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Einstein had to be really afraid that Hilbert would actually take over the whole game and publish the final equations of General Relativity before him.
愛因斯坦真的擔(dān)心希爾伯特實(shí)際上會接管整個(gè)大局并在他自己面前發(fā)表最終的廣義相對論方程式。
All of a sudden, he discovered that several pointers all seemed to point to the same direction.
突然,他發(fā)現(xiàn)所有矛頭似乎都指向同一個(gè)方向。
Einstein remembered that he had given up a very radical solution that he had stumbled upon already in 1912 and that he had then discarded because it looks just physically too unfamiliar, too unacceptable.
愛因斯坦想起他已經(jīng)放棄的一個(gè)非常激進(jìn)的解決方案,這個(gè)方案他偶然在1912發(fā)現(xiàn),之后又是他自己廢棄,因?yàn)樗雌饋砗懿皇煜?有些不可接受。
But now, after he tried out all these other alternatives,
但現(xiàn)在,在他嘗試了所有這些其他選擇后,
he was ready to return exactly to that equation,
他準(zhǔn)備重新返回那個(gè)等式,
back to an equation that he had early considered and then discarded three years before.
回到一個(gè)他在3年前就曾早考慮過,然后放棄的方程式。
You realized that you've been wrong in a real flash of inspiration because you realized what you should be doing.
你意識到你在一個(gè)真正的靈感瞬間已經(jīng)錯(cuò)了,因?yàn)槟阋庾R到自己應(yīng)該做什么。
You know he had it all in his drawer.
你知道他在自己的抽屜里有這一切。
And that's of course an glorious moment.
當(dāng)然,這是一個(gè)輝煌時(shí)刻。
There it was, the equation that he had discarded.
它就在那邊, 他已經(jīng)拋棄了的方程式。
And now it was, look much more promising, much more useful than it had in the winter of 1912.
而現(xiàn)在,看起來更有前途, 比在1912年的冬天更有用。
It isn't always a dark time when you realize that you are wrong,
當(dāng)你意識到你是錯(cuò)誤的也并不總是一個(gè)黑暗的時(shí)代,
sometimes it's a wonderful time.
有時(shí)這是一段美好的時(shí)光。
The excitement for Einstein comes with the realization that the answer for his new theory can be found in an old astronomical riddle.
愛因斯坦的興奮來自他意識到這個(gè)新理論的答案,這在一個(gè)古老的天文謎語中被發(fā)現(xiàn)。
Einstein began to look at a mystery that had puzzled astronomers for generations.
愛因斯坦開始尋找一個(gè)困擾了天文學(xué)家世代的謎。
According to Sir Isaac Newton,
根據(jù)艾薩克·牛頓爵士,
the planet Mercury should be going around the sun like this.
水星這樣繞太陽運(yùn)行。
But it was known for quite a while that the orbit of Mercury deviates from Newton's laws of motion.
但是它已經(jīng)被眾人知曉,水星的軌道偏離了牛頓的運(yùn)動定律。
It tilts a little bit.
它稍微傾斜。
So the orbit instead of going like this begins to tilt and it begins to make a pattern like the petals of a flower.
所以軌道而是不繼續(xù)像這樣開始傾斜,它就花瓣一樣開始進(jìn)入一個(gè)模式。
注：聽力文本來源于普特
