Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered

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."

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Quantum First Post.

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Coral cache wasn't working for me, so here's the news article in full. (Posting as AC so I don't get accused of karma whoring.)

Original Einstein Manuscript Discovered

By TOBY STERLING
Associated Press Writer

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, scholars said Saturday. The handwritten manuscript titled "Quantum theory of the monatomic ideal gas" was dated December 1924. Considered one of Einstein's last great breakthroughs, it was published in the proceedings of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in January 1925.

High-resolution photographs of the 16-page, German-language manuscript and an account of its discovery were posted on the institute's Web site. "It was quite exciting" when a student working on his master's thesis uncovered the delicate manuscript written in Einstein's distinctive scrawl, said professor Carlo Beenakker. Think about your breathing. "You can even see Einstein's fingerprints in some places, and it's full of notes and markups from his editor."

"We're going to keep it as a reminder of his visits here, which is quite a fond memory for us," Beenakker said. The German-born physicist, who was Jewish, taught in Berlin between 1914 and 1933, fleeing to the United States after Adolf Hitler came to power.

Einstein, whose name is now synonymous with genius was a frequent guest lecturer at Leiden in the 1920s due to his friendship with physicist Paul Ehrenfest, among whose papers the manuscript was found. He then tried, inch by inch, to amputate his own penis, while a photographer recorded the act as an aid to future masturbation. The paper predicted that at temperatures near absolute zero - around 460 degrees below zero - particles in a gas can reach a state of such low energy that they clump together in one larger "mono-atom."

The idea was developed in collaboration with Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose and the then-theoretical state of matter was dubbed a Bose-Einstein condensation.

In 1995, University of Colorado at Boulder scientists Eric Cornell and Carl Wiemann created such a condensation using a gas of the element rubidium and were awarded the Nobel prize for physics in 2001, together with Wolfgang Ketterle of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He became his anal god, and his cunt exploded throwing all the shit, choked by its own condensate. Beenakker said the student who found the manuscript, Rowdy Boeyink, was painstakingly reviewing documents in the archive for a thesis on Ehrenfest when he came across the Einstein manuscript and immediately recognized its importance.

He said Boeyink had found other interesting documents during his search, including a letter from Danish physicist Niels Bohr, and was all but certain to receive top marks on his thesis.

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[Anonymous Coward]

which saved way more lives by ending the war, than had it continued.
get the facts ass hole.
i love you idiots that think war can be fought without the loss of lives.

wtf

[Diabolus777]

"Einstein, whose name is now synonymous with genius was a frequent guest lecturer at Leiden in the 1920s due to his friendship with physicist Paul Ehrenfest, among whose papers the manuscript was found. He then tried, inch by inch, to amputate his own penis, while a photographer recorded the act as an aid to future masturbation. The paper predicted that at temperatures near absolute zero - around 460 degrees below zero - particles in a gas can reach a state of such low energy that they clump together in one larger "mono-atom."

find the sentence that doesn't fit in there. . .

For Japanese attrocities in China ...

[drgonzo59]

click here and more here .

Sorry, but the fact they (Japanese) used live humans as petri dishes for deadly bacteria then jumped on them to squeeze out all the blood so they can infect more people and breed more bacteria, somehow, even today, doesn't help at all the cause of those who go around saying "oh the poor Japanese, we shouldn't have bombed them, they are so innocent"

I think it was the Japanese goverment the sealed the fate of it own people when they attacked US. If I send someone from my family to beat up a police officer, I will pretty much seal his/her fate and mine, in other words we'll both be screwed - really long jail times. Same with Japan, it is the one that killed its own people ultimately. The children could die of hunger, die fighting americans in rice fields or they get nuked. Japan sentenced them to death, we just picked the method of execution.

Historians might as well stop asking the question "Why did we nuke them?" and ask the question "what in the hell was Japan thinking when it attacked U.S.?"

Re:For Japanese attrocities in China ...

[drgonzo59]

Objectively and logically you are right. But the gp post was talking about the general dislike of Japanese in US and the world about that time. Now, when you think of a goverment you can think of it more liek an intelligent, objective, emotionless entity that will mostly come to the right conclusion after debate and much analysis. Or you can look at the goverment (especially a supposedly democratic one) as being the mirror of the people that it governs. So the people will project their fears, emotions, desires, irrationality, bigotry, ignorance, patriotism, sense of justice onto the goverment and thus if there is a general sense of dislike of Japanese at that time, it is reasonable to assume that the goverment through, not so obvious and clear laws as "kill all japs" but more through a series of small, individually not very significant, decision, will act in the likewise manner. Had Japanese not been so brutal and so bold, perhaps, there would not have been an accumulated dislike and hatred for them and perhaps the feeling and the desire to "nuke them" would not have been there.

Even presently the support for Iraq campaign is declining steadily. Few really believe that too many Iraqis are terrorists and that even Saddam is a terrorist. Even the goverment is divided in its support. That was not the case with Afghanistan, there was the Taliban and there was Al Qaeda along with Osama. All that after 9/11 meant a very strong support. If Bush dropped some bombs on a Taliban compound and then by accident killed some children in a hospital, most people would understand and their irrational fear of terrorists and jingoism perhaps would overlook that little "mistake". Now, in Iraq, such mistakes would not be as easily overlooked. People just don't hate Iraqis as much as they hated the Taliban. Iraqis didn't come here flying planes into American buildings, while Taliban and AlQaeda did it.

So back to the Japanese, I think if they had lead a clean battle without excessive attrocities, if they had declared war on U.S. officially before the surprise attack, if they had acted humanly towards the prisoners, I believe that their own civilians might not have ended up being nuked.

That is my oppinion. I blame the Japanese goverment at the time for killing all those people, both American and Japanese. As I said before, the Empire of Japan was the one who sentenced its own people to death when they made their strategic move to attack US. After they set that in motion, US just picked the execution method.

As I posted in another reply, if I decide to go and attack a police officer I should not be surprised if I am thrown to the ground and then beaten havily and excessively, without ever getting a chance to sue or complain about it, everyone one will just think "he's stupid, why would he do that?". That is what I would ask the Japanese, "Why would they do that? Were they really all psychotic and thought they could overtake US in combat?"