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( birds chirping )

( monkey chattering )

Slowly and carefully!

( men grunting )

Keep it coming.

Gently now.

Very careful.

( men grunt loudly )

Careful with the telescope.

Dyson! What are you doing?
We need some help here!

All right, men, come on,
put your backs into it.

( all groan )

Nearly there.

Come on now, just one more push.

Nearly.

All right, men, not far to go.

Another foot.

- And up.
- That's it!

( thunder rumbling )

It's bad news, I'm afraid.

The photographic plates,
they've been damaged.

It's the heat.
They weren't stored properly.

All of them?

There are only eight
which will work.

Then we have eight photographs.

We won't have any at
all if this weather
doesn't lift by tomorrow.

If the cloud breaks,
quarter past two tomorrow...

and we look up into
the heavens, take photographs
of the eclipse...

...we will be
scientists at our work.

We'll be looking at
the poetry of existence.

And if Einstein's right,
the universe will never
look the same again.

Hmm.

Well, it had better stop
raining then, hadn't it?

( both laugh )

Got it!

- Match points.
- ( chuckles )

This is it. Three years
we've been playing this pair,
we've never won.

Seize the moment, Eddington.

( bell tolling )

- Man: Out!
- We've won.

- We've won.
- Well played.

- Well played, old boy.
- Well played.

Well played.

- William, I think it was in.
- What?

- I think the ball was in.
- The sun was in your eyes.

You couldn't possibly see.

You've taken five years
of defeat

with impeccable
politeness, Eddington.

Accept this victory
with the same good grace.

- No, no, the ball was in.
- Let him have his moment.

He's off to fight.

Don't spoil this.

He didn't tell me.

Eddington:
I don't consider it a victory.

Woman: I think you've made
that very clear.

- Sorry, I'm being--
- What? Pig-headed?

- Yes.
- And stubborn.

You're very fond
of William, aren't you?

I could see at the tennis.

You should tell him.

- ( machine clanks, whirring )
- What's that?

Some of the committee had
doubts about appointing you,

on account of your youth.

- Sir Oliver.
- You must be the sister.

Know what I said? I said
there have been nine directors

of the Cambridge Observatory
since Isaac Newton was here.

Each of them have slept
where you'll sleep,
eaten where you'll eat

and each of them was
as damned sure about Newton
as the man before.

Tea would be nice.

And cake.

Winnie.

I told them, "You listen
to me. What is there
to do after Newton?"

We have the truth,
we know how the
universe works,

so we need a director who
can measure and describe
what we know to be true.

We need Arthur
Stanley Eddington.

"Bugger theory--
give me the best
measuring man in England!"

( chuckles )

The jam's homemade.

Excellent.

Winnie:
I'll leave you
men to talk, shall I?

Perhaps there'll be
a Mrs. Eddington soon.

There's a minimum
height of five foot seven.

For astronomers' wives?

My son Raymond
is five foot six.
You know what they did?

The recruiting officer
measured him in his shoes.

Oh, I see, the army.
Which, um--?

Cambridgeshires.
We're damned proud of the boy.

I know you're a Quaker,
you won't fight.

I've no quarrel with that.

But you're worried.

Because you're an Englishman,

you feel your patriotism
is in conflict with your faith.

I can help.

The University of Berlin
is gathering together

the best German scientists...

for reasons obvious.

German science is putting itself

at the right hand
of German military ambition.

I see.

There's one man they want
very badly. We don't know why.

We don't see the point of him.

What does this have
to do with me?

I want you to look
at this man's work
and give a lecture.

We need English science
to remind everyone
just how strong we are.

Newton's truth is
a great strength to us all.

Good man.

What's his name?

Albert Einstein.

Boy:
What are we doing?

I'm steering the boat.

Without looking?

The wind direction, the tiller.

- Yes?
- Close your eyes.

- Man: What's going on?
- ( laughing )

Einstein:
Hans, Eduard, all of you,
listen to me!

What do you see?

A man on a boat on a lake

with his sons.

The man is taking off his socks.

( sniffs, grunts )

He rolls them into a ball.
Ready, Hans?

