James May's Things You Need To Know — S02E01 — about Einstein

00:00:02 Mention the name "Einstein" and most people will immediately picture

00:01:13 It turned out he just preferred speaking in complete sentences.

00:02:16 To make matters worse, when Einstein was just 15 years old,

00:03:27 doing the sort of work he referred to as his cobbler's trade.

00:04:37 It's always 300,000km/s or thereabouts,

00:05:51 So this meant that time itself was no longer absolute.

00:07:07 even a really small piece of matter like a paperclip equals a lot of energy.

00:08:17 If we could crack it here on earth,

00:09:33 which he called "General Relativity".

00:10:48 And Einstein had come up with a profound new understanding

00:11:55 we're thinking of it as a perturbance in space-time.

00:13:13 become such a bankable icon?

00:14:23 By the time the Einsteins relocated to America in 1933,

00:15:49 He once said, "Marriage is the unsuccessful attempt

00:16:53 But despite many rumours to the contrary,

00:18:15 A cat in a box could be both alive and dead until someone takes a peek.

00:19:31 rejecting it by saying "God does not play dice with the universe."

00:20:53 because there wasn't anything really to convince him otherwise.

00:21:58 ..the spots on the surface of an inflating balloon.

00:23:07 OK, so once in a blue moon Einstein stuffed up, dropped the ball, made a boo-boo.

00:24:27 bringing the final number of signatures to a total of...four!

00:25:44 Sadly, Einstein departed these four dimensions in 1955.

00:26:58 He thought it would make a nice gift for Einstein's granddaughter,

00:28:26 Relatively speaking, that is!