Einstein and Eddington

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00:00:09 Slowly and carefully!
00:00:14 Keep it coming.
00:00:23 Gently now.
00:00:26 Ver careful.
00:00:34 Careful with the telescope.
00:00:36 Dyson! What are you doing?
00:00:41 All right, men, come on,
00:00:45 Nearly there.
00:00:49 Come on now, just one more push.
00:00:53 Nearly.
00:00:55 All right, men, not far to go.
00:00:59 Another foot.
00:01:02 - And up.
00:01:09 It's bad news, I'm afraid.
00:01:10 The photographic plates,
00:01:13 It's the heat.
00:01:15 All of them?
00:01:17 There are only eight
00:01:21 Then we have eight photographs.
00:01:23 We won't have any at all if this
00:01:31 If the cloud breaks
00:01:34 and we look up into the heavens,
00:01:40 ...we will be scientists at our work.
00:01:42 We'll be looking at
00:01:50 And if Einstein's right, the universe
00:02:00 Well, it had better stop
00:02:02 (THEY LAUGH)
00:02:15 Got it!
00:02:19 Match points.
00:02:20 This is it. Three years, we've been
00:02:24 Seize the moment, Eddington.
00:02:39 Out!
00:02:40 We've won. We've won.
00:02:42 Well played.
00:02:43 Well played, old boy.
00:02:44 Well played.
00:02:46 William, I think it was in.
00:02:47 What?
00:02:48 I think the ball was in.
00:02:49 The sun was in your eyes,
00:02:51 You've taken five years of defeat
00:02:55 - Accept this victory with good grace.
00:02:58 Let him have his moment.
00:03:00 Don't spoil this.
00:03:08 He didn't tell me.
00:03:22 I don't consider it a victory.
00:03:25 I think you've made that very clear.
00:03:35 - Sorry, I'm being...
00:03:38 - Yes.
00:03:45 You're very fond of William,
00:03:48 I could see at the tennis.
00:03:54 You should tell him.
00:03:59 (CLATTERING)
00:04:00 What's that?
00:04:10 Some of the committee had
00:04:13 on account of your youth.
00:04:16 - Sir Oliver.
00:04:19 Know what I said? I said
00:04:22 of the Cambridge Observatory
00:04:26 Each of them have slept where
00:04:29 and each of them was as damned sure
00:04:37 Tea would be nice.
00:04:40 And cake.
00:04:42 Winnie.
00:04:45 I told them, "You listen to me,
00:04:50 We have the truth,
00:04:54 We need a director who can measure
00:04:58 We need Arthur Stanley Eddington.
00:05:01 Bugger theory. Give me
00:05:11 The jam's home-made.
00:05:12 Excellent.
00:05:14 I'll leave you men to talk,
00:05:21 Perhaps there'll be
00:05:27 There's a minimum height of 5' 7".
00:05:31 For astronomers' wives?
00:05:33 My son Raymond is 5ft 6in.
00:05:37 The recruiting officer
00:05:40 Oh, I see, the army.
00:05:42 Which, um...?
00:05:43 Cambridgeshires.
00:05:47 I know you're a Quaker
00:05:51 I've no quarrel with that.
00:05:54 But you're worried.
00:05:56 Because you're an Englishman,
00:05:57 you feel your patriotism
00:06:02 I can help.
00:06:05 The University of Berlin
00:06:08 the best German scientists.
00:06:10 For reasons obvious.
00:06:12 German science is putting itself
00:06:14 at the right hand
00:06:16 I see.
00:06:19 There's one man they want
00:06:22 We don't see the point of him.
00:06:24 What does this have to do with me?
00:06:27 I want you to look at this
00:06:30 We need English science to remind
00:06:36 Newton's truth is
00:06:38 Good man.
00:06:41 What's his name?
00:06:44 Albert Einstein.
00:07:07 What are we doing?
00:07:09 I'm steering the boat.
00:07:12 Without looking?
00:07:16 The wind direction, the tiller.
00:07:19 - Yes.
00:07:40 Hans, Eduard, all of you,
00:07:46 A man on a boat on a lake
00:07:51 The man is taking off his socks.
00:07:58 He rolls them into a ball.
00:08:00 And he hurls the socks
00:08:05 What is the speed of the socks?
00:08:07 The speed of the boat
00:08:09 added to the speed of the socks.
00:08:14 What about light?
00:08:15 What if I shine a beam of light at you
00:08:19 What is the speed of the light?
00:08:26 The speed of the boat
00:08:28 Yes.
00:08:29 No.
00:08:30 Why not?
00:08:32 Why not?
