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Was?Einstein?a?Space?Alien?? 爱因斯坦是外星人吗？ 1????Albert?Einstein?was?exhausted.?For?the?third?night?in?a?row,?his?baby?son?Hans,?crying,?kept?the?household?awake?until?dawn.?When?Albert?finally?dozed?off?...?it?was?time?to?get?up?and?go?to?work.?He?couldnt?skip?a?day.?He?needed?the?job?to?support?his?young?family.? 阿尔伯特.爱因斯坦精疲力竭。他幼小的儿子汉斯连续三个晚上哭闹不停，弄得全家人直到天亮都无法入睡。阿尔伯特总算可以打个瞌睡时，已是他起床上班的时候了。他不能一天不上班，他需要这份工作来养活组建不久的家庭。 ? 2????Walking?briskly?to?the?Patent?Office,?where?he?was?a?Technical?Expert,?Third?Class,?Albert?worried?about?his?mother.?She?was?getting?older?and?frail,?and?she?didnt?approve?of?his?marriage?to?Mileva.?Relations?were?strained.?Albert?glanced?at?a?passing?shop?window.?His?hair?was?a?mess;?he?had?forgotten?to?comb?it?again.? 阿尔伯特是专利局三等技术专家。在快步去专利局上班的路上，他为母亲忧心忡忡。母亲年纪越来越大，身体虚弱。她不同意儿子与迈尔娃的婚事，婆媳关系紧张。阿尔伯特瞥了一下路过的商店的橱窗，看见自己头发凌乱，他又忘了梳头了。 ? 3????Work.?Family.?Making?ends?meet.?Albert?felt?all?the?pressure?and?responsibility?of?any?young?husband?and?father.?To?relax,?he?revolutionized?physics. 工作，家庭，维持生计——阿尔伯特感受到了一位年轻丈夫和年轻父亲所要承担的全部压力和责任。??他想放松下，却使物理学发生了突破性进展 ? 4????In?1905,?at?the?age?of?26?and?four?years?before?he?was?able?to?get?a?job?as?a?professor?of?physics,?Einstein?published?five?of?the?most?important?papers?in?the?history?of?science--all?written?in?his?spare?time.?He?proved?that?atoms?and?molecules?existed.?Before?1905,?scientists?werent?sure?about?that.?He?argued?that?light?came?in?little?bits?(later?called?photons)?and?thus?laid?the?foundation?for?quantum?mechanics.?He?described?his?theory?of?special?relativity:?space?and?time?were?threads?in?a?common?fabric,?he?proposed,?which?could?be?bent,?stretched?and?twisted.? 1905年，在他被聘为物理学教授的前四年，26岁的爱因斯坦发表了科学史上最重要论文中的五篇——这些论文都是他在“业余时间”完成的。他证明了原子和分子的存在。1905年之前，科学家们对此没有把握。爱因斯坦论证说光以微粒形态出现（后来被称为“光子”），这为量子力学奠定了基础。他把狭义相对论描写为：时空如同普通织物中的线，他提出，这些线可以弯曲、拉长和交织在一起。? 5????Oh,?and?by?the?way,?E=mc2.? 对了，顺便提一下，E?=?mc2。? 6????Before?Einstein,?the?last?scientist?who?had?such?a?creative?outburst?was?Sir?Isaac?Newton.?It?happene