愛因斯坦手稿 亮相世博會
【英文原文】
Two pages of the original manuscript of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity were put up on display Thursday afternoon in the Israel Pavilion of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.
Visiting Israeli Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz announced the display of the pages at a ceremony marking the Jewish state's National Pavilion Day on Thursday.
The document represented the Jewish people's great achievements in science and innovations, Steinitz said.
The two pages, selected from a total of 46, contains Einstein's famous equation E=MC2 (squared) which describes the relationship between energy (E), mass (M) and the speed of light (C).
Einstein's wife Elsa donated the 46-page handwritten manuscript to the Hebrew University during its opening in 1925, four years after he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics.
Other exhibits displayed in the pavilion include a capsule containing a mini-camera that can be swallowed for internal medical checks before being discharged naturally, giving no pain to the patient.
During the ceremony, a set of commemorative stamps named "Israeli Innovations That Changed the World" was unveiled, featuring three Israeli innovations in the fields of agriculture, high technology and medicine.
With the theme of "Innovation for Better Life," the Israel Pavilion consists of three zones: the Whispering Garden, the Hall of Light and the Hall of Innovations.
【相關報道】
以愛因斯坦手稿於昨日現身世博園。作爲以色列館的鎮館之寶，這份手稿將暫留在以色列館內，讓參觀者一飽眼福。
昨日，“藍貝殼”以色列館迎來了國家館日，以色列財政部長尤瓦·斯坦尼茨向大家展示了以色列館的鎮館之寶——愛因斯坦手稿。這份文本中，包含愛因斯坦親手書寫的著名相對論公式：E=MC2。
他介紹，此前這份手稿一直珍藏於希伯來大學，手稿來到上海世博會展出得到了校方許可。愛因斯坦生前曾將自己的一批重要手稿捐贈給希伯來大學，其中就包括這份文本。
尤瓦·斯坦尼茨還結合以色列的現狀簡述了自己對於這個公式的全新理解，“E代表了能源，M則爲大批量的製造業，C就是創造和智慧。”他指出，雖然以色列缺乏能源和大規模的製造業，但卻能用很強的創造能力彌補這些不足。
對於萬衆矚目的手稿，斯坦尼茨笑言本打算在一週之後將手稿帶回以色列，但因手稿非常引人關注，因此決定將手稿暫時留在以色列館中。他表示將和展館協商，務必放在一個最佳位置展出。
此外，以色列郵政公司也於昨日宣佈，自當日起該國國內正式發行一套三枚“上海世博會紀念郵票”。
