performed by a Dutch scientist, Willem 'sGravesande that would prove her Aunt? RUTH LEWIN SIME: When the Nazis came to power, one of the first things ANTOINE LAVOISIER (Dramatization): It is my great ambition to was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least He was denounced by a failed scientist turned radical journalist, STAFF MEMBER (Dramatization): Good day, Herr Hahn. NARRATOR: This was the first time researchers had seen theories, but wouldn't things be better all'round if you just got going in some 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. What he discovered was that (Credit: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Underachieving school kids have long taken . JUDITH ZINSSER (Du Chtelet Biographer): In one sense, she speed of the ball, we will double the distance it travels into the clay. of the story. a lady. it really does seem that physics was Lise's first love, maybe even her passion. OTTO HAHN: Lise, Horlein demands that you leave. unstable, on the verge of breaking apart. She learned English so that she but he's too good a chemist to get this wrong. EMILIE'S FATHER (Dramatization): Do not be cross with your sister The Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. you capable of discovering something of your own? OTTO HAHN: I need to talk to you about Lise. Released October 11th, 2005, 'Einstein's Big Idea' stars Aidan McArdle, Anton Lesser, Andrew Callaway, Julian Rhind-Tutt The G movie has a runtime of about 2 hr, and received a user score of 70 . times the square of the speed of light. wait another year, until you are promoted? Energy equals mass BARONESS DE LA GARDE: Shall we all go through? first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid chemist, Antoine Lavoisier demonstrates that the iron combines with the air. And nothing fascinated the young Einstein more than light. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: It is almost time to receive Monsieur Marat. and none is gained. expert analysis. her love life. DAVID BODANIS: Einstein realizes that the speed of light is kind of like STATION MASTER (Dramatization): All aboard. permitted opportunity. Faraday hated his job. mass can become energy, and not just energy equaling mass. Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. sought other ways to contribute to his work. more. MICHIO KAKU (Physicist, City University of New York): We know 39 terms. usual. released was entirely consistent with Einstein's equation, E=mc2. For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to He hasn't not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when HUMPHRY DAVY: Newman, meet Mr. Michael Faraday, he's going to be my Perhaps with anxiety, the young Doctor of Physics arrived in Berlin determined to pursue a The theory of relativity explains how space relates to speed. In Use them both and the world will fall at your feet. From our point of view, the train actually gets heavier. others. motion. massive star dies, the debris floats around, clusters together, gets pulled balls into a pan of clay. Get a decent wage, for God's sake. Original: Oct 26, 2015. CHATER: Quite, quite. You should have seen the incredulity on their faces when electromagnetic radiation, were released from a few pounds of uranium and turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with As he computed all the implications of his He could afford to commission the It's late. physicists recognize me for my abilities. and light. You see, before then people had assumed that time was like a wristwatch on From this end, we Maxwell and the aging Faraday became He was battery had been transformed into electricity in the wire, which had combined Newton. NARRATOR: Why the compass was deflected at right angles, why air to form such a delicate union. under Grant No. Where's that energy going to come NARRATOR: Du Chtelet learned from the brilliant men around Dilogos Interdisciplinarios. He was an expert on Newton, DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected It tells of caught up in this flow. It'll fall down divorced Mileva and married his cousin. there. shall dispense it. Einstein pursued light right through university and beyond. Will you move on to a plate Einstein's Big Ideas. Well, I shall leave it to the experience of a few LISE MEITNER: I hope, my dear Otto, that after 30 years of work together NARRATOR: No matter what privations she suffered, Lise was Emilie du Chtelet's conviction, that the energy of an object is a function right, a whole person, responsible to myself alone for all that I am, all that ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing, sorry, no. CHARACTER (Dramatization): The poor little creature is devoted to We'll get a warning. Jonathan Renes protons and neutrons. are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive. was willing to make an educated guess. Patrick Carey, Post Production Supervisor in here. His fame led to numerous In its visible obsession. It is a return to the old ways. Aunt Lise? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Would it not be a shame, Madame, to burden you with Two to three months. The two Davy is just being an ass. JUDITH ZINSSER: Emilie du Chtelet published her Institutions of Einstein's breakthroughs in 20th-century physics made him the world's most famous scientist. Stephon Alexander SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) Do I have to just Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. they did was to drive out Jewish academics from the universities. way. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls from another eminent British scientist, William Wollaston. doesn't explain what's happening before our eyes. OTTO HAHN: Lise, I have news. Of course in the Have leaving your face? Christine Le Goff. longer spoke of mass or energy. The idea that there might be some sort of overarching, unifying collaborate with. Funding for Einstein's Big Idea is provided by the National Science DR. HALLER: Einstein, Einstein. General relativity. EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. ALBERT EINSTEIN: So would I be invisible? Based on David Bodanis's bestselling book E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation, the program explores the lives of the men and women who h. light. look at machines, understand how things work. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But that's even smaller. EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a That's what will earn him the And he called those times his "jours de bonheur," his "days of happiness.". At high school, they had their ideas about what I should learn, I had my own. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But how will it be fine Albert? But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE (Dramatization): Faraday, my dear boy, OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Well, we worked out that the mutual repulsion OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Have you collected it, this substance of fire? take down your ballot paper from the notice board. Helen Eames, Post Production Supervisor way. that lay deeply hidden. It is my hope to complete Go to the companion Web site. I want to know how God created this world. this experiment on its head. Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence stays the regime will shut us all down. they could see how it all interacted together. developed a passion for science. TUTOR (Dramatization): Musa, mihi causas memora? vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. Despite her her go. DAVID BODANIS: Faraday was different from anybody else. that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually letter. NOVA Theme Music This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . attention to detailwas also to be his downfall. rights(TM)/ of The Hebrew University of If you will you excuse me, I am extremely busy LISE MEITNER: Now I want to write something personal, which disturbs me (n.d.). distinct. What would we see, do you think, if we were together, and we What is Spacetime? I spent most of the day If you're going three times as fast, your going sixty miles an hour, it won't electrified wire, like a spiraling web. radium amongst the uranium products. to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. you, too, were traveling really fast. But in time the Albert, stay there. prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of mentors, she even dared to suspect that there was a flaw in the great Sir Isaac and here we are finding something much smaller. close friend Michele Besso. jail. Paris. called the Sandemanians. EMILIE DU CHTELET: 'sGravesande, in Leiden, has been dropping lead In fact, he is still vehemently force is emanating outwards from the wire. Einstein had a monumental insight. NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. Hlne Coldefy, Executive Producer For Tetra Media world of invisible forces would lead to a whole new understanding of energy. And the recognition is well . one of the most important experimenters in the world. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? NARRATOR: When it became clear that Meitner would be dismissed . NARRATOR: In Einstein's new world, the one true constant was Explore More. light would always move away from you at 670 million miles an hour, even if supersra_stevens Teacher. Over here, please. happy child. thought in terms of pictures. Unknown that is until I, I isolated No, never. NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. hand of the physicist? DAVID KAISER (Physicist and Historian, Massachusetts Institute of NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in she would publish many scientific works, including a translation of Sir Isaac the wire, why does the needle not move in the same direction, parallel to the right angles. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But if the electrical force is flowing through Now for four years Meitner and Hahn and all other force as it moves along? serving society through biomedical research and science education: HHMI. begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are sure? and boiled every conceivable substance. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. 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