And he hurls the socks
at the people on the bank.

- ( grunts )
- Woman: Oh!

What is the speed of the socks?

The speed of the boat

added to the speed of the socks.
But what about light?

What about light?

What if I shine
a beam of light at you

on the bank from my boat?

What is the speed of the light?

The speed of the boat
added to the speed of the light?

- Yes.
- No.

- ( chuckles )
- Why not?

Why not?

Come on, boys,
we'd better get home.

( all laughing )

Hey, wait for me!

- ( panting )
- ( boys laughing )

Whoo. Ahh.

Einstein:
Sorry!

He was in the lake!

( kids laughing )

- ( train whistle )
- Guard: All aboard,
ladies and gentlemen!

( boys laughing,
chattering )

Why were you in the lake?

- ( distant train whistle )
- In the interests
of science.

Were there any women impressed
by your performance?
There usually are.

I was talking to the children.

You talk to the boys about
your work, but not to me?

Any pudding?

( chatter )

- Where are you going?
- I'm leaving.

- You can't leave,
I'm working.
- No!

( loudly rattling )

Mileva, please!

Mileva!

Please!

When we were students, you said
to me we would share our work,

we are physicists together.
You lied!

What I'm doing now,
I can't talk about it.

I don't have the energy
or the time to share
it with anyone!

What is it? What is your work?!

Gravity?

Max! Max Planck!

Hello, Albert.

( laughs )

You don't remember me, do you?

You don't even remember my name!

Max:
Mileva!

It's fine. She's always leaving.

( bell tolling )

Planck:
So, nine years' work on gravity
and all you have are questions.

Beautiful questions, of course,
but no answers.

Perhaps conditions are
not right here in Zurich.

Hmm.

I think you need some help.

I don't need anything.

No.

If you are content
to remain an obscurity

- at a second-rate university--
- ( laughs )

Why are you here, Max?

We could offer you
a great deal of money.

You didn't answer my question.

12,000 marks.

A professorship

and membership of
the Prussian Academy of Sciences

if you'll join us in Berlin.

Come back to Germany, Albert.

- Who's "us"?
- The university.

So, you're offering me money,
status...

Yes.

- Prestige.
- Yes.

The answer is no.

I have a family, Max,
I can't just uproot them.

No, you can't, I agree with you.

To be a great scientist,

there are always sacrifices
that have to be made.

Finish your work
on gravity, Albert.

I think you could be great.

Train ticket to Berlin.

In case you change your mind.

Everything in the universe
is ordered.

Everything is bound
together by one force.

( whirring )

Gravity.

Everything happens for a reason.

Isn't that wonderful?

Newton described
how gravity acts

and explained why.

And he was right,
but he was worried,

because...

you can't touch gravity.

You can't see it.

And Newton struggled with this.

He worried and he doubted.

And then he found his answer.

What fills the unexplained?

God, Winnie.

God's will.

Newton described
everything perfectly.

But he left room for God too.

- ( whistle blowing )
- ( chatter )

- ( kisses )
- I love you.
- I love you.

Don't forget to visit
your aunt and uncle.

- I'm going to work.
- I know, I know.

( sighs ) I'll send for you all
as soon as I can.

- ( train whistle blows )
- Hmm?

Look at me.

Hans.

Einstein: Hans.

Hans! Hans!

Einstein, Albert.

Anything we've got.

( chatter )

This is nine years old.

It's all there is.

( car horn honks )

Einstein: Max!

You're here!

Welcome to the greatest
university in Europe.

( chuckling )

- Evening.
- Good evening.

Ah!

- Fritz Haber you know,
of course.
- Fritz Haber.

Einstein.

You-- you--
( chuckles )

You look a little...

well, less Jewish
than the last time I saw you.

I'm a Christian now
in a Christian country.

I have renounced
my Jewish faith.

So what are you working on?

- I'm looking at gases.
- Which?

Ammonia.

What about it?

Its conversion into nitrate.

Explosives?

What use is science
if it has no practical
application?

We should go.
We're late.

For what?

There's someone I want
you to meet.

( waltz playing )

- Barman: Mr. Koppel.
- Thank you.

Einstein:
Who is this "someone"?

He who makes it all possible.

Over 12,000 marks a year?

Mm-hm.

And he wants to have
a good look at his investment.

Max, I thought it was
part of my contract

that I would have total freedom.

Just keep what you say
clear and simple.

You're late.

I was invited precisely
at the time I was supposed
to arrive here,

therefore it was impossible
for me to be here when I left.

- What?
- The energy which an object has

because of its
motion will increase its mass.

The increase in mass makes
it harder for the object
to increase its speed.

Try as he might, the brilliant
scientist setting out

to meet the fat industrialist
was always going to be late.

If the sun were
to disappear now,

according to Isaac Newton
and his laws of gravity,

we'd feel it now.

Instantaneously.

The force of gravity
moves faster

than the speed of light.
How can that be?

This is what
I'm paying for?

What are you saying?

W-W-What is he saying?

Thank you very much for all
the money you're giving me.

( men singing
in German )

Good-bye.

This is the Einstein
you speak so highly of?

Yes.

What does he offer us?

He has a truly original,
probing mind.

Questions don't win wars.

You have plenty of scientists
who can help you practically.

He is a theorist.

What good is theory to me?

After two centuries,
he might just prove
Isaac Newton,

the greatest ever
English scientist,

the man who set down the laws
that describe the workings

of the whole universe, wrong!

That's what he can give us.

Slow down!

Wait!
( laughs )

You're going too fast!

( both panting )

So...

2,199 miles in 1912.

2,304 last year.

We have done exactly
1,500 in the first nine
months of this year.

So, if we keep going
at the current rate,
and building in a variant

for poor weather,
shorter daylight hours
and possible illness,

then we should have
filled in the whole map

by mid-afternoon
of December 25th.

Otherwise known
as Christmas Day.

Well, Quakers don't
celebrate Christmas.

I should be back by then.

"Over by Christmas"
is what everyone says.

William...

There's something
I want to say.

When do you go?

Seven days' training,
then France.

That wasn't what
you wanted to say, was it?

No.

I know what it is.

Do you?

Your religion is
against what I'm doing.

Which is why I was afraid
to talk to you about it.

I'm truly sorry, forgive me.

Here.

A token of our friendship.

( thunder rumbling )

We were saying, it's been years.

Ten.

A nephew out of the ether.

Hasn't my Elsa grown?

She was still a child
when you left Germany.

Why did you leave?

I have no attachment
to any country or place.

We all belong to the country
we're born in.

I renounced my
German nationality.

I was German, now I'm Swiss.
What difference does it make?

And there's no such
thing as the ether.

If it existed, light would be
slowed down by it, and it isn't.

Light always travels
at the same speed.

There's no such
thing as the ether.

What else is there? Nothing?

Freedom.

Imagination.

I think your imagination
is a little over-excited.

Not excited enough.

I intend to excite it
a great deal more.

( clock ticking )

( footsteps approaching )

( birds chirping )

Winnie:
Shall I take
the top off the egg?

Arthur?

There you are.

- There's something in this.
- Well, that's good, isn't it?

I don't know if it is or not.

I'm delighted English science

is taking such an enlightened
approach towards Germany.

( playing Schubert song )

( Elsa singing )

( singing in German )

How did you get in?

You left the door open.

I brought you some things.

Thank you.

I love Schubert.

- Do you?
- Yes.

Good. ( laughs )

Who else?

Beethoven?

No, too personal.
He makes me feel...

Yes?

Nothing.

What does he make you feel?

Naked.

Music and physics are nourished
by the same sort of longing.

I don't know
anything about physics.

Good!

Good.

That is, what
I mean to say is...

that it will
have to be the music...

...between us.

It's only noon.
Your lecture's not until two.

- I know.
- Where are you going?

- My friend William,
his train is leaving.
- When?

Now. You were right
about friends

and how one must say things.

Ah, not so fast!

( chatter )

( train whistle blows )

May I have a light, sir?

Eddington!
Come to see the regiment off?

Yes.

This is my son, Raymond.

Hello.

