E=mc^2+Movie+Reflection

The movie that we have watched for the last two class periods about E=mc^2, Einstein, Faraday and Relativity is a very interesting movie that teaches the lessons in Science in a different approach from most other scientific movies. The life and thoughts of the people that the topic is discussing is acted out by actors and actresses in order to add appeal and make it easier for visual learners to learn.

Something I learned from this movie was the ideas of Einstein and his fascination with light. He wasn't one to be hooked onto small details, he rather liked to think of the "big ideas" of matters. Einstein wanted to figure out what light would look like if you traveled as fast as a light beam and look over. He often asked himself about the ways of light and he was the one to prove that if you are going as fast as a light beam that is traveling at the speed of light and you look over, it still looks as if the light beam is traveling at the speed of light.

Something new and interesting I learned from this movie was the influence that the French aristocratic female scientist had on the world of science not only in her time but in the future as well. She proved herself to be greater than the men she worked with when she corrected the formula Momentum = mass x velocity. She insisted that that the formula, in order to be correct would have to be Momentum (Vis Visa) = mass x velocity**^2.** This was a revolutionary way of thinking the fact that it came from a woman so early on in her studies interested me.