首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
In the span of 18 months, Isaac Newton invented calculus, constructed a theory of optics, explained how gravity works and discov
In the span of 18 months, Isaac Newton invented calculus, constructed a theory of optics, explained how gravity works and discov
admin
2013-01-25
43
问题
In the span of 18 months, Isaac Newton invented calculus, constructed a theory of optics, explained how gravity works and discovered his laws of motion. As a result, 1665 and the early months of 1666 are termed his annus mirabilis. (46)
It was a sustained sprint of intellectual achievement that no one thought could ever be equaled.
But in a span of a few years just before 1900, it all began to unravel. One phenomenon after another was discovered which could not be explained by the laws of classical physics. (47)
The theories of Newton, and of James Clerk Maxwell who followed him in the mid 19th century by crafting a more comprehensive account of electromagnetism, were in trouble.
Then, in 1905, a young patent clerk named Albert Einstein found the way forward. In five remarkable papers, he showed that atoms are real (it was still controversial at the time), presented his special theory of relativity, and put quantum theory on its feet. It was a different achievement from Newton’s year, but Einstein’s annus mirabilis was no less remarkable. He did not, like Newton, have to invent entirely new forms of mathematics. However, he had to revise notions of space and time fundamentally. (48)
And un like Newton, who did not publish his results for nearly 20 years, so obsessed was he with secrecy and working out the details, Einstein released his papers one after another, as a fusillade of ideas.
For Einstein, it was just a beginning—he would go on to create the general theory of relativity and to pioneer quantum mechanics. While Newton came up with one system for explaining the world, Einstein thus came up with two. Unfortunately, his discoveries—relativity and quantum theory—contradict one another. Both cannot be true everywhere, although both are remarkably accurate in their respective domains of the very large and the very small. Einstein would spend the last years of his life attempting to reconcile the two theories, and failing. (49)
But then, no one else has succeeded in fixing the problems either, and Einstein was perhaps the one who saw them most clearly.
When Einstein was awarded a Nobel Prize, in 1921, it was for the first of his papers of 1905, which proved the existence of photons—particles of light. (50)
Up until that paper, completed on March 17th and published in Annalen der Physik (as were the other 1905 papers), light had been supposed to be a wave, since this explains the interference patterns created when it passes through a grating.
Einstein, however, began from a different premise, by considering the so-called "black-body experiment".
选项
答案
牛顿十分沉迷于保密和解决细节问题,几乎近20年未公开其研究成果。与牛顿不同,爱因斯坦一篇又一篇地发表其论文,如同一连串的观点进发。
解析
本题重点考查"who"引导的定语从句和"so...that"句型的倒装省略型式。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/5ap4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Recentyearshavebroughtminority-ownedbusinessesintheUnitedStatesunprecedentedopportunities—aswellasnewandsignific
WhyistheinterdependenceoftheUKeconomymentionedinparagraph1?Disagreementsarisebetweenunionsbecausesomeofthem
ItcanbeinferredfromParagraph1thatoneimportantfactorintheincreasingimportanceofeducationintheUnitedStateswas
BlackdeaththatdroveNewtonfromhiscollegeandintoamomentousdiscovery,(1)_____Englandin1665.Astronomicalrecordsof
Lookatthefollowingpictureandwriteanarticleonamarketingstrategy:discountpromotion.Yourarticleshouldmeetthefol
Theword"draconian"(Line1,Paragraph4)mayprobablymeanBysayingthat"AngeloshasBecomeanationalcausecelebre"(Line
Accordingtoparagraph1,theinsider’sattitudetowardsGoogleIPOcanbesaidtobeAccordingtothepassage,Google’sIPOis
Youaregoingtoreadatextoftipsoninterview,followedbyalistofexplanations(orexamples).Choosethebestexplanation
Informationchannelingisundergoingremarkableprogressinvarioussectorsofsocietyinindustrialactivities,publicservices
随机试题
A—RelevanceofmotivationtheoriesI—TradeUnionRepresentationB—SystematicTrainingJ—ContinuousDevelopmen
如何正确理解改革是社会主义社会发展的动力?
肾结核最常见的临床表现是
()有利于提高组织的专业化程度,提高管理人员的技术水平,但可能使项目人员缺乏总体眼光,不利于高级管理人员与项目运作人员的培养。
根据《水利工程建设项目管理规定》(水建171995-1128号),水利工程初步设计静态总投资超过可行性研究报告相应估算静态总投资在()以上时,必须重新编制可行性研究报告。
放坡基坑施工中,分级放坡时宜设置分级过渡平台,下级放坡坡度宜()上级放坡坡度。
甲、乙、丙三种货物,若购甲3件、乙7件、丙1件,共需325元;若购甲4件、乙10件、丙1件,共需410元。那么购甲、乙、丙各1件,共需多少元?()
在统计基本职能中,最基本的职能是()。
ThestudiescitedbytheNationalEatingDisordersAssociationaremadeamongFromthefifthparagraphwemayinferthatAnorex
In1997,25Japanesecitizens,allolderthan60,launchedJeeba(thenamemeans"oldmanandoldwoman")tomakesenior-friendly
最新回复
(
0
)