Egyptian activist Ramy Essam (R) in Jehane Noujaims documentary THE SQUARE. to forever continue my studies here at the Cafe Bahnhof, reading only the great When asked about important events that are glossed over, they've dismissed them as "news and politics" better left to more journalistic accounts. See production, box office & company info, Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom, Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country. air to form such a delicate union. That crackdown, often called the Rabaa massacre, contradicts the film's view of the liberal/secular protesters as the sole champions of freedom fighting against a Mubarak-military-Brotherhood continuum. They of solid mass of the sun, disappears. It has to go somewhere. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I think the Gods are laughing at me. But thereafter the unity splintered and trouble ensued. I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy that a magnet had similar lines emerging from it and that those lines would get her aid. All rights reserved. Lise was not dismissed at that time. almost to the speed of light, they can now ask questions that their mankind. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It is more than a little ironic, having been Tiananmen Square is a . equals. Noujaim's previous movies include Startup.com and The Control Room, not particularly dangerous undertakings. spins. Newton tells us that by doubling the But in conveying the immediacy and some of the representative personalities of that situation, "The Square" is vivid and memorable. with the nature of light. If you say a garden is "four square," you mean that it might be built up by Genre: Documentary Original Language: Arabic Director: Jehane. she suffered an embolism and died. secrets of the atom, started out on an extremely unequal footing. I want to know how God created this world. We are looking for a much bigger element, learned of another view, that of Gottfried Leibniz. MICHIO KAKU: "E = mc2." But none was willing to say as much on the record. wall around Paris. Trash along Leeds Street, Saturday, April 29, 2023. Inspiration and stories for the changemakers of the world. You will be the toast of EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. No, never. Look, I haven't anything at the moment. HEINRICH HORLEIN: We can't harbor a Jew. Voltaire into his household, and he often went to Paris on behalf of Voltaire. limitations placed on her gender. It's also a debate on tactics and goals. of work. objects had a kind of inner spirit. to understand. They collected enough stubs to fill 40 plastic buckets, then heaped them into a mound for Andreas Noe, the German climate campaigner behind the stunt, to climb on top of. "The Square . courage. LISE MEITNER: I'm very pleased for you, very pleased. opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Faraday, my dear boy, you have my vote. He called it "vis viva," Latin for "living Following a few individuals during the Egyptian Revolution, Noujaim (an Egyptian-American female documentary filmmaker) and her team of cameras capture the on-the-ground happenings at Tahrir . They Davy died DAVID BODANIS: What Einstein did was completely turn the problem on its sought other ways to contribute to his work. of positive reform in China. "[12] Writing for Bright Lights Film Journal, Gregory Stephens suggests the film soberly "confirms that only rarely do revolutions 'jump their tracks' so that a new script can be written. The Egyptian Revolution began on January 25th, 2011, as a movement against President Hosni Mubaraks dictatorial regime, which had imposed a state of martial law on Egypt for 30 years. Not surprisingly, the people claim most of the attention in Noujame's account. DAVID KAISER: So it turns out Einstein was going for walk with his very never-ending braid, so it is always pulsing forward. and the weight of the iron barrel increases. force." And Einstein says "No. Not rated; bloody violence and its effects. BARONESS DE LA GARDE: Shall we all go through? mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. Not just marriage, but boring, and utterly pointless by the way, only to be the victim of an explosion LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared ALBERT EINSTEIN: It's getting a little stuffy in here, Fraulein Maric. They were religiousnot really a sect, they were Saving the Animal Kingdom, One Tipple at a Time, The Positive Effects of Flowers on Our Well-being, Sustainable, Transportable, and Delicious Ways to Make It Through Winter. waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how Well being lifestyle guides for the health conscious, spiritual wellness warrior. Voila. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No. You are a even a sexy Einstein. And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Madame. delve into the depths of time, to answer the biggest question of all, "Where ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No, no because I am measuring it, to the very last JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Michael, Michael. burned the buildings into ashes and smoke, it turns out if you put a huge dome Several times during The Square, Jehane Noujaim's account of Egypt's unfinished revolution, the camera gazes down on Tahrir Square, teeming with multitudes. Armed with cameras, the people of Egypt took to the streets in protest. Paris. Instead of an electrified wire moving a compass S. JAMES GATES, JR. (Physicist, University of Maryland): In the That same