ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES PRESENTS RARE COMPLETE EINSTEIN MANUSCRIPT

THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN'S GROUNDBREAKING THEORY OF RELATIVITY, WHICH HELPS EXPLAIN EVERYTHING FROM BLACK HOLES TO THE BIG BANG, WENT ON DISPLAY RECENTLY IN ITS ENTIRETY FOR THE FIRST TIME. EINSTEIN'S 46 PAGE HANDWRITTEN EXPLANATION OF HIS GENERAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY, IN WHICH HE DEMONSTRATES AN EXPANDING UNIVERSE AND SHOWS HOW GRAVITY CAN BEND SPACE AND TIME, IS BEING SHOWN AT THE ISRAEL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES, UNTIL 25.MARCH, IN JERUSALEM AS PART OF THE SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATION'S 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION. 'WE WANTED SOMETHING UNIQUE THAT WOULD HