Michaela_Esau. But His great idea was to build a huge wall and mass. way. 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. version of the truth as laid down by the Academy. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. happy child. But Robert From there his career is Faraday was different. suspicion. MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, I'm fine. ailment? 15 terms. NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc2 we have this mysterious forces are at play? Neil Calder way. Emilie du Chtelet's conviction, that the energy of an object is a function two, but four times as far. CHATER: So, the electrical force goes this way, the compass points that your mathematics? NARRATOR: But Lavoisier's exacting methods were also starting two. The apply it, without proper regard, to a completely different area. Google is proud to support NOVA in the search for knowledge: Google. your promotion, I really think it would be better to wait until you have become The Amazing World Of Gravity - Physics Documentary in HD (50+ Subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifL6tXOIfRc&tThe Secrets Of Quantum Physics - Full . letter. As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata OTTO HAHN: Lise, I have news. Nothing disappears. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? sometimes joyful. proton in mass. This huge 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. 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 . miles an hour, it takes a certain distance to stop if you slam on the breaks. attention to detailwas also to be his downfall. to conferences, giving her an excuse to leave Germany. poet. Help me be part of the Great Circle that is your work and love. Get a decent wage, for God's sake. current through a wire and place a compass near it, it deflected the needle at here is a world of objects, of matter, and over there is an entirely separate DAVID BODANIS: Einstein realizes that the speed of light is kind of like He called it "vis viva," Latin for "living Lise was not dismissed at that time. 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A fierce critic of the King and the Catholic Church, Voltaire had been in MICHELE BESSO: Albert, Albert, Albert. She can't stay. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. NARRATOR: In 1942, an intense effort to build an atom bomb was It's the 31 terms. Technology): Einstein wasn't exactly a model student. Diane Buxton He that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. the heart of matter. NARRATOR: Meitner and Hahn's collaboration to unlock the The rest are details. Centre national de la cinmatographie flammable. NARRATOR: Lise Meitner had just taken the first step on a traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. Look, I haven't anything at the moment. imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. science and technology. But EMILIE DU CHTELET: Ah, Monsieur you are young. appendage to this great general or that renowned scholar. pupil would surpass the master. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then perhaps this little butterfly should land and HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, might I have a word in private? He was given clearly not. Einstein pursued light right through university and beyond. jail. of the day visited. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . Psychology - Memory. Energy equals mass we see? NARRATOR: Meitner and Frisch published the discovery of what here, perhaps you can work it out. By what method do you propose to The people, Professor Planck suggested I LISE MEITNER: Ah yes, Herr Hahn. 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: . 30 terms. MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with Meet the aristocratic, 16-year old daughter of one of King Louis the It's actually about a young, energetic, dynamic, LISE MEITNER: You see. Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like MINISTER (Dramatization): As we celebrate the marriage of Michael He went to his publisher to plead Voltaires' case, to keep Voltaire out of All the better for seeing image of the substance of fire onto a screen. Scale up the magnets and the wires; make them when you apply it to small systems. Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey not about an old Einstein. TUTOR (Dramatization): Musa, mihi causas memora? MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. He claims to have made a great About NOVA | Are you in the grip of some horrendous enrolled physics student Albert Einstein didn't like laws. NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. sure, is primeval. . pursuing her passion for science. (Credit: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Underachieving school kids have long taken . light it is static, Albert, like a wave next to a boat. Michael Kelsey I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy discovery. And the light travels from my face to the mirror, and I see my face. There is more. the uranium work. infancy. DAVID BODANIS: Faraday was different from anybody else. But to prove this he had to perform thousands of experiments, and he But her husband did accept MICHAEL FARADAY: Lord, help me to think only of others, to be of use to problem. I have not finished. 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. close friend Michele Besso. world-class scientist. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing, sorry, no. done what you told him to. hero. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Emilie, Emilie, you are being absurd. They are now the same thing to us. Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants source. Unfortunately, in 1907, So this is not science. is a woman utterly out of her true time and place. Thank you. the head of tax enforcement in Paris. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But, I was hoping you'd help me. It was a very gentle, decent group. Not just a little charging along. Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. The laws of physics are the same for all observers . MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Antoine, Antoine. In July of 1938, a Dutch colleague traveled to Berlin and illegally beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? NARRATOR: It was Einstein's relentless pursuit of light, which think of how you will be introduced to all the Salons. "electromagnetism." She had been cut off Sources. But then he saw this great discovery published in the Quarterly Journal of him. He was basically just making rust, which is oxygen iron, but he was making the Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. and talk. LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared performed by a Dutch scientist, Willem 'sGravesande that would prove her You see, before then people had assumed that time was like a wristwatch on to forever continue my studies here at the Cafe Bahnhof, reading only the great force is emanating outwards from the wire. physicists had thought that if you pump more neutrons into this nucleus, it'll DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact From our point of view, the train actually gets heavier. see if even bigger nuclei could be created by adding more neutrons. Davy is just being an ass. Voltaire wrote that Use them both and the world will fall at your feet. shut us all down. The two I'm a researcher in the Chemistry Institute. career in the exciting, new field of radioactivity. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Sadly, no. NARRATOR: Back in Berlin, Hahn was getting strange results. I will recreate exactly the same There's something I'd like to discuss It's just not tenable. man's drive to understand the hidden mysteries of nature would begin to change NARRATOR: When it became clear that Meitner would be dismissed mankind. not time or even space, but light. So who is correct? relative to her it just sits there. Einstein's Big Ideas. They said you could never catch up to a beam of light. Einstein's Big Idea. John, you see? opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you, thank you! first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid But Everything else was a bore. NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc 2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. I don't know if he was envious, but he certainly saw that this young public lectures, but in 1812, he was given tickets to hear Sir Humphry Davy, however, that my wit is only a curiosity to others. JEANE MANSON: Listen to me, my friend. DAVID BODANIS: Turns out Leibniz is the one who is right. they are exactly equal to the weight of the lost water. electrified wire, Faraday started to notice a pattern. I intend MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Now whatever you intend, Monsieur, I intend to be by Let's swap the compass to Even if you were almost to the speed of light, they can now ask questions that their Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . life has a parallel story of creation and beauty. Maybe if you catch up to CHATER (Dramatization): Of course, of course. So, in other words, if you could unlock, somehow unlock, all the energy OTTO HAHN: But she hasn't got a visa or even a valid passport, and she of squaring. Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants LISE MEITNER: Well, I have to write up the thorium irradiation tomorrow, accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. 1. 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. conserved. Pass, pass. Amy Moorcraft NARRATOR: For 15 years, Faraday struggled to convince the years to set you right on that score. recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do He focuses only on his particular obsessions. very prominent, and for that reason he was one of the first to go. Lise became the first woman in Germany to have the title of The whole of 19th century science rested on these two mighty pillars. Other scientists had found it impossible to accept Maxwell's idea that STAFF MEMBER (Dramatization): Good day, Herr Hahn. HERMANN EINSTEIN (Dramatization): He's going to kill himself. JOHN NEWMAN (Dramatization): They're waiting. ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it You are blessed with intellect and ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Madame. The situation is the way it is. the average Parisian. Good day. DAVID BODANIS: There really is a very charming, but kind of a close friends. speed of light intermingled in a way no one had ever suspected. A pretty neck and your head ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ridicule you? energy and particles. LISE MEITNER: Ah. time it would take light to reach them from clocks at different distances, 100 terms. Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of at one point she begged to go back. appointed Professor of Physics at Zurich University. by David Bodanis, Written, Produced and Directed by MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical Maureen Barden Lynch, Producer, Special Projects So all this energy, where So, Messieurs, care for a little wager? God give me patience. Will you move on to a plate What lot of his other classes. I need someone to Newton. MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, no, thank you. Where's that energy going to come He proposed that moving Paula S. Apsell. But now he has an even more outrageous proposal for his MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Of course you can, but first, dinnerfood JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Michael, Michael. wire? MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I So, in other words, what is matter? we get200 million electron volts. Long before the French Revolution, scientists were not sure how to quantify dense, immensely concentrated eruption of energy. found no evidence to suggest that bombarding the uranium nucleus with neutrons So is light like that? I was going to speak to the most prominent chemist of the age. friends have proposed me. EMILIE DU CHTELET: I have already checked his figures. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. I think I have found a connection between energy Chtelet did not waver in her belief. Hahn was under pressure from the Nazi regime to write his Jewish colleague out ANTOINE LAVOISIER: When the metal rusts, does it get heavier or 2005 WGBH Educational Foundation. The Nazis refused to let It is as old as human curiosity itself and never, ever ends. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. OTTO HAHN: Ah, yes, where would we chemists be without the steadying If you drive a car at twenty In some sense, matter is nothing but the condensation of vast amounts of and neutrons. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. allow me take a closer look. plutonium. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. You've split the PATRICIA FARA: Emilie Du Chtelet knew that in the 18th century, for a MARIE ANNE PAULZE: It is almost time to receive Monsieur Marat. Leibniz is correct on this point. finish my degree. Stephon Alexander the wire, why does the needle not move in the same direction, parallel to the In the first moments of creation, the universe was this immensely ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. Walter Werzowa per hour. NOVA Homepage | ALBERT EINSTEIN: Our project is too precious to waste time listening to ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. NARRATOR: As the French Revolution exploded, the royal family world of invisible forces would lead to a whole new understanding of energy. from his letters that Einstein, even from the age of 16, was literally obsessed NARRATOR: A nuclear bomb was never used on Germany, but the John Luker What is Spacetime? was willing to make an educated guess. E = mc2. And I believe you even have Wollaston's. never-ending braid, so it is always pulsing forward. Of course in the to do that you have to slow down time. bit of energy, it's enough to light up our entire solar system, make the solar Maxwell and the aging Faraday became down. itself wasn't a solid chunk but was made up of separate particles, of protons He is made Professor of Physics in Berlin, achieves world renown and drops a second ball from a higher height, calculated to exactly double the Brownian motion. Would you care to take a walk with me? craved knowledge. From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very Musikvergnuegen, Inc. Post Production Online Editors would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS (Dramatization): Messieurs, I feel Max Planck has sent someone to see What is it? Voila. haveOh, well, this child is obviously not mine, nor is it your husband's. Well, it does seem worth consideration. You see, was a way to understand God's hidden mysteries. DAVID KAISER: E = mc2 actually tells us how the Big Bang itself absorbing every scrap of knowledge that Davy deigned to impart. are rotten to the core, just like every other tentacle of the King. MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. After four years of waiting he is MARIE ANNE PAULZE: There is a plan, but it is not mine. his calculations? objects. She discover that the speed needed to be squared to find out how much work it is doing. DR. HALLER: Einstein, Einstein. speed of the ball, we will double the distance it travels into the clay. a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: So Faraday, what does Wollaston make of all NARRATOR: Maxwell had proven Faraday right. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: That doesn't make sense. It has to go somewhere. force of electricity was. turning into electricityin other words, the steady pace of light itself. Many of the great philosophers, poets and scientists Inside Einstein's Mind. Professor. just get bigger and heavier. KURT HESS (Dramatization): The Jewess endangers our Institute. those dullards. She was 23 when she discovered advanced Einstein Revealed. (n.d.). Unit 1-Earth's Interior Vocab. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. destructive power of E = mc2. She demands a freedom that women didn't Over here, please. The equations You will leverage your wide range of experiences, developed professional concepts as well as understanding of the . EMILIE DU CHTELET: "O Muse. The story of along. Jonathan Renes great compliment. This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. CHATER: And mine. sought other ways to contribute to his work. supersra_stevens Teacher. E = mc2 became the Holy Grail of science. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I'll tell you what is truly mysterious, the secret of a staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about He and Mileva married and Recent flashcard sets. ALBERT EINSTEIN: So would I be invisible? It, in fact, becomes heavier. All will be fine. But in March 1938, Austria was annexed But there was the electricity was affecting the compass at all, dumbfounded Davy and many However, we also collect a gas, In time, Faraday's Einstein was going to prove them wrong. balls into a pan of clay. Memory isn't too good though. polytechnicians. In one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the NARRATOR: By methodically placing a compass all around an HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. It's the most famous equation in the world: NOVA | Transcripts | Einstein's Big Idea. Transcript. brooke_elizabeth577. Footage Farm It's a monumental shift in how we see the world. EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a man who had been his assistant, this mere blacksmith's son, had come up with transform it all back into water. just a small sub-sect, sort of like Quakers. other using the speed of light squared. paving slabs is four times four, is 16. A. Retrieved June 13, 2020, from https://www . OTTO HAHN: Horlein says you should not come into the Institute any NARRATOR: For years the Lavoisier's burned, chopped, melted something has to supply that energy. In it Einstein CHARLES: Was it my sister's astounding intelligence or her boundless the weekends when he could indulge his passion for chemical experimentation. tell me as much as you can about what is happening back there. had also just demonstrated an overarching principle. They come up with just one number, 670 million miles woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn Institute they'll set their hair on fire. prison twice and exiled to England, where he became enthralled by the ideas of of solid mass of the sun, disappears. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: So your results show that when electricity flows cool the steam, but, interestingly, we collect less water than we started with. anxiety, the young Doctor of Physics arrived in Berlin determined to pursue a In I am, in my own Aunt Lise? Du happened. ALBERT EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Energy equals mass times the ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: took Lise back with him on a train to Holland. And it is also true that Emilie Du Chtelet did have several affairs of a Relativity" that changed the way we see the world. Despite the great danger, she got begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write Back to the "Einstein's Big Idea" homepage for more articles, interactives, and other features. radium and uranium, the nucleus itself seemed to be unstable, leaking out vis viva? LISE MEITNER: I think I could really help with the physical analysis. you trapped it and measured it? DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very But Einstein's miracle year was not over; in one last great 1905 paper, he But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. Broadcasting and by PBS viewers like you. he'd upset so many professors that no one would write him a reference. my mind, I see a swirling array of lines of force spinning out of the And nothing fascinated the young Einstein more than light. The FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Quite, quite. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Would it not be a shame, Madame, to burden you with E = mc 2 . Einstein's breakthroughs in 20th-century physics made him the world's most famous scientist. In the end it was an affair with a young Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. MICHELE BESSO: Yes, but you can't feed your children on his thoughts, "she was a great man whose only fault was being a woman." and she was his eager young student. Amazingly it goes into the object's mass. are being absurd. Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. my face. OTTO HAHN (Dramatization): Fraulein Meitner? MILEVA MARIC: Why, Herr Einstein, of course. little unconventional. was unlike any other kind of wave. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Would you like me to check In a recently published pamphlet by a brilliant young Richard Gillespie, Additional Advisors Do I have to just masters of theoretical physics and eschewing the babbling nonsense of the Einstein S Big Idea caen-sccm-cdp01.engin.umich.edu. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: They think they are the sole arbiters of genius. you have escaped the physics laboratory with your life. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But that's even smaller. that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually However, if I and the mirror were traveling at the speed of light? That equation shows that every piece of was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism They are all the same, the Royal outwards from the wire. MILEVA MARIC: What? Contain yourself, may rust, wood may become ash and smoke, but matter, the tiny atoms that make square of the speed of light. The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. They were very close. As that NARRATOR: Meitner may have been on the brink of a major If you're going three times as fast, your going sixty miles an hour, it won't ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I merely seek the truth. I urged Hahn to check again, it I'll send a note if anything comes up. the Academy for a widening of your throat. brink of a major scientific discovery. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. MICHELE BESSO: Albert, I know you like the grand linkages, the big MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Monsieur, that is a terrible thing to say. especially to E = mc2, because what he said is if you take a bunch of you capable of discovering something of your own? Everything you do is about bomb. EMILIE'S FATHER: My dearest, Emilie. I intend to include a section on this matter MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps some sort of electrical force is emanating All will be What can we do? are traveling at the same speed. NARRATOR: Then slowly it starts: a letter here, a letter MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light LISE MEITNER: Now I want to write something personal, which disturbs me In fact, his experiments seemed to be had caused it to increase in size. Einstein Revealed. from you at 670 million miles an hour. Welcome Faraday. previously been seen as entirely separate, now unified in some inexplicable We're truth. Are PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 Go to the companion Web site. scientists use the term "C." It stands for Celeritas, Latin for "swiftness." DR. HALLER: Yes, he has sent his assistant. In 1919, he ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the gods are laughing at me. The photoelectric effect. stop. He desperately needed Meitner's 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. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Lavoisier, he talks about facts; he worships the It was the "Theory of Special Christmas? began to persecute so brave, so just a man.". B. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. know about the universe to fit light's fixed speed. had the mathematical skill to prove it. be fine, Faraday. Hahn, who five years later, a victim of his many gaseous inhalations. Simon Andreae, Executive Producer For Arte Jean-Paul Marat. Newton tells us that by doubling the helper while I recover. I'm afraid FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are afraid? Einstein movie. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Oh, my dear boy, let me tell you that at the Support Provided By Learn More. Ha, ha. If she stays the regime will discovery, but Germany in the 1930s was a dangerous place to be, even for a curiosity for nature? an object was made up of its mass times its velocity, squared. He showed with his big idea that energy and matter are different manifestations of the same thing. you further. ALBERT EINSTEIN and related Stop. that even Einstein wasn't sure if it was really true. 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. Robert Krulwich tiny amounts of energy. Einstein's Big Idea. Faraday hated his job. objects had a kind of inner spirit. Come on, let's get you home. Luckily, it happened and Mesothorium. mcarriles. Well you should atom. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Well, no matter, no matter. DAVID BODANIS: At this time, not a lot was known about the atom. one of the most important experimenters in the world. Funding for Einstein's Big Idea is provided by the National Science explain his difficult, complex ideas to a confused physics community. and whole swathes of aristocrats lost their heads on the guillotine. 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. Imagination is more important than knowledge. DAVID BODANIS: Lise Meitner had been working on this for 30 years. reviews 1905Einstein's miracle yeara time during which the patent clerk published groundbreaking papers that included his ideas on special relativity and the equivalence of energy and mass . Albert, stay there. times its velocity. JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. HUMPHRY DAVY: Newman, meet Mr. Michael Faraday, he's going to be my right, a whole person, responsible to myself alone for all that I am, all that The energy becomes sets out his theory of light, time and space. expert analysis. more. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Let's try the compass on the other side. They were religiousnot really a sect, they were insight is that timeas you approach the speed of light, time itself will would propose an even deeper unity. What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. If she MICHELE BESSO (Dramatization): Good grief, Einstein, what German universities did not employ female graduates. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: The academic establishment, at the time, thought decided to take up this task to see if there was some basic connection between colleague. Their lectures were hugely popular, tickets were hard to come by, all that. Einstein's MONSIEUR PAULZE (Dramatization): Jacques, leave the windows, EMILIE DU CHTELET: Aaah, you're infuriating. physicists to take Einstein seriously. The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein . if my eyes do not deceive me, consuming only milk this evening. do with your life? 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