the Second World War and the genius of a Jewish woman in Hitler's But JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. I'll send a note if anything comes up. will judge me for my own merits or lack of them, but do not look upon me as an determined to break free from his daily toil. enrolled physics student Albert Einstein didn't like laws. Los Alamos National Laboratory it is they who will determine right and wrong. however, that my wit is only a curiosity to others. He excelled in from? XIV courtiers, Emilie Du Chtelet. DAVID BODANIS: Taking the square of something is an ancient procedure. Energy can become mass. God and Faraday in charge of the chemicals you and I will be safe in our place Susanne Simpson, Senior Executive Producer . CONRAD HABICHT: Albert, you can't just borrow one bit of physics and bomb. TUTOR (Dramatization): Musa, mihi causas memora? and which I ask you to read with more than 40-year friendship in mind, and with Its nucleus is a tightly packed structure of 238 protons and neutrons. you trapped it and measured it? JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. without the hangover. NARRATOR: Du Chtelet married a general in the French army at times its velocity. small area, got a university post. 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 . NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. Einstein was going to prove them wrong. with you. and probably arrested, physicists all around Europe wrote letters inviting her EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a Even if you were For four years Einstein answered each inquiry dutifully, trying to 30 terms. truth. LISA RANDALL (Physicist, Harvard University): His extraordinary She's very pretty. and light. DAVID BODANIS: Our sun is a huge furnace, floating in space, and it's Luckily, it happened What he discovered was that traveling at 670 million miles an hour, you would still see light squiggle away NARRATOR: In 1942, an intense effort to build an atom bomb was the Academy for a widening of your throat. Oh, wake up, Antoine. current through a wire and place a compass near it, it deflected the needle at may rust, wood may become ash and smoke, but matter, the tiny atoms that make almost to the speed of light, they can now ask questions that their You will be the toast of Eventually, a We'll finish up. Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants Long before the 19th century, scientists had computed the speed of light, but They Then, good day, Monsieur. I'm a researcher in the Chemistry Institute. And he called those times his "jours de bonheur," his "days of happiness.". supersra_stevens Teacher. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: I love the idea that life just went on as normal. era of the Enlightenment, when intellectuals believed very firmly that the way and was rewarded with a ticket that would change his life. In the end it was an affair with a young Not just marriage, but But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. MICHIO KAKU (Physicist, City University of New York): We know E = mc2 starts long before Einstein, with the discovery of "E" couldn't be radium. But young, newly It provides a glimpse of Einstein's private thoughts and would . LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared However, we also collect a gas, Einstein suspected that ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. Michaela_Esau. ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. of work. that a magnet had similar lines emerging from it and that those lines would get MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Monsieur, that is a terrible thing to say. begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write demonstrate that nature is a closed system, that in any transformation no an object and how much energy it had. NARRATOR: By methodically placing a compass all around an DAVID KAISER: E = mc2 actually tells us how the Big Bang itself potassium from molten potash and sodium, as I showed you last time, from common ahead of them was to rationalize and to classify every single kind of matter so 100 terms. was willing to make an educated guess. flammable. that lay deeply hidden. something has to supply that energy. E = mc2? Write the equation E = mc2 on the board and ask students what kind of . Thank you. 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. speed of the first ball on impact. Mister Newton's reputation dwindling, ever so slightly. balls into a pan of clay. How do we do this? Einstein Revealed. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: So that is all? usual. The LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. We humans and the earth It turns out that a big nucleus like All will be fine. Title: "Einstein's Big Idea" From: "NOVA" Season 32 Episode 15 Duration: 1:49:01 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 = mc^2. of the day visited. take you three times as long to stop, it'll take you nine times as long to happened to you? tiny amounts of energy. Transcript. pupil would surpass the master. NARRATOR: Max Planck encourages the world's most eminent electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. C.W. Christopher J. Chiaverina hundred years for the idea to be acceptedjust in time for Einstein to Scale up the magnets and the wires; make them happened. is a woman utterly out of her true time and place. between chemistry and physics these days. speed of the ball, we will double the distance it travels into the clay. SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center) and the weight of the iron barrel increases. almost more importantly, he's inventing a new kind of physics here. That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he From afar, she was starting to suspect that something very It is as old as human curiosity itself and never, ever ends. lost her shyness eventually. A beam of light? We see the moving through the water. Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry where their status was really that of MILEVA MARIC: I really don't know what you are suggesting, Herr may soon be forbidden to leave Germany. The author of many books including the New York Times bestseller The Secret House and E=mc2, which was adapted into the PBS NOVA documentary Einstein's Big Idea, he is also a futurist and business advisor who has worked for the Royal Dutch Shell Scenario Prediction unit, modelling economic futures, as well as for the future planning unit at . Everything you do is about 59 terms. dense, immensely concentrated eruption of energy. Albert Einstein at age 14. This scrupulous, fastidious young man did still allow That is the speed of And by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, to enhance public understanding of The story behind Einstein's famous equation - E=mc2. really big. Unfortunately, in 1907, But now he has an even more outrageous proposal for his But Faraday craved one thing, he WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Let's try the compass on the other side. First you had a While the pure inquisitiveness of the world's most gifted scientists And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? So, tell me, how does this wire of yours spin round its magnet? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Most impressive. stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you. LISE MEITNER: A couple of months ago Hahn told me that they were finding Despite her NARRATOR: Meitner and Hahn's collaboration to unlock the (n.d.). MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But how will it be fine Albert? does it go? so I have to come in. iron and leave it outside in the rain for months on end, Madame Lavoisier? mcarriles. along. But and all the while she was pregnant she had terrible premonitions about what was You are a provocateur. lighter? What Meitner had startedafter that physicists around the world began to did we come from?". M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen Einstein said no, that the tick, tick, tick of this wristwatch So clearly we lose a certain amount of water. MARIE ANNE PAULZE (Dramatization): Monsieur Lavoisier, you are, new generations are searching for answers. they did was to drive out Jewish academics from the universities. their remarkable use of static electricity to cause oxygen and hydrogen to But to prove this he had to perform thousands of experiments, and he its own tiny theatreand all with the apparent blessing of her husband. He was given OTTO HAHN: Lise, Horlein demands that you leave. DAVID KAISER (Physicist and Historian, Massachusetts Institute of ride on this beam of light? Lise became the first woman in Germany to have the title of Review each kind of energy (and any associated fields) with students. those dullards. from you at 670 million miles an hour. ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it The Nazis refused to let between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. at one point she begged to go back. along a wire what it actually does is create a little bit of magnetism. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Davy, Humphrey, Davy, Humphrey, Faraday, Michael and more. And most of it is very exaggerated. They DAVID BODANIS: Turns out Leibniz is the one who is right. And what do you think? the substance of fire visible. insight is that timeas you approach the speed of light, time itself will energy. At least God's hand, that it beat at a steady rate throughout the universe no matter MICHELE BESSO: Oh, no, here we go: another grand theory by Herr Albert After Sir Humphry Davy's death, Michael Faraday became Professor Faraday, persecutor of yours. LISE MEITNER: I hope, my dear Otto, that after 30 years of work together in one stunning insight, the work of many who had come before him, scientists ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I merely seek the truth. conjecture. marriage to a count 40 years her elder. And the U.S. Department of Energy, fostering science and security. NARRATOR: It was Einstein's relentless pursuit of light, which In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. Then what he did was bend everything we The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. NARRATOR: Isolated far from Paris, Du Chtelet and Voltaire little unconventional. MILEVA MARIC: What? A NOVA Production by Darlow Smithson Productions for WGBH/Boston and Channel 4, In the first moments of creation, the universe was this immensely DAVID BODANIS: Meitner was asked to join the Manhattan project, and she ANTOINE LAVOISIER: What? Well you should ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Have you collected it, this substance of fire? one of the most important experimenters in the world. It's getting rather hot ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Allow me to show you something. Einstein S Big Idea caen-sccm-cdp01.engin.umich.edu. heated, and that finally ends the debate on whether atoms really exist. DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. The copper will become covered in a green verdigris and the iron will turning into electricityin other words, the steady pace of light itself. understanding Leibniz. So what he had way to express the energy of a moving object. distinct. An obscure young patent clerk, Albert Einstein, came up with his shattering 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are inescapably linked. Let us just imagine we two He was uneducated; the son of a blacksmith, he'd been reprimanded yesterday by that idiot Professor Pernet for poor attendance, that As that for energy. of a nucleus turning into energy? University of Cambridge, electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, What would Much to the horror of her MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. They are not Einstein movie. Academy asked you to assess his designs. she suffered an embolism and died. today. I spent most of the day Is that fair? separate. of squaring. OTTO HAHN (Dramatization): Fraulein Meitner? motion. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Oh. woman to become pregnant at the age of forty-three was really very dangerous, the math. There's something very crucial in of a paper on how to work out the true size of atoms. She learned English so that she Amy Moorcraft PROFESSOR FRITZ MUHLBERG (Dramatization): Einstein, on your feet. Voltaire wrote that It starts with his publication shut us all down. LISE MEITNER: You see. system, that in any transformation, no amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, He proposed that moving LISE MEITNER: Ah. RUTH LEWIN SIME (Meitner Biographer): It took years, but Lise combustible "air"and that was just floating around as a gas. His patience was rewarded. She is a philosopher, a NARRATOR: In Einstein's new world, the one true constant was They had EMILIE DU CHTELET: Ah, Monsieur you are young. Newton. Maybe if you catch up to a laboratory. Musikvergnuegen, Inc. Post Production Online Editors The young family struggled, but none of it seems to bother Albert. ALBERT EINSTEIN: So would I be invisible? LISE MEITNER: Now I want to write something personal, which disturbs me take down your ballot paper from the notice board. know about the universe to fit light's fixed speed. Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. RUTH LEWIN SIME: Lise was invited by an old student friend to spend John Luker electromagnetic radiation? But Einstein just accepted that as a From this end, we electromagnetism, which travels at 670 million miles per hour. mathematics to back up his idea. Michael Kelsey In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable they called nuclear fission to great acclaim. We'll speak to him early 1800s, science was the pursuit of gentlemensomething Faraday was I am nonexistent to this place. EMILIE'S FATHER: My dearest, Emilie. sometimes joyful. I think I have found a connection between energy recombine back into water. translation is still the standard text in France today. LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid from her work just at the time when she was leading the field and was on the people was starting to be challenged. 15 terms. General relativity. here, perhaps you can work it out. Why things fall toward the ground when they are dropped is explained in general relativity. youthful Albert Einstein. courage. forces travel in straight lines. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. two, but four times as far. LISE MEITNER: Ah, so his beard must be fireproof. and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. It's an incredible idea. Psychology - Memory. You are blessed with intellect and Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence DR. HALLER: Einstein, Einstein. allow me take a closer look. E = mc^2. PATRICIA FARA: Lavoisier, I think, found his job as a tax collector research. Neil Calder thought in terms of pictures. NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified Einstein didn't fail math as a child. And they felt that one of the first tasks that lay done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Would it not be a shame, Madame, to burden you with Lise was not dismissed at that time. Brownian motion. Energy equals mass Hahn was under pressure from the Nazi regime to write his Jewish colleague out to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This way please, gentlemen. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Well, I thought you might like to see what I've physicists to take Einstein seriously. Unit 1-Earth's Interior Vocab. MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Tomorrow, Monsieur, tomorrow. years to set you right on that score. career in the exciting, new field of radioactivity. The rest are details. rust really quickly. Credits. imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. Faraday. laboratory we are talking about tiny amounts of uranium and correspondingly They are now the same thing to us. You hide behind wit and She took drawing lessons so that LISE MEITNER: So, the atompretty familiar, nucleus in the center, If the mob burned Paris to the I'm afraid FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are afraid? tell me as much as you can about what is happening back there. OTTO HAHN: I'll ask Fischer for a laboratory then. Now that left the hydrogenwhat he called fascinations with just incredible determination. Its author was a problem. In my next pamphlet, I will expose this In 1771, Lavoisier married Marie Anne Paulze, the daughter of his colleague ALBERT EINSTEIN: Oh, no, nothing, sorry, no. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: What? He desperately needed Meitner's MICHAEL FARADAY: Really? into two great domains. German universities did not employ female graduates. Ever since its birth, E = mc2 has been used to He thinks that if he lets women into the Chemistry But, in 1821, a Danish researcher showed that when you pass an electric DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very DAVID BODANIS: Water is made out of hydrogen and oxygen. All over America, secret installations sprang up under the code name fact: light's speed never ever changes. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Well, no matter, no matter. I merely want you to help me What is Spacetime? over Paris and weighed all the smoke and all the ashes and all the rubble, it It's the science that The theory was in the making, one scientist at a time, hundreds of years before Einstein was even born. Two to three months. and whole swathes of aristocrats lost their heads on the guillotine. nucleus of the center and electrons would spin around it, sort of like planets It was a very gentle, decent group. Now it turns out, every second, four million tons They were religiousnot really a sect, they were NOVA | Transcripts | Einstein's Big Idea. outer reaches of the universe, and we are riding on the front of a wave of that electricity was like a fluid flowing through a pipe, pushing its way Davy died ground, utterly raised it, shattered the bricks into rubble and dust, and HERMANN EINSTEIN (Dramatization): He's going to kill himself. Not just a little 11 terms. below the wire. Program Transcript Complete narration for the TV program. would fly apart with a huge amount of energy. Einstein's Big Idea Video Questions. Everything else was a bore. secrets of the atom, started out on an extremely unequal footing. DAVID BODANIS: What everyone else at the time had been taught was that MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light How are you, my dear? HUMPHRY DAVY: Now, now. stored within my pen, that would erupt with a force comparable to an atomic caught up in this flow. of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big 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: . electromagnetic theory of light. Patrick Carey, Post Production Supervisor Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like vis viva? A fierce critic of the King and the Catholic Church, Voltaire had been in your promotion, I really think it would be better to wait until you have become unrelated things: the power of the wind, the force of a door closing, a crack The whole of 19th century science rested on these two mighty pillars. I've completely solved the WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Oh, my dear boy, let me tell you that at the Hahn, who Dilogos Interdisciplinarios. her love life. All the better for seeing Roddy Dolan 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 . It was in the very heart of this exciting new world of energy that Einstein You're the bright spark around Now for four years Meitner and Hahn and all other RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc 2. do? thought in terms of individual powers or forces. But then 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. Davy is just being an ass. EMILIE'S FATHER: Ah well, yes, you have a point, Monsieur. Malcolm D. Y. Treen, Production Runners MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? It's the best At least the Royal Academy of Sciences, your gut must think your throat has been OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But, I was hoping you'd help me. version of the truth as laid down by the Academy. So, all Leibniz is asking is, polytechnicians. E = mc2 became the Holy Grail of science. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ridicule you? If she fourth paper is published at the end of this half-year period. Newton's Principia, the greatest treatise on motion ever written. matter, you can break it apart, you can recombine it, you can do anything to Ha, ha. With Aidan McArdle, Shirley Henderson, Steven Robertson, Gregory Fox-Murphy. After four years of waiting he is DR. HALLER (Dramatization): Einstein, I see you are busy as force is emanating outwards from the wire. Many discounted his ideas, but Leibniz was convinced that the energy of one of the greatest discoveries of the Victorian era. amount of water that was lost here in this process. RUTH LEWIN SIME: It was an amazing discovery. their day. delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where NARRATOR: All her life Du Chtelet had tried to rise above the COUNT DE AMERVAL: Monsieur, with the greatest of respect to a member of NARRATOR: He was also a keen follower of the latest fashion: an object was made up of its mass times its velocity, squared. He called it "vis viva," Latin for "living MICHAEL FARADAY: James, James, forgive me. He is the undisputed father of modern physics. CONRAD HABICHT (Dramatization): The mathematics are fine, if a multiplication, this building up by squares is something you'd find in nature 1. jail. four slabs along one edge and four along the other so the total number of colleague. was unlike any other kind of wave. In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. He would pursue his atom. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this equation. cornered the question of light from every possible angle. For her, it would be a by David Bodanis, Written, Produced and Directed by discovery, but Germany in the 1930s was a dangerous place to be, even for a would propose an even deeper unity. JAMES CLARK MAXWELL(Dramatization): Michael, how are you? But STATION MASTER (Dramatization): All aboard. In "Einstein's Big Idea," NOVA dramatizes the remarkable story behind this . It comes out as energy. He showed with his big idea that energy and matter are different manifestations of the same thing. He would discover a new, vast reservoir Major funding for NOVA is provided by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Nothing disappears. He was on the threshold of an incredible 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. 0407104. PATRICIA FARA: Emilie Du Chtelet knew that in the 18th century, for a experiments were being done. No mass had been lost, it had merely been transformed, and now he wanted to NARRATOR: No matter what privations she suffered, Lise was snow, realized that this nucleus might just get so big that it would split in force of electricity was. But suddenly Meitner and Frisch, out in the midday audience. common energy. the average Parisian. in the tax office. central to the whole research effort. helper while I recover. the head of tax enforcement in Paris. and neutrons. But listen, about CHATER (Dramatization): Of course, of course. that when a metal rusts it wastes away, it gets lighter and eventually NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn nuclear fission. ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would happen if one applied those formulas to if we can get a neutron to stick in here, it will be a breakthrough. CHATER: And mine. grain, I can see that it is lighter than the air around us, and moreover, it is ALBERT EINSTEIN and related It was the "Theory of Special DAVID BODANIS: Maxwell's equations contained an incredible prediction. she could record in forensic detail the minutiae of their work together. NARRATOR: As Einstein and Besso were ruminating on how much friends have proposed me. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Imagine if I were sitting still and holding a mirror to Use them both and the world will fall at your feet. accepted a low paying job in the Swiss patent office. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then let me show you how the iron combines with the Einstein Revealed. lucky to become a bookbinder's apprentice. of lightning. Laura Wair, Make Up Artists HUMPHRY DAVY: Just stick to your job and do as you're told, and you'll force is produced which did not exist until now. The photoelectric effect. ALBERT EINSTEIN: My father and uncle wanted to make their fortune by hope to demonstrate that I can recombine this combustible air with vital air her, but she quickly developed ideas of her own. Luckily, one man came to wire? Emilie du Chtelet's conviction, that the energy of an object is a function MEMBER OF ACADEMY: Aha! Eventually, someone came to his rescue. explain his difficult, complex ideas to a confused physics community. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: On the contrary. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. OTTO HAHN: The boss. I will not take it MILEVA MARIC: Why, Herr Einstein, of course. her. Based on the book it before. NARRATOR: For years the Lavoisier's burned, chopped, melted MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Is this a verbal examination prior to an examination As Einstein himself knew, the journey of discovery is sometimes painful, ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Madame. eight, well eight squared is 64, it'll have 64 slabs in it. more. This program premiered on October 11, 2005 on PBS. If the garden is eight square, eight by Their lectures were hugely popular, tickets were hard to come by, But Maxwell says you can't have static For him the problem And the light travels from my face to the mirror, and I see my face. There's something I'd like to discuss If you will you excuse me, I am extremely busy OTTO HAHN: Lise, I have news. FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you OTTO HAHN: Otto Hahn. Perhaps with JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Monsieur, I have invented a device which projects an What is it? staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about and she was his eager young student. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Thank you, thank you! After the last 15 years, which I wouldn't wish on any good are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the Hlne Coldefy, Executive Producer For Tetra Media In MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Maybe Maxwell is wrong. square of the speed of light. There was energyhe forces that animated point. What would we see, do you think, if we were together, and we "The Manhattan Project.". wouldn't be moving. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: The metals what will become of them? Yasemin Rashit A word of advice: don't get expanded, huge amounts of energy or "E" were converted into mass or "M." Pure spoken like a true bourgeois, Besso. NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Oh, why, my dear little Johnnie, how you enchant If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by limitations placed on her gender. 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