Einstein’s handwritten encyclopedia entry could fetch $200,000
The project of an article by Encyclopedia written by Albert Einstein explaining that his theory of relativity is on sale at auction. However, you will have to hang on your German to read the original copy. The six -page unsigned document entitled “The essence of the theory of relativity” is a first version of a entry translated later in English and included in the volume XVI of the 1948 edition of The encyclopedia of American peoples.
Einstein proposed and published his theories of special and general relativity in 1905 and 1915. Concepts are monumental achievements which constitute the basis of modern physics, and contain the relationship between mass and energy represented in the most famous equation in history: E = MC².
The auctions are supervised by the remarkable auction house, live auctions should start at 1 p.m. Hne in Boston. Described as an element in the history of “museum quality”, the auctioneers currently estimate the items for sale for at least $ 200,000.
Einstein had already considerably modified the trajectory of humanity when he began to work on his entry of encyclopedia in 1947-1948. There would be no atomic age without his scientific contributions, even if this fact was something that he sometimes hated admitting it.
“The” principle of relativity “in the broadest sense is contained in the declaration: all of the physical phenomena is such that it does not offer any support for the establishment of the concept of” absolute movement “, or more briefly but less precisely: there is no absolute movement”, he summed up in his article. “It may seem that with such a negative declaration, little would be obtained for our knowledge. But in reality, it is a strong restriction for the laws (in principle conceivable) of nature.”
Einstein continued by explaining that these laws of nature are lived through our physical perspectives in relation to the concepts of movement, time and space. However, the pages planned at auction are far from its final project. In fact, this version of the contribution of the Einstein encyclopedia is unfinished.
“Only the differences in coordinates as well as the quantities of field describing the gravitational field determine the measurable distances between events. Once you are in principle obliged to use non -linear -“reads the document before ending suddenly.
With barely three years since the atomic explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a large part of the general public still had trouble understanding the potential of nuclear energy to offer both societal advantages and absolute destruction. Einstein’s introduction overview to the underlying principles has probably contributed to contextualizing the new era for curious readers, as well as educating and inspiring the next generation of physicists.
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