Einsteins theory of relativity goes on display for the first time
The original full manuscript of Albert Einstein’s groundbreaking theory of relativity has gone on display in its entirety for the first time. The 46-page handwritten manuscript was bequeathed by Einstein to the Hebrew University – which he was a founder of, when it was founded in 1925. The University is lending it to the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem as part of its 50th anniversary celebration.
This is the greatest document in physics and it’s exciting news (even to someone like me who finds most equations challenging). Based on what I hear – the display is made easy to comprehend and people are lining up to read it. The display shows the manuscript in the context of the theories presented – giving the difficult concepts a point of relativity – so the viewers can connect at any level.
Whether its black holes, the Big Bang or the famous equation of E=MC² – Einstein’s manuscripts will amaze as they demonstrate an expanding universe and show how gravity can bend space and time.
As Hanoch Gutfreund (former president of Hebrew University and chair of its academic committee for the Albert Einstein archives) says, ” This changed our understanding of space, time, gravitation, and really the entire universe.”
