Unit 5 Great man I- passage (1/5)

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Albert Einstein

 

"When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it's only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it's two hours. That is relativity." Everyone knows who said those words, Albert Einstein, the great physicist who set forth the theory of relativity. He had an effect on science and history that only a few men have ever achieved. " Einstein has created a new outlook, a new view of the universe..." an American university president once commented. To most people it is not easy to explain why Einstein's theory has had such an immense effect upon the whole scientific and intellectual world. Basically the theory proposed that the greatest speed possible is the speed of light; that the rate of a clock moving through space will decrease as its speed increases; and that energy and mass are equal and interchangeable.
当你坐在一个美女边上两个小时，你会觉得你只站了一分钟。但是当你在火炉边站一分钟，你却觉得你站了两个小时。这就是相对性。任何人都知道这是谁说的话。Albert Einstein是一位伟大的物理学家，他建立了相对论。他在只有很少人取得成就的自然科学和历史方面都有影响。“Einstein创建了一个全新的观察宇宙的角度”，一位美国大学校长曾经这样评论。 对于大多数人，很难解释为什么Einstein的理论在整个科学界和学术界有这么巨大强烈的影响。他的理论基础是建立在这样的假设：最大的可实现速度是光速；钟表从空间移动，随着移动速度的增加，钟表指针转动速度降低；物质和能量是相同的而且可以相互转化。 ——译文来自: 大梦心法