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."

Re:amazing

[wasted time]

everything's relative, I guess.

High Resolution???

[Anonymous Coward]

Hrm... The words "High" and "Resolution" appearing in a link from a Slashdot article. Certainly this will not need a mirror...

Slashdot

[Vapebait]

News for Quantum Physicists, Stuff that matters

Re:Amazing

[Usquebaugh]

If it's so frigging easy and obvious. When can we expect you to deliver a link to the OCR document?

Re:It's in German...

[Anonymous Coward]

E=MC2

Re:It's in German...

[Tablizer]

No, it's Farfegnugen.

Translation of an important footnote

[paiute]

In the margin, he had scribbled:

Und so investieren die Schüler nicht selten mehrere Monate, um einem Problem auf die Spur zu kommen. Von der Literaturrecherche bis zur Slashdotten durchlaufen sie in kleinen Gruppen alle Phasen einer Forschungsarbeit

which can be translated as:

I have elucidated the necessary relationships that describe the General and the Special Theories of Relativity. Now I must add to those the third and last: the Slashdot Theory of Relativity, namely that a URL posted to Slashdot will result in the associated server being relatively quickly removed from our frame of reference.

Hey dude

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's what happened:

Japanese plead for a conditional surrender, to leave the emperor as the head of state.

US finds this unacceptable, nukes them twice.

US settles for a conditional surrender, leaving the emperor as the head of state.

Re:Handwriting

[nfarrell]

Modern handwritten German is just as bad. it's particularly annoying when you're trying to decipher love letters - and unlike scientific papers, you can't bluff your way through and pretend you read it all.

Re:Translation of an important footnote

[DarkHelmet]

No, you read that wrong... it should instead be:

I have found out a breakthrough on how to unify theories of Gravity and Electromagnetism. Unfortunately, the formulas are too large to write in the footnote here.

Re:Other than

[Anonymous Coward]

In Soviet Russia, Berlin invades YOU!

shit, where is my suicide pill?

Re:High resolution?

[Mikey-San]

This is pretty nifty, but the submitter and I apparently have very different thresholds for considering something "high resolution".

To the submitter, it's actually huge.

It's all about your frame of reference.

Superman, where are you?

[Yeechang Lee]

Superman, we need your help! Lex Luthor just stole the Einstein document [superman.ws] just after its discovery! Fortunately, your friend Jimmy Olsen of the Daily Planet was one of the witnesses [superman.ws]; he can tell you what happened.

Look in the margin....

[ch-chuck]

T'would be neat if there was something penciled in like, "I have just devised a simple and elegant methode of implementing a controlled fusion reaction, with ordinary laboratory equipment, which this margin is too small to contain"

Take-out, possibly pizza

[Imposter_of_myself]

Heck, did anyone look at those pics.? It looks like they have grease stains all over them. Was Einstein eating pizza when he was writing these pages ;-)