- Lady Shirley, you know.
- Yes.

It's a proud day to be English.

And to be in England.

( whistle blows )

- Yes, good luck.
- Won't need luck.

On you go, my boy.
Go on, Raymond.

I've got the door. On you get.

( people shouting good-byes )

I wasn't given
much time to prepare this.

We have, I think, most of us,
been the victims of
Sir Oliver's requests.

( men chuckle )

Albert Einstein has no
regard for the conventions

of scientific presentation.

Even his mathematical symbols
are all of his own making.

To be frank, it might as well
be a foreign language.

But I decoded some of it.

He's suggesting that time

is at different speeds
in the universe,

depending on how
fast you're moving.

The faster you move,
the more time... slows down.

Time isn't the same everywhere?

That's what he says.

Yes, time isn't shared.
It's not an absolute.

What are his references?

None, but--

Acknowledgements?

None.

Does he propose how
any of this might be tested?

No, but that's not the point.

What is the point of theory
if it can't be tested?

What does he say about gravity?

Um...

Nothing.

What holds everything together?

What dictates
the motion of the planets?

What controls the life
of the universe as a whole?

- Gravity.
- Newton's laws.

Our map for everything.

So this Einstein,
in other words,

has nothing to say
about the real world?

Eddington?

That's right, no.

It's not real.

Dyson: Left them happy.

Was that your intention?

- ( woman screams )
- Man: Dirty Germans!

- Germans make me sick!
- Please!

( men grunting,
yelling )

Eddington:
Stop this!

Ahhh!

Leave these people alone!

( woman sobbing )

- ( door opens )
- Winnie, these are
the Mullers.

A German family
who need our help.

Let me clean you up.

( sighs )

It was horrible.

But it's over.

No, no, no, it's not that.

One of them asked a question
I didn't answer.

Who?

At the lecture.

He does say something
about gravity.

Einstein?

He doesn't mention it, but if
you look properly, it's obvious.

He poses a question.

Turn this way a little.

Newton says that gravity
is instantaneous,

but Einstein says
that the speed of light

is the speed limit
of the universe, so gravity
can't be instantaneous.

They can't both be right.

Einstein or Newton?
That's the question
he's asking.

Well then, the truth
is all that matters.

And you must go after it.

( snoring )

- ( gasps )
- ( chuckles )

- ( laughing )
- Shh!

( turns on water )

( giggles )

Our supper?

I thought you were
arriving tomorrow.

Hans wants to know...

Go on, ask your father.

Is your work nearly finished?

Let me show you...

what I've been working on.

- Einstein: What is it made of?
- ( thud )

( thud )

Einstein:
Where does it come from?

What is it?

( thud )

Hans:
Gravity.

That's what I'm
struggling with, Hans.

I can't make sense of it.

( gasps )

You have changed the way
that you do everything.

The symbols you're using are...

strange and complicated.

You've moved a long way
away from me.

( piano playing )

( Eduard speaking )

( Elsa singing )

( door opens )

I brought the Schubert
to play.

- Mileva: Play the music.
- No.

- Why not? You love Schubert!
- No.

I came to Berlin because
I thought that there might
be a future for us.

I see now that I was wrong.

Do you want a divorce?

Einstein: Hans!

When my work is finished...

I will come and tell you
what it means!

I promise you!

We withdraw into
the presence of God.

( people clamoring
in distance )

- We are still.
- Man outside: Cowards!

- We are silent.
- ( gasps )

We listen,

so that God may be heard.

- ( pounding on door )
- Woman: Show yourselves!

Who are we?

If we are anything...

...we Quakers are
men and women of principle.

We will never believe...

...that any man,
woman or child

is unwelcome
in our beloved England

because they were born
in another country.

( clamoring continues )

This is your home.

Crowd (chanting):
Traitors! Traitors!

- Coward.
- No, it's not like that.

My boy's gone.
What makes you so different?

Why is it so easy
for you to say no?

Stinking cowards!

Man: Should be
ashamed of yourselves!

( clamoring stops )

You should be ashamed
of yourselves!

Cowards!

Absolute disgrace!