00:08:35 Come on, boys,
00:08:53 (LAUGHING)
00:08:57 Hey, wait for me!
00:09:17 Sorry!
00:09:20 He was in the lake!
00:09:26 (TRAIN WHISTLE)
00:09:51 (CHILDREN LAUGHING)
00:09:58 Why were you in the lake?
00:10:00 In the interests of science.
00:10:03 Were there any women impressed by
00:10:07 I was talking to the children.
00:10:12 You talk to the boys about
00:10:16 Any pudding?
00:10:27 - Where are you going?
00:10:29 You can't leave, I'm working.
00:10:30 No!
00:10:36 Mileva, please!
00:10:38 Mileva!
00:10:41 Please!
00:10:44 When we were students, you said
00:10:46 we are physicists together.
00:10:48 What I'm doing now,
00:10:51 I don't have the energy
00:10:53 What is it? What is your work?!
00:10:55 Gravity?
00:10:58 Max! Max Planck!
00:11:00 Hello, Albert.
00:11:04 You don't remember me, do you?
00:11:06 You don't even remember my name!
00:11:08 Mileva!
00:11:11 It's fine. She's always leaving.
00:11:17 So, nine years' work on gravity
00:11:23 Beautiful questions, of course,
00:11:26 Perhaps conditions are
00:11:32 I think you need some help.
00:11:33 I don't need anything.
00:11:36 No.
00:11:37 If you are content
00:11:40 at a second-rate university...
00:11:41 Why are you here, Max?
00:11:46 We could offer you
00:11:48 You didn't answer my question.
00:11:51 12,000 marks...
00:11:54 ...a professorship
00:11:55 and membership of
00:11:59 if you join us in Berlin.
00:12:02 Come back to Germany, Albert.
00:12:05 Who's us?
00:12:06 The university.
00:12:11 So, you're offering me money,
00:12:14 Yes.
00:12:15 - Prestige.
00:12:18 The answer is no.
00:12:19 I have a family, Max,
00:12:23 No, you can't, I agree with you.
00:12:26 To be a great scientist,
00:12:28 there are always sacrifices
00:12:34 Finish your work on gravity, Albert.
00:12:37 I think you could be great.
00:12:42 Train ticket to Berlin.
00:12:45 In case you change your mind.
00:13:07 Everything in the universe
00:13:10 Everything is bound
00:13:14 Gravity.
00:13:17 Everything happens for a reason.
00:13:20 Isn't that wonderful?
00:13:23 Newton described how gravity acts
00:13:28 He was right, but he was worried.
00:13:31 Because...
00:13:33 ...you can't touch gravity.
00:13:36 You can't see it.
00:13:37 And Newton struggled with this.
00:13:40 He worried and he doubted.
00:13:43 And then he found his answer.
00:13:47 What fills the unexplained?
00:13:51 God, Winnie.
00:13:53 God's will.
00:13:56 Newton described
00:14:00 But he left room for God too.
00:14:15 (WHISTLES)
00:14:20 - I love you.
00:14:23 Don't forget to visit
00:14:26 - I'm going to work.
00:14:29 (SIGHS) I'll send for you all
00:14:32 (TRAIN WHISTLE)
00:14:38 Look at me.
00:14:41 Hans.
00:14:55 Hans.
00:14:59 Hans! Hans!
00:15:15 Einstein, Albert.
00:15:16 Anything we've got.
00:15:41 This is nine years old.
00:15:43 It's all there is.
00:16:18 Max!
00:16:25 You're here!
00:16:26 Welcome to the greatest university
00:16:32 - Evening.
00:16:37 Ah!
00:16:38 - Fritz Haber, you know, of course.
00:16:41 Einstein.
00:16:44 You look a little...
00:16:46 Well, less Jewish
00:16:48 I'm a Christian now
00:16:51 I have renounced my Jewish faith.
00:16:52 So what are you working on?
00:16:54 - I'm looking at gases.
00:16:56 Ammonia.
00:16:57 What about it?
00:16:59 Its conversion into nitrate.
00:17:01 Explosives?
00:17:03 What use is science
00:17:10 We should go.
00:17:12 For what?
00:17:13 There's someone I want you to meet.
00:17:33 Mr Koppel.
00:17:35 Thank you.
00:17:43 Who is this "someone"?
00:17:46 He who makes it all possible.
00:17:49 The 12,000 marks a year?
00:17:51 Mm-hm.
00:17:52 And he wants to have
00:17:55 Max, I thought it was
00:17:58 that I would have total freedom.
00:18:01 Just keep what you say
00:18:11 You're late.
