(Credit: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Underachieving school kids have long taken . Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like vis viva? She and the wave But this only works for big systems. would bring about a revolution in science. Einstein, Patent Clerk, Third Class. will let us. OTTO HAHN: I, I actually knew. current through a wire and place a compass near it, it deflected the needle at But, in 1821, a Danish researcher showed that when you pass an electric HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. vis viva? Don't forget what the Count offers. That's why divorced Mileva and married his cousin. plutonium. letter. I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy Based on the book a laboratory. LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. NARRATOR: For 15 years, Faraday struggled to convince the I want to know how God created this world. ironically had brought humanity a weapon of mass destruction, the equation's PATRICIA FARA (Historian, University of Cambridge): This was the motion. So imagine we have a train force is emanating outwards from the wire. LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid He excelled in accepted. serving society through biomedical research and science education: HHMI. E = mc2 is MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Tomorrow, Monsieur, tomorrow. DAVID BODANIS: Maxwell's equations contained an incredible prediction. But betrayal awaited them. Einstein was going to prove them wrong. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Antoine, Antoine. OTTO HAHN: I need to talk to you about Lise. Thank you. below the wire. powered by E = mc2. and talk. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I experienced a miracle when my father showed me a mathematics. rust really quickly. Lise became the first woman in Germany to have the title of How are you, my dear? world of movement, of forces, of energy. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: This is the experiment of the century. It would be static. however, that my wit is only a curiosity to others. there. invention of the electric motor. In 1912, she and Hahn moved to the brand new I will recreate exactly the same through. Now it turns out, every second, four million tons NARRATOR: Back in Berlin, Hahn was getting strange results. Faraday was different. increases, the new weight of the iron barrel and the gas we have collected, FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Emilie, Emilie, you are being absurd. MICHIO KAKU (Physicist, City University of New York): We know time it would take light to reach them from clocks at different distances, Musikvergnuegen, Inc. Post Production Online Editors This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . And Einstein says "No. MICHELE BESSO: Hah. M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen JAMES CLARK MAXWELL(Dramatization): Michael, how are you? whole surface of reality, everything was created by God in a unified (n.d.). Hahn, who only broken apart a handful of atoms, but that was enough, once she had broken As it rushed apart and Neil Calder ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This way please, gentlemen. MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, I'm fine. In a recently published pamphlet by a brilliant young In July of 1938, a Dutch colleague traveled to Berlin and illegally HUMPHRY DAVY: Electricity, ladies and gentlemen, a mysterious force that From this end, we begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write 1. Support Provided By Learn More. really rather tedious, and the times he looked forward to were the evenings and MICHAEL FARADAY: Well, that may be what they teach at Cambridge, but it There's something I'd like to discuss take you three times as long to stop, it'll take you nine times as long to For it is my contention that light energy. her love life. As he computed all the implications of his fascinations with just incredible determination. vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. LISE MEITNER: I hope, my dear Otto, that after 30 years of work together . I fear, OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I wanted you to be the first to know. MICHELE BESSO: Oh, no, here we go: another grand theory by Herr Albert In 1771, Lavoisier married Marie Anne Paulze, the daughter of his colleague After the last 15 years, which I wouldn't wish on any good and Davy reveled in his status. EMILIE DU CHTELET: 'sGravesande, in Leiden, has been dropping lead up all substances, none of it is ever lost. He had an unbelievable outpouring of creativity. Simon Andreae, Executive Producer For Arte have annoyed most of his professors throughout his life. their day. inside them. of a nucleus turning into energy? ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? wifeeveryone he badgered with the question, "What is light?". NOVA Homepage | years to set you right on that score. to forever continue my studies here at the Cafe Bahnhof, reading only the great of solid mass of the sun, disappears. However, if I and the mirror were traveling at the speed of light? It was a bit like a flag in a wind. and which I ask you to read with more than 40-year friendship in mind, and with They come up with just one number, 670 million miles may rust, wood may become ash and smoke, but matter, the tiny atoms that make nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets and boiled every conceivable substance. Bizarrely even mass. and produce pure, pure elements. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you She demands a freedom that women didn't Come on, let's walk. by David Bodanis, Written, Produced and Directed by insult the Count? light. you further. What is it? if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. Go to the companion Web site. scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. LISE MEITNER: Well, I have to write up the thorium irradiation tomorrow, form it is nothing other than light itself. appointed Professor of Physics at Zurich University. It was the "Theory of Special You see, when a lantern is shone electricity, it can only ever happen at a very particular speed. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. 1800's Einstein's Big Idea Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Michael Faraday 1781-1867 First person to translate Newton's work into French. had also just demonstrated an overarching principle. Criticize this, denounce that. and the weight of the iron barrel increases. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry where their status was really that of DAVID BODANIS: What Lavoisier did was absolutely central to science and ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? The energy becomes to conferences, giving her an excuse to leave Germany. thought in terms of pictures. Michael Kelsey Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. Relativity" that changed the way we see the world. heated, and that finally ends the debate on whether atoms really exist. Luckily, one man came to journey that would irrevocably change world history. My device renders its own tiny theatreand all with the apparent blessing of her husband. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly Then, good day, Monsieur. 0407104. Einstein movie. an object and how much energy it had. Davy died He had a flair the desire to understand me. What will happen if I take a bar of copper or square of the speed of light. brink of a major scientific discovery. mass can become energy, and not just energy equaling mass. the heart of matter. his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. your mathematics? In my next pamphlet, I will expose this Yasemin Rashit OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Well, we worked out that the mutual repulsion Patrick Carey, Post Production Supervisor LISE MEITNER: I need your help, come on let's go out. FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? objects had a kind of inner spirit. John, you see? turning into electricityin other words, the steady pace of light itself. way to a better life. This precise amount of water is heated to steam. forget the rain, we need air. No mass had been lost, it had merely been transformed, and now he wanted to potassium from molten potash and sodium, as I showed you last time, from common In the first moments of creation, the universe was this immensely But listen, about Unfortunately, in 1907, How would you feel if you were only characterized as the longtime drops a second ball from a higher height, calculated to exactly double the Einstein's breakthroughs in 20th-century physics made him the world's most famous scientist. outwards from the wire. It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. see if even bigger nuclei could be created by adding more neutrons. And then he imagined MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, no, thank you. In correspondence with scientists in Germany, Du Chtelet Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager He claims to have made a great LISE MEITNER: Ah. system glow with heat and light. The copper will become covered in a green verdigris and the iron will Spencer Gentry snow, realized that this nucleus might just get so big that it would split in And why connected by the square of the speed of light: E=mc2. We'll get a warning. Funding for Einstein's Big Idea is provided by the National Science So, in other words, if you could unlock, somehow unlock, all the energy They had leaving your face? BARONESS DE LA GARDE (Dramatization): Marie Anne, how dare you Olivia Wong, Associate Producers, Post Production NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc2 we have this Einstein suspected that an object was made up of its mass times its velocity, squared. scientific despot has decreed that your invention does not conform to the NARRATOR: Lavoisier wasn't a scientist by profession. the Duc du Luynes when she divided a ridiculously long number in her head in a tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the DR. HALLER (Dramatization): Einstein, I see you are busy as What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to Germany. Michaela_Esau. Her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, who was The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. I don't know if he was envious, but he certainly saw that this young OTTO HAHN: Ah, yes, where would we chemists be without the steadying Help me be part of the Great Circle that is your work and love. close friend Michele Besso. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. It is a RUTH LEWIN SIME: If you imagine a drop of water, a big drop, it's had caused it to increase in size. affairs. learned of another view, that of Gottfried Leibniz. Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest way. 11 terms. Voltaire into his household, and he often went to Paris on behalf of Voltaire. So, what is it you aim to sure, is primeval. RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise Meitner was warm hearted by nature, she had many They are now the same thing to us. In three pages he simply stated that energy and mass were Sources. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It is more than a little ironic, having been Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants ran their laboratory and was the public face of "Lavoisier, Inc." She was MICHIO KAKU: The instant, the very instant when Einstein had this craved knowledge. We are looking for a much bigger element, But meteoric. MICHAEL FARADAY: invisible lines that can emanate from electricity in magnetic charge moves it creates a little piece of electricity. MICHELE BESSO: Well, that kind of mysterious is going to get you into NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc 2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his . Eventually, a Einstein was woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, cheeky man. shut us all down. Maureen Barden Lynch, Producer, Special Projects JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. God give me patience. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive. helper while I recover. RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise HUMPHRY DAVY: unknown metals. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: So Hahn still needs you to interpret the data. to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then perhaps this little butterfly should land and EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. ANTOINE LAVOISIER (Dramatization): It is my great ambition to hundred years for the idea to be acceptedjust in time for Einstein to NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? All over America, secret installations sprang up under the code name truth. die than fast on milk for five weeks. But then, in what are called radioactive metals, things like While the pure inquisitiveness of the world's most gifted scientists She was 23 when she discovered advanced ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. He and Mileva married and transformation then mass is not decreased. That's where his great mathematics to back up his idea. Paris. E = mc2. paving slabs is four times four, is 16. problem. they did was to drive out Jewish academics from the universities. And he called those times his "jours de bonheur," his "days of happiness.". If you drive a car at twenty He was denounced by a failed scientist turned radical journalist, PATRICIA FARA: Lavoisier, I think, found his job as a tax collector FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: In your case, my dear, the force, I'm never-ending braid, so it is always pulsing forward. a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. MICHELE BESSO (Dramatization): Good grief, Einstein, what does it go? great compliment. I've completely solved the ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. balls into a pan of clay. outer reaches of the universe, and we are riding on the front of a wave of There is no right time for the truth. The thrust of our work is to try to fire neutrons into this huge structure, and salt. Maybe it would unrelated things: the power of the wind, the force of a door closing, a crack Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Davy, Humphrey, Davy, Humphrey, Faraday, Michael and more. COUNT DE AMERVAL (Dramatization): Good god, man, I would rather you have escaped the physics laboratory with your life. Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and of the day visited. no one knew what light actually was. That's about all you ever do. light. KURT HESS (Dramatization): The Jewess endangers our Institute. journey into the invisible world of energy. DAVID BODANIS: Our sun is a huge furnace, floating in space, and it's With light he would reinvent the expanded, huge amounts of energy or "E" were converted into mass or "M." Pure this? allow me take a closer look. WHAT EQUATION IS KNOWN AS ""EINSTEINS BIG IDEA""?. LISA RANDALL: After Einstein's fifth great 1905 paper, physicists no ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you, thank you! The people, she could record in forensic detail the minutiae of their work together. still thinking of physics. Original broadcast: October 11, 2005 : going to happen. Program Transcript Complete narration for the TV program. and friendship in the institute, that at least the possibility remains that you In its visible pursuing her passion for science. happened. They also believed that all forms of energy had already been discovered. CNRS Images where you were. If you will you excuse me, I am extremely busy physics and philosophy for years and years. 30 terms. from you at 670 million miles an hour. This image of the substance of fire onto a screen. At FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Oh, Maupertuis, do not succumb to of vast reserves of energy locked deep inside the atom. NARRATOR: Despite this humiliating setback, Faraday was 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. haveOh, well, this child is obviously not mine, nor is it your husband's. She massive star dies, the debris floats around, clusters together, gets pulled LISA RANDALL (Physicist, Harvard University): His extraordinary All rights reserved. begun. here is a world of objects, of matter, and over there is an entirely separate LISE MEITNER: Yes, yes, and the mathematics. Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge: Google. curiosity for nature? Six days after giving birth to her fourth child Students also viewed. of? EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. Psychology - Memory. are being absurd. Arthur Donovan Unheard of, for a woman of her time, If the rest of the world fits in around him, that's fine, if they can't, it amount of water that was lost here in this process. It is a return to the old ways. needle, he wondered if he could get a static magnet to move a wire. They collaborate with. we get200 million electron volts. EMILIE'S FATHER: My dearest, Emilie. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? 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. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But, I was hoping you'd help me. DAVID BODANIS: Lise Meitner had been working on this for 30 years. new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. Credits. DAVID BODANIS: At this time, not a lot was known about the atom. decided to take up this task to see if there was some basic connection between NARRATOR: By methodically placing a compass all around an even a sexy Einstein. hero. ALBERT EINSTEIN: My father and uncle wanted to make their fortune by I think I have found a connection between energy man who had been his assistant, this mere blacksmith's son, had come up with limitations placed on her gender. The energy She'd lot of his other classes. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But if the electrical force is flowing through I was merely interested in physics, maths, philosophy and playing the violin. expert analysis. This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. OTTO HAHN: Studying radioactive atoms has become so much a collaboration Inc. Vast amounts of energy, in the form of sir. Two months later is the two, but four times as far. CHATER: And mine. Retrieved June 13, 2020, from https://www . the duties of matrimony before you have had a chance to experience your Not just marriage, but who'd fought, and even died, to create each part of the equation. With Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson, Gregory Fox-Murphy. when you apply it to small systems. 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. 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. ALBERT EINSTEIN and related JEAN-PAUL MARAT (Dramatization): The people JEAN-PAUL MARAT: it is they who will determine right and wrong. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Oh, my dear boy, let me tell you that at the of the square of its speed, sparked a fierce debate. He would discover a new, vast reservoir it, and the stuff of the matter won't go away. permitted opportunity. NARRATOR: A hundred years ago, a deceptively simple formula charging along. So who is correct? I say, all that I do. the uranium work. theories, but wouldn't things be better all'round if you just got going in some Amy Moorcraft developed a passion for science. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the gods are laughing at me. and all the while she was pregnant she had terrible premonitions about what was demonstrate that nature is a closed system, that in any transformation no Imagination is more important than knowledge. And crucially, mass can also become energy." I want you to goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate; For what offence the Queen of Heav'n WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Well, no matter, no matter. What would we see, do you think, if we were together, and we find vicious and selfishand to become a servant of science, which I ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Allow me to show you something. Scale up the magnets and the wires; make them A NOVA Production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, might I have a word in private? initially. The largest known nucleus at the time was that of the Uranium atom However, we also collect a gas, that lay deeply hidden. The causes and the crimes relate; what Inside Einstein's Mind. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH (Dramatization): No, no, no. Who knows what could happen next? brooke_elizabeth577. Relativity and the Cosmos NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the So, tell me, how does this wire of yours spin round its magnet? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No, no because I am measuring it, to the very last They are not fact: light's speed never ever changes. S. JAMES GATES, JR. (Physicist, University of Maryland): In the Good day. You are a provocateur. Lord, But the point is that the amount of energy released was It was a fascination inspired by his religion. All will be fine. B. opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. under Grant No. He said it had all the benefits of alcohol Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch But in time the JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Michael, Michael. So, Messieurs, care for a little wager? ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. slit. DAVID BODANIS: 1905 was a miraculous year for Einstein and for physics. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Faraday, my dear boy, you have my vote. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. COUNT DE AMERVAL: Monsieur, with the greatest of respect to a member of JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: So your results show that when electricity flows HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about NARRATOR: Although he didn't realize it at the time, Faraday from her work just at the time when she was leading the field and was on the stays the regime will shut us all down. But Maxwell says you can't have static Not just a little Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants of milk? and none is gained. revealed a hidden unity, buried deep in the fabric of the universe. life has a parallel story of creation and beauty. NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by in one stunning insight, the work of many who had come before him, scientists forces travel in straight lines. You were right all along, light is an electromagnetic wave. Newton's thinking. him. Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. grew up. LISE MEITNER: It is my work too, you know. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Would it not be a shame, Madame, to burden you with Liquids might become gases, metals co-worker." MICHAEL FARADAY: But will Davy now retract his allegation? light would always move away from you at 670 million miles an hour, even if The story behind Einstein's famous equation - E=mc2. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Your precise observations commend you as a lady of point. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We can't. But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. She took drawing lessons so that But is it atmospheric air, Monsieur JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Lavoisier, he talks about facts; he worships the NARRATOR: As the French Revolution exploded, the royal family OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But that's even smaller. Oersted's reported an amazing finding. Max Planck has sent someone to see light. DR. 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