标题: 《Periodic Table Einsteinium 》作者：- Michael Swanwick 【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-8-19 09:51 标题: 《Periodic Table Einsteinium 》作者：- Michael Swanwick 【EPUB】 Michael Swanwicks Periodic Table of Science Fiction 99 Es Einsteinium 252The Dark Lady of the Equations Shakespeare had his dark lady of the sonnets that mysterious muse after whom he yearnedhopelessly and who spurred his finest efforts. So too with Einstein. Look Look at his equations. Those are not dry and unemotional lines of mathematical symbolsbut passionate stanzas of desire. They dance They sing They are his sonnets written in thelanguage of Creation and addressed to her for whom he longed. Who was she Who was this woman for whom he wrote that gravitation is not a force but a curvedfield in the space-time continuum caused by the presence of mass What dangerous beauty madehim declare that time and motion are found to be relative to the observer Nobody knows. The title of Einsteins paper laying out his special theory of relativity Onthe Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies has led many a romantic to conclude that their love wasconsummated. Certainly it would be nice to think so. But that ignores the tragic implicationsof his theory in which objects are forever receding forever approaching the speed of lightforever falling forever rising and yet never arriving. Mass and energy may beinterchangeable but there is no evidence in Einsteins life that they ever did. Einstein spent his last decades working on a unified field theory which most physicists thinkwas proved unattainable by quantum theory. Scholars read this as an attempt by an aging man tobridge the uncrossable