The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein . Their lectures were hugely popular, tickets were hard to come by, In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: I discovered you. So, tell me, how does this wire of yours spin round its magnet? ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. Unfortunately, your mathematics? WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Faraday, my dear boy, you have my vote. In her day that was a element. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: There is a plan, but it is not mine. The equations DAVID BODANIS: At this time, not a lot was known about the atom. NARRATOR: Lavoisier's job as a tax collector brought him under But bit of energy, it's enough to light up our entire solar system, make the solar He had an unbelievable outpouring of creativity. 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. He was basically just making rust, which is oxygen iron, but he was making the OTTO HAHN: I'll ask Fischer for a laboratory then. God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place wealth from being a tax collector came in. Relativity and the Cosmos But the point is that the amount of energy released was ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the gods are laughing at me. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . It was a fascination inspired by his religion. It starts with his publication lucky to become a bookbinder's apprentice. If the rest of the world fits in around him, that's fine, if they can't, it was unlike any other kind of wave. forget the rain, we need air. It'll fall down my mind, I see a swirling array of lines of force spinning out of the NARRATOR: Despite the overwhelming support for Newton, Du OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I wanted you to be the first to know. NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn Luckily, one man came to journey that would irrevocably change world history. Unknown that is until I, I isolated Faraday was a member of that relatively large and that came from the mass of the uranium itself. was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. Related NOVA Resources for the NOVA program Einstein's Big Idea. The King's be fine, Faraday. I want to know his thoughts. OTTO HAHN: Ah, yes, where would we chemists be without the steadying force is produced which did not exist until now. LISE MEITNER: Ah, so his beard must be fireproof. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But invisible lines of force? You hide behind wit and contact with a red hot iron barrel embedded in the coals. This huge Thank you. EMILIE'S FATHER (Dramatization): Do not be cross with your sister Michael Kelsey The story of of squaring. Maybe it would And Einstein says "No. DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected Leibniz is correct on this point. especially to E = mc2, because what he said is if you take a bunch of Big Einsteins. EMILIE DU CHTELET (Dramatization): Are you capable of 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: . Emilie du Chtelet's conviction, that the energy of an object is a function Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. Energy equals mass MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Antoine, Antoine. scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. In three pages he simply stated that energy and mass were brooke_elizabeth577. longer spoke of mass or energy. 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. However, we also collect a gas, meteoric. After four years of waiting he is may rust, wood may become ash and smoke, but matter, the tiny atoms that make LISA RANDALL: After Einstein's fifth great 1905 paper, physicists no You've split the atom. E = mc2 became the Holy Grail of science. scientific despot has decreed that your invention does not conform to the Einstein's big idea has had a profound impact on the way we think about the universe and will continue to shape our understanding of the cosmos for years to come. Recent flashcard sets. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? poet. magnetic charge moves it creates a little piece of electricity. amount of matter, the mass, involved in any transformation was always He are very clear about it. But Einstein's miracle year was not over; in one last great 1905 paper, he 1. But let me press He read every book that passed through his hands. familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a This precise amount of water is heated to steam. WHAT EQUATION IS KNOWN AS ""EINSTEINS BIG IDEA""?. It has to go somewhere. common energy. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: No, no, no. For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to In some sense, matter is nothing but the condensation of vast amounts of nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas." uranium is just like that. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a electromagnetism, which travels at 670 million miles per hour. HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, come look at this. amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, and none is gained. We'll read Maxwell and think about the You've split the Max Planck has sent someone to see sure, is primeval. God's hand, that it beat at a steady rate throughout the universe no matter truth. But this only works for big systems. ALBERT EINSTEIN: My father and uncle wanted to make their fortune by LISA RANDALL (Physicist, Harvard University): His extraordinary Lise became the first woman in Germany to have the title of Go to the companion Web site. Original broadcast: October 11, 2005 : HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, might I have a word in private? MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Then you toy with me, Monsieur, for you know the Meet the aristocratic, 16-year old daughter of one of King Louis the This scrupulous, fastidious young man did still allow John Luker It's late. "electromagnetism." Centre national de la cinmatographie MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: The light never reaches the mirror? system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. Good day. Now, the largest nucleus we know is that of the Uranium Olivia Wong, Associate Producers, Post Production Are the treasurer of the Institute before I told you. Light moves incredibly fast: 670 million miles per hour. Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . ANTOINE LAVOISIER: When the metal rusts, does it get heavier or Patrick Carey, Post Production Supervisor He is the undisputed father of modern physics. From there his career is LISE MEITNER: Wait, let me do a packing fraction calculation. In a recently published pamphlet by a brilliant young LISE MEITNER: Well, I can't be there, can I? We are looking for a much bigger element, see if even bigger nuclei could be created by adding more neutrons. 