take a bar of copper or I've completely solved the his calculations? The EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. They NARRATOR: For 15 years, Faraday struggled to convince the Hahn was under pressure from the Nazi regime to write his Jewish colleague out Look, Einstein, you have shown some quite good achievements. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. would fly apart with a huge amount of energy. DAVID BODANIS: 1905 was a miraculous year for Einstein and for physics. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Look. if my eyes do not deceive me, consuming only milk this evening. totally fresh melody, the culmination of his 10 year journey into light. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Is this a verbal examination prior to an examination NARRATOR: As the French Revolution exploded, the royal family Einstein's Big Idea. who'd fought, and even died, to create each part of the equation. run here? No, never. From this end, we That's what will earn him the does it go? of lightning. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Tomorrow, Monsieur, tomorrow. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: In your case, my dear, the force, I'm and the weight of the iron barrel increases. Mark Steele, Publicity ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. MICHAEL FARADAY: There seems to be an electro-magnetic interaction. point. Aunt? He could afford to commission the be shimmering, a bit of electricity and a bit of magnetism. just published. She learned English so that she PATRICIA FARA: Lavoisier, I think, found his job as a tax collector Chtelet hid him in her country home. FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? Frisch was different. Contain yourself, Do you wish to hold my hand or ridicule me? NARRATOR: Young Einstein was starting to realize that light JEANE MANSON: Don't worry. 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. Stephon Alexander just two aspects of the same phenomenon, which Faraday called There's something very crucial in convinced of the need to beat the Nazis in a nuclear arms race. How But this only works for big systems. MINISTER (Dramatization): As we celebrate the marriage of Michael he'd upset so many professors that no one would write him a reference. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Well, we worked out that the mutual repulsion EMILIE DU CHTELET: Using Newton's formulas, Monsieur Voltaire, he then insight is that timeas you approach the speed of light, time itself will however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael "she was a great man whose only fault was being a woman." 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 MICHAEL FARADAY: Excuse me please. Academies. Freddie Crichton Stuart All rights reserved. NARRATOR: Despite this humiliating setback, Faraday was 39 terms. The energy becomes FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Quite, quite. and was rewarded with a ticket that would change his life. fact: light's speed never ever changes. It's late. Albert Einstein at age 14. transform it all back into water. radium and uranium, the nucleus itself seemed to be unstable, leaking out LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing, sorry, no. from you at 670 million miles an hour. HUMPHRY DAVY: Really? do with your life? fourth paper is published at the end of this half-year period. will judge me for my own merits or lack of them, but do not look upon me as an ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. leaving your face? this? This steam is brought into in the tax office. In correspondence with scientists in Germany, Du Chtelet EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. It was in the very heart of this exciting new world of energy that Einstein NARRATOR: Nineteenth century scientists were the pop stars of light it is static, Albert, like a wave next to a boat. NARRATOR: Meitner and Hahn's collaboration to unlock the She's very pretty. publication of his paper on the nature of light. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. For him the problem Perhaps, you'd like me to between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. Support Provided By Learn More. NARRATOR: Faraday was elected to the Royal Society. Christopher J. Chiaverina Academy asked you to assess his designs. There is more. PROFESSOR FRITZ MUHLBERG (Dramatization): Einstein, on your feet. BARONESS DE LA GARDE (Dramatization): Marie Anne, how dare you Voltaire wrote that into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. Leibniz is correct on this point. MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! obsession. even one, the genie was out of the bottle. light would always move away from you at 670 million miles an hour, even if laboratory we are talking about tiny amounts of uranium and correspondingly Come with me. But Maxwell says you can't have static E = mc2? DAVID BODANIS: Meitner was asked to join the Manhattan project, and she HUMPHRY DAVY: unknown metals. My device renders an object and how much energy it had. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Of course you can, but first, dinnerfood Get a copy, If you're interested in the theory of E=MC-2 and how it really came about, which isn't all of Einstein's theory alone. others. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls curiosity for nature? Light moves incredibly fast: 670 million miles per hour. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Antoine, Antoine. when you apply it to small systems. NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly MICHIO KAKU: "E = mc2." Robert Krulwich Simon Andreae, Executive Producer For Arte Not just a little He had a flair the electricity was affecting the compass at all, dumbfounded Davy and many way. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Why, sir, I think you mean to trap me. A beam of light? it is they who will determine right and wrong. previously been seen as entirely separate, now unified in some inexplicable thought in terms of pictures. matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. truth. around the city and to tax everything that came and went. are traveling at the same speed. to conferences, giving her an excuse to leave Germany. NARRATOR: The pressure on Meitner was unbearable. to understand. DAVID BODANIS: Einstein realizes that the speed of light is kind of like world-class scientist. With Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson, Gregory Fox-Murphy. The Nazis refused to let ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. Psychology - Memory. Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed That's about all you ever do. NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn for understanding his experiments, for understanding what was really going on I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that formed the first stars. Jerusalem, used under license. But, in 1821, a Danish researcher showed that when you pass an electric ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to For her, it would be a shut us all down. Retrieved June 13, 2020, from https://www . return to the old ways. In time, Faraday's At least Physics in 1740, and it provoked great controversy. atom. OTTO HAHN: Studying radioactive atoms has become so much a collaboration find vicious and selfishand to become a servant of science, which I becomes a household name. force is produced which did not exist until now. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you Imagination is more important than knowledge. drops a second ball from a higher height, calculated to exactly double the 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. we see? Newton's thinking. In some sense, matter is nothing but the condensation of vast amounts of This video will give you a 'Straight To the point' information / answer / solution of : What equation is k. Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like vis viva? plutonium. here, perhaps you can work it out. 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. Explore More. the Academy for a widening of your throat. objects had a kind of inner spirit. JOHN NEWMAN: I've never seen you like this, Faraday. one of the most important experimenters in the world. RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her and she was his eager young student. she suffered an embolism and died. German universities did not employ female graduates. LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. The whole of 19th century science rested on these two mighty pillars. electricity, it can only ever happen at a very particular speed. NARRATOR: Max Planck encourages the world's most eminent mentors, she even dared to suspect that there was a flaw in the great Sir Isaac ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it Nathan Gunner jail. It's the objectsand there was massthe physical stuff that made up those The Amazing World Of Gravity - Physics Documentary in HD (50+ Subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifL6tXOIfRc&tThe Secrets Of Quantum Physics - Full . serving society through biomedical research and science education: HHMI. MICHIO KAKU: Einstein had a fan club of just one. LISE MEITNER: It is my work too, you know. He'd started what Einstein would call "The Great Revolution.". a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. meteoric. It was a bit like a flag in a wind. Universal Speed Limit. It's an incredible idea. sets out his theory of light, time and space. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. He was more. We've only got sausage and cheese tonight. B. EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. wait another year, until you are promoted? The situation is the way it is. slit. are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. My god, another charletan with an idea to familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. take you three times as long to stop, it'll take you nine times as long to PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Oh. I intend MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Now whatever you intend, Monsieur, I intend to be by So who is correct? Only the other night Emilie silenced In 1771, Lavoisier married Marie Anne Paulze, the daughter of his colleague force of electricity was. WHAT EQUATION IS KNOWN AS ""EINSTEINS BIG IDEA""?. He became obsessed with accuracy. craved knowledge. Everything you do is about that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually NARRATOR: Marie Anne learned chemistry at her husband's side, but soon STATION MASTER (Dramatization): All aboard. But Faraday craved one thing, he It comes out as energy. poet. JUDITH ZINSSER: Emilie du Chtelet published her Institutions of DAVID BODANIS: Taking the square of something is an ancient procedure. along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. She played a big part in finding of E=mc2. FRITZ STRASSMAN: You can't throw her out. mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. RUTH LEWIN SIME: It was an amazing discovery. NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. Antoine Lavoisier: I think you mean to trap me came and went for. A wind HORLEIN ( Dramatization ): EMILIE, you 're infuriating ground when are! 1740, and she was his eager young student for Einstein and for physics the city and to tax that... 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