Einstein: 1905, light-year
Thursday 12th October 2006 from 10h00 to 12h00
Salle 1 / Auditorium
Einstein: 1905, light-year
- Directed by
- Philippe Tourancheau
- Produced by
- CNDP
Docudrama, France, 2005, 49 min
In 1892, Lord Kelvin said to an audience of scientists: "physics is definitely up with its fundamental concepts..."
Fifteen years later, a stranger in Berne would blow these concepts: Albert Einstein. The narrative form with scenes fictionnées spreads during the fifteen years preceding 1905. It leads to the famous equation E = mc2 to demystify the meaning.
Principle of relativity according to Bernadette (The)
- Directed by
- Laurence Arcadias
- Produced by
- Amorce films
Animation, France, 2006, 6 min
Bernadette talks about her perception of time, totally changed by relativity: when she finds her father cosmonaut, she could be his mother!
The principle of relativity explained in animation.
Debate with :
- Hervé This, Collège de France
- Thibault Damour, Professor of theoretical physics at the Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies ( IHES )
- Etienne Klein, physicist at the CEA, Professor at l'École Centrale de Paris philospher.
- Claude Cohen Tanoudji, ENS Paris