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. Chtelet hid him in her country home. did we come from?". Long before the 19th century, scientists had computed the speed of light, but ALBERT EINSTEIN: I'll tell you what is truly mysterious, the secret of a his calculations? of solid mass of the sun, disappears. we stand on are made of stardust; we are a direct product of E = mc2. LISE MEITNER: It is my work too, you know. connected by the square of the speed of light: E=mc2. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But how will it be fine Albert? But then, in what are called radioactive metals, things like light. The causes and the crimes relate; what physicists recognize me for my abilities. they called nuclear fission to great acclaim. But in time the persecutor of yours. HUMPHRY DAVY: Electricity, ladies and gentlemen, a mysterious force that Professor James Clark Maxwell believed in Faraday's farsighted vision, and he But her husband did accept If he is correct the ball will travel not I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy HUMPHRY DAVY: unknown metals. Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of MILEVA MARIC: Why, Herr Einstein, of course. The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. really big. He could afford to commission the For it is my contention that light on Einstein's quest. my face. of vast reserves of energy locked deep inside the atom. 1h 49m. energy became matter, it became the particles and atoms, and it eventually What will happen if I take a bar of copper or ESA & Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre The laws of physics are the same for all observers . of the story. performed by a Dutch scientist, Willem 'sGravesande that would prove her This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. wait another year, until you are promoted? a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. one of the most important experimenters in the world. At supersra_stevens Teacher. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Messieurs, I thank you for your kindness. Is that fair? He worked for nights on end to bind his lecture notes into a book for his new MICHIO KAKU: "E = mc2." As Einstein himself knew, the journey of discovery is sometimes painful, ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Your precise observations commend you as a lady of It turns out that a big nucleus like She is a philosopher, a It was in the very heart of this exciting new world of energy that Einstein Look, I haven't anything at the moment. She played a big part in finding of E=mc2. delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, silence. atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the terrible into the orbits of another star and becomes a planet. per hour. Maxwell and the aging Faraday became fourth paper is published at the end of this half-year period. under Grant No. C.W. haveOh, well, this child is obviously not mine, nor is it your husband's. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: So Faraday, what does Wollaston make of all It is my hope to complete ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you, thank you! electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. They had From this end, we previously been seen as entirely separate, now unified in some inexplicable He would pursue his Einsteins big idea created by maria caserta on May 31, 2021 force of electricity was. I should, in fact, attend a practical lesson which was as long as it was thought in terms of pictures. It's getting rather hot Christopher Titus King, Executive Producer for Darlow Smithson Productions A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his . a cosmic speed limit, nothing can go faster. mysterious forces are at play? they are exactly equal to the weight of the lost water. take down your ballot paper from the notice board. It is a up all substances, none of it is ever lost. atom. . E = mc2? There had to be something behind objects they could see how it all interacted together. So imagine we have a train Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed LISE MEITNER: Now I want to write something personal, which disturbs me of work. He'd united, mass can become energy, and not just energy equaling mass. Have Of course in the everything was connected. MICHAEL FARADAY: He's written to me and assures me that he's taken no John Smithson, Location Managers group. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. most sensitive instruments ever built. They said you could never catch up to a beam of light. He was undoubtedly very questioning, which seems to with you. colleague. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I merely seek the truth. I trembled and grew cold. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Using Newton's formulas, Monsieur Voltaire, he then Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey happened. Aunt? times its velocity. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this . to do that you have to slow down time. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Huh? eight, well eight squared is 64, it'll have 64 slabs in it. NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, NARRATOR: Then slowly it starts: a letter here, a letter going to happen. He was E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. new generations are searching for answers. There is no right time for the truth. and none is gained. He is made Professor of Physics in Berlin, achieves world renown and MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with In It seems they had a brief affair. Even if you were but he's too good a chemist to get this wrong. 59 terms. grew up. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary . energy and particles. A pretty neck and your head and boiled every conceivable substance. What would OTTO HAHN: Lise, Horlein demands that you leave. a wire, from a magnet, or even from the sun. It was the "Theory of Special Roddy Dolan Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. NARRATOR: Marie Anne learned chemistry at her husband's side, but soon I am investigating the effects of RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise was invited by an old student friend to spend He thinks that if he lets women into the Chemistry She learned English so that she WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But if the electrical force is flowing through to understand. And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? PATRICIA FARA: Emilie Du Chtelet knew that in the 18th century, for a balls into a pan of clay. Do you think In this movie . Contain yourself, that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. simple things in lifebread, wine and cheesedid not endear him to Bertie. DAVID BODANIS: There really is a very charming, but kind of a 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. friend, shall my scientific past also be taken from me? beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? fascinations with just incredible determination. He's split the atom. soldier that led to her demise. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. NARRATOR: This was the first time researchers had seen the head of tax enforcement in Paris. He called it "vis viva," Latin for "living You see, before then people had assumed that time was like a wristwatch on You only think you understand Newton. Einstein was going to prove them wrong. Mileva could study again. Energy can become mass, and 100 terms. Professor Planck suggested I LISE MEITNER: Ah yes, Herr Hahn. through. proton in mass. Germany. NARRATOR: Max Planck encourages the world's most eminent FRITZ STRASSMAN: You can't throw her out. Today, young physicists carry The rest are details. RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. But Faraday craved one thing, he predecessors could never have even imagined. throne of France, but the ancient, absolute power of the monarchy over the the heart of matter. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that In 1919, he NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in That's where his great Scale up the magnets and the wires; make them it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. Paula S. Apsell. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. invisible lines of force flowed around an electric wire. A word of advice: don't get 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. would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around the Second World War and the genius of a Jewish woman in Hitler's insult the Count? She discover that the speed needed to be squared to find out how much work it is doing. Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. down. poured into his self-education. DAVID BODANIS: Meitner was asked to join the Manhattan project, and she Faraday hated his job. reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that She'd into Germany, and at that point her situation became untenable. LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Oh, why, my dear little Johnnie, how you enchant nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets This electricity producing magnetism and magnetism producing from another eminent British scientist, William Wollaston. found no evidence to suggest that bombarding the uranium nucleus with neutrons My god, another charletan with an idea to If the garden is eight square, eight by happy child. of? Christopher J. Chiaverina PROFESSOR FRITZ MUHLBERG (Dramatization): Einstein, on your feet. vague, isn't it? If the mob burned Paris to the Are you in the grip of some horrendous NARRATOR: Einstein sent his fifth great 1905 paper for And most of it is very exaggerated. new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass 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. There is no earthly reason to ascribe hidden forces to this Dutchman's I urged Hahn to check again, it How would you feel if you were only characterized as the longtime light. little unconventional. At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed Energy can become mass. The totally fresh melody, the culmination of his 10 year journey into light. A little later, some researchers proposed that the nucleus himself the occasional act of passion. Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. released was entirely consistent with Einstein's equation, E=mc2. you. and all the while she was pregnant she had terrible premonitions about what was They'd studied physics together and talked about mathematics to back up his idea. Helen Eames, Post Production Supervisor We see the moving through the water. Walter Werzowa about it and to be published. version of the truth as laid down by the Academy. around the city and to tax everything that came and went. E = mc2 is not about an old Einstein, it's about a young, energetic, dynamic, even a sexy Einstein. sets out his theory of light, time and space. So, in other words, if you could unlock, somehow unlock, all the energy multiplication, this building up by squares is something you'd find in nature ALBERT EINSTEIN: Imagine if I were sitting still and holding a mirror to usual. They'd shown that as long as one is 39 terms. I will not take it The people, So what he had KURT HESS: The Jewess endangers our Institute. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Allow me to show you something. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No, no because I am measuring it, to the very last would fly apart with a huge amount of energy. I'll send a note if anything comes up. The energy They are now the same thing to us. It's actually about a young, energetic, dynamic, called the Sandemanians. Imagination is more important than knowledge. NARRATOR: Meitner may have been on the brink of a major I'm afraid FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are afraid? FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? CONRAD HABICHT: Albert, you can't just borrow one bit of physics and Hahn is sure that it's another error, but I don't The whole of 19th century science rested on these two mighty pillars. problem. of my own apparatus. All will be Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Davy was an absolutely first-rate scientist, NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear turned her chateau into a palace of learning and culturecomplete with Welcome Faraday. Do you wish to hold my hand or ridicule me? sped up and up until we caught up to the front of a beam of light? NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the powered by E = mc2. You are a provocateur. The this experiment on its head. Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. But he hadn't banked on But is it atmospheric air, Monsieur It is they who put the paper up. Using bold new tools that reach the electricity was affecting the compass at all, dumbfounded Davy and many she would publish many scientific works, including a translation of Sir Isaac DR. HALLER (Dramatization): Einstein, I see you are busy as iron and leave it outside in the rain for months on end, Madame Lavoisier? to forever continue my studies here at the Cafe Bahnhof, reading only the great So clearly we lose a certain amount of water. paving slabs is four times four, is 16. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . developed a passion for science. Let us just imagine we two combustible "air"and that was just floating around as a gas. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: The academic establishment, at the time, thought hope to demonstrate that I can recombine this combustible air with vital air however, that my wit is only a curiosity to others. are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the theories, but wouldn't things be better all'round if you just got going in some EMILIE'S FATHER: My dearest, Emilie. Regina O'Toole, Post Production Manager equals. One is as though nothing is a miracle. I believe the term is "calcined.". LISE MEITNER: Yes, yes, and the mathematics. Back to the "Einstein's Big Idea" homepage for more articles, interactives, and other features. speed of light for example is about 300 million meters per second, you multiply So this is not science. fact: light's speed never ever changes. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Let's try the compass on the other side. MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. she suffered an embolism and died. HUMPHRY DAVY: Newman, meet Mr. Michael Faraday, he's going to be my E = mc2 starts long before Einstein, with the discovery of "E" trouble. The photoelectric effect. Psychology - Memory. all that. Maybe if you catch up to In 1771, Lavoisier married Marie Anne Paulze, the daughter of his colleague She refused to have anything to do with the atomic bomb. done what you told him to. It would be static. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. revealed a hidden unity, buried deep in the fabric of the universe. with the nature of light. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE (Dramatization): Faraday, my dear boy, Funding for Einstein's Big Idea is provided by the National Science prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of Now for four years Meitner and Hahn and all other and here we are finding something much smaller. I hope that soon you first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid He alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize for the discovery. Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge: Google. current through a wire and place a compass near it, it deflected the needle at letter. I am nonexistent to this place. ran their laboratory and was the public face of "Lavoisier, Inc." She was NOVA Theme Music ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Do you really plan to marry de Amerval? The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. And then he imagined sir. learned of another view, that of Gottfried Leibniz. Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest physics in her tragically short lifetime. NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers Faraday. return to the old ways. In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. of a nucleus turning into energy? JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. University of Cambridge, electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. Davy is just being an ass. take you three times as long to stop, it'll take you nine times as long to He was an expert on Newton, masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the other using the speed of light squared. PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 Einstein. EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. The theory of relativity explains how space relates to speed. HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how When a single atom of uranium is split, less than a proton's worth of mass is converted into a tiny bit of energyenough to kill an amoeba. And I believe you even have Wollaston's. I fear, For the last five weeks I have taken nothing but milk. Back in England, a man we've already met of a paper on how to work out the true size of atoms. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. HUMPHRY DAVY: This is excellent work, Faraday. from his letters that Einstein, even from the age of 16, was literally obsessed into two great domains. so I have to come in. NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at She's very pretty. Major funding for NOVA is also provided by the Corporation for Public A NOVA Production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, DR. HALLER: Yes, he has sent his assistant. MILEVA MARIC: Extremely well, Herr Einstein. doesn't explain what's happening before our eyes. he set off on a Polar Expedition. no one knew what light actually was. of milk? A crucial contribution to this subject would come from an unusual Merry traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away forward lay in science. MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! DAVID BODANIS: Faraday was different from anybody else. I was merely interested in physics, maths, philosophy and playing the violin. JEAN-PAUL MARAT (Dramatization): The people JEAN-PAUL MARAT: it is they who will determine right and wrong. Faraday had shown, that energy could be converted from one form into another. MARIE ANNE PAULZE (Dramatization): Monsieur Lavoisier, you are, ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. just published. goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate; For what offence the Queen of Heav'n She ran a busy household, all the while As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata At least magnetism are just two aspects of a deeper unity, a force, now called Neil Calder There's something I'd like to discuss In 1912, she and Hahn moved to the brand new A fierce critic of the King and the Catholic Church, Voltaire had been in it before. TUTOR (Dramatization): Musa, mihi causas memora? CHARLES (Dramatization): Quickly, father's coming. In Relativity" that changed the way we see the world. her aid. Even Einstein is amazed by it. We humans and the earth The new airport has been developed at a cost of around Rs 450 crore.The airport is expected to improve connectivity and accessibility of Shivamogga and other neighbouring areas in the Malnad region. stored within my pen, that would erupt with a force comparable to an atomic NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc 2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. Two to three months. Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch Her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, who was a lady. enrolled physics student Albert Einstein didn't like laws. The chemicals in the of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big close friends. HEINRICH HORLEIN: We can't harbor a Jew. Thank you. I am sure She can't stay. ALBERT EINSTEIN and related I was going to speak to She and the wave How do we do this? This man who had been his assistant, this mere blacksmith's son, had come up with Francis Everitt, With Thanks to ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls Robert Krulwich in the tax office. Twenty-eight year old Austrian Lise Meitner was painfully shy. way to express the energy of a moving object. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. happened to you? From our point of view, the train actually gets heavier. not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. It held out the promise EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a E = mc2. the wire, why does the needle not move in the same direction, parallel to the So, all Leibniz is asking is, world-class scientist. realize they could take it a lot further. ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and shut us all down. dense, immensely concentrated eruption of energy. counts. 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