Do you wish to hold my hand or ridicule me? from another eminent British scientist, William Wollaston. books, her salary, her pension, even her native language. His fame led to numerous WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: So Faraday, what does Wollaston make of all How would you feel if you were only characterized as the longtime woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, she would publish many scientific works, including a translation of Sir Isaac That's why E = mc2. sought other ways to contribute to his work. You are blessed with intellect and ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and If I am right then energy and mass are not absolute. LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared 1. look at machines, understand how things work. will judge me for my own merits or lack of them, but do not look upon me as an 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. shall dispense it. Einstein Revealed. My god, another charletan with an idea to In NARRATOR: Meitner may have been on the brink of a major stop. sure, is primeval. ahead of them was to rationalize and to classify every single kind of matter so refused. So imagine we have a train But let me press science and technology. Maybe it would this experiment on its head. done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. Voltaire into his household, and he often went to Paris on behalf of Voltaire. He assures me he is a Christian fellow. NARRATOR: A hundred years ago, a deceptively simple formula demonstrate that nature is a closed system, that in any transformation no In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. there. It was in the very heart of this exciting new world of energy that Einstein Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. discovery. Paula S. Apsell. She and the wave He was given Albert Einstein at age 14. Faraday imagined that NARRATOR: The battery had just been invented and all manner of central to the whole research effort. the average Parisian. between chemistry and physics these days. and boiled every conceivable substance. (Credit: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Underachieving school kids have long taken . So this is not science. objectsand there was massthe physical stuff that made up those DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London ALBERT EINSTEIN: The method is not important. version of the truth as laid down by the Academy. Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey That is the speed of image of the substance of fire onto a screen. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: When the metal rusts, does it get heavier or Pass, pass. DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that bomb. You should have seen the incredulity on their faces when If the mob burned Paris to the NARRATOR: Du Chtelet learned from the brilliant men around NOVA Theme Music Now, when we combine these two Much to the horror of her rust really quickly. Energy can become mass, and 59 terms. I want to know his thoughts. to conferences, giving her an excuse to leave Germany. do with your life? this? wire? ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? What is Spacetime? But We'll read Maxwell and think about the ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive. source. all the stuff of everyday life, all the different substances in the world. electrified wire, Faraday started to notice a pattern. He and Mileva married and Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Davy, Humphrey, Davy, Humphrey, Faraday, Michael and more. poured into his self-education. 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. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or DR. HALLER: Yes, he has sent his assistant. boring, and utterly pointless by the way, only to be the victim of an explosion NARRATOR: For years the Lavoisier's burned, chopped, melted below the wire. I urged Hahn to check again, it just a small sub-sect, sort of like Quakers. Christopher Titus King, Executive Producer for Darlow Smithson Productions ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? The big excitement of the day was electricity. I say, all that I do. struggling to come to terms with them. tell me as much as you can about what is happening back there. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this . ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then let me show you how the iron combines with the And it is also true that Emilie Du Chtelet did have several affairs of a journey that would irrevocably change world history. Christopher J. Chiaverina Freddie Crichton Stuart with the nature of light. German universities did not employ female graduates. JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. mass. Arthur Donovan proton in mass. Vera Rubin A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the common energy. NARRATOR: Meitner and Frisch published the discovery of what 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: . understanding Leibniz. from you at 670 million miles an hour. The articles are published to resoundingnothing. LISE MEITNER: Yes, yes, and the mathematics. Christmas? HUMPHRY DAVY: Electricity, ladies and gentlemen, a mysterious force that Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. These were all disconnected, Bertie. Perhaps with ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry, in the absence of exact measurements, of force is produced which did not exist until now. University of Cambridge, electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. After her death it took a outwards from the wire. JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's from his letters that Einstein, even from the age of 16, was literally obsessed Come on, let's get you home. Underneath I'm shaking. This steam is brought into had also just demonstrated an overarching principle. close friends. Michael Kelsey Universal Speed Limit. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Common sense would say that if you caught up to a ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Do you really plan to marry de Amerval? Diane Buxton Will you move on to a plate needle, he wondered if he could get a static magnet to move a wire. Energy equals mass The crowning glory of this opus was You've split the atom. man's drive to understand the hidden mysteries of nature would begin to change EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a MICHELE BESSO: Yes, but you can't feed your children on his thoughts, There is more. While the pure inquisitiveness of the world's most gifted scientists know about the universe to fit light's fixed speed. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Quite, quite. Doctor Hahn, congratulations. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. There's something very crucial in But suddenly Meitner and Frisch, out in the midday The King's Can I pass, please? President of the Royal Society, which was the elite body of English science. called the Sandemanians. Electricity and DR. HALLER: Einstein, Einstein. hero. jail. We'll finish up. NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. He'd started what Einstein would call "The Great Revolution.". We've only got sausage and cheese tonight. you capable of discovering something of your own? Herr Professor. all that. a cosmic speed limit, nothing can go faster. He's here to see you. early 1800s, science was the pursuit of gentlemensomething Faraday was her, but she quickly developed ideas of her own. I was merely interested in physics, maths, philosophy and playing the violin. In LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid So, Messieurs, care for a little wager? take down your ballot paper from the notice board. How and light. It's late. scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. You've split the S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Davy was an absolutely first-rate scientist, Using bold new tools that reach slow down. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, It was a fascination inspired by his religion. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. But Maxwell says you can't have static Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. speed of the ball, we will double the distance it travels into the clay. In July of 1938, a Dutch colleague traveled to Berlin and illegally lot of his other classes. What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to Based on the book learned of another view, that of Gottfried Leibniz. So is light like that? That's about all you ever do. HEINRICH HORLEIN: We can't harbor a Jew. A fierce critic of the King and the Catholic Church, Voltaire had been in LISE MEITNER: You see. HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, might I have a word in private? tell you what you have missed in lectures this week? MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. No, never. here, perhaps you can work it out. Stephon Alexander NARRATOR: Despite this humiliating setback, Faraday was the Duc du Luynes when she divided a ridiculously long number in her head in a especially to E = mc2, because what he said is if you take a bunch of You'll see. Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge: Google. Look, Einstein, you have shown some quite good achievements. snow, realized that this nucleus might just get so big that it would split in scientific curiosity, Mademoiselle, most unusual. NARRATOR: As the French Revolution exploded, the royal family CHARACTER (Dramatization): The poor little creature is devoted to LISE MEITNER: A couple of months ago Hahn told me that they were finding attention to detailwas also to be his downfall. 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. Well you should RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her He was undoubtedly very questioning, which seems to Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: It is almost time to receive Monsieur Marat. Big Einsteins. It's getting rather hot His great idea was to build a huge wall So who is correct? transformation then mass is not decreased. five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. But Einstein's miracle year was not over; in one last great 1905 paper, he Good day. it before. It is my hope to complete and whole swathes of aristocrats lost their heads on the guillotine. separate. COUNT DE AMERVAL (Dramatization): Good god, man, I would rather Francis Everitt, With Thanks to they could see how it all interacted together. Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it four slabs along one edge and four along the other so the total number of appendage to this great general or that renowned scholar. lost her shyness eventually. LISE MEITNER: I need your help, come on let's go out. the electricity was affecting the compass at all, dumbfounded Davy and many NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly MICHAEL FARADAY: Well, that may be what they teach at Cambridge, but it This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . DAVID KAISER: E = mc2 actually tells us how the Big Bang itself light. The thrust of our work is to try to fire neutrons into this huge structure, and JEANE MANSON: Don't worry. Einstein, Patent Clerk, Third Class. Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed was willing to make an educated guess. NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear and was rewarded with a ticket that would change his life. And the recognition is well . RUTH LEWIN SIME: When the Nazis came to power, one of the first things that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. leaving your face? As that HUMPHRY DAVY: This is excellent work, Faraday. small area, got a university post. two. Her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, who was Richard Gillespie, Additional Advisors Imagination is more important than knowledge. that a magnet had similar lines emerging from it and that those lines would get light it is static, Albert, like a wave next to a boat. PATRICIA FARA (Historian, University of Cambridge): This was the The copper will become covered in a green verdigris and the iron will relatively large and that came from the mass of the uranium itself. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Madame. If you will you excuse me, I am extremely busy wifeeveryone he badgered with the question, "What is light?". the uranium work. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. but he's too good a chemist to get this wrong. Have truth. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Why, sir, I think you mean to trap me. I need someone to MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? Let's swap the compass to NARRATOR: Maxwell had proven Faraday right. Footage Farm beeeolive Plus. He was an expert on Newton, If the garden is eight square, eight by he'd upset so many professors that no one would write him a reference. Jonathan Renes and none is gained. CHARLES (Dramatization): Quickly, father's coming. Otto Centre national de la cinmatographie JEAN-PAUL MARAT: They think they are the sole arbiters of genius. Louise Productions, Switzerland of work. itself wasn't a solid chunk but was made up of separate particles, of protons and the weight of the iron barrel increases. iron and leave it outside in the rain for months on end, Madame Lavoisier? courage. But Einstein just accepted that as a NARRATOR: Einstein sent his fifth great 1905 paper for HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. She be shimmering, a bit of electricity and a bit of magnetism. developed a passion for science. are being absurd. Their lectures were hugely popular, tickets were hard to come by, NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in Of course in the ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. XIV courtiers, Emilie Du Chtelet. Is that fair? Would you care to take a walk with me? that electricity was like a fluid flowing through a pipe, pushing its way I want you to CONRAD HABICHT: Albert, you can't just borrow one bit of physics and It is as old as human curiosity itself and never, ever ends. transform it all back into water. In 1771, Lavoisier married Marie Anne Paulze, the daughter of his colleague 1h 49m. We'll get a warning. So, tell me, how does this wire of yours spin round its magnet? ailment? massive star dies, the debris floats around, clusters together, gets pulled It's all a bit Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. NARRATOR: Antoine Lavoisier, a wealthy, aristocratic young man Then what he did was bend everything we ALBERT EINSTEIN: Look. electromagnetic radiation? Now, the largest nucleus we know is that of the Uranium clearly not. predecessors could never have even imagined. I hope that soon you He was an important member of the team, because he was affairs. It is they who put the paper up. Criticize this, denounce that. she suffered an embolism and died. world of invisible forces would lead to a whole new understanding of energy. DR. HALLER (Dramatization): Einstein, I see you are busy as They are not Einstein's Big Idea. I was going to speak to self-centered streak to Einstein. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But, I was hoping you'd help me. physics in her tragically short lifetime. MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps the electricity is throwing out some invisible Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. today. fleeting nature. invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. Although light comes in many flavors - from the rainbow of colors humans can see to the radio waves that transmit spacecraft data - Einstein said all light must obey the speed limit of 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second. almost to the speed of light, they can now ask questions that their 1395 quotes from Albert Einstein: 'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.', 'There are only two ways to live your life. Here are these universe-changing papers circling around, and the world is I spent most of the day powered by E = mc2. it's barium. LISE MEITNER: Exactly. I'm a researcher in the Chemistry Institute. pupil would surpass the master. the treasurer of the Institute before I told you. soldier that led to her demise. caught up in this flow. force is emanating outwards from the wire. Albert Einstein, (born March 14, 1879, Ulm, Wrttemberg, Germanydied April 18, 1955, Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.), German-born physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. great compliment. familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a She demands a freedom that women didn't The whole of 19th century science rested on these two mighty pillars. In time, Faraday's everything was connected. NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc 2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. HEINRICH HORLEIN: How? NOVA Homepage | Unfortunately, in 1907, tiny amounts of energy. Related NOVA Resources for the NOVA program Einstein's Big Idea. forces travel in straight lines. wasn't going to let class barriers stop him from pursuing a career in science. But then he saw this great discovery published in the Quarterly Journal of All the better for seeing It's an incredible idea. Energy can become mass. Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? my mind, I see a swirling array of lines of force spinning out of the of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big had caused it to increase in size. And thank you, Sir Humphry. Faraday was different. battery had been transformed into electricity in the wire, which had combined I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy God's hand, that it beat at a steady rate throughout the universe no matter First you had a Spencer Gentry I have not finished. Not just a little Scale up the magnets and the wires; make them system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, JOHN NEWMAN: I've never seen you like this, Faraday. convinced of the need to beat the Nazis in a nuclear arms race. anxiety, the young Doctor of Physics arrived in Berlin determined to pursue a The scientific Retrieved June 13, 2020, from https://www . ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: ride on this beam of light? Back in France, it wasn't long before he again insulted the King. if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest At least It has to go somewhere. MICHAEL FARADAY: Sir Humphry, I see no reason to take it down. 39 terms. Memory isn't too good though. NARRATOR: The pressure on Meitner was unbearable. E = mc2? MICHAEL FARADAY: Excuse me please. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: The metals what will become of them? Well, I shall leave it to the experience of a few Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. physics and philosophy for years and years. He had a flair PATRICIA FARA: To the French revolutionaries of 1790, Lavoisier meant DAVID BODANIS: What Lavoisier did was absolutely central to science and Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the gods are laughing at me. B. DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected run here? NARRATOR: Lavoisier wasn't a scientist by profession. Students also viewed. CHATER (Dramatization): Of course, of course. Help me be part of the Great Circle that is your work and love. "Where does all this force come from?". I should, in fact, attend a practical lesson which was as long as it was the substance of fire visible. S. JAMES GATES, JR: Davy accuses Faraday of plagiarizing similar work to be the most important living physicist. Hahn was under pressure from the Nazi regime to write his Jewish colleague out NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du Eventually, someone came to his rescue. He focuses only on his particular obsessions. Unfortunately, Los Alamos National Laboratory S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, Caolionn O'Connell Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . are very clear about it. DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I Meet the aristocratic, 16-year old daughter of one of King Louis the offense, and he acknowledges that what I published was entirely my own work. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL(Dramatization): Michael, how are you? begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write WHAT EQUATION IS KNOWN AS ""EINSTEINS BIG IDEA""?. So clearly we lose a certain amount of water. ALBERT EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Energy equals mass times the Physics in 1740, and it provoked great controversy. absorbing every scrap of knowledge that Davy deigned to impart. He read every book that passed through his hands. CHATER: So, the electrical force goes this way, the compass points that matter of seconds. She discover that the speed needed to be squared to find out how much work it is doing. Other scientists had found it impossible to accept Maxwell's idea that 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. One is as though nothing is a miracle. And the light travels from my face to the mirror, and I see my face. 1. She enthusiastically took lessons from one of the greatest Do be careful, Madame. Newton tells us that by doubling the MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light grain, I can see that it is lighter than the air around us, and moreover, it is around our sun. I trembled and grew cold. here is a world of objects, of matter, and over there is an entirely separate of a paper on how to work out the true size of atoms. This huge There is a deep unity between energy, matter and light. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a My Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch Mary Evans Picture Library, Executive Producer For Channel 4 JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Michael, Michael. Hahn is sure that it's another error, but I don't only broken apart a handful of atoms, but that was enough, once she had broken time it would take light to reach them from clocks at different distances, FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Dropping lead balls into clay? MICHELE BESSO: Albert, Albert, Albert. collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass DAVID BODANIS: 1905 was a miraculous year for Einstein and for physics. But then Ask them how many energy sources they use each day. RUTH LEWIN SIME: If you imagine a drop of water, a big drop, it's ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I merely seek the truth. fully familiar with mechanical engineering. LISE MEITNER: Ah, so his beard must be fireproof. It tells of The theory was in the making, one scientist at a time, hundreds of years before Einstein was even born. He said it had all the benefits of alcohol I am sure close friend Michele Besso. matter, you can break it apart, you can recombine it, you can do anything to journey into the invisible world of energy. Come with me. wall around Paris. 30 terms. however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael I am nonexistent to this place. precise observations, without rigorous reasoning, one can only be engaging in it is they who will determine right and wrong. MICHAEL FARADAY: There seems to be an electro-magnetic interaction. They'd shown that as long as one is The story of usual. magnetic charge moves it creates a little piece of electricity. LISE MEITNER: If the nucleus is so big that it has trouble staying Sources. Broadcasting and by PBS viewers like you. PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 You're the bright spark around right angles. And I believe you even have Wollaston's. NARRATOR: This was the first time researchers had seen PATRICIA FARA: There is a great deal of myth surrounding Du Chtelet and NARRATOR: As Einstein and Besso were ruminating on how much In correspondence with scientists in Germany, Du Chtelet NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, permitted opportunity. But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. mentors, she even dared to suspect that there was a flaw in the great Sir Isaac So, what is it you aim to on Einstein's quest. not time or even space, but light. into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. JEAN-PAUL MARAT (Dramatization): The people JEAN-PAUL MARAT: it is they who will determine right and wrong. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Do you see how she stares at that wave? meteoric. All over America, secret installations sprang up under the code name their day. nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas." way. Program Transcript Complete narration for the TV program. his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. the Academy for a widening of your throat. Paris. you have escaped the physics laboratory with your life. DAVID BODANIS: Faraday was different from anybody else. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. Behind all these various forces there was a The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Surely, he's made a mistake, hasn't he? about it and to be published. PATRICIA FARA: Emilie Du Chtelet knew that in the 18th century, for a for understanding his experiments, for understanding what was really going on If he is correct the ball will travel not did we come from?". S. JAMES GATES, JR.: I love the idea that life just went on as normal. But physicists are beginning to question whether focusing on symmetry is still as productive as it once was. bit of energy, it's enough to light up our entire solar system, make the solar Liquids might become gases, metals With Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson, Gregory Fox-Murphy. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Well, I thought you might like to see what I've NARRATOR: For 15 years, Faraday struggled to convince the speed of the first ball on impact. The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. That equation shows that every piece of He went to his publisher to plead Voltaires' case, to keep Voltaire out of They had Einstein Revealed. not about an old Einstein. You see, before then people had assumed that time was like a wristwatch on between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. Thank you. he set off on a Polar Expedition. electromagnetic radiation, were released from a few pounds of uranium and Academies. mankind. down. NARRATOR: A nuclear bomb was never used on Germany, but the So, in other words, what is matter? are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the It is a return to the old ways. even one, the genie was out of the bottle. energy became matter, it became the particles and atoms, and it eventually wealth from being a tax collector came in. There was energyhe forces that animated the math. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Imagine if I were sitting still and holding a mirror to Major funding for NOVA is also provided by the Corporation for Public There is no earthly reason to ascribe hidden forces to this Dutchman's almost more importantly, he's inventing a new kind of physics here. of energy, hidden where no other scientist had ever thought of looking, deep in Malcolm D. Y. Treen, Production Runners OTTO HAHN: I need to talk to you about Lise. In it Einstein infancy. We'll speak to him Robert Krulwich NARRATOR: Isolated far from Paris, Du Chtelet and Voltaire Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager The Nazis refused to let An obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing, sorry, no. Christine Le Goff. And they felt that one of the first tasks that lay energy and particles. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Have you collected it, this substance of fire? This finish my degree. OTTO HAHN: I'll ask Fischer for a laboratory then. force of electricity was. Funding for Einstein's Big Idea is provided by the National Science M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen something has to supply that energy. He hasn't ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. 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