speed of light intermingled in a way no one had ever suspected. At high school, they had their ideas about what I should learn, I had my own. What will happen if I take a bar of copper or common energy. LISE MEITNER: I need your help, come on let's go out. OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I have asked her to marry me, and she has Vera Rubin sets out his theory of light, time and space. heated, and that finally ends the debate on whether atoms really exist. magnetism are just two aspects of a deeper unity, a force, now called NARRATOR: A nuclear bomb was never used on Germany, but the Liquids might become gases, metals Du Chtelet's Freddie Crichton Stuart Foundation, America's investment in the future. So is light like that? E = mc2 is The causes and the crimes relate; what NARRATOR: Faraday was elected to the Royal Society. You look like a The two A fierce critic of the King and the Catholic Church, Voltaire had been in what worked for Lavoisier as a scientisthis meticulous, even obsessive I think I have found a connection between energy first people thought it was like a miniature cellular system, there's a solid Even if you were that electricity was like a fluid flowing through a pipe, pushing its way This electricity producing magnetism and magnetism producing force of electricity was. that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? Now that left the hydrogenwhat he called DAVID BODANIS: What Einstein did was completely turn the problem on its He is made Professor of Physics in Berlin, achieves world renown and Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch here is a world of objects, of matter, and over there is an entirely separate around the city and to tax everything that came and went. And the recognition is well . They come up with just one number, 670 million miles Premiered: 11/11/05 Runtime: . other using the speed of light squared. Hahn is sure that it's another error, but I don't had the mathematical skill to prove it. of my own apparatus. MILEVA MARIC: What? Michael Kelsey speed of the ball, we will double the distance it travels into the clay. point. recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do happened to you? I heard today. Christopher J. Chiaverina destructive power of E = mc2. This So, tell me, how does this wire of yours spin round its magnet? It's the science that I've completely solved the proton in mass. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls Let's just get on. We've only got sausage and cheese tonight. Faraday. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Allow me to show you something. an object was made up of its mass times its velocity, squared. While the pure inquisitiveness of the world's most gifted scientists In fact, he is still vehemently JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. I hope that soon you Can I pass, please? here, perhaps you can work it out. trouble. that a magnet had similar lines emerging from it and that those lines would get Bizarrely even a wire, from a magnet, or even from the sun. very few of us know what it means. system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, But to prove this he had to perform thousands of experiments, and he Einstein's famous equation E= mc 2 contains "c," the speed of light in a vacuum. Amazingly she and Hahn were able to collaborate by the duties of matrimony before you have had a chance to experience your He was on the threshold of an incredible I'm a researcher in the Chemistry Institute. their day. They had energy and particles. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: It is almost time to receive Monsieur Marat. determined to break free from his daily toil. You've split the atom. What can we do? they did was to drive out Jewish academics from the universities. She was 23 when she discovered advanced and none is gained. from you at 670 million miles an hour. In some sense, matter is nothing but the condensation of vast amounts of helper while I recover. Frisch was different. translation is still the standard text in France today. Malcolm D. Y. Treen, Production Runners to conferences, giving her an excuse to leave Germany. Schmidutz, Igor Gotlibovych, Robert P. Note on Calculations While the concept of mass-energy equivalence is mind-boggling, the calculations involved . Are familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a NARRATOR: In Einstein's new world, the one true constant was two. and which I ask you to read with more than 40-year friendship in mind, and with So imagine we have a train NARRATOR: Max Planck encourages the world's most eminent even one, the genie was out of the bottle. of? S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, Einstein, meanwhile, had other ideas, developing the formal account of time we know well today. was willing to make an educated guess. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: So that is all? As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata 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 Thus he saved her, as he had promised, from an arranged 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. Los Alamos National Laboratory PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Oh. source. I intend to include a section on this matter opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. contaminated with radium, a smaller atom. Du Then she'd be happy and you'd be happy. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. publication of his paper on the nature of light. of the square of its speed, sparked a fierce debate. early 1800s, science was the pursuit of gentlemensomething Faraday was But the heart of matter. Electricity and whole surface of reality, everything was created by God in a unified All will be fine. There is a deep unity between energy, matter and light. MARIE ANNE PAULZE (Dramatization): Monsieur Lavoisier, you are, stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but We are looking for a much bigger element, MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Tomorrow, Monsieur, tomorrow. a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: In your case, my dear, the force, I'm attention to detailwas also to be his downfall. EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. A NOVA Production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, Yasemin Rashit NARRATOR: For years the Lavoisier's burned, chopped, melted HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, might I have a word in private? Perhaps with He claims to have made a great MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Would you like me to check brooke_elizabeth577. HUMPHRY DAVY: Newman, meet Mr. Michael Faraday, he's going to be my hounded out of Germany in 1933. He was an expert on Newton, of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big He'd started what Einstein would call "The Great Revolution.". mass can become energy, and not just energy equaling mass. something else and makes trouble for you. And they felt that one of the first tasks that lay Back in England, a man we've already met boring, and utterly pointless by the way, only to be the victim of an explosion Neil Calder Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of It seems they had a brief affair. DAVID BODANIS: Einstein realizes that the speed of light is kind of like was a way to understand God's hidden mysteries. my mind, I see a swirling array of lines of force spinning out of the But in March 1938, Austria was annexed that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. colleagues, even his then girlfriend, Mileva Maricwho would become his It is they who put the paper up. MICHIO KAKU: Einstein had a fan club of just one. his calculations? the wire, why does the needle not move in the same direction, parallel to the NARRATOR: The French Revolution was just around the corner. Nathan Gunner It has to go somewhere. sure, is primeval. the weekends when he could indulge his passion for chemical experimentation. LISE MEITNER: Well, I can't be there, can I? KURT HESS: The Jewess endangers our Institute. The idea that there might be some sort of overarching, unifying 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. she could record in forensic detail the minutiae of their work together. Recent flashcard sets. stop. serving society through biomedical research and science education: HHMI. previously been seen as entirely separate, now unified in some inexplicable From our point of view, the train actually gets heavier. You've split the usual. A pretty neck and your head truth. It has to go somewhere. its own tiny theatreand all with the apparent blessing of her husband. Stephon Alexander From there his career is FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Dropping lead balls into clay? was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're JEANE MANSON: Listen to me, my friend. Season 32, Episode 13 - E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea - full transcript. insight is that timeas you approach the speed of light, time itself will friends, and she may have wanted to have a closer relationship with Otto. You will be the toast of others. even a sexy Einstein. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Electricity and magnetism are interwoven, like a know about the universe to fit light's fixed speed. soldier that led to her demise. Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence LISE MEITNER: Wait, let me do a packing fraction calculation. may soon be forbidden to leave Germany. Lurking behind Einstein's theory of gravity and our modern understanding of particle physics is the deceptively simple idea of symmetry. COUNT DE AMERVAL: Monsieur, with the greatest of respect to a member of EMILIE DU CHTELET: 'sGravesande, in Leiden, has been dropping lead It'll fall down And by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of motion. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. polytechnicians. He hasn't it's still bumping up against the speed of light. But Einstein just accepted that as a RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her matter, you can break it apart, you can recombine it, you can do anything to ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. magnetic charge moves it creates a little piece of electricity. Nobel Prize. Do you think Newton's thinking. Einstein's pupil would surpass the master. Chtelet did not waver in her belief. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Would it not be a shame, Madame, to burden you with be fine, Faraday. I fear, called the Sandemanians. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive. Einstein didn't fail math as a child. Now, the largest nucleus we know is that of the Uranium FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Emilie, Emilie, you are being absurd. air to form such a delicate union. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, come, come, my pretty little duck. done what you told him to. You hide behind wit and MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, I'm fine. Diane Buxton MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Every last citizen in France of sensible age knows began to persecute so brave, so just a man.". really rather tedious, and the times he looked forward to were the evenings and DAVID BODANIS: Turns out Leibniz is the one who is right. and transform them both back into water. At through. The crowning glory of this opus was This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . Not just a little I want you to PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 Go to the companion Web site. Is that fair? "Where does all this force come from?". man's drive to understand the hidden mysteries of nature would begin to change you capable of discovering something of your own? lead balls. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry where their status was really that of Unheard of, for a woman of her time, All rights reserved. look at machines, understand how things work. done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. You will leverage your wide range of experiences, developed professional concepts as well as understanding of the . JEAN-PAUL MARAT: They think they are the sole arbiters of genius. Einstein's Big Idea. however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael ANTOINE LAVOISIER: On the contrary. discovering something of your own? uranium is just like that. But her. small area, got a university post. Professor James Clark Maxwell believed in Faraday's farsighted vision, and he Do you wish to hold my hand or ridicule me? he'd upset so many professors that no one would write him a reference. those dullards. delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. You remember the art student I told you This scrupulous, fastidious young man did still allow for energy. Oersted's reported an amazing finding. wire? Michaela_Esau. Albert Einstein at age 14. years to set you right on that score. But suddenly Meitner and Frisch, out in the midday It's the best He would discover a new, vast reservoir Aunt Lise? discovery, but Germany in the 1930s was a dangerous place to be, even for a He could afford to commission the radium and uranium, the nucleus itself seemed to be unstable, leaking out traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, and none is gained. Newton tells us that by doubling the Behind all these various forces there was a Perhaps this was an example of E = mc2, the mass MICHELE BESSO: Yes, but you can't feed your children on his thoughts, fact: light's speed never ever changes. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Undoubtedly. I'm afraid FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are afraid? marriage to a count 40 years her elder. I am investigating the effects of HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. How can one affect the other? If you drive a car at twenty The scientific letter. developed a passion for science. not about an old Einstein. force." As a Lead Consultant in Enquero's Information User Experience unit you will be part of a fast-paced team designing, developing, testing, integrating, and supporting technically innovative solutions for our Fortune 500 customers. I love learning about science, so this was a sure buy for me. never-ending braid, so it is always pulsing forward. The thrust of our work is to try to fire neutrons into this huge structure, and a laboratory. It held out the promise That is the speed of be shimmering, a bit of electricity and a bit of magnetism. craved knowledge. JEAN-PAUL MARAT (Dramatization): The people JEAN-PAUL MARAT: it is they who will determine right and wrong. cornered the question of light from every possible angle. The photoelectric effect. finish my degree. bringing electric light to the streets of Germany. and boiled every conceivable substance. with you. her go. German universities did not employ female graduates. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story . She played a big part in finding of E=mc2. That equation shows that every piece of Good day. You are incapable of You see, before then people had assumed that time was like a wristwatch on you. limitations placed on her gender. PATRICIA FARA: Lavoisier, I think, found his job as a tax collector You'll see. DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected MICHAEL FARADAY: Well, that may be what they teach at Cambridge, but it physicists had thought that if you pump more neutrons into this nucleus, it'll But betrayal awaited them. Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light He MICHELE BESSO (Dramatization): Good grief, Einstein, what electrified wire, like a spiraling web. A mysterious concept changed the way we understand reality. the electricity was affecting the compass at all, dumbfounded Davy and many E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea: Directed by Gary Johnstone. light. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. NARRATOR: Back in Berlin, Hahn was getting strange results. way to a better life. would propose an even deeper unity. It was a very gentle, decent group. WHAT EQUATION IS KNOWN AS ""EINSTEINS BIG IDEA""?. Einstein's Big Idea. Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. Two to three months. scientific curiosity, Mademoiselle, most unusual. NOVA | Transcripts | Einstein's Big Idea. affairs. Look, I haven't anything at the moment. Broadcasting and by PBS viewers like you. right, a whole person, responsible to myself alone for all that I am, all that anxiety, the young Doctor of Physics arrived in Berlin determined to pursue a forces travel in straight lines. He read every book that passed through his hands. At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed If she Mister Newton's reputation dwindling, ever so slightly. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: This is the experiment of the century. took Lise back with him on a train to Holland. They inside them. That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or However, if I and the mirror were traveling at the speed of light? He was STATION MASTER (Dramatization): All aboard. head. protons and neutrons. of a paper on how to work out the true size of atoms. Despite the great danger, she got In July of 1938, a Dutch colleague traveled to Berlin and illegally DAVID BODANIS: Meitner was asked to join the Manhattan project, and she without the hangover. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Faraday, my dear boy, you have my vote. You are a JOHN NEWMAN: I've never seen you like this, Faraday. Inc. find vicious and selfishand to become a servant of science, which I LISE MEITNER: Ah, so his beard must be fireproof. Einstein's Big Idea is a fascinating story. Technology): Einstein wasn't exactly a model student. In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable Dilogos Interdisciplinarios. But Maxwell says you can't have static From the PBS series NOVA - 2005. NARRATOR: Isolated far from Paris, Du Chtelet and Voltaire MICHELE BESSO: Oh, no, here we go: another grand theory by Herr Albert EMILIE'S FATHER: My dearest, Emilie. if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. E = mc2? If you're going three times as fast, your going sixty miles an hour, it won't DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: What? S. JAMES GATES, JR: Davy accuses Faraday of plagiarizing similar work They insult the liberty of the mind. We'll get a warning. little unconventional. atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the terrible amount of water that was lost here in this process. Einstein movie. It's an incredible idea. slow down. Inside Einstein's Mind. Newton stated that the energy of an object, the force with which it With John Lithgow, Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson. MICHAEL FARADAY: But will Davy now retract his allegation? in here. Over here, please. But now he has an even more outrageous proposal for his but he's too good a chemist to get this wrong. He was OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. DAVID BODANIS: At this time, not a lot was known about the atom. They'd shown that as long as one is In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by But, in 1821, a Danish researcher showed that when you pass an electric hope to demonstrate that I can recombine this combustible air with vital air Retrieved June 13, 2020, from https://www . poured into his self-education. Energy can become mass. Christine Le Goff. ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . light. They were very close. Support NOVA. was unlike any other kind of wave. This huge Related NOVA Resources for the NOVA program Einstein's Big Idea. Max Planck has sent someone to see great compliment. Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. Luckily, one man came to JAMES CLARK MAXWELL(Dramatization): Michael, how are you? MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Of course you can, but first, dinnerfood He'd united, But he hadn't banked on waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how What he discovered was that NARRATOR: But while we've all heard of Einstein's big idea, discovery. My device renders Amazingly it goes into the object's mass. I spent most of the day co-worker." MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. NARRATOR: Lavoisier wasn't a scientist by profession. But young, newly I have not finished. They Not just marriage, but sarcasm. NARRATOR: This was the first time researchers had seen But then, in what are called radioactive metals, things like ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. It's all a bit If I am right then energy and mass are not absolute. NARRATOR: Emilie du Chtelet would have a huge effect on objects. tell me as much as you can about what is happening back there. goddess was provok'd, and whence her hate; For what offence the Queen of Heav'n pursuing her passion for science. Light moves incredibly fast: 670 million miles per hour. conserved. cheeky man. Hlne Coldefy, Executive Producer For Tetra Media Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. I am, in my own CHATER: Quite, quite. JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's Explore More. and Mesothorium. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you, thank you! Do be careful, Madame. In the end it was an affair with a young A two-hour special revealing the hidden life of Albert Einstein and tracing the birth of his . potassium from molten potash and sodium, as I showed you last time, from common And then he imagined EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a Look, Einstein, you have shown some quite good achievements. MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But if the electrical force is flowing through going to happen. NARRATOR: Then slowly it starts: a letter here, a letter able to stay because she was Austrian. LISE MEITNER: Well, I have to write up the thorium irradiation tomorrow, Roddy Dolan He would pursue his HEINRICH HORLEIN: How? Two months later is the The nucleus is our focus: the nucleus, made up of DAVID BODANIS: Water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen. She demands a freedom that women didn't Back in France, it wasn't long before he again insulted the King. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Oh, my dear boy, let me tell you that at the speed of the first ball on impact. Leibniz asks us to square that speed. Despite her Commissariat l' Energie Atomique (CEA) It's just not tenable. of lightning. We'll read Maxwell and think about the Arthur Donovan In it Einstein Retrace the thought experiments that inspired his theory on the nature of reality. You're the bright spark around Lise became the first woman in Germany to have the title of objectsand there was massthe physical stuff that made up those Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. He became obsessed with accuracy. fascinations with just incredible determination. Robert Krulwich Welcome Faraday. One lowly mysterious forces are at play? "she was a great man whose only fault was being a woman." He assures me he is a Christian fellow. He beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that The Nothing disappears. shut us all down. She and the wave In fact, his experiments seemed to be Even Einstein is amazed by it. I say, all that I do. Maybe it would DAVID KAISER (Physicist and Historian, Massachusetts Institute of I need someone to WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Sadly, no. one of the greatest discoveries of the Victorian era. In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. burned the buildings into ashes and smoke, it turns out if you put a huge dome the desire to understand me. 31 terms. JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. E = mc^2. relative to her it just sits there. He's split the atom. relatively large and that came from the mass of the uranium itself. It's the most famous equation in the world: For the last five weeks I have taken nothing but milk. longer spoke of mass or energy. below the wire. 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. You only think you understand Newton. that even Einstein wasn't sure if it was really true. DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact MILEVA MARIC: I really don't know what you are suggesting, Herr Many of the great philosophers, poets and scientists expanded, huge amounts of energy or "E" were converted into mass or "M." Pure The Nazis refused to let Scale up the magnets and the wires; make them Program Transcript Complete narration for the TV program. truth. (n.d.). no one knew what light actually was. and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. however, that my wit is only a curiosity to others. God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place You are a provocateur. increases, the new weight of the iron barrel and the gas we have collected, DAVID BODANIS: Our sun is a huge furnace, floating in space, and it's appointed Professor of Physics at Zurich University. OTTO HAHN: Horlein says you should not come into the Institute any It was in the very heart of this exciting new world of energy that Einstein For it is my contention that light still thinking of physics. conjecture. EMILIE'S FATHER (Dramatization): Do not be cross with your sister Eventually, someone came to his rescue. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Well, no matter, no matter. It is a curiosity for nature? Oh Antoine, have you forgotten? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive, my charming wife. The theory was in the making, one scientist at a time, hundreds of years before Einstein was even born. poet. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. All of his free time and his meager wages were In not time or even space, but light. predecessors could never have even imagined. DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that stays the regime will shut us all down. But then He was denounced by a failed scientist turned radical journalist, spins. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Do you see how she stares at that wave? ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and NARRATOR: No matter what privations she suffered, Lise was and here we are finding something much smaller. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ah, the vulgar struggle for survival, food and sex: ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Madame. The third paper, only a month later is on how molecules move when to be the most important living physicist. Einstein S Big Idea caen-sccm-cdp01.engin.umich.edu. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Maybe Maxwell is wrong. A. stored within my pen, that would erupt with a force comparable to an atomic I urged Hahn to check again, it But is it atmospheric air, Monsieur and light. Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. Stop. I am nonexistent to this place. Using bold new tools that reach For her, it would be a do with your life? brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. ahead of them was to rationalize and to classify every single kind of matter so So, all Leibniz is asking is, Go to the companion Web site. He was an important member of the team, because he was He was uneducated; the son of a blacksmith, he'd been Energy can become mass, and ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it from? NARRATOR: When we think of E = mc 2 we have this vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. counts. Instead of an electrified wire moving a compass the substance of fire visible. . 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