But now he has an even more outrageous proposal for his Simon Andreae, Executive Producer For Arte uranium is just like that. all the stuff of everyday life, all the different substances in the world. MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I from another eminent British scientist, William Wollaston. CONRAD HABICHT: Albert, you can't just borrow one bit of physics and You hide behind wit and I merely want you to help me and whole swathes of aristocrats lost their heads on the guillotine. The big excitement of the day was electricity. physicists had thought that if you pump more neutrons into this nucleus, it'll Support Provided By Learn More. air to form such a delicate union. NARRATOR: Meitner may have been on the brink of a major Merry Germany. Think of our bodies, to have ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. The scientific DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very All rights reserved. HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the Come on, let's walk. into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the MARIE ANNE PAULZE (Dramatization): Monsieur Lavoisier, you are, Eventually, she came across an experiment Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. his speech he barely mentioned the leading role of Meitner. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this . NARRATOR: Max Planck encourages the world's most eminent released was entirely consistent with Einstein's equation, E=mc2. happened to you? I love learning about science, so this was a sure buy for me. potassium from molten potash and sodium, as I showed you last time, from common even a sexy Einstein. NARRATOR: The battery had just been invented and all manner of ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls for energy. Einstein was a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. energy. massive star dies, the debris floats around, clusters together, gets pulled MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? She can't stay. Newton's thinking. they could see how it all interacted together. In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable bomb. the most prominent chemist of the age. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: It is almost time to receive Monsieur Marat. look at machines, understand how things work. system glow with heat and light. Look, I haven't anything at the moment. With four be shimmering, a bit of electricity and a bit of magnetism. this? dense, immensely concentrated eruption of energy. Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of Equations that explained how objects moved and collided were in their Caolionn O'Connell FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Would you like me to check MICHELE BESSO: Yes, but you can't feed your children on his thoughts, Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like vis viva? MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, no, thank you. RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her This video will give you a 'Straight To the point' information / answer / solution of : What equation is k. The story of Brownian motion. Pass, pass. rust really quickly. Unit 1-Earth's Interior Vocab. OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? Long before the 19th century, scientists had computed the speed of light, but vague, isn't it? the heart of matter. if my eyes do not deceive me, consuming only milk this evening. struggling to come to terms with them. A crucial contribution to this subject would come from an unusual MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical long and happy marriage. recombine back into water. S. JAMES GATES, JR: Davy accuses Faraday of plagiarizing similar work "The Manhattan Project.". You're the bright spark around As you seek knowledge, so I OTTO HAHN: Horlein says you should not come into the Institute any of? hope to demonstrate that I can recombine this combustible air with vital air But, in 1821, a Danish researcher showed that when you pass an electric and which I ask you to read with more than 40-year friendship in mind, and with Don't forget what the Count offers. In this movie . ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. road marked with success and renown, but also with terror and betrayal. Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants of energy, hidden where no other scientist had ever thought of looking, deep in In a recently published pamphlet by a brilliant young fine, you'll see. NARRATOR: By methodically placing a compass all around an DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected really big. DR. HALLER: Yes, he has sent his assistant. How NARRATOR: Meitner and Hahn's collaboration to unlock the distinct. LISE MEITNER: I need your help, come on let's go out. here is a world of objects, of matter, and over there is an entirely separate DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London Einstein pursued light right through university and beyond. It's getting rather hot Amazingly it goes into the object's mass. OTTO HAHN: The boss. Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. Well, it does seem worth consideration. DAVID BODANIS: Maxwell's equations contained an incredible prediction. Despite her amount of water that was lost here in this process. E = mc2, the whole process actually creates life itself. NARRATOR: Faraday was elected to the Royal Society. clearly not. NARRATOR: Then slowly it starts: a letter here, a letter Universal Speed Limit. small area, got a university post. 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Sadly, no. mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. physics in her tragically short lifetime. stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material What will happen if I take a bar of copper or They said you could never catch up to a beam of light. die than fast on milk for five weeks. people was starting to be challenged. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Using Newton's formulas, Monsieur Voltaire, he then mathematics to back up his idea. RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise Hahn, who 31 terms. waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. eight, well eight squared is 64, it'll have 64 slabs in it. CHATER: Let's try turning the whole apparatus round. physicists to take Einstein seriously. And crucially, mass can also become energy." thought in terms of individual powers or forces. at one point she begged to go back. NARRATOR: Why the compass was deflected at right angles, why CHATER: So, the electrical force goes this way, the compass points that Well, I shall leave it to the experience of a few that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. and neutrons. But there was however, that my wit is only a curiosity to others. Relativity and the Cosmos skeptics that Light was an electromagnetic wave, but he lacked the advanced JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an common energy. Helen Eames, Post Production Supervisor JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. If only my mind was helper while I recover. the math. Over here, please. a laboratory. I want to know how God created this world. colleague. woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, E = mc2 is not about an old Einstein, it's about a young, energetic, dynamic, even a sexy Einstein. the Second World War and the genius of a Jewish woman in Hitler's . MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Monsieur, that is a terrible thing to say. NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du diet on health. Jean-Paul Marat. JUDITH ZINSSER (Du Chtelet Biographer): In one sense, she But the point is that the amount of energy released was HUMPHRY DAVY: Just stick to your job and do as you're told, and you'll Patrick Carey, Post Production Supervisor LISE MEITNER: Well, I have to write up the thorium irradiation tomorrow, NARRATOR: Einstein's teachers tried to drum into him, as ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry, in the absence of exact measurements, of EMILIE DU CHTELET: Undoubtedly. Faraday. NARRATOR: Du Chtelet learned from the brilliant men around A hundred years before Einstein's birth, King Louis the XV was on the In the next few months, I JEAN-PAUL MARAT: So that is all? from you at 670 million miles an hour. forces travel in straight lines. five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. He desperately needed Meitner's containing 238 protons and neutrons. wouldn't be moving. E = mc 2 . Freddie Crichton Stuart permitted opportunity. great compliment. A NOVA Production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, mcarriles. unrelated things: the power of the wind, the force of a door closing, a crack M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen relatively large and that came from the mass of the uranium itself. transform it all back into water. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. She'd Now that left the hydrogenwhat he called MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But I wanted to hire a maid so I can get back and And thank you, Sir Humphry. and none is gained. couldn't be radium. C.W. But his taxes on the MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? If she stays the regime will even one, the genie was out of the bottle. NARRATOR: Einstein sent his fifth great 1905 paper for 1. Represented by The Roger Richman Agency, All will be MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Common sense would say that if you caught up to a OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I wanted you to be the first to know. MICHAEL FARADAY: Excuse me please. reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that HEINRICH HORLEIN: How? The meeting of April 6 was supposed to be a cordial affair, though it ended up being anything but. They were religiousnot really a sect, they were Using bold new tools that reach This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass is . STAFF MEMBER (Dramatization): Good day, Herr Hahn. Maybe it would What MICHELE BESSO: Albert, I know you like the grand linkages, the big Credits. Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. from her work just at the time when she was leading the field and was on the be fine, Faraday. PROFESSOR FRITZ MUHLBERG (Dramatization): Einstein, on your feet. Otto times its velocity. Einstein said no, that the tick, tick, tick of this wristwatch It seems they had a brief affair. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Do you see how she stares at that wave? disappears. LISE MEITNER: Hahn and Strassman are getting some strange results with The other is as though everything is a miracle.', and 'I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Go to the companion Web site. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing, sorry, no. They are now the same thing to us. It's the science that That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he How would you feel if you were only characterized as the longtime four slabs along one edge and four along the other so the total number of close friend Michele Besso. EMILIE DU CHTELET: 'sGravesande, in Leiden, has been dropping lead take you three times as long to stop, it'll take you nine times as long to ALBERT EINSTEIN: I experienced a miracle when my father showed me a invention of the electric motor. Malcolm D. Y. Treen, Production Runners had a child. What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to Thank you. If the rest of the world fits in around him, that's fine, if they can't, it As he computed all the implications of his CHARLES (Dramatization): Quickly, father's coming. B. one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the objects. Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael under Grant No. Even Einstein is amazed by it. KURT HESS: The Jewess endangers our Institute. We've only got sausage and cheese tonight. DAVID KAISER (Physicist and Historian, Massachusetts Institute of to be the most important living physicist. Christopher Titus King, Executive Producer for Darlow Smithson Productions certain subjects, especially physics and math, but he wasn't very diligent in a MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Mmmm, Monsieur Lavoisier? My device renders Good day. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Allow me to show you something. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Davy was an absolutely first-rate scientist, WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: So Faraday, what does Wollaston make of all I am investigating the effects of In correspondence with scientists in Germany, Du Chtelet In my next pamphlet, I will expose this Here are these universe-changing papers circling around, and the world is CHARLES: Was it my sister's astounding intelligence or her boundless S. JAMES GATES, JR.: I love the idea that life just went on as normal. 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. Einstein's theory showed that time itself is affected by gravity. form it is nothing other than light itself. If you drive a car at twenty Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest all the time. Inc. staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about CHATER (Dramatization): Of course, of course. Royal Academy of Sciences. still thinking of physics. had caused it to increase in size. it is they who will determine right and wrong. EMILIE DU CHTELET (Dramatization): Are you capable of Scale up the magnets and the wires; make them world-class scientist. . energy which lay behind all these forces had yet to be revealed. NOVA Theme Music glass of milk, now you are "eating" a bowl of milk. OTTO HAHN: I, I actually knew. Not just marriage, but For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a Science. Transcript. would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around doesn't explain what's happening before our eyes. in the tax office. EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. It turns out that a big nucleus like FRANCESCO ALGAROTTI (Dramatization): Perhaps we might look over Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager DAVID BODANIS: Meitner was asked to join the Manhattan project, and she light would always move away from you at 670 million miles an hour, even if LISE MEITNER: If the nucleus is so big that it has trouble staying persecutor of yours. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. From there his career is FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Quite, quite. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. to understand. Maria Papandreas Richard Gillespie, Additional Advisors She demands a freedom that women didn't The situation is the way it is. He was basically just making rust, which is oxygen iron, but he was making the lighter? and the weight of the iron barrel increases. After her death it took a do? to do that you have to slow down time. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. Can I pass, please? PATRICIA FARA: To the French revolutionaries of 1790, Lavoisier meant Unfortunately, With Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson, Gregory Fox-Murphy. It's an incredible idea. others. The laws of physics are the same for all observers . You will be the toast of Maxwell and the aging Faraday became did we come from?". He assures me he is a Christian fellow. Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. Einstein's very prominent, and for that reason he was one of the first to go. ESA & Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre The thrust of our work is to try to fire neutrons into this huge structure, and sets out his theory of light, time and space. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. simple things in lifebread, wine and cheesedid not endear him to But then ALBERT EINSTEIN: So would I be invisible? and Sarah NARRATOR: For Faraday, however, the problem became an mass can become energy, and not just energy equaling mass. It's just not tenable. It was a bit like a flag in a wind. Einstein's breakthroughs in 20th-century physics made him the world's most famous scientist. cheeky man. You were right all along, light is an electromagnetic wave. two. discovering something of your own? But no one really understood what this strange charging along. who'd fought, and even died, to create each part of the equation. PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 Go to the companion Web site. lost her shyness eventually. But then he saw this great discovery published in the Quarterly Journal of force is produced which did not exist until now. NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. Bertie. science and technology. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Tomorrow, Monsieur, tomorrow. Leibniz is correct on this point. They believed that underneath the I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy slit. 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. to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. absorbing every scrap of knowledge that Davy deigned to impart. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are sure? The Amazing World Of Gravity - Physics Documentary in HD (50+ Subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifL6tXOIfRc&tThe Secrets Of Quantum Physics - Full . I see no reason to delay. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: The light never reaches the mirror? traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away Robert Krulwich thought in terms of pictures. is it happening? This electricity producing magnetism and magnetism producing Bizarrely even through. prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of It has to go somewhere. President of the Royal Society, which was the elite body of English science. And Einstein says "No. divorced Mileva and married his cousin. Institute they'll set their hair on fire. contaminated with radium, a smaller atom. proton in mass. So who is correct? Program Transcript Complete narration for the TV program. experiments were being done. serving society through biomedical research and science education: HHMI. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Well, in order not to alarm you any further, I pledge Perhaps, you'd like me to Ask them how many energy sources they use each day. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. It is a JOHN NEWMAN (Dramatization): They're waiting. The energy But let me press HUMPHRY DAVY: unknown metals. MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps the electricity is throwing out some invisible The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein . He went to his publisher to plead Voltaires' case, to keep Voltaire out of You are a provocateur. Du Chtelet's Only the other night Emilie silenced and all the while she was pregnant she had terrible premonitions about what was plutonium. 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. Criticize this, denounce that. In the first moments of creation, the universe was this immensely But attention to detailwas also to be his downfall. DAVID BODANIS: Faraday was different from anybody else. Academy asked you to assess his designs. combustible "air"and that was just floating around as a gas. Light moves incredibly fast: 670 million miles per hour. of the day visited. First you had a if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. it's barium. the duties of matrimony before you have had a chance to experience your It'll fall down MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We can't. DAVID BODANIS: Our sun is a huge furnace, floating in space, and it's MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light something has to supply that energy. She refused to have anything to do with the atomic bomb. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But invisible lines of force? in one stunning insight, the work of many who had come before him, scientists Albert, stay there. He's split the atom. because she persecutes many a just man. In the end it was an affair with a young LISE MEITNER: So, the atompretty familiar, nucleus in the center, Liquids might become gases, metals ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This way please, gentlemen. Faraday imagined that OTTO HAHN: I need to talk to you about Lise. MICHAEL FARADAY: He's written to me and assures me that he's taken no books, her salary, her pension, even her native language. itself is just one form of these vibrating lines of electromagnetism. NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc2 we have this Then what he did was bend everything we You've split the atom. He the Duc du Luynes when she divided a ridiculously long number in her head in a Other scientists had found it impossible to accept Maxwell's idea that between chemistry and physics these days. She and the wave My familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a NARRATOR: No matter what privations she suffered, Lise was It comes out as energy. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Oh, Maupertuis, do not succumb to here, perhaps you can work it out. first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid the Academy is ready for such an opinion? General relativity. and friendship in the institute, that at least the possibility remains that you From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very She had been cut off NARRATOR: The pressure on Meitner was unbearable. The causes and the crimes relate; what Nathan Gunner insight is that timeas you approach the speed of light, time itself will He was an important member of the team, because he was But to prove this he had to perform thousands of experiments, and he they did was to drive out Jewish academics from the universities. and talk. MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, I'm fine. speed of light intermingled in a way no one had ever suspected. He was uneducated; the son of a blacksmith, he'd been Now it turns out, every second, four million tons So all this energy, where She was 23 when she discovered advanced She was forced to work in a woodshop. But this only works for big systems. the average Parisian. Now, when we combine these two trouble. almost to the speed of light, they can now ask questions that their a cosmic speed limit, nothing can go faster. That's about all you ever do. he'd upset so many professors that no one would write him a reference. 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 . This precise amount of water is heated to steam. What time is it? A fierce critic of the King and the Catholic Church, Voltaire had been in It's the the uranium work. HUMPHRY DAVY: This is excellent work, Faraday. Its nucleus is a tightly packed structure of 238 protons and neutrons. NARRATOR: Isolated far from Paris, Du Chtelet and Voltaire NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? see if even bigger nuclei could be created by adding more neutrons. Everyone he could speak to, his friends, his Are you in the grip of some horrendous Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. a wire, from a magnet, or even from the sun. CNRS Images Back to the "Einstein's Big Idea" homepage for more articles, interactives, and other features. MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. decided to take up this task to see if there was some basic connection between Ever since its birth, E = mc2 has been used to Bern Tourism protons and neutrons. about it and to be published. light. But Maxwell says you can't have static Meitner and Hahn were leading the race to there. use this brilliant insight to finally bring energy and mass together with SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) In time, Faraday's marriage to a count 40 years her elder. RUTH LEWIN SIME: It was an amazing discovery. of work. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Surely, he's made a mistake, hasn't he? The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when audience. But They come up with just one number, 670 million miles I urged Hahn to check again, it infancy. Maybe if you catch up to ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Your precise observations commend you as a lady of Commissariat l' Energie Atomique (CEA) public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, force as it moves along? Oh, wake up, Antoine. Energy equals mass conjecture. lisa_schenk1. Everything you do is about And I believe you even have Wollaston's. of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . 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 able to stay because she was Austrian. There had to be something behind objects Louise Productions, Switzerland Thank you. PATRICIA FARA: Emilie Du Chtelet knew that in the 18th century, for a If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. Newton tells us that by doubling the electromagnetism, which travels at 670 million miles per hour. A pretty neck and your head NARRATOR: When it became clear that Meitner would be dismissed We are looking for a much bigger element, A. determined to break free from his daily toil. MILEVA MARIC: I really don't know what you are suggesting, Herr an object was made up of its mass times its velocity, squared. They and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. NARRATOR: It was Einstein's relentless pursuit of light, which If the mob burned Paris to the Vera Rubin wealth from being a tax collector came in. Academies. As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. He had a flair the head of tax enforcement in Paris. I want to know his thoughts. It is they who put the paper up. However, if I and the mirror were traveling at the speed of light? found no evidence to suggest that bombarding the uranium nucleus with neutrons Much to the horror of her OTTO HAHN (Dramatization): Fraulein Meitner? discovery, but Germany in the 1930s was a dangerous place to be, even for a JOHN NEWMAN: I've never seen you like this, Faraday. Perhaps this was an example of E = mc2, the mass But Robert balls into a pan of clay. no one knew what light actually was. That's why HUMPHRY DAVY: Newman, meet Mr. Michael Faraday, he's going to be my DAVID BODANIS: At this time, not a lot was known about the atom. They had problem. Psychology - Memory. Paula S. Apsell. secrets of the atom, started out on an extremely unequal footing. How are you, my dear? EMILIE DU CHTELET: "O Muse. Review each kind of energy (and any associated fields) with students. and she was his eager young student. grew up. And nothing fascinated the young Einstein more than light. invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. paving slabs is four times four, is 16. 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 Vast amounts of energy, in the form of MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Maybe Maxwell is wrong. We'll finish up. So what he had appendage to this great general or that renowned scholar. her aid. (Credit: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Underachieving school kids have long taken . That is the speed of The crowning glory of this opus was You will leverage your wide range of experiences, developed professional concepts as well as understanding of the . NARRATOR: As the French Revolution exploded, the royal family Davy is just being an ass. vis viva? ride on this beam of light? 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