Einstein and Eddington Page #3

Synopsis: Sir Arthur Eddington is a renowned physicist at Cambridge University and an expert in the measurement of the physical world. He along with all of his colleagues are also avowed Newtonians. Sir Oliver Lodge suggests that he read a new thesis put forward by a German-Swiss scientist named Albert Einstein who is suggesting that Sir Isaac Newton may have got it wrong. The expectation is that Einstein's theories will be disproven but Eddington admits that his General Theory of Relativity has merit. These are turbulent times as England and Germany are at war and Eddington's own loyalty is called into question when, as a Quaker, he refuses to fight. In the end, Eddington develops a series of tests to either prove or disprove Einstein's theories. For his part, Einstein has his own struggles during this period: the breakdown of his marriage, his integration into the university in Berlin and his own strident pacifism that led him to oppose German militarism and the First World War. In the end, Ed
Director(s): Philip Martin
Production: HBO Films
  5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
TV-PG
Year:
2008
94 min
598 Views


If the sun were to disappear now,

according to Isaac Newton

and his laws of gravity,

we feel it now.

Instantaneously.

The force of gravity moves faster

than the speed of light.

How can that be?

This is what I'm paying for?

What are you saying?

W-W-What is he saying?

Thank you very much for all

the money you're giving me.

Goodbye.

This is the Einstein

you speak so highly of?

Yes.

What does he offer us?

He has a truly original,

probing mind.

Questions don't win wars.

You have plenty of scientists

who can help you practically.

He is a theorist.

What good is theory to me?

After two centuries,

he might just prove Isaac Newton,

the greatest ever English scientist,

the man who set down the laws

that describe the workings

of the whole universe, wrong.

That's what he can give us.

Slow down! Wait!

You're going too fast.

So...

We have done exactly 1,500

in the first nine months of this year.

So, if we keep going at the current

rate, and building a variant for

poor weather, shorter daylight hours

and possible illness,

then we should have filled in

the whole map

by mid-afternoon of December 25th.

Otherwise known as Christmas Day.

Well,

Quakers don't celebrate Christmas.

I should be back by then.

"Over by Christmas"

is what everyone says.

William...

There's something I want to say.

When do you go?

Seven days' training, then France.

That wasn't what

you wanted to say, was it?

No.

I know what it is.

Do you?

Your religion is

against what I'm doing.

Which is why I was afraid

to talk to you about it.

I'm truly sorry, forgive me.

Here.

A token of our friendship.

We were saying, it's been years.

Ten.

A nephew out of the ether.

Hasn't my Elsa grown?

She was still a child

when you left Germany.

Why did you leave?

I have no attachment

to any country or place.

We all belong to the country

we're born in.

I renounced my German nationality.

I was German, now I'm Swiss.

What difference does it make?

And there's no such thing

as the ether.

If it existed, light would be

slowed down by it and it isn't.

Light always travels

at the same speed.

There's no such thing as the ether.

What else is there, nothing?

Freedom.

Imagination.

I think your imagination

is a little over-excited.

Not excited enough.

I intend to excite it

a great deal more.

Shall I take the top off the egg?

Arthur?

There you are.

There's something in this.

That's good, isn't it?

I don't know if it is or not.

I'm delighted English science

is taking such an enlightened

approach towards Germany.

How did you get in?

You left the door open.

I brought you some things.

Thank you.

I love Schubert.

- Do you?

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