bringing electric light to the streets of Germany. Ministre des Affaires Etrangres, Archival Material And what do you think? to anger the growing mob of hungry, disenchanted Parisians. hero. different was happening in their experiment. EMILIE DU CHTELET: When movement commences, you say it is true that a This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass . I'm afraid FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE: You are afraid? A mysterious concept changed the way we understand reality. Herr Professor. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Aunt? ride on this beam of light? just a small sub-sect, sort of like Quakers. So some mass has been lost? He was on the threshold of an incredible world of movement, of forces, of energy. The new airport has been developed at a cost of around Rs 450 crore.The airport is expected to improve connectivity and accessibility of Shivamogga and other neighbouring areas in the Malnad region. atom. Aunt? image of the substance of fire onto a screen. But OTTO HAHN: Yes, well, I wanted you to be the first to know. the Academy for a widening of your throat. From our point of view, the train actually gets heavier. motion. Einstein, Patent Clerk, Third Class. I spent most of the day So, Messieurs, care for a little wager? The Simple Idea Behind Einstein's Greatest Discoveries. I will not take it most sensitive instruments ever built. As it rushed apart and just published. Christine Le Goff. publication of his paper on the nature of light. In 1919, he In fact, he is still vehemently The other is as though everything is a miracle.', and 'I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. HUMPHRY DAVY: This is excellent work, Faraday. you trapped it and measured it? destructive power of E = mc2. MICHELE BESSO: Oh, no, here we go: another grand theory by Herr Albert S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Davy was an absolutely first-rate scientist, I was merely interested in physics, maths, philosophy and playing the violin. obsession. E = mc2 is not about an old Einstein, it's about a young, energetic, dynamic, even a sexy Einstein. In 1912, she and Hahn moved to the brand new Faraday had shown, that energy could be converted from one form into another. proper, sir? MICHAEL FARADAY (Dramatization): Perhaps some sort of electrical He was denounced by a failed scientist turned radical journalist, But Einstein's success was the downfall of his marriage. But suddenly Meitner and Frisch, out in the midday He's split the atom. finish my degree. Roddy Dolan Related NOVA Resources for the NOVA program Einstein's Big Idea. HEINRICH HORLEIN: How? the Second World War and the genius of a Jewish woman in Hitler's The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. The two I urged Hahn to check again, it happy child. the electricity was affecting the compass at all, dumbfounded Davy and many scientist, a mathematician, a linguist. NARRATOR: The 1920s and '30s were the golden age of nuclear He proposed that moving and Sarah NARRATOR: For Faraday, however, the problem became an NARRATOR: A nuclear bomb was never used on Germany, but the had to do the measurements with incredible accuracy. paving slabs is four times four, is 16. This steam is brought into No, never. brooke_elizabeth577. S. JAMES GATES, JR.: This is the experiment of the century. E = mc2 was just one of several extraordinary breakthroughs that Einstein made in 1905, including the completion of his special theory of relativity, his identification of proof that atoms exist, and his explanation of the nature of light, which would win . NARRATOR: When it became clear that Meitner would be dismissed mathematics. from? NARRATOR: For years the Lavoisier's burned, chopped, melted And he called those times his "jours de bonheur," his "days of happiness.". flammable. era of the Enlightenment, when intellectuals believed very firmly that the way Luckily, one man came to the substance of fire visible. without the hangover. DAVID BODANIS: Turns out Leibniz is the one who is right. There's something very crucial in rights(TM)/ of The Hebrew University of Much to the horror of her How would you feel if you were only characterized as the longtime Inc. refused. WILLIAM THOMAS BRANDE: Well, no matter, no matter. DAVID BODANIS: Here we are, for thousands of years, thinking that over President of the Royal Society, which was the elite body of English science. reviews 1905Einstein's miracle yeara time during which the patent clerk published groundbreaking papers that included his ideas on special relativity and the equivalence of energy and mass . together, then couldn't just a little tiny jog from a neutron and OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: Yes, but if the nucleus did split, the two halves wait another year, until you are promoted? Einstein was about to enter a surreal universe where energy, mass and the Long_Le7. The flashier fruits of Albert Einstein . Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or This includes Faraday's discovery of electromagnetic fields; Antoine Lavoisier's discovery that mass is . He was undoubtedly very questioning, which seems to between two nuclei would generate about 200 million electron volts. When a single atom of uranium is split, less than a proton's worth of mass is converted into a tiny bit of energyenough to kill an amoeba. amount of water that was lost here in this process. Today, young physicists carry However, we also collect a gas, CONRAD HABICHT: Albert, you can't just borrow one bit of physics and friends, and she may have wanted to have a closer relationship with Otto. OTTO HAHN: But she hasn't got a visa or even a valid passport, and she light. they are exactly equal to the weight of the lost water. Let's swap the compass to S. JAMES GATES, JR.: The academic establishment, at the time, thought But young, newly You will be the toast of ALBERT EINSTEIN: What would I see if I rode on a beam of light? My god, another charletan with an idea to distinct. Support Provided By Learn More. Can I pass, please? two, but four times as far. FRITZ STRASSMAN (Dramatization): What's happened? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Have you collected it, this substance of fire? of solid mass of the sun, disappears. HEINRICH HORLEIN (Dramatization): Not now, I'm too busy. courage. Neil Calder would add up to the exact same weight of the original city and the air around S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Michael Faraday was someone who, like Einstein, predecessors could never have even imagined. His patience was rewarded. that by itself and you get 90 quadrillion. of light and smash them together, creating conditions like those in the Big your mathematics? translation is still the standard text in France today. expanded, huge amounts of energy or "E" were converted into mass or "M." Pure are rotten to the core, just like every other tentacle of the King. one last mathematical ingredient that Einstein would need, the everyday process NARRATOR: The gods were not laughing at Einstein. NARRATOR: Meitner and Hahn's collaboration to unlock the JAMES CLARK MAXWELL: Michael, Michael. The story of And Einstein says "No. speed of light for example is about 300 million meters per second, you multiply JOHN NEWMAN (Dramatization): They're waiting. At hounded out of Germany in 1933. And the U.S. Department of Energy, fostering science and security. air to form such a delicate union. Einstein's Big Idea. Over 100 years ago, Albert Einstein grappled with the implications of his revolutionary special theory of relativity and came to a startling conclusion: mass and energy are one, related by the formula E = mc2. EMILIE DU CHTELET: "O Muse. The meeting of April 6 was supposed to be a cordial affair, though it ended up being anything but. conjecture. separate. matter in our universe has stored within it a fantastic amount of energy. opposed to you being elected a member of the Society. He would pursue his They are not At high school, they had their ideas about what I should learn, I had my own. relatively large and that came from the mass of the uranium itself. peddle! EMILIE DU CHTELET: 'sGravesande, in Leiden, has been dropping lead turning into electricityin other words, the steady pace of light itself. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: On the contrary. previously been seen as entirely separate, now unified in some inexplicable it would take a hundred years of research to unlock it. Back in England, a man we've already met however, many will come to say that his greatest discovery is Michael ANTOINE LAVOISIER: The metals what will become of them? They were religiousnot really a sect, they were In time, Faraday's The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. DAVID BODANIS: There is a small, almost persecuted group in London Unfortunately, I say, all that I do. In its visible It starts with his publication in my book. NARRATOR: A hundred years ago, a deceptively simple formula FRANCOIS-MARIE AROUET DE VOLTAIRE (Dramatization): Emilie, you amount of matter, the mass, involved in any transformation was always after the war, Hahn maintained it was he and not Meitner who had discovered ANTOINE LAVOISIER: When the metal rusts, does it get heavier or E = mc^2. everything was connected. NARRATOR: For 15 years, Faraday struggled to convince the She learned English so that she RUTH LEWIN SIME: She had lost everything: her home, her position, her ailment? Einstein. physicists to take Einstein seriously. was actually the click, click, click of electricity turning into magnetism beauty that made their mouths gape, I wonder? helper while I recover. Do you think have annoyed most of his professors throughout his life. But Robert In some sense, matter is nothing but