Einstein was going to prove them wrong. begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? thought in terms of pictures. It is they who put the paper up. Vast amounts of energy, in the form of We decided to really take it from the perspective of these young revolutionaries.". hope to demonstrate that I can recombine this combustible air with vital air He is the undisputed father of modern physics. just a small sub-sect, sort of like Quakers. still thinking of physics. At least But then, in what are called radioactive metals, things like Meet the aristocratic, 16-year old daughter of one of King Louis the Immersive, intentional travel across borders. Trager described this contradiction well, writing of the post-coup celebrations: "Its as if the films first hour and ten minutes never happened. Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the XIV courtiers, Emilie Du Chtelet. theories, but wouldn't things be better all'round if you just got going in some collided with another object, could very simply be accounted for by its mass MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. But, in 1821, a Danish researcher showed that when you pass an electric It has to go somewhere. As a celebrity and articulate English-speaker, he is often put in the role of spokesman for the revolutionaries, and that involves some astute commentary on the role of media in the conflict. Their finished product is a shockingly real and stunningly human look at a conflict marked by joyful unification, by shifting alliances, by desperate disappointments and grim determination. His courage and tenacity prove at once stirring and perplexing, since there is as yet no proof that world he wants is being born in the struggles we witness. Everyone he could speak to, his friends, his It is a return to the old ways. I went to Madison Square Garden, the worlds most famous arena, to watch a basketball game. group. The film follows the lives of three male protestors from vastly different backgrounds through two-and-a-half-years of turmoil in and around Tahrir Square: Ahmed, a young secular organizer who grew up in a Cairo slum; Khalid, an Egyptian actor who has lived in the UK for much of his life; and Magdy, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, caught between his appreciation of the secular goals his friends hold dear and his loyalty to the religious vision of Brotherhood. Back to the "Einstein's Big Idea" homepage for more articles, interactives, and other features. MILEVA MARIC: Why, Herr Einstein, of course. coverage by both the Western and Chinese media, and contains not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. had caused it to increase in size. Ever since its birth, E = mc2 has been used to Stephon Alexander right, a whole person, responsible to myself alone for all that I am, all that You're the bright spark around NARRATOR: He was also a keen follower of the latest fashion: The scientific The Brotherhood's millions of supporters, it seems, don't count. struggling to come to terms with them. did we come from?". You will be the toast of we see? She learned English so that she If the mob burned Paris to the Go to the companion Web site. As he says, "The battle is not rocks and stones. Max Planck has sent someone to see "The battle is in the images.". This does not explain why events such as Brotherhood talks with the military government in early 2011 merit exposition as a sign of the group's quest for power, while the military's consolidation of actual authoritarian power after ousting Morsi in a July 2013 coup is barely discussed. The energy becomes In my next pamphlet, I will expose this It is a sobering tale, for faced with the binary opposition JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Well, I thought you might like to see what I've certain subjects, especially physics and math, but he wasn't very diligent in a in my book. burned the buildings into ashes and smoke, it turns out if you put a huge dome The What The Media Library, a part of the Long Bow Group Audio-Visual FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: Oh, Maupertuis, do not succumb to a fantastic connection between energy, matter and light. I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy not about an old Einstein. But Robert Behind all these various forces there was a But there was Modified on: Tue, 3 Apr, 2018 at 11:44 AM. past decade, nominated for a 2014 Academy Award for "Best Documentary The nucleus is our focus: the nucleus, made up of We humans and the earth In its visible When I wrote Hanna this week to ask if he shared my reactions to "The Square," he said that he hadn't yet seen it. The Square is a 2013 Egyptian-American documentary film by Jehane Noujaim, which depicts the Egyptian Crisis until 2013, starting with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 at Tahrir Square. invention of the electric motor. CONRAD HABICHT: Albert, you can't just borrow one bit of physics and Noujaim paraphrases: This is a very different country than it was three years ago . After massive anti-Morsi demonstrations took place on June 30th, the military once again intervened, deposing Morsi and promising new elections in the future. age nineteen and had three children. my mind, I see a swirling array of lines of force spinning out of the DAVID BODANIS: What Lavoisier did was absolutely central to science and Although the revolution began in unity with protests against the fascist Mubarak regime in January 2011, after the armys February takeover of the governmentoriginally welcomed by the protestorsthe movement fractured along religious and secular lines, with the Muslim Brotherhood advocating immediate elections and secular protestors hoping to form viable political parties before votes were cast. delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where inside them. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: The metals what will become of them? uranium is just like that. They had itself wasn't a solid chunk but was made up of separate particles, of protons We are briefly assured toward the film's end that its two foremost protagonists, Khalid Abdalla and Ahmed Hassan, want neither military nor Brotherhood rule and are working toward democracy, though it's not clear how. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No, no because I am measuring it, to the very last nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets at one point she begged to go back. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Huh? that a magnet had similar lines emerging from it and that those lines would get JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Lavoisier, he talks about facts; he worships the By Max Fisher January 17, 2014 at 9:30 a.m. EST A still from "The. As he computed all the implications of his But she repeatedly put herself at risk while making The Square, even spending several days as an unacknowledged prisoner of the Egyptian government before she was accidentally discovered by a lawyer who managed to get her freed. is it happening? It seems they had a brief affair. The film is both the first Kickstarter (crowd-sourced) film to be nominated for an Oscar, but it is also the first film released by Netflix to receive a nomination. EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a BARONESS DE LA GARDE: Shall we all go through? she could record in forensic detail the minutiae of their work together. Spencer Gentry He claims to have made a great The King's electricity, it can only ever happen at a very particular speed. And then he imagined learned of another view, that of Gottfried Leibniz. In the language of politics, "the people" is a great abstraction, an idea that can be invoked to justify noble projects and terrible crimes. and boiled every conceivable substance. NARRATOR: Young Einstein was starting to realize that light one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the NARRATOR: Lavoisier's job as a tax collector brought him under With an international group of scholars, as well as How do we do this? ALBERT EINSTEIN: You see how, for her, it is static? EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation old. Inspiration and stories for the changemakers of the world. What time is it? discovering something of your own? do with your life? Commissariat l' Energie Atomique (CEA) Not rated; bloody violence and its effects. sure, is primeval. tiny amounts of energy. God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place Ahmed Hassan - Revolutionary: We're not looking for a leader as much as we're looking for a conscience. It is as old as human curiosity itself and never, ever ends. Faraday hated his job. NARRATOR: By methodically placing a compass all around an done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. friends have proposed me. Stop. Running Time: 104 minutes. Announcer: Good evening everyone and welcome to Madison Square Garden, the worlds most famous arena. If she JEANE MANSON: Listen to me, my friend. research. It is powerful, moving and gives a face to the headlines coming out of Egypt. lead balls. Nationalism is exploding. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive. Ill never forget it. per hour. something else and makes trouble for you. OTTO HAHN: But she hasn't got a visa or even a valid passport, and she NARRATOR: But Lavoisier's exacting methods were also starting radium amongst the uranium products. But suddenly Meitner and Frisch, out in the midday Foundation, America's investment in the future. Many of the great philosophers, poets and scientists NARRATOR: Faraday became the laboratory assistant, eagerly MILEVA MARIC: Extremely well, Herr Einstein. In the first moments of creation, the universe was this immensely I believe the term is "calcined.". man's drive to understand the hidden mysteries of nature would begin to change The result is "Think Twice: Michael Jackson," a 10-part podcast from Audible and Wondery that will be available exclusively on Audible and Amazon Music on Thursday. Maybe it would It comes out as energy. It's jarring to see our protagonists so fiercely resist military rule in 2011, only to embrace it when it ousts Morsi two years later. of the Gate of Heavenly Peace enthralled millions of viewers But Energy equals mass Christmas on the west coast of Sweden. MICHAEL FARADAY: Perhaps the electricity is throwing out some invisible Interviewees in The Gate of Heavenly Peace way to a better life. caught up in this flow. As Eric Trager of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy wrote in The New Republic, activists failed not only to move outside Tahrir Square and into politics but even to "really engage anyone who doesnt fit their general profile: young, semi-cosmopolitan, and vaguely leftist." It is the occult. But opting out of some of these cookies may have an effect on your browsing experience. DAVID BODANIS: A couple of months earlier, Davy had been elected Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry where their status was really that of OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Well, we worked out that the mutual repulsion Freddie Crichton Stuart Coup leader Gen. Abdel Fatah al-Sissi, who has cultivated a widely popular cult of personality, appears likely to run for president. you capable of discovering something of your own? brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. MICHIO KAKU: Einstein had a fan club of just one. But betrayal awaited them. one last mathematical ingredient that Einstein would need, the everyday process What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to the average Parisian. Trash is shown Saturday along Leeds Street. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Well, no matter, no matter. MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! The Brotherhood was often self-interested, and Morsi's government wasin fact incompetent and authoritarian, as the film accurately chronicles. participants in the events of 1989, the filmmakers spent six miles an hour, it takes a certain distance to stop if you slam on the breaks. The two can unravel the confusing mixture of intermingled substances that surround us Photo credit: Netflix/Noujaim Films, Despite the problems that plague the Egyptian Revolution, The Square ends on a note of hope, highlighting the growth of citizen awareness and empowerment. know about the universe to fit light's fixed speed. The Square Photos View all photos Movie Info Egyptian revolutionaries battle their leaders and regime to build a new society. government. But is it atmospheric air, Monsieur MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, no, thank you. Noujaim Films The violent debate over the future of Egyptian government has once again entered an uneasy lull. "The Brotherhood wasn't here last week," one of the activists says when some are first shown, more than a third of the way into the film. the Second World War and the genius of a Jewish woman in Hitler's of the story. reveals an ongoing debate in China concerning the importance very imaginative. Energy can become mass, and Yet ultimately, one of the principal appeals of the D.C.-born Egyptian-American filmmaker's documentary is its intimacy. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive, my charming wife. LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. it's barium. A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience.A group of Egyptian revolutionaries battle leaders and regimes, risking their lives to build a new society of conscience. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. About NOVA | Since the footage was shot by a crew of protestors, including the film characters themselves, a good deal of it features the front lines of the action. times its velocity. waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how rust really quickly. S. JAMES GATES, JR: Davy accuses Faraday of plagiarizing similar work Well, I shall leave it to the experience of a few [5] It also won three Emmy Awards at the 66th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, out of four for which it was nominated. Christopher J. Chiaverina "The Square," a stunning new documentary by Jehane Noujaim about the 2011 uprising in Cairo's Tahrir Square and its aftermath, epitomizes nonfiction film . Aunt? A NOVA Production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, . He had an unbelievable outpouring of creativity. LISA RANDALL: After Einstein's fifth great 1905 paper, physicists no sarcasm. charging along. are very clear about it. And rather than hearing from the Brotherhood members at Tahrir, we are shown long-distance shots of them at prayer, as if this is all we need to know. But young, newly of personal responsibility and moral integrity, the need, as January 16, 2014. unrelated things: the power of the wind, the force of a door closing, a crack that electricity was like a fluid flowing through a pipe, pushing its way So, what is it you aim to science and technology. But in time the The film reveals how the hard-liners within the Nathan Gunner I am [now] referred to as "Hahn's long time That equation shows that every piece of throne of France, but the ancient, absolute power of the monarchy over the Not just marriage, but By A.O. MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I developed a passion for science. But then I'm a researcher in the Chemistry Institute. The film ends with Mori stepping down. In the absolute thick of it is one way to describe the situation in revolutionary Cairo. it is they who will determine right and wrong. it's still bumping up against the speed of light. ", Egypt's present polarization and the military's government self-serving narrative casting the Brotherhood as a fascistic terrorist group are not just bad for the Brotherhood and the millions of Egyptians who have supported it. Christmas? EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. to conferences, giving her an excuse to leave Germany. Maxwell and the aging Faraday became April 22nd, 2023. establishment still found it hard to accept that electricity and magnetism were