00:18:12 I was invited precisely at the time
00:18:16 therefore it was impossible
00:18:19 What?
00:18:20 The energy which an object has because
00:18:24 The increase in mass makes it harder
00:18:27 Try as he might,
00:18:29 to meet the fat industrialist
00:18:34 If the sun were to disappear now,
00:18:38 and his laws of gravity,
00:18:40 we feel it now.
00:18:42 Instantaneously.
00:18:44 The force of gravity moves faster
00:18:47 than the speed of light.
00:18:50 This is what I'm paying for?
00:18:52 What are you saying?
00:18:55 W-W-What is he saying?
00:18:56 Thank you very much for all
00:19:04 Goodbye.
00:19:17 This is the Einstein
00:19:21 Yes.
00:19:22 What does he offer us?
00:19:25 He has a truly original,
00:19:28 Questions don't win wars.
00:19:31 You have plenty of scientists
00:19:34 He is a theorist.
00:19:35 What good is theory to me?
00:19:37 After two centuries,
00:19:41 the greatest ever English scientist,
00:19:43 the man who set down the laws
00:19:46 of the whole universe, wrong.
00:19:49 That's what he can give us.
00:19:59 Slow down! Wait!
00:20:05 You're going too fast.
00:20:13 So...
00:20:14 2,199 miles in 1912.
00:20:17 2,304 last year.
00:20:20 We have done exactly 1,500
00:20:24 So, if we keep going at the current
00:20:29 poor weather, shorter daylight hours
00:20:32 then we should have filled in
00:20:35 by mid-afternoon of December 25th.
00:20:39 Otherwise known as Christmas Day.
00:20:40 Well,
00:20:44 I should be back by then.
00:20:46 "Over by Christmas"
00:20:50 William...
00:20:53 There's something I want to say.
00:20:58 When do you go?
00:21:01 Seven days' training, then France.
00:21:05 That wasn't what
00:21:08 No.
00:21:11 I know what it is.
00:21:14 Do you?
00:21:16 Your religion is
00:21:18 Which is why I was afraid
00:21:22 I'm truly sorry, forgive me.
00:21:28 Here.
00:21:33 A token of our friendship.
00:22:05 (SLURPING)
00:22:09 We were saying, it's been years.
00:22:11 Ten.
00:22:14 A nephew out of the ether.
00:22:19 Hasn't my Elsa grown?
00:22:20 She was still a child
00:22:24 Why did you leave?
00:22:27 I have no attachment
00:22:30 We all belong to the country
00:22:33 I renounced my German nationality.
00:22:35 I was German, now I'm Swiss.
00:22:38 And there's no such thing
00:22:42 If it existed, light would be
00:22:45 Light always travels
00:22:48 There's no such thing as the ether.
00:22:50 What else is there, nothing?
00:22:57 Freedom.
00:23:01 Imagination.
00:23:03 I think your imagination
00:23:07 Not excited enough.
00:23:09 I intend to excite it
00:23:56 Shall I take the top off the egg?
00:23:58 Arthur?
00:24:00 There you are.
00:24:05 There's something in this.
00:24:07 That's good, isn't it?
00:24:11 I don't know if it is or not.
00:24:14 I'm delighted English science
00:24:16 is taking such an enlightened
00:24:40 (WOMAN SINGING)
00:24:48 (SINGING IN GERMAN)
00:25:05 How did you get in?
00:25:08 You left the door open.
00:25:14 I brought you some things.
00:25:20 Thank you.
00:25:24 I love Schubert.
00:25:26 - Do you?
00:25:29 Good.
00:25:30 Who else?
00:25:33 Beethoven?
00:25:34 Too personal.
00:25:39 Yes?
00:25:40 Nothing.
00:25:42 What does he make you feel?
00:25:46 Naked.
00:25:51 Music and physics are nourished
00:25:56 I don't know anything about physics.
00:25:59 Good!
00:26:00 Good.
00:26:02 That is, what I mean to say is...
00:26:07 ...that it will have to be music...
00:26:12 Between us.
00:26:32 It's only noon.
00:26:35 - I know.
00:26:36 - My friend William, his train is leaving.
00:26:39 Now. You were right about friends
00:26:41 and how one must say things.
00:26:52 Ah, not so fast!
00:27:16 (TRAIN WHISTLE)
00:27:25 May I have a light, sir?
00:27:30 Eddington!
00:27:33 Yes.
00:27:35 This is my son, Raymond.
00:27:36 Hello.
00:27:37 - Lady Shirley, you know.
00:27:42 It's a proud day to be English.
00:27:45 And to be in England.
