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is best for their mental development.

- What about your mental development?

- What?

- Your research.

- I don't know.

I wonder if I wouldn't be a better mother

than a mechanic. Mathematician.

Catherine, when your father

asked me to care for you,

I tried to tell him that the things I know

are not very useful in the real world.

That's why I'm so lucky

that I have James.

We have common goals and interests.

He's brilliant, organised, a planner.

I find him very stimulating,

intellectually.

- But what about love, Catherine?

- What?

When does this all happen,

this wonderful, organised life?

In September.

They say Stanford is beautiful in the fall.

This is the happiest day of my entire life.

Don't worry, Liebchen. It will work out.

Versprichst du's mir?

Ich versprech's dir.

I promise.

I'm crazy about this song.

Get him! What are you,

Podolsky, a hep-cat?

No, I'm an American.

- What is it, Mr Hep-Cat American?

- I know, it's...

Look out!

Learn to drive! People should pass a test

before they're allowed to drive.

You have to pass the test.

How else could you get a licence?

- A licence.

- It's "Tutti frutti, oh rootie".

- Quiet!

- What is wrong with you, Albert?

Catherine... She should

be having more fun.

She needs a young man.

She should go out, go dancing.

- A little shtupping...

- Come on, Nathan, please!

She thinks shtupping

is a town in Bavaria.

Where are you taking us, Albert?

Well, boys, how would you

like to have a convertible?

- Edward!

- Edward!

Oh, beautiful!

Sir?

- It's very nice upholstery.

- You're Albert Einstein!

- E=mc!

- I hope so!

- This comes from the factory like this?

- No, no, it's all custom.

I can't believe it, in my garage!

This is Professor Einstein,

the smartest person in the world.

How they hangin'?

- Edward!

- Hey, Doc.

Edward, there it is. What do you think?

- It is possible?

- Anything's possible.

- He wants to turn that into this.

- Convertible.

No problem. You want the full treatment?

Ja, the whole ball of wax.

Podolsky, stop that!

OK, so we chop the top,

we modify the nose and deck.

- Fill in block.

- French tuck and roll inside.

- Dago the front?

- Just a touch.

Quad barrels for the mill. Master kit.

Hot coil. Stinger exhaust.

High-nickel chrome.

- Sound good?

- Like Mozart.

I recall here is an ice-cream parlour.

Come, we get a scoop.

- Doc, it's this way. It's all right?

- Yeah, go!

- Thank you very much.

- Sure.

When I first arrived here in 1933,

I bought one of these, triple scoop.

- What flavour?

- Peppermint.

You see, this is a good question.

"What flavour?"

Simple, specific and it has an answer.

You read a lot of science fiction.

Tell me, do you think

they'll ever find intelligent life

anywhere in the universe?

Still looking for intelligent life

here on earth.

Catherine is a brilliant mathematician,

but she lacks confidence.

She thinks her contribution to the world

will be through her children.

She has this crazy idea

that if she marries an intellectual,

she will have genius children,

or something like that.

- Catherine's too smart for that.

- She's too smart here.

But not here. What she needs

is to go out with someone like you.

The problem is, she would never

go out with someone like you.

That's easy. Just lend me your brain

for a couple of days.

- What?

- Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

What would be the odds

of that happening?

- It's still not right.

- He doesn't look like a scientist.

- So, what's the plan, Doc?

- Here, try this.

The plan is we talk science,

we have something to eat,

we drink some schnapps

and talk about life.

- It's too fashionable.

- Ja, here.

- Take the leather coat.

- Wait.

Nathan, your cardigan.

What do I do if she asks me a question?

If she asks you a question,

you pretend to smoke a pipe.

And then you say, "Interesting concept."

- Don't worry.

- We'll change the subject.

- Change the subject?

- You know, like in football.

We'll run in defence.

And now... This is a tie.

This will hold up your pants.

- Good, huh?

- Ja, good.

He looks like a French Impressionist.

The energy of a nuclear configuration

is given by the expectation value

of the nuclear Hamiltonian in a state

with N neutrons and P protons...

Fusion will occur if the energy

of the fused state is lower

than the energy

of the two separate nuclei.

Our task is to see if the dynamics

dictated by the interaction Hamiltonian

generates a reaction to make cold

fusion-powered engines feasible.

- Good.

- Hello.

- Hello.

- Hello, Liebchen.

So, we have here, E over C squared...

It's E squared. Minus E squared over B,

minus V of X.

- D of X, or V of X?

- V as in very.

- What's going on?

- Edward has been holding out on us.

In addition to being

a very fine automotive mechanic,

he is also, in physics,

something of a wunderkind.

- Wunderkind.

- Wunderkind!

I had this idea. I read about the doc.

We worked on it together...

- And everybody thought it wasn't so bad.

- Wasn't so bad!

- It was astonishing!

- Very innovative.

Do I get to hear what it is?

I figured out how to build

a nuclear-powered spacecraft engine.

- A fusion engine.

- A what?

We're gonna bottle

the process that fuels the stars.

Cold fusion, it's mind-boggling.

- He's a mechanic.

- I was a clerk, in a patent office.

Faraday was a carpenter. Isaac Newton

was an insurance salesman.

- Fusion.

- Fusion.

Really? What are you wearing?

What difference does it make

what he is wearing?

A nuclear-powered spacecraft.

- That's perfect for New Jersey.

- New Jersey?

The symposium. Do you have a paper?

- Paper?

- No, no... Not ready.

- We must check the spelling.

- Very important.

- We could have it ready.

- You could?

- Sure... Couldn't we?

- Ja, we could.

- When is the symposium?

- April 1st.

- Five days.

- That's not a problem.

This is great! Bamberger will be thrilled.

I am very grateful. It's just so...

...huge, really.

Isaac Newton was not

an insurance salesman.

What?

Boys, our little experiment

has just jumped to a higher energy level.

Minus Y to X plus one...

Over X.

Minus Y to the X plus Y...

Minus Y to the X...

- What language is that, Martian?

- Wait...

- You're not changing anything?

- No.

- What's all that?

- Nothin'.

Right. Grab your scalpel. Let's operate.

I don't believe it! Einstein's car!

We do this right, Eddie-boy,

we'll have a whole new clientele!

Welcome to the First International

Physics Symposium

designed to bring together

the very best minds...

It's time, Edward.

This is the largest gathering

of the scientific...

- I can't do this.

- Why? Because you're sick with fear?

Ninety-nine per cent of the world

wakes up like this every morning.

Every morning!

Edward, just remember

why you are doing this.

- She's not here.

- He's never shown normal intelligence.

- Think of that, nuclear fusion!

- These things happen.

Idiot savants,

a mental patient plays chess,

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