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Today E=mc^2 is Einstein's most famous equation but another thoery he published the same year is more important and more controversial ,
今天E=mc^2是愛因斯坦最著名的方程式,但另一個他同年出版的理論更重要而且更有爭議,
the special theory of relativity.
那就是特殊相對論。
When Einstein was a teenager he enjoyed imagining what it would be like to ride a beam of light.
當愛因斯坦還是一名青年的時候，他喜歡想象，就像駕馭著一束光一樣。
Now he returns to this daydream and changes his life.
現(xiàn)在他返回到這個白日夢而那改變了他的生活。
In the spring of 1905 Einstein was writing on a bus and he looked back at the famous clock tower that dominates Bern Switzerland .
在1905年春天愛因斯坦在一輛公共汽車上寫作時他回頭看到著名的鐘塔占瑞士伯爾尼的主導地位。
And he imagine what happens if that bus racing at the speed of light.
而他想象如果那輛公共汽車以光的速度行駛會發(fā)生什么。
In his imagination Einstein looks back at the clock tower and what he sees is astonishing.
在他的想象里愛因斯坦回頭看著鐘樓而且他所看到的令人震驚。
As he reaches the speed of light the ends of the clock appear frozen in time .
他達到了光速,時鐘的兩端開始將時間凝固住。
Einstein later writes the storm broken in my mind.
愛因斯坦后來寫道暴風雨在我心中激蕩。
All of sudden all of sudden everything everything can gush in forward.
突然間所有的一切一切滔滔不絕突然向前。
Einstein knows that back to the clock tower time is passing normally.
愛因斯坦知道回到鐘樓的時間是正常通過。
But on Einstein's light speed bus as he reaches the speed of light,
但對于愛因斯坦而言，光速公交車使他達到光速,
the light from the clock can no longe catch up to him .
從時鐘而來的光已經無法趕上他。
The faster he races through the space the slower he moves through time.
他穿越空間的越快,他通過的時間就越慢。
This special insights sparks the birth of Einstein special theory of relativity which says that space and time are deeply connected.
這種特殊的見解點亮了愛因斯坦的相對論說法,時間和空間都是緊密聯(lián)系的。
In fact they are one in the same,
實際上它們是相同的,
a flexible fabric called space time.
一個被稱為空間時間的柔性織物。
注：聽力文本來源于普特