00:27:47 (TRAIN WHISTLE)
00:27:49 - Yes, good luck.
00:27:51 On you go, my boy. Go on, Raymond.
00:27:54 I'll get the door. On you get.
00:28:04 (FAMILIES SHOUTING GOODBYES)
00:28:50 I wasn't given
00:28:54 We have, I think, most of us, been
00:29:00 Albert Einstein
00:29:06 scientific presentation.
00:29:09 Even his mathematical symbols
00:29:13 To be frank, it might as well
00:29:15 But I decoded some of it.
00:29:19 He's suggesting that time is
00:29:25 depending on how fast you're moving.
00:29:28 The faster you move,
00:29:33 Time isn't the same everywhere?
00:29:37 That's what he says.
00:29:38 Yes, time isn't shared.
00:29:43 What are his references?
00:29:46 None, but...
00:29:48 Acknowledgements?
00:29:49 None.
00:29:50 Does he propose how
00:29:53 No, but that's not the point.
00:29:55 What is the point of theory
00:29:59 What does he say about gravity?
00:30:02 Um...
00:30:08 Nothing.
00:30:10 What holds everything together?
00:30:11 What dictates
00:30:14 What controls the life
00:30:16 Gravity.
00:30:18 Newton's laws.
00:30:20 Our map for everything.
00:30:22 So this Einstein, in other words,
00:30:27 has nothing to say
00:30:30 Eddington?
00:30:31 That's right, no.
00:30:34 It's not real.
00:30:46 Left them happy.
00:30:49 Was that your intention?
00:31:05 MAN: Dirty Germans!
00:31:11 (SHOUTING)
00:31:16 Stop this!
00:31:19 Argh!
00:31:22 Leave these people alone!
00:31:26 (WOMAN SOBBING)
00:31:43 Winnie, these are the Mullers,
00:31:57 Let me clean you up.
00:32:01 It was horrible.
00:32:03 But it's over.
00:32:05 No, no, no, it's not that.
00:32:11 One of them asked a question
00:32:14 Who?
00:32:15 At the lecture.
00:32:17 He does say something about gravity.
00:32:20 Einstein?
00:32:22 He doesn't mention it, but if
00:32:26 He poses a question.
00:32:27 Turn this way a little.
00:32:30 Newton says that gravity
00:32:33 but Einstein says
00:32:35 is the speed limit of the universe,
00:32:39 They can't both be right.
00:32:41 Einstein or Newton,
00:32:45 Well then, the truth
00:32:50 And you must go after it.
00:33:00 (SNORING)
00:33:21 Our supper?
00:33:24 I thought you were
00:33:26 Hans wants to know...
00:33:30 Go on, ask your father.
00:33:33 Is your work nearly finished?
00:33:43 Let me show you
00:33:45 what I've been working on.
00:34:02 What is it made of?
00:34:08 Where does it come from?
00:34:10 What is it?
00:34:14 Gravity.
00:34:17 That's what I'm struggling with, Hans.
00:34:19 I can't make sense of it.
00:34:29 You have changed the way
00:34:31 The symbols you're using are...
00:34:35 ...strange and complicated.
00:34:37 You've moved a long way
00:35:07 (WOMAN SINGING)
00:35:17 I brought the Schubert to play.
00:35:32 - Play the music.
00:35:36 Why not? You love Schubert!
00:35:37 No.
00:35:39 I came to Berlin because I thought
00:35:42 I see now that I was wrong.
00:35:46 Do you want a divorce?
00:36:00 Hans!
00:36:03 When my work is finished,
00:36:06 I will come and tell you
00:36:09 I promise you!
00:36:17 We withdraw into
00:36:20 (DISTANT SHOUTING)
00:36:23 We are still.
00:36:26 We are silent.
00:36:30 We listen,
00:36:33 so that God may be heard.
00:36:37 (BANGING)
00:36:39 Show yourselves!
00:36:40 Who are we?
00:36:42 If we are anything...
00:36:48 ...we Quakers are
00:36:51 We will never believe...
00:36:56 ...that any man, woman or child
00:37:02 in our beloved England
00:37:11 This IS your home.
00:37:22 CROWD: Traitors! Where's our traitor?
00:37:27 - Coward.
00:37:30 My boy's gone.
00:37:33 Why is it so easy for you to say no?
00:37:41 (CROWD FALLS SILENT)
00:37:57 You should be ashamed of yourselves!
00:38:00 Cowards!
00:38:04 Absolute disgrace!
00:39:18 I have it from the highest authority.
00:39:21 A huge offensive will follow
00:39:27 Then the war will be shorter?
00:39:29 Oh, yeah.