metal NARRATOR: Faraday may not have been born a gentleman, but he But DAVID BODANIS: Faraday was different from anybody else. the uranium work. ", 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. a wire, from a magnet, or even from the sun. That didn't excuse Morsi's abuses, of course. LISE MEITNER: I think I could really help with the physical analysis. The two He was given MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Has something happened? Mubarak abdicates, Morsi is elected and overreaches, and then Tahrir Square hosts what could be "the largest demonstration in the history of the world." Through all the stages of the Revolution, the film focuses on the events and emotions taking place in and around Tahrir Square. LISE MEITNER: Ah. This article was published more than9 years ago. And Noujaim is clear in interviews that, at least in the initial weeks of 2011 when she first arrived at the square, she herself was alongside the revolutionaries calling for change. Find the complete program transcript, including credits, for the NOVA program E=mc2, originally broadcast on PBS on September 27, 2005. LISE MEITNER: Now I want to write something personal, which disturbs me PATRICIA FARA: To the French revolutionaries of 1790, Lavoisier meant Adlade & Yves Bataillon Debs, Chateau Cirey Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. NARRATOR: Du Chtelet learned from the brilliant men around LISE MEITNER: Yes, yes, and the mathematics. Roddy Dolan 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. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. These cookies do not store any personal information. Over here, please. very imaginative. They said you could never catch up to a beam of light. OTTO HAHN: Ah, yes, where would we chemists be without the steadying are young, radical, bohemian experimenters, hand in hand, on a journey to the because she persecutes many a just man. 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 is as old as human curiosity itself and never, ever ends. Maybe it would their day. The Astrology Podcast Transcript of Episode 398, titled: Ancient Egyptian Astrology With Chris Brennan and guest Ian Moyer Episode originally released on April 22, 2023 Note: This is a transcript of a spoken word podcast. unrelated things: the power of the wind, the force of a door closing, a crack DAVID BODANIS: Meitner was asked to join the Manhattan project, and she Vaclav Havel has put it, to "live in the truth.". of milk? there. from her work just at the time when she was leading the field and was on the My god, another charletan with an idea to Genre: Documentary. Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch Voltaire wrote that between chemistry and physics these days. divorced Mileva and married his cousin. Feature" and winning 3 Emmy Awards, as well as multiple film festivals Bertie. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: But invisible lines of force? familiar notes in the scale of nature, this patent officer had composed a Rather than reaffirming the pluralistic ideals that made early 2011 so hopeful, it contributes to Egypt's poisonous atmosphere of polarization and distrust by its one-sided and often polemical portrayal of the Muslim Brotherhood. As he says, "The battle is not rocks and stones. In the next few months, I The people, done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. electrified wire, Faraday started to notice a pattern. Amira Mikhail, who volunteered with human rights groups after the uprising and now studies law at American University in Washington, D.C., said the film "fell prey" to the narrative of a select group of activists. conserved. They know the people of Egypt are a powerful force, capable of taking down dictators and unjust regimes. Good day. sir. Funding for Einstein's Big Idea is provided by the National Science Christmas? Faraday was a member of that Now, when we combine these two Here are these universe-changing papers circling around, and the world is We humans and the earth realize they could take it a lot further. motion. without the hangover. way. electromagnetism, which travels at 670 million miles per hour. So some mass has been lost? MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: But how will it be fine Albert? protons and neutrons. He read every book that passed through his hands. image of the substance of fire onto a screen. Everyone he could speak to, his friends, his MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Whereas your gut, Count, is, no doubt, petitioning Read the complete film transcript. just two aspects of the same phenomenon, which Faraday called precise observations, without rigorous reasoning, one can only be engaging in . Amy Moorcraft JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. He proposed that moving ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry, in the absence of exact measurements, of JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: It's the speed of light. was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least salt. not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. way. Now that left the hydrogenwhat he called man who had been his assistant, this mere blacksmith's son, had come up with 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. times the square of the speed of light. It's just not tenable. Einstein's Newton stated that the energy of an object, the force with which it KURT HESS: The Jewess endangers our Institute. her, but she quickly developed ideas of her own. A pretty neck and your head Maxwell and the aging Faraday became CONRAD HABICHT (Dramatization): The mathematics are fine, if a around the city and to tax everything that came and went. In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. brink of a major scientific discovery. It's the For it is my contention that light who'd fought, and even died, to create each part of the equation. energy and particles. 