上一期说到总是问老师无法回答问题[汗]的爱因斯坦，被踢出了不指望学生思考的德国高中[尬笑]。幸运的是，身边有家人和朋友的支持鼓励[摸头]，他的沉思得以继续向多学科（代数、几何、历史、宗教等）发展。接下来，他来到思想开放的意大利，对一位思考者来说，简直到了天堂……
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第三章 Albert takes a Very Deep Breath & Keeps Thinking（沉思）
“One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled underfoot before one’s time.” — Albert Einstein
“一个生于水牛群里的人，一定庆幸在他出生以前没有被牛脚践踏过。” ——爱因斯坦
Getting expelled from school—even a school he hated—was very painful for Albert. He was embarrassed to have failed so openly. He was angry with his teachers. He was disappointed in himself. Yet he was also excited that he would soon see his family.
Albert joined his parents and sister in northern Italy. Italy was so different from Germany. Albert quickly fell in love with the country. Italians were so friendly, civilized, and open-minded. For the next two years, Albert went to concerts and visited art museums. Best of all, he had time to read and to think. He studied the lives of scientists, including those who had suffered because their thinking had gone against widely held ideas of the time. For example, there was Nicholas Copernicus (1473–1543), the Polish astronomer. He was severely criticized for stating that the earth orbited around the sun and not vice versa. A hundred years later, in 1633, Galileo Galilei, an Italian scientist, was arrested for agreeing with Copernicus. Yet in Albert’s time, no sane person believed that the sun circles the earth.
即使那是他讨厌的学校，被学校开除对爱因斯坦来说，是非常痛苦的[撇嘴]。他对如此公开的挫败感到尴尬。他的老师把他气炸了，他也对自己失望。然而，他也很兴奋，因为他很快就能见到他的家人[耶]。
爱因斯坦在意大利北部与父母和妹妹团聚。意大利和德国太不一样了。他很快就爱上了这个国家。意大利人是如此友好、文明和开放。在接下来的两年里，他经常去听音乐会、参观艺术博物馆。最重要的是，他有时间读书和思考。他研究了科学家们的生活，包括那些因为他们的思想与当时普遍持有的观点背道而驰而遭受苦难的人。例如波兰天文学家尼古拉斯·哥白尼(1473-1543)，他因为说地球绕着太阳[太阳]转而不是太阳绕着地球转，而受到了严厉的讨伐。一百年后的1633年，意大利科学家伽利略因赞同哥白尼的观点而被捕。然而在爱因斯坦所处的时代，一个失去理智的人才会相信太阳是绕着地球转的。
梵蒂冈博物馆位于梵蒂冈城，在这里可以看到文艺复兴时期艺术家的无价珍宝。（资料来自：知乎）
意大利最受欢迎的博物馆之一，很多意大利文艺复兴时期的大师作品都被收藏在这里。（资料来自：知乎）
The study of other scientists’ theories pushed Albert’s thinking even further. In Italy, he had the time to write down those thoughts and answer many of the questions he had been asking himself for years. Now he was a real scientist. He even had his first scientific paper published in a magazine, while he was still a teenager!
When scientists have new ideas to share, they write about them in scientific journals. (That’s what it means to “get a paper published.”) For Albert, as for all scientists, getting papers published was very important; it was the only way other scientists could learn about his ideas and thoughts.
对其他科学家理论的研究进一步推动了爱因斯坦的思考[思考]。在意大利，他有时间写下这些想法，并回答多年来他一直在问自己的许多问题。现在他是一个真正的科学家了[小鼓掌]！他甚至在十几岁的时候就在杂志上发表了他的第一篇科学论文![中国赞]
（小编：爱因斯坦的人生中的第一篇科学论文，是关于毛细现象的研究。大概和很多人不想看自己写的小学生作文一样，他在这之后表示自己的这篇论文“毫无价值”…… 历史上第一个明确地观察和记录到了毛细作用是莱昂纳多 · 达芬奇，对，就是那个画了蒙娜丽莎的达芬奇。毛细现象在当时可以称得上是一个有点新鲜的事物，只需要把毛细管浸入到水中，那么水就会在管道中上升一定高度，高于原来的液面。）
论文截图
资料来自：百度/中科院物理所
Albert’s first published paper was about electricity and magnetism. That was no surprise. After all, he’d been thinking about both subjects for years. But to everybody’s surprise, Albert began his paper by disagreeing with something that all scientists assumed was true. Scientists claimed that the “empty” part of outer space—the part without planets and moons—was filled with something called “ether.” Scientists had no idea what ether was made of, or what it looked like, felt like, or smelled like. But they all agreed it was there. Albert disagreed. He claimed that the empty part of space was, well, empty.
Albert’s first paper did not get a lot of attention. Although Albert was disappointed about that, he should not have been surprised. After all, Albert was a teenager who had been expelled from high school and who was still living with his parents. Who was he to challenge the theories of the world’s most respected scientists? However, years later, many of those same scientists would seek out Einstein’s first published paper and marvel at the genius of the young scientist. Because Albert was right.
爱因斯坦发表的第一篇论文是关于电和磁的。这是意料之中的，毕竟，这两门学科他都想了很多年了。但令所有人惊讶的是，他在论文的开篇，就反对一些科学家都认为是正确的东西。科学家声称，外太空的“空”部分——没有行星和卫星的部分——充满了一种叫做“以太”的东西。科学家不知道以太是由什么组成的，也不知道它外形、触感、气味，但他们一致认为它就在那里。爱因斯坦不同意，他声称空间的空部分，就是空的。
爱因斯坦的第一篇论文并没有得到很多关注小编吧