00:39:31 German lives will be saved.
00:39:33 Yes.
00:39:49 What are you doing?
00:40:05 What is this?
00:40:24 My son for years
00:40:28 Now, in the army, he's found a purpose.
00:40:33 It's a good feeling to be able
00:40:39 Did you know he was
00:40:49 Your membership of the Academy
00:40:54 You have become
00:40:56 which makes your nationality German.
00:41:03 I gave it up.
00:41:06 The Kaiser himself has personally
00:41:10 Then the Kaiser himself should have
00:41:16 Show him.
00:41:19 This is a list of the greatest names
00:41:25 the inheritors of Beethoven,
00:41:29 Yes, but what is it?
00:41:31 A manifesto to be sent all over the world,
00:41:36 a statement of solidarity
00:41:40 signed by just 93
00:41:44 It will be your honour
00:41:55 Is Goethe going to
00:41:58 We could have a Swiss jury
00:42:00 and decide the outcome
00:42:04 I won't sign.
00:42:06 You are an expensive addition
00:42:09 Are you threatening me?
00:42:10 He's reminding you
00:42:16 ...and your duty to your country.
00:42:23 What do you give him, Max?
00:42:25 Hm?
00:42:27 I work on artillery trajectories.
00:42:34 I have a contract,
00:42:36 and my part of it
00:42:38 I do not belong to anyone.
00:42:41 You cannot have my name.
00:43:12 The Einstein paper.
00:43:15 I've been told it's unavailable
00:43:19 You've been told? What does that mean?
00:43:21 All German scientificjournals
00:44:05 Eddington?
00:44:07 Are you all right?
00:44:09 - I was looking for something.
00:44:11 The Einstein paper.
00:44:13 Why? You made clear your views.
00:44:17 Whatever you might think about
00:44:20 it has nothing to do with German science.
00:44:22 Really?
00:44:26 "A manifesto to the civilised world.
00:44:29 "The German people are one."
00:44:32 93 signatures - look.
00:44:34 Max Planck - scientist.
00:44:36 Wilhelm Röntgen - scientist.
00:44:39 Fritz Haber - scientist.
00:44:41 I think this makes it clear that we cannot
00:44:46 and German scientists,
00:44:52 He's not there.
00:44:58 Einstein's not on the list.
00:45:00 But it just so happens
00:45:03 he has moved himself to Berlin.
00:45:05 I think that shows us
00:45:09 Consorting with the enemy
00:45:19 Arthur!
00:45:25 Come with me.
00:45:33 Agnes, the sun.
00:45:35 Die Sonne.
00:45:36 Die Sonne, yes.
00:45:43 Uranus.
00:45:45 Uranus.
00:45:46 Neptune.
00:45:47 Neptun.
00:45:49 - Saturn.
00:45:51 The planets make their orbits
00:45:53 We can measure their orbits
00:45:56 Newton's theory of gravity tells us
00:45:58 when they pass closest to the sun.
00:46:07 ...with Mercury, he's out.
00:46:09 No-one likes to admit it, but
00:46:14 from that which
00:46:17 But by how much?
00:46:19 The length of a fingertip
00:46:26 - Agnes, um... Mercury?
00:46:30 - Merkur.
00:46:33 I'm going to write to Albert Einstein.
00:46:37 about the real world.
00:46:39 what his theory predicts for Mercury.
00:46:45 Handel.
00:46:47 Technically good,
00:46:52 Wagner?
00:46:53 Indescribably offensive.
00:46:58 Mozart?
00:47:00 Mozart...
00:47:03 In Mozart, I see a reflection
00:47:24 We've been talking about music.
00:47:26 Yes.
00:47:27 All day.
00:47:29 When I should have been working.
00:47:31 Is it because you are stuck?
00:47:37 You said
00:47:40 Let's keep it that way.
00:48:03 This is the senior common room.
00:48:10 She's a woman.
00:48:13 Do you know, Haber,
00:48:16 I think you could be right.
00:48:18 Quick! What shall we do?
00:48:21 God knows!
00:48:24 Anything might happen.
00:49:10 You should eat more.
00:49:16 This is like the potato salad my mother
00:49:21 What?
00:49:24 Not as good.
00:49:32 Ah, I bought you a present.
00:49:45 Albert?
00:49:59 This Englishman
00:50:05 One tiny part of the universe
00:50:10 The orbit of Mercury
00:50:15 If I could make my thinking on gravity
00:50:23 ...then it would take me
00:50:28 Towards what?
00:50:30 The first step
00:50:36 A whole new way.
00:50:41 Are you unstuck?
