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Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the not-so-theoretical-manuscript dept.

vinlud writes "The original manuscript of a paper Albert Einstein published in 1925 has been found in the archives of Leiden University's Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics. The German-language manuscript is titled "Quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas," and is dated December 1924. It is considered one of Einstein's last great breakthroughs. High-resolution photographs of the 16-page manuscript are posted on the institute's web site."

7 of 325 comments (clear)

  1. Re:amazing by wasted+time · · Score: 3, Funny

    everything's relative, I guess.

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  2. High Resolution??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hrm... The words "High" and "Resolution" appearing in a link from a Slashdot article. Certainly this will not need a mirror...

  3. Re:It's in German... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    E=MC2

  4. Re:It's in German... by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, it's Farfegnugen.

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  5. Translation of an important footnote by paiute · · Score: 5, Funny

    In the margin, he had scribbled:

    Und so investieren die Schüler nicht selten mehrere Monate, um einem Problem auf die Spur zu kommen. Von der Literaturrecherche bis zur Slashdotten durchlaufen sie in kleinen Gruppen alle Phasen einer Forschungsarbeit

    which can be translated as:

    I have elucidated the necessary relationships that describe the General and the Special Theories of Relativity. Now I must add to those the third and last: the Slashdot Theory of Relativity, namely that a URL posted to Slashdot will result in the associated server being relatively quickly removed from our frame of reference.

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    1. Re:Translation of an important footnote by DarkHelmet · · Score: 4, Funny
      No, you read that wrong... it should instead be:

      I have found out a breakthrough on how to unify theories of Gravity and Electromagnetism. Unfortunately, the formulas are too large to write in the footnote here.

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  6. Re:High resolution? by Mikey-San · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is pretty nifty, but the submitter and I apparently have very different thresholds for considering something "high resolution".

    To the submitter, it's actually huge.

    It's all about your frame of reference.

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