( pigeons cooing )

( gas hissing )

I have it from
the highest authority:

A huge offensive will follow
the first use of the gas.

- Haber: Then the war
will be shorter?
- Koppel: Oh, yeah.

- German lives will be saved.
- Yes.

What are you doing?

What is this?

( chatter )

My son for years
has been doing nothing.

Now, in the army, he's found
a purpose. He's transformed.

It's a good feeling to be able
to call oneself German again.

( door opens )

Did you know he was
going to be here?

Your membership of the Academy
of Sciences has a consequence.

You have become
an official of the state,

which makes your
nationality German.

( chuckling )

I gave it up.

The Kaiser himself has
personally decreed your return
to German citizenship.

Then the Kaiser himself should
have thought to ask me first.

Show him.

This is a list of
the greatest names in
German cultural life.

The inheritors of Beethoven,
Schubert, Goethe.

Yes, but what is it?

A manifesto to be
sent all over the world,
even to England--

a statement of solidarity
with the German army,

signed by just 93
of the highest names.

It will be your honor
to be the 94th signatory.

Is Goethe going to
fight Shakespeare?

We could have a Swiss jury

and decide the outcome
without any more bloodshed.

I won't sign.

You are an expensive addition
to the university.

Are you threatening me?

Planck: He's reminding you
of your love of God...

and your duty
to your country.

What do you give him, Max?

Hm?

I work on artillery
trajectories.

I have a contract,

and my part of it
is the work that I do.

I do not belong to anyone.

You cannot have my name.

( clicking )

The Einstein paper.

I've been told it's unavailable
until further notice.

You've been told?
What does that mean?

All German scientific
journals have been taken
out of circulation.

Eddington?

Are you all right?

- I was looking for something.
- What?

The Einstein paper.

Why? You made clear your views.
A very good job you did.

Whatever you might think about
German military ambition,

it has nothing to do
with German science.

Really?

"Manifesto to
the civilized world.

The German people are one."

93 signatures. Look.

Max Planck, scientist.

Wilhelm Rontgen, scientist.

Fritz Haber, scientist.

I think this makes it clear
that we cannot distinguish

between the barbaric
German military

and German scientists,
wouldn't you say, old chap?

He's not there.

Einstein's not on the list.

But it just so happens that
at this moment in history

he has moved himself to Berlin.

I think that shows us
where his allegiances lie.

Consorting with the enemy
is a treasonable offense,
Eddington.

( footsteps recede )

Arthur!

Come with me.

Agnes, the sun.

Die Sonne.

Die Sonne, yes.

Uranus.

Uranus.

- Neptune.
- Neptune.

- Saturn.
- Saturn.

The planets make their
orbits around the sun.

We can measure their orbits
very, very precisely.

Newton's theory of gravity
tells us where they will be

when they pass closest
to the sun.

He's always right. But...

...with Mercury, he's out.

No one likes to admit it,
but the reality is a
tiny fraction different

from that which
Newton predicts it should be.

But by how much?

The length of a fingertip
in millions of miles,

but still out.

- Agnes, um... Mercury?
- Merkur.

- Merkur.
- What are you doing?

I'm going to write
to Albert Einstein.

Every theory
must make predictions
about the real world.

I want to ask Einstein
what his theory predicts
for Mercury.

Handel.

Technically good,
but essentially shallow.

Wagner?

Indescribably offensive.

I feel only a deep
disgust for Wagner.

( laughing )

Mozart?

Mozart.

In Mozart,
I see a reflection

of the inner beauty
of the universe.

We've been talking
about music.

Yes.

All day.

When I should have been working.

Is it because you are stuck?

You said you knew
nothing about physics.

Let's keep it that way.

( man clears throat )

This is the senior common room.

She's a woman.

Do you know, Haber,

I think you could be right.

Quick, what shall we do?

God knows.

Anything might happen.

- ( men murmuring )
- ( Elsa laughing )

( panting )

( laughing )

You should eat more.
You're too thin.

This is like the potato salad

my mother made me
when I was a child, only...

What?

Not as good.

Oh! ( laughs )

Ah, I bought you a present.

Albert?

This Englishman
has asked me a question.

One tiny part of the universe
is behaving badly.

The orbit of Mercury
is outside the law. Why?

If I could make my thinking
on gravity fit with

Mercury's bad behavior...

then it would take me
a long way...towards...

Towards what?

The first step towards

a new way of thinking.

A whole new way.

Are you unstuck?

I have a lot of work to do.

Are you asking me to go?

Einstein:
Have you seen Planck?

Max! Max! Max!

My son.

I am more sorry than I can say.

( sniffles )

( sobs )

Do you miss your boys?

But you will see them again.

You know, Max,

I love science twice as much
in times such as these.

It takes one away from
all the confusions and
stupidities and horrors...

...and their
emotional consequences.

You've been very kind.

Now I must go home.

No.

- No?
- No.

I need your help.

- With what?
- Mercury and mathematics.

( pencils scrapes on paper )

( sighs )

If we get this result--

ach--where will we publish?

If. If?
What's the matter with you?

If we get the result.

Hmph.

May I ask you
a very serious question?

What if God were to say
you were mistaken?

If he said,
"Stop. Newton is right."

Then I would thank God
for his point of view

and we would agree to differ

and I would be left
feeling very sorry for God.

So you do believe in God?

I cannot conceive of a God
who has a will of the kind

we experience in ourselves.

And...life after death?

Neither can I conceive
of an individual

who survives
his own physical death.

There's our answer
for Mercury's orbit.

And perhaps the first step
to disproving Newton.

Eddington. England.

( door opens )

Arthur? What is it?

It fits.

Einstein's thinking
and the real orbit of Mercury,
it's the same.

You know what this
could mean, Winnie?

Einstein's beginning
to close in on gravity.

( bicycle bell rings )

I need to talk to you.
Where's Sir Oliver?

Not now.

Chlorine gas, made in Berlin.

What?

The Cambridgeshires.

Obliterated at
the Battle of Ypres.

All of them?

Major Colin Foster...
Captain Raymond Lodge.

Eddington:
First Lieutenant
William Marston.

Dyson:
Eddington!

I wanted you to
know how sorry I am.

William was a good friend,
wasn't he?

Yes, he was, yes.

What's going on?
What's going on?

Give me your pass, please.

This is ridiculous.

( chatter )

What are you talking about?

Are the great men of
science discussing the great
scientific issues of the day

or is the talk of poison gas
and how many dead at Ypres

and how many more if only
we could have judged
the wind conditions better?

Hmm? More tea?

Einstein! This is
the common room.

Yes, yes. There
must be no noise.

Noise is bad! Noise
is unforgivable.

This university
is the heart of German science.

Please, no shouting!

Thousands of young men
killed by chlorine gas
from this university.

What are we doing?

What is this madness?

I can't tell anyone.

You can tell me.

I loved him.

I know.

I loved him so much.

Yes.

( sobbing )

I can't find an answer, Winnie.

No.

There's no reason for his death.

There's no comfort to be found.

No.

Where was God at Ypres?

We have a proposal
from the president.

The proposal is that
we expel all Germans

from membership of the Royal
Astronomical Society

and that all contact
between any of our membership

and any German
scientist cease now.

15,000 killed
at Ypres in one day.

Gassed, every one.

Who did this?

Who killed my son?
I'll tell you.

German science.

Perhaps we should
do this another day.

- No, we'll go on.
- Sir Oliver...

We go on.

Dyson:
Can I assume that no one wishes
to speak against the motion?

Who killed Raymond Lodge?

All of us.

That's enough, Eddington.

This stupid and futile war
killed him.

Expelling German scientists
won't bring any one of
the Cambridgeshires back.

Eddington!

The pursuit of truth in science
transcends national boundaries.

Takes us-- Takes us
beyond hatred

and anger and fear.

It is the best of us.

What truth?

That there are
no rules, no standards,
no moral absolutes?

That you break all
the rules of science and
replace them with nothing?

What does your Einstein want?

He wants what I want--

a new theory of gravity.

I think we should
move to a vote.

All those in favor
of the motion.

Against?

My son is dead.

He died fighting this evil.

I tell you this now:

I will not allow his death
to have been in vain.

Eddington:
Mercury.

We've had this before.

What?

The orbit of a planet
that Newton couldn't
account for. Uranus.

And what happened?

Neptune was discovered.

And where was Neptune?
Exactly where Newton
predicted it must be.

And what did that mean?

The orbit of Uranus made sense
with Newton after all.

When will you learn?!

Everything happens for a reason!

Ypres.

How dare you mention that name.

What do you know of Ypres?
What do you know of grief?

I have lost my son.

But there is order
in the universe.

Can I see your pass, please?

( panting )

Excuse me, sir.

- What? What?
- No.

- Why?
- We've been instructed
not to let you enter.

I need to get my post.
I need my letters,
all right? Please.

Max!

They won't let me
collect my post.

You've been cut off...

for your anti-German outburst.

But all my letters
come through the university.

Yes.

Max...

You look terrible.

I am sick,
but I just wanted to see you.

Because you are lonely?

Yes.

Why haven't you come before?

I've been working.

You look beautiful.

I love you.

Charm isn't enough, Albert.

Elsa...

So don't come here

telling me I'm beautiful
and you love me

and expect me
to open my arms to you.

Elsa...

I will make up my
mind about you...

...in my own time.

Are you asking me to go?

( breathing heavily )

Pass, please.

Would you see
that this gets to Cambridge?

They won't allow me to post it.

But you-- you are--

They would allow you to. Please.

You brought me here to Berlin.

Please, Max.

I have done what you asked.

My work on gravity is finished.

- Dyson: What are you reading?
- ( bells tolling )

You look overcome.

Come to supper.

For what we are
about to receive, may the
Lord make us truly thankful.

All: Amen.

It's called General Relativity.

It's a theory of gravity
and... everything.

He's done it.

Let me just-- Sorry.
Let me just show you.

What are you doing?
Have you gone mad?

Dyson, the other end.

Pick it up.

Pick up the tablecloth.

Space. The tablecloth is space.

The sun.

What's happening?

- Winnie: What?
- What's happening
with the sun and space?

Well, the bread is
sinking into the table cloth.

The sun makes a shape
around it in space.

Yes.

Now, what happens if I do this?

It wants to travel
in a straight line,
but it can't. Why not?

Because the bread's
making a shape.

The apple follows the curves
made in space.

Yes! Yes. Space is shaped.

And that is how gravity works.

Space tells objects
how to move, objects tell
space what shape to be.

And there's a way to prove it.

When starlight
comes near to the sun,
what will happen to it?

It'll bend.

Yes.

That's what he says.

That's what Einstein says.

Starlight will bend.

Every theory needs proof.
I'm the man to prove it.

The English observer
and the German theorist.

Hand in glove.

We're at war, Eddington.
Germany is our enemy.

I love my country very deeply,

but my country
is my country,
and this...

this is so much more.

Will you help me?

You can't point your telescope
straight at the sun.

I know, too bright.
But May 29th, 1919.

What?

Total solar eclipse.
A chance to look at the sun.

- Where?
- Africa.

The island of Principe.
It's the best place
to view the eclipse.

So all we need is
a profoundly large
amount of money.

Mmm.
So who do we ask?

Eddington:
As we look at the eclipsed sun
through the giant telescope,

it will be directly
in the middle
of the Hyades star cluster.

We'll take photographs
of these stars during
the five minutes of eclipse,

and then compare
them to photographs taken
of the same stars at night.

One photographic plate
on top of another--

are the stars
in the same place,
or different?

If they are different,
then we will know

that starlight
is bent by the sun.

( men murmuring )

Sir Oliver:
This is an English expedition.

Yes.

To prove a German
scientist right.

Or wrong.

If Einstein is right,

then an English expedition
will have proved it.

If he isn't,
then an English expedition

will have proved
a German scientist wrong

and Sir Isaac Newton right.

I don't believe you.

I'm sorry?

I don't believe
your mind is open.

I was made for this.

I'm the best measuring man
in England.

This is my moment.

This is what my whole life
in science has been for.

I would never, never,
allow bias or prejudice in.

I swear to you,
on all that I hold dear,
my mind is open.

What about yours?

Mine?

Is your mind open?

Of course.

Then may we have our money?

Principe!
( chuckles )

He's agreed.

We're going to Africa.

( clock chiming )

It's over.

How could God allow
so many to die?

Germany's blockaded.

No food is getting
into Berlin.

They have no water,
no medicine.

Great Britain has won the war,
and now she wants her revenge.

I'm leaving for Berlin
with the Friends.

I hope we Quakers can help.

With you in Africa...

...we will be a long way apart.

Eddington:
Winnie!

Winnie!

Say good-bye to me.

I'm afraid for you.

- What are you talking about?
- I'm...

I'm worried you're...
losing something you
used to be sure of.

Your faith.

You must listen for God.

Do you hear me?

( car door shuts )

( rain pattering )

- ( insects buzzing )
- ( birds chirping )

What time is it?

It's noon.
Two hours to go.

The rain has stopped.

The cloud?

It's full cloud cover.

Everything's ready.

It's all down to
whether the cloud lifts,
and if God is with us.

( footsteps approach )

It's time.

We'll get into position.

We'll do what we've
come here to do.

( watch ticking )

Dyson:
Eddington! Quick, look!

Five minutes to go.

Totality. We have five minutes
to take photographs.

- The rain stopped.
- Yes, it did.

And the cloud cleared.

Yes, it did.

Six of the plates
are poor quality.

Two are good.

So we have two photographs
to compare with the original
plate back in England.

Will it be Einstein or Newton?

It's time to go home.

- ( chatter )
- ( man speaking
over P.A. )

( train whistle blows )

( sighing )

Our divorce has taken
longer than the war.

Your work has made you ill.

I hope what you've been doing
is worth all this sacrifice.

We have to do the best
that we are capable of.

It is our sacred
human responsibility.

Anything less is unforgivable.
I had to do the work.

My theory is too
beautiful to be wrong.
Somebody will prove it.

Why are you here?

I...have a promise to keep.

Space...is shaped.

Space is full of...

curves...

and dents...

...and wonderful shapes.

Are you leaving again?

Are you going back to Berlin?

He's not staying.

Dyson: This is it.
The comparison plate
is in position.

No. We should do this in public.

We should share this
with anyone who
wants to witness it.

Right or wrong, this moment
is for all of science.

( chatter )

If the stars on this
photographic plate
of the eclipse

overlap with the
comparison plate,

Einstein is wrong
and Newton's theory holds.

If there is a gap
between the two images,

then the sun's gravitational
field has shifted
the stars' position

and we have a new
theory of gravity.

A gap.

Dyson:
Einstein.

( murmuring )

Dyson:
I call upon Arthur Eddington.

( clears throat )

None of us can know
what the world is

in the way
that we used to know it.

Einstein says--

( men murmuring )

( clears throat )

Sorry.

Einstein says that time
is not the same for all of us...

...but different
for each one of us.

It's very hard to conceive
of such separate views...

...of such relative
ways of seeing.

Today is the first day
of a new world

that is much harder to live in,

less certain,

more lonely.

But which has, at its heart...

human endeavor.

One man has shown us how.

Look at what one man can do.

In this man's work,
in the beautiful complexity

of the new universe
he has shown us,

I for one have no doubt...

I can hear God thinking.

( applauding )

( chatter )

Man: Is that him?

Professor Einstein?

Who...are all
those men outside?

Planck:
Reporters.

Word has reached us from London
of your anointing.

Einstein: Hmph.

You're famous.

( both chuckle )

You're here.

Will you have me?

On one condition.

You can't go outside
and meet all those people
looking like that.

They'll think you are a lunatic.

What kind of genius
looks like you do?

( all laughing )

- No!
- Yes! Yes.

- No!
- Yes.

- Einstein.
- Professor Einstein!

( all speaking German )

( roaring )

- Hello. Yes.
- ( low chatter )

Hello.

Oh, yes. Yes.

Eddington.

Einstein.

( applauding )