00:50:45 I have a lot of work to do.
00:50:51 Are you asking me to go?
00:50:59 Have you seen Planck?
00:51:04 Max! Max! Max!
00:51:18 My son...
00:51:26 I am more sorry than I can say.
00:51:33 (SOBBING)
00:51:44 Do you miss your boys?
00:51:48 But you will see them again.
00:51:55 You know, Max,
00:51:58 I love science twice as much
00:52:04 It takes one away from all the confusions
00:52:13 ...and their emotional consequences.
00:52:18 You've been very kind.
00:52:24 Now I must go home.
00:52:25 No.
00:52:26 - No?
00:52:29 I need your help.
00:52:31 - With what?
00:52:46 If we get this result...
00:52:50 where will we publish?
00:52:52 lf?
00:52:53 What's the matter with you?
00:53:02 May I ask you
00:53:07 What if God were to say
00:53:09 If he said, "Stop, Newton is right."
00:53:16 Then I would thank God
00:53:20 and we would agree to differ
00:53:23 and I would be left
00:53:27 So you DO believe in God?
00:53:30 I cannot conceive of a God who has a will
00:53:36 And life after death?
00:53:42 Neither can I conceive of an individual
00:53:57 There's our answer
00:54:01 And perhaps the first step
00:54:11 Eddington. England...
00:54:41 Arthur? What is it?
00:54:44 It fits.
00:54:48 Einstein's thinking and the real orbit
00:54:51 You know what this could mean,
00:54:54 Einstein's beginning
00:55:07 I need to talk to you.
00:55:10 Not now.
00:55:11 Chlorine gas, made in Berlin.
00:55:15 What?
00:55:18 The Cambridgeshires -
00:55:20 obliterated at the Battle of Ypres.
00:55:25 All of them?
00:55:27 Major Colin Foster...
00:55:38 EDDINGTON: First Lieutenant
00:55:59 Eddington!
00:56:01 I wanted you to know how sorry I am.
00:56:04 William was a good friend, wasn't he?
00:56:07 Yes, he was, yes.
00:56:18 What's going on? What's going on?
00:56:22 Give me your pass, please.
00:56:23 This is ridiculous.
00:56:33 What are you talking about?
00:56:36 Are the great men of science discussing
00:56:40 or is the talk of poison gas
00:56:44 and how many more,
00:56:45 if only we could have judged
00:56:49 Einstein! This is the common room.
00:56:53 Yes, yes. There must be no noise.
00:56:55 Noise is bad! Noise is unforgivable.
00:56:59 This university
00:57:02 Please, no shouting!
00:57:07 Thousands of young men killed
00:57:12 What are we doing?
00:57:15 What is this madness?
00:58:06 I can't tell anyone.
00:58:10 You can tell me.
00:58:16 I loved him.
00:58:20 I know.
00:58:21 I loved him so much.
00:58:22 Yes.
00:58:24 (HE SOBS)
00:58:30 I can't find an answer, Winnie.
00:58:33 No.
00:58:35 There's no reason for his death.
00:58:38 There's no comfort to be found.
00:58:41 No.
00:58:42 Where was God at Ypres?
00:59:00 We have a proposal
00:59:03 The proposal is that we expel all Germans
00:59:06 from membership
00:59:09 and that all contact
00:59:12 and any German scientist cease now.
00:59:18 15,000 killed at Ypres in one day.
00:59:23 Gassed, every one.
00:59:27 Who did this?
00:59:31 Who killed my son?
00:59:34 German science.
00:59:36 Perhaps we should do this another day.
00:59:39 - No, we'll go on.
00:59:42 We go on.
00:59:45 Can I assume that no-one wishes
00:59:55 Who killed Raymond Lodge?
00:59:58 All of us.
01:00:00 That's enough, Eddington.
01:00:01 This stupid and futile war killed him.
01:00:04 Expelling German scientists won't bring
01:00:09 Eddington!
01:00:10 The pursuit of truth in science
01:00:15 It takes us beyond hatred
01:00:21 It is the best of us.
01:00:23 What truth?
01:00:25 That there are no rules, no standards,
01:00:30 That you break all the rules of science
01:00:34 What does your Einstein want?
01:00:39 He wants what I want -
01:00:41 a new theory of gravity.
01:00:47 I think we should move to a vote.
01:00:49 All those in favour of the motion.
01:00:56 Against?
01:01:09 My son is dead.
01:01:13 He died fighting this evil.
01:01:15 I tell you this now.
01:01:16 I will not allow his death
01:01:21 Mercury.
01:01:25 We've had this before.
01:01:27 What?
