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The manuscript examines how atoms of a gas behave at
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An original Albert Einstein manuscript has been unearthed
at a university in the Netherlands by a student.
Rowdy Boeyink stumbled
on the document while he was researching papers
belonging to an old friend of Einstein.
"It was quite exciting," said Professor Carlo
Beenakker, of the University of Leiden. "You can even see Einstein's
fingerprints
in some
places."
The 16-page manuscript, dated 1924, shows the German-born genius
working on his last major theory.
It took scientists until 1995 to finally prove Einstein right.
It examines how atoms of a gas behave at extremely low temperatures, in
a theory developed in collaboration with Indian physicist Satyendra Nath
Bose.
The theory stated that at temperatures near absolute
zero, the atoms could reach a state of such low energy that they collapsed
into a new state where it was no longer possible to distinguish between
them - a state known as Einstein-Bosecondensation
.
The university, near The Hague, says the newly-unearthed paper will be
kept in its Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics.
Einstein had strong ties with the university and was a regular
guest-lecturer there.
The manuscript was with papers belonging to a friend of Einstein, Paul Ehrenfest, who was a
professor at Leiden.
(Agencies) |
荷蘭萊登大學的一名學生最近在無意中發現了艾伯特·愛因斯坦留下的一份原始手稿。
荷蘭萊登大學學生羅迪·波英克在研究愛因斯坦的一位老朋友的學術論文時無意中發現了愛因斯坦的珍貴手稿。
萊登大學的教授卡洛·貝納克說：“太令人激動了，在手稿上你甚至可以看到愛因斯坦的指紋。”
這份16頁的手稿寫于1924年，上面記錄著這位德國科學天才最后正在研究的一些重要理論。
經過長期的研究，直到1995年，科學家們才最終證明愛因斯坦提出的理論是正確的。
這份手稿研究了在超低溫情況下氣體原子的運動情況，這是愛因斯坦和印度物理學家玻色共同合作提出的有關量子學說的一項重要理論。
這項理論預測在幾乎處于絕對零度的溫度下，氣體原子的能量非常低，以至于它們會分解，形成一種新的狀態，在這種新的狀態下，原子和原子之間無法再區分開來。這種狀態被稱為愛因斯坦－玻色凝聚。
萊登大學位于海牙附近，學校表示這份最新發現的手稿將被保存在羅倫茨理論物理研究所。
愛因斯坦身前和這所大學保持著密切的聯系，他曾出任該校的客座教授，定期來學校講學。
這份手稿是在愛因斯坦的老朋友、萊登大學教授保羅·埃倫費斯的學術論文中發現的。
（中國日報網站 薛曉文譯） |
Updated: 2005-08-23 09:26