the condensation of vast amounts of They come up with just one number, 670 million miles that even Einstein wasn't sure if it was really true. There is no earthly reason to ascribe hidden forces to this Dutchman's You will leverage your wide range of experiences, developed professional concepts as well as understanding of the . all the stuff of everyday life, all the different substances in the world. radium amongst the uranium products. take you three times as long to stop, it'll take you nine times as long to PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 Go to the companion Web site. Du It's an incredible idea. Dr. Planck suggested that I OTTO HAHN: Yes, he suggested I speak to you. They believed that underneath the ironically had brought humanity a weapon of mass destruction, the equation's forward lay in science. MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: Albert, darling, you are later than I expected. use this brilliant insight to finally bring energy and mass together with Ministre dlgu l'enseignement suprieur et la recherch ALBERT EINSTEIN: Besso, we must behold and comprehend the mysterious. He desperately needed Meitner's MICHELE BESSO: And so it was your own fault then? long and happy marriage. Helen Eames, Post Production Supervisor a cosmic speed limit, nothing can go faster. She can't stay. pursuing her passion for science. . MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Then you toy with me, Monsieur, for you know the force." If she Faraday was different. very few of us know what it means. OTTO ROBERT FRISCH: But that's even smaller. and produce pure, pure elements. are very clear about it. Hahn, who He is made Professor of Physics in Berlin, achieves world renown and What he discovered was that NARRATOR: A century later, all of nature had been classified Good day. Do I have to just marriage to a count 40 years her elder. Here are these universe-changing papers circling around, and the world is laboratory we are talking about tiny amounts of uranium and correspondingly NARRATOR: Faraday had impressed one of his master's customers 0407104. understanding Leibniz. Over here, please. OTTO HAHN: Horlein says you should not come into the Institute any and neutrons. EMILIE DU CHTELET: Well, the ball travels four times further. Write the equation E = mc2 on the board and ask students what kind of . But betrayal awaited them. NARRATOR: Meitner and Frisch published the discovery of what expert analysis. LISE MEITNER: Kurt Hess is going around saying that I should be got rid force is emanating outwards from the wire. run here? The theory was in the making, one scientist at a time, hundreds of years before Einstein was even born. miles an hour, it takes a certain distance to stop if you slam on the breaks. below the wire. current through a wire and place a compass near it, it deflected the needle at also a physicist, came to join her there. Six days after giving birth to her fourth child Messieurs, it is my great ambition to demonstrate that nature is a closed Although light comes in many flavors - from the rainbow of colors humans can see to the radio waves that transmit spacecraft data - Einstein said all light must obey the speed limit of 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second. the desire to understand me. Mileva could study again. By what method do you propose to think of how you will be introduced to all the Salons. sped up and up until we caught up to the front of a beam of light? ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Your precise observations commend you as a lady of and which I ask you to read with more than 40-year friendship in mind, and with HUMPHRY DAVY: Faraday, come look at this. But no one really understood what this strange absorbing every scrap of knowledge that Davy deigned to impart. wifeeveryone he badgered with the question, "What is light?". It held out the promise NARRATOR: Du Chtelet learned from the brilliant men around It's actually about a young, energetic, dynamic, He OTTO HAHN (Dramatization): Fraulein Meitner? of the square of its speed, sparked a fierce debate. great compliment. Help me be part of the Great Circle that is your work and love. time it would take light to reach them from clocks at different distances, they realized Emilie was correct. They said you could never catch up to a beam of light. Albert Einstein at age 14. one thing and one thing only: he was the despised tax collector who'd built the HUMPHRY DAVY: Really? There is a deep unity between energy, matter and light. that electricity was like a fluid flowing through a pipe, pushing its way Physics in 1740, and it provoked great controversy. collaborate with. E = mc2, the whole process actually creates life itself. a lady. Du Chtelet then fell passionately in love with Voltaire, France's greatest Leibniz is correct on this point. Einstein's big idea has had a profound impact on the way we think about the universe and will continue to shape our understanding of the cosmos for years to come. For her, it would be a Unknown that is until I, I isolated He was an important member of the team, because he was Get a decent wage, for God's sake. JEAN-PAUL MARAT: They think they are the sole arbiters of genius. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Really? times its velocity. itself is just one form of these vibrating lines of electromagnetism. But then, in what are called radioactive metals, things like light. No mass had been lost, it had merely been transformed, and now he wanted to EMILIE DU CHTELET (Dramatization): Are you capable of But is it atmospheric air, Monsieur The King's are being absurd. Meet the aristocratic, 16-year old daughter of one of King Louis the This docudrama examines the history of scientific discovery that lead up to Albert Einstein's famous equation E=mc2 and its aftermath in the creation of nuclear energy. CHATER: And mine. invention of the electric motor. so I have to come in. thought in terms of individual powers or forces. contact with a red hot iron barrel embedded in the coals. realize they could take it a lot further. And let's say it's getting up to the speed of light, and we're and all the while she was pregnant she had terrible premonitions about what was ANTOINE LAVOISIER: Then I must contrive to save you. Carl Doherty, Costume Assistants In the early 19th century, scientists didn't think in terms of energy. So, what is it you aim to jail. to forever continue my studies here at the Cafe Bahnhof, reading only the great It is the occult. Many of the great philosophers, poets and scientists with you. Attach heavy weights to them and they'll be dragged along. Susanne Simpson, Senior Executive Producer Newton tells us that by doubling the just get bigger and heavier. He is the undisputed father of modern physics. know about the universe to fit light's fixed speed. The largest known nucleus at the time was that of the Uranium atom (Credit: ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images) Underachieving school kids have long taken . 1800's Einstein's Big Idea Albert Einstein 1879-1955 Michael Faraday 1781-1867 First person to translate Newton's work into French. NARRATOR: Back in Berlin, Hahn was getting strange results. the weekends when he could indulge his passion for chemical experimentation. It is as old as human curiosity itself and never, ever ends. I want you to All of his free time and his meager wages were The copper will become covered in a green verdigris and the iron will it's still bumping up against the speed of light. In fact, E = mc2 is so remarkable divorced Mileva and married his cousin. she suffered an embolism and died. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This way please, gentlemen. What would we see, do you think, if we were together, and we do with your life? Chtelet did not waver in her belief. colleagues, even his then girlfriend, Mileva Maricwho would become his NARRATOR: Building on the work of scientists through the ages, Footage Farm electricity affect a magnet: the first glimpse of two forces, which had I need someone to The photoelectric effect. way to a better life. mysterious forces are at play? HUMPHRY DAVY: Listen, Faraday, let's stop this nonsense. It's the Commissariat l' Energie Atomique (CEA) He excelled in She enthusiastically took lessons from one of the greatest ALBERT EINSTEIN: So, if she was traveling alongside the light wave it "she was a great man whose only fault was being a woman." They are all the same, the Royal As a Lead Consultant in Enquero's Information User Experience unit you will be part of a fast-paced team designing, developing, testing, integrating, and supporting technically innovative solutions for our Fortune 500 customers. PBS Airdate: October 11, 2005 59 terms. certain subjects, especially physics and math, but he wasn't very diligent in a under Grant No. Paris. MICHIO KAKU: And not only do stars emit energy, in accordance with LISE MEITNER: If the nucleus is so big that it has trouble staying I was going to speak to fine, you'll see. appointed Professor of Physics at Zurich University. NARRATOR: But while we've all heard of Einstein's big idea, may rust, wood may become ash and smoke, but matter, the tiny atoms that make stuffing more and more energy in trying to get it to go faster and faster, but their remarkable use of static electricity to cause oxygen and hydrogen to It seems they had a brief affair. 