01:01:29 The orbit of a planet that Newton
01:01:33 And what happened?
01:01:34 Neptune was discovered.
01:01:36 And where was Neptune? Exactly
01:01:40 And what did that mean?
01:01:42 The orbit of Uranus made sense
01:01:46 When will you learn?
01:01:49 Everything happens for a reason!
01:01:59 Ypres.
01:02:02 How dare you mention that name.
01:02:05 What do you know of Ypres?
01:02:11 I have lost my son.
01:02:15 But there is order in the universe.
01:02:42 Can I see your pass, please?
01:02:48 Excuse me, sir.
01:02:50 - What? What?
01:02:54 Why?
01:02:55 We've been instructed
01:02:57 I need to get my post.
01:03:05 Max!
01:03:07 They won't let me collect my post.
01:03:10 You've been cut off...
01:03:13 for your anti-German outburst.
01:03:15 But all my letters
01:03:19 Yes.
01:03:24 Max...
01:03:49 You look terrible.
01:03:53 I am sick,
01:03:59 Because you are lonely?
01:04:03 Yes.
01:04:05 Why haven't you come before?
01:04:08 I've been working.
01:04:11 You look beautiful.
01:04:18 I love you.
01:04:22 Charm isn't enough, Albert.
01:04:28 Elsa...
01:04:31 So don't come here
01:04:33 telling me I'm beautiful
01:04:36 and expect me
01:04:41 Elsa...
01:04:42 I will make up my mind about you...
01:04:46 ...in my own time.
01:04:52 Are you asking me to go?
01:06:19 Pass, please.
01:06:24 Would you see
01:06:28 They won't allow me to post it.
01:06:33 But you... you are...
01:06:36 They would allow you to. Please.
01:06:39 You brought me here to Berlin.
01:06:41 Please, Max.
01:06:45 I have done what you asked.
01:06:47 My work on gravity is finished.
01:07:01 What are you reading?
01:07:05 You look overcome.
01:07:07 Come to supper.
01:07:10 For what we are about to receive,
01:07:13 Amen.
01:07:16 It's called general relativity.
01:07:19 It's a theory of gravity and... everything.
01:07:23 He's done it.
01:07:27 Let me just... Sorry.
01:07:31 What are you doing?
01:07:33 Dyson, the other end.
01:07:35 Pick it up.
01:07:37 Pick up the tablecloth.
01:07:43 Space. The tablecloth is space.
01:07:45 The sun.
01:07:48 What's happening?
01:07:50 What?
01:07:51 What's happening
01:07:54 Well, the bread is
01:07:57 The sun makes a shape around it in space.
01:07:59 Yes.
01:08:01 Now, what happens if I do this?
01:08:07 It wants to travel in a straight line,
01:08:13 Because the bread's making a shape.
01:08:15 The apple follows the curves
01:08:19 Yes! Yes. Space is shaped.
01:08:22 And that is how gravity works.
01:08:25 Space tells objects how to move,
01:08:29 And there's a way to prove it.
01:08:31 When starlight comes near to the sun,
01:08:35 It'll bend.
01:08:38 Yes.
01:08:40 That's what he says.
01:08:41 That's what Einstein says.
01:08:43 Starlight will bend.
01:08:48 Every theory needs proof.
01:08:51 The English observer
01:08:54 Hand in glove.
01:08:56 We're at war, Eddington.
01:09:01 I love my country very deeply,
01:09:06 This is so much more.
01:09:13 Will you help me?
01:09:17 You can't point your telescope
01:09:20 I know, too bright.
01:09:22 What?
01:09:23 Total solar eclipse.
01:09:26 - Where?
01:09:27 The island of Principe.
01:09:31 So all we need is
01:09:34 Mmm.
01:09:35 So who do we ask?
01:09:39 As we look at the eclipsed sun
01:09:42 it will be directly in the middle
01:09:45 We'll take photographs of these stars
01:09:50 and then compare them to photographs
01:09:52 One photographic plate
01:09:55 Are the stars in the same place
01:09:58 If they are different,
01:10:01 that starlight is bent by the sun.
01:10:11 This is an English expedition.
01:10:13 Yes.
01:10:16 To prove a German scientist right.
01:10:19 Or wrong.
01:10:21 If Einstein is right,
01:10:24 then an English expedition
01:10:27 If he isn't, then an English expedition
01:10:31 and Sir Isaac Newton right.
01:10:33 I don't believe you.
01:10:35 I'm sorry?
01:10:37 I don't believe your mind is open.
01:10:42 I was made for this.
01:10:46 I'm the best measuring man
01:10:50 This is my moment.