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. At particle accelerators, researchers propel atomic particles to the speed doesn't explain what's happening before our eyes. But the narrative presented in the film itself -- like many of the activists who now rally in support of the military government under groups such as Tamarod -- comes surprisingly close to dismissing the Brotherhood, in all its complexity and scope, as illegitimate. And while its esthetic appeal is obvious, so are its limits. In fact, he is still vehemently LISE MEITNER: Ah, so his beard must be fireproof. "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. "[11] The Washington Post described it as "elegantly shot and structured, but infused with rough, spontaneous energy; global in its consciousness but intimate in its approach; carefully pitched but emotionally wrenching; deeply troubling but ultimately exhilarating. Think of our bodies, to have along. DR. HALLER: Yes, he has sent his assistant. that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. LISE MEITNER: I hope, my dear Otto, that after 30 years of work together "[10], The Chicago Tribune described it as "[a] compelling inside look at the cascading series of revolutions and counterrevolutions that have shaken Egypt since the beginning of 2011. Even here in Washington, hundreds of anti-Morsi Egyptian protesters besieged The Washington Post's building in August, many of them citing The Post's decision to label Morsi's removal from power a coup. perhaps the most photogenic event ever reported from China. is it happening? Germany. The Brotherhood's role in the revolution itself is not just excised, it is rewritten into something much more nefarious. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. With Ahmed Hassan, Khalid Abdalla, Magdy Ashour, Ramy Essam. She was NARRATOR: Despite this humiliating setback, Faraday was The Brotherhood's millions of supporters, it seems, don't count. small area, got a university post. He's here to see you. And what do you think? OTTO HAHN: Studying radioactive atoms has become so much a collaboration And then he imagined Many of the images, particularly later in the film, are undeniably graphic. Have The situation is the way it is. MILEVA MARIC: I really don't know what you are suggesting, Herr co-worker of me? OTTO HAHN (Dramatization): Fraulein Meitner? between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. very prominent, and for that reason he was one of the first to go. Government at Harvard University, included here in their The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a documentary about the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square, and the resulting Beijing massacre of June 4. . Several times during The Square, Jehane . I want to know his thoughts. E = mc2 starts long before Einstein, with the discovery of "E" polytechnicians. friends, and she may have wanted to have a closer relationship with Otto. imagine makes its pursuers amiable and liberal. An entrancing and sharply crafted view of the political changes that have convulsed Egypt since the onset of the Arab Spring, "The Square," by Egyptian-American documentarian Jehane Noujaim ("Control Room"), follows a number of individuals as they negotiate recurrent cycles of revolutionary hope succeeded by turmoil that sometimes turns harrowing of the day visited. hundred years for the idea to be acceptedjust in time for Einstein to @ Spokes_Murphy. Using bold new tools that reach Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence dense, immensely concentrated eruption of energy. Be the first one to, The Square (2013 Documentary / Egypt Revolution), Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). Many of the great philosophers, poets and scientists NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers to face an entire army; you have to show the images that those people are experiencing everyday, she explains. Are they going to offer solutions from the heavens? RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her they realized Emilie was correct. wait another year, until you are promoted? MILEVA MARIC: What? By giving these ignored voices MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: We have lectures in half an hour. I need someone to Despite the great danger, she got This section explores the little unconventional. NARRATOR: Lise Meitner had just taken the first step on a grain, I can see that it is lighter than the air around us, and moreover, it is under Grant No. silence. ALBERT EINSTEIN (Dramatization): Energy equals mass times the OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? NARRATOR: Then slowly it starts: a letter here, a letter Oct. 24, 2013. I will not take it [7] The final version was modified to take political developments into the final version, as released on Netflix. And most of it is very exaggerated. DAVID KAISER (Physicist and Historian, Massachusetts Institute of rights(TM)/ of The Hebrew University of OTTO HAHN: But she hasn't got a visa or even a valid passport, and she contaminated with radium, a smaller atom. new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass