Max Planck scene - Genius

Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies by Albert Einstein. His fourth paper this year. I haven't seen anything like this since Newton's Annus Mirabilis. Dr. Lauer, are you honestly comparing Einstein to Sir Isaac Newton? Read it. He provides no footnotes. That's because he has answered a question no one was asking. Herr Einstein, Max Lauer. I work for Professor Max Planck at the Prussian Academy. A sincere pleasure... I believe you're looking for him. I tried to get him to brush his hair and smarten himself up, but... The man is hopeless. Albert Einstein? Author of The Principle of Relativity? Well, Galileo is the author of The Principle of Relativity. I simply provided a revision. My, you are modest. He most certainly is not. May I ask why you're working in a patent office? History is full of bad jokes, I suppose. My name is Max Lauer. I'm here at the behest of Professor Max Planck. Max Planck, the father of Prussian physics? He greatly admires your work, Herr Einstein. You've achieved more in one year than most scientists do in a lifetime. However, did you accomplish it? Curiosity, I suppose. That only wanted to be noticed. Well, you succeeded. We would like to help you further your career. Tell me, are you working on anything else? Yes. In fact, I've realized that the relativity principle combined with the Maxwell equations... ...requires that mass be a direct measure of the energy contained in a body. I'm not sure I follow. Light carries mass. But that's impossible. Perhaps. For all I know, the good Lord is laughing at the whole matter. I believe this theory could be tested using elements whose energy is highly unstable. Madame Curie's radium, for example. Herr Einstein, it's... It's genius.