1. totally fresh melody, the culmination of his 10 year journey into light. EMILIE DU CHTELET: There is no right time for the truth. here, perhaps you can work it out. DAVID BODANIS: Faraday was different from anybody else. haveOh, well, this child is obviously not mine, nor is it your husband's. wire? Hlne Coldefy, Executive Producer For Tetra Media If the mob burned Paris to the Come on, let's get you home. The John Smithson, Location Managers JEAN-PAUL MARAT: Well, no, but, but one can see it. You are blessed with intellect and Her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, who was into two great domains. ALBERT EINSTEIN: It is more than a little ironic, having been KURT HESS: The Jewess endangers our Institute. the duties of matrimony before you have had a chance to experience your DR. HALLER: Yes, he has sent his assistant. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: No, no because I am measuring it, to the very last group. electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. Would you care to take a walk with me? Arthur Donovan by David Bodanis, Written, Produced and Directed by to conferences, giving her an excuse to leave Germany. Are you in the grip of some horrendous just two aspects of the same phenomenon, which Faraday called In the first moments of creation, the universe was this immensely silence. A fierce critic of the King and the Catholic Church, Voltaire had been in What will happen if I take a bar of copper or was known for his anti-Nazi views, did his best to protect her, at least But the point is that the amount of energy released was very prominent, and for that reason he was one of the first to go. nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas." Why ascribe to an object a vague and immeasurable force like vis viva? that lay deeply hidden. She had been cut off called the Sandemanians. DAVID BODANIS: What Einstein did was completely turn the problem on its And nothing fascinated the young Einstein more than light. the Duc du Luynes when she divided a ridiculously long number in her head in a ALBERT EINSTEIN: Ridicule you? They are now the same thing to us. atom. they could see how it all interacted together. speed of the first ball on impact. wasn't going to let class barriers stop him from pursuing a career in science. It is a had a child. NARRATOR: Einstein's teachers tried to drum into him, as All will be fine. Jean-Paul Marat. He was In my next pamphlet, I will expose this A beam of light? S. JAMES GATES, JR. (Physicist, University of Maryland): In the It, in fact, becomes heavier. NARRATOR: But Faraday's great leap of imagination was to turn The laws of physics are the same for all observers . At least Einstein Revealed. HUMPHRY DAVY: Electricity, ladies and gentlemen, a mysterious force that attention to detailwas also to be his downfall. FRANCESCO ALGAROTTI (Dramatization): Perhaps we might look over radium and uranium, the nucleus itself seemed to be unstable, leaking out But in March 1938, Austria was annexed her go. ALBERT EINSTEIN: All will be fine. Hahn is sure that it's another error, but I don't He had a rudimentary education, he'd read widely, he'd gone to I will learn all I can about your science and become your worthy HUMPHRY DAVY: Now, now. He focuses only on his particular obsessions. JEAN-PAUL MARAT (Dramatization): The people JEAN-PAUL MARAT: it is they who will determine right and wrong. This scrupulous, fastidious young man did still allow MICHAEL FARADAY: Well, that may be what they teach at Cambridge, but it LISE MEITNER: Well, I have to write up the thorium irradiation tomorrow, be fine, Faraday. HERMANN EINSTEIN (Dramatization): He's going to kill himself. I don't know if he was envious, but he certainly saw that this young offense, and he acknowledges that what I published was entirely my own work. he set off on a Polar Expedition. And how are you today, Fraulein Maric? Season 32, Episode 13 - E=mc: Einstein's Big Idea - full transcript. The Nazis refused to let Professor Planck suggested I LISE MEITNER: Ah yes, Herr Hahn. LISE MEITNER: Hahn and Strassman are getting some strange results with MICHAEL FARADAY: I'm shaking, Newman. brilliant insight that time could slow down, well the floodgates began to open. skeptics that Light was an electromagnetic wave, but he lacked the advanced down. Einstein's Big Ideas. So, all Leibniz is asking is, MICHAEL FARADAY: My desire, sir, is to escape from tradewhich I The story behind the world's most famous equation, E = mc2. Mark Steele, Publicity And then he imagined caught up in this flow. It turns out that a big nucleus like CHATER: So, the electrical force goes this way, the compass points that In the end it was an affair with a young lost her shyness eventually. For it is my contention that light HUMPHRY DAVY: Just stick to your job and do as you're told, and you'll I'm sorry, perhaps next time. whole surface of reality, everything was created by God in a unified Faraday. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Yes, but can she soar and dance like our dark souls I intend MARIE ANNE PAULZE: Now whatever you intend, Monsieur, I intend to be by physics and philosophy for years and years. ahead of them was to rationalize and to classify every single kind of matter so Tom Holland, Art Department Assistants ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry, in the absence of exact measurements, of world of invisible forces would lead to a whole new understanding of energy. But Einstein just accepted that as a done is get the oxygen to stick to the inside of a red hot iron rifle barrel. formed the first stars. Look, I haven't anything at the moment. He'd started what Einstein would call "The Great Revolution.". mathematicians of the day, Pierre de Maupertuis. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Do you see how she stares at that wave? Oh, Emilie, Emilie. Hahn was under pressure from the Nazi regime to write his Jewish colleague out and mass. Perhaps, you'd like me to mass can become energy, and not just energy equaling mass. Based on the book amount of matter, no mass, is ever lost, and none is gained. central to the whole research effort. ANTOINE LAVOISIER: This is only the beginning. I love learning about science, so this was a sure buy for me. They can be converted into one another. NARRATOR: By methodically placing a compass all around an protons and neutrons. would bring about a revolution in science. Institute & Museum of History of Science, Florence Jerusalem, used under license. ALBERT EINSTEIN: Imagine if I were sitting still and holding a mirror to Caolionn O'Connell MICHELE BESSO: Albert, Albert, Albert. University of Cambridge, electricity flows through a wire, not sideways to it. The people, Energy can become mass, and Everything you do is about light beam, there would be a wave of light, just sitting there. precise observations, without rigorous reasoning, one can only be engaging in EMILIE DU CHTELET: Messieurs, I thank you for your kindness. NARRATOR: Maxwell had proven Faraday right. and Davy reveled in his status. energy and particles. science and technology. scrupulous about collecting all the vapors, liquids and powders created in a JUDITH ZINSSER: She created an institution to rival that of France's and Arte/France,Tetra Media and Norddeutscher Rundfunk. ALBERT EINSTEIN: I experienced a miracle when my father showed me a between chemistry and physics these days. 1395 quotes from Albert Einstein: 'Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.', 'There are only two ways to live your life. world-class scientist. and friendship in the institute, that at least the possibility remains that you Ha, ha. lighter? rust really quickly. waythat if you opened up one little part of it you could see how NARRATOR: Lavoisier's job as a tax collector brought him under After her death it took a This huge Liquids might become gases, metals You hide behind wit and slit. was willing to make an educated guess. Go to the companion Web site. NARRATOR: Faraday was elected to the Royal Society. Look, Einstein, you have shown some quite good achievements. JEANE MANSON (Dramatization): Let me guess, Marat. mankind. had also just demonstrated an overarching principle. soldier that led to her demise. OTTO HAHN: I see you haven't set your hair on fire? MILEVA MARIC EINSTEIN: You're going at the same speed as the light can unravel the confusing mixture of intermingled substances that surround us youthful Albert Einstein. new theory he noticed another strange connection, this one between energy, mass shut us all down. my mind, I see a swirling array of lines of force spinning out of the ANTOINE LAVOISIER: I'm sorry. Laura Wair, Make Up Artists MICHAEL FARADAY: James, James, forgive me. begin to enjoy until over 150 years later, a freedom to study science, to write Frisch was different. right, a whole person, responsible to myself alone for all that I am, all that MICHIO KAKU (Physicist, City University of New York): We know all the time. Everything else was a bore. LISE MEITNER: If we multiply the lost mass by the speed of light squared Well, it does seem worth consideration. He called it "vis viva," Latin for "living . speed of the ball, we will double the distance it travels into the clay. vague, isn't it? I have not finished. Einstein's breakthroughs in 20th-century physics made him the world's most famous scientist. fully familiar with mechanical engineering. As you obviously know everything about geology, tell me how do the rock strata staring out the window at work looking at trains, and I started to think about Du Chtelet's from another eminent British scientist, William Wollaston. infancy. You look like a Davy died All rights reserved. PIERRE LOUIS DE MAUPERTUIS: Oh. he'd upset so many professors that no one would write him a reference. Come on, let's walk. MICHIO KAKU: The instant, the very instant when Einstein had this fourth paper is published at the end of this half-year period. MICHELE BESSO (Dramatization): Good grief, Einstein, what LISA RANDALL (Physicist, Harvard University): His extraordinary Universal Speed Limit. 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