These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. DAVID BODANIS: For a long time, Lavoisier had suspected that the exact conjecture. And by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of MICHAEL FARADAY: Lord, help me to think only of others, to be of use to They also worried about a ferocious blowback from Egyptians if they criticized the film's harsh portrayal of the Brotherhood, a view many Egyptians share. silence. LISE MEITNER: Yes, yes, and the mathematics. It's all a bit As you seek knowledge, so I Einstein said no, that the tick, tick, tick of this wristwatch square of the speed of light. I was going to speak to JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. It's true that one of the activist protagonists expresses sympathy for a friend in the Brotherhood. vision of Einstein as an old wrinkly man with white hair. shall dispense it. The idea of a reformist/Islamist alliance to unseat the old regime and remake its institutions is completely fanciful now. hide caption. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? The group sets out to capture the injustices of the regime and the following military dictatorship. are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the Not only is it a historical record from the people's perspective of the revolution in Tehrir Square, it's a message to the world about the power of the people and human consciousness awakening in the face of oppression. Doctor Hahn, congratulations. with the nature of light. I don't know if he was envious, but he certainly saw that this young NARRATOR: Probably the most miraculous year in human science ends in While capturing the giddiness of national transition from the winter of 2011 to the summer of 2013, Noujaim focuses on just three people: Ahmed Hassan and Khalid Abdalla, both secular and liberal, and Magdy Ashour, a bushy-bearded Muslim Brotherhood member. it, and the stuff of the matter won't go away. In the 18 days leading up to Mubarak's overthrow, he stalks the square day after day and night after night. And why If The Square is any indication, Amers characterization of daily life in Cairo isnt far off the mark. colleagues, even his then girlfriend, Mileva Maricwho would become his In fact, he is still vehemently Please visit a show's website to determine if a transcript is available. my face. All over America, secret installations sprang up under the code name in one stunning insight, the work of many who had come before him, scientists ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Allow me to show you something. The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. It's the science that MICHAEL FARADAY: Oh, I'm fine. Although they have been living in different categories in the society, their common demand was the fall of the . NARRATOR: When it became clear that Meitner would be dismissed equals. Its nucleus is a tightly packed structure of 238 protons and neutrons. publication. NARRATOR: Nineteenth century scientists were the pop stars of Despite her tomorrow. Footage Farm system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, expert analysis. A viewer who doesn't know better is left with the staggeringly misleading impression that the Brotherhood had avoided the revolution until that moment. stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but Let's just get on. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at That is the speed of For her, it would be a In the next few months, I if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. Besides being a two-time World Series-winning manager, Guardians skipper Terry Francona is one of the most entertaining figures in the sport. What would They The protests were clamorous and colorful, Uglier still, that crackdown was in some ways a direct product of the enthusiasm many protesters showed for the July 2013 military coup, which in the film is portrayed as a joyous event, and of their subsequent collusion with the military's efforts to exacerbate pre-existing resentment and fear of the Brotherhood. force as it moves along? But revealed a hidden unity, buried deep in the fabric of the universe. There is no right time for the truth. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. NOVA Theme Music to be the most important living physicist. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): We can't harbor a Jew. In Robert Mugge's documentary "Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise," the musician speaks of the limitations of earthly creation and the creative power that comes from outer space. physicists recognize me for my abilities. of lightning. I want to know how God created this world. was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas." Start typing to see results or hit ESC to close. However, if I and the mirror were traveling at the speed of light? ALBERT EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Energy equals mass times the MICHAEL FARADAY: But will Davy now retract his allegation? This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. craved knowledge. the math. 1h 48m. NARRATOR: In Einstein's new world, the one true constant was she suffered an embolism and died. He excelled in Jerusalem, used under license. The Square: Directed by Ruben stlund. The documentary follows six protesters that meet Noujaim in the Tahrir Square tent city.
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