01:10:54 This is what my whole life
01:10:58 I would never, never
01:11:03 I swear to you, on all that I hold dear,
01:11:12 What about yours?
01:11:13 Mine?
01:11:15 Is your mind open?
01:11:16 Of course.
01:11:17 Then may we have our money?
01:11:26 (LAUGHING) Principe!
01:11:28 He's agreed.
01:11:31 We're going to Africa.
01:11:42 (CHIMING)
01:11:57 It's over.
01:11:59 How could God allow so many to die?
01:12:05 Germany's blockaded.
01:12:07 No food is getting into Berlin.
01:12:09 They have no water, no medicine.
01:12:12 Great Britain has won the war
01:12:19 I'm leaving for Berlin
01:12:22 I hope we Quakers can help.
01:12:30 With you in Africa...
01:12:34 ...we will be a long way apart.
01:12:45 Winnie.
01:12:47 Winnie!
01:12:51 Say goodbye to me.
01:12:54 I'm afraid for you.
01:12:56 - What are you talking about?
01:13:00 I'm worried you're... losing something
01:13:06 Your faith.
01:13:08 You must listen for God.
01:13:12 Do you hear me?
01:14:15 What time is it?
01:14:17 It's noon. Two hours to go.
01:14:21 The rain has stopped.
01:14:23 The cloud?
01:14:26 It's full cloud cover.
01:14:36 Everything's ready.
01:14:40 It's all down to whether the cloud lifts,
01:15:03 It's time.
01:15:16 We'll get into position.
01:15:18 We'll do what we've come here to do.
01:15:44 Eddington! Quick, look!
01:15:50 Five minutes to go.
01:16:44 Totality. We have five minutes
01:17:54 - The rain stopped.
01:18:00 And the cloud cleared.
01:18:07 Yes, it did.
01:18:19 Six of the plates are poor quality.
01:18:22 Two are good.
01:18:23 We have two photographs to compare
01:18:27 Will it be Einstein or Newton?
01:18:31 It's time to go home.
01:19:19 Our divorce has taken longer than the war.
01:19:22 Your work has made you ill.
01:19:25 I hope what you've been doing
01:19:28 We have to do the best
01:19:34 That is our sacred
01:19:39 Anything less is unforgivable.
01:19:42 My theory is too beautiful to be wrong.
01:19:48 Why are you here?
01:19:55 I... have a promise to keep.
01:20:01 Space... is shaped.
01:20:07 Space is full of...
01:20:11 ...curves...
01:20:15 ...and dents...
01:20:19 ...and wonderful shapes.
01:20:26 Are you leaving again?
01:20:30 Are you going back to Berlin?
01:20:39 He's not staying.
01:20:58 This is it.
01:21:01 No. We should do this in public.
01:21:09 We should share this
01:21:15 Right or wrong,
01:22:02 If the stars on this photographic plate
01:22:06 overlap with the comparison plate,
01:22:10 Einstein is wrong
01:22:14 If there is a gap
01:22:17 then the sun's gravitational field
01:22:21 and we have a new theory of gravity.
01:22:47 - A gap.
01:22:56 I call upon Arthur Eddington.
01:23:11 None of us can know what the world is
01:23:17 Einstein says...
01:23:32 Sorry.
01:23:34 Einstein says that time
01:23:41 ...but different for each one of us.
01:23:52 It's very hard to conceive of
01:24:01 ...of such relative ways of seeing.
01:24:03 Today is the first day of a new world
01:24:09 that is much harder to live in,
01:24:12 less certain,
01:24:14 more lonely.
01:24:20 But which has, at its heart...
01:24:24 ...human endeavour.
01:24:25 One man has shown us how.
01:24:29 Look at what one man can do.
01:24:32 In this man's work,
01:24:36 of the new universe he has shown us,
01:24:39 I for one have no doubt.
01:24:44 I can hear God thinking.
01:25:06 Is that him?
01:25:10 Professor Einstein?
01:25:13 Who... are all those men outside?
01:25:18 Reporters.
01:25:22 Word has reached us from London
01:25:28 You're famous.
01:25:38 You're here.
01:25:47 Will you have me?
01:25:49 On one condition.
01:25:54 You can't go outside and meet
01:25:59 They'll think you are a lunatic.
01:26:07 What kind of genius looks like you do?
01:26:20 (SHE LAUGHS)
01:26:21 - No!
01:26:23 - No!
01:26:27 - Einstein.
01:26:52 Hello. Yes.
01:26:54 Hello.
01:26:55 Oh, yes. Yes.
01:27:21 Eddington.
01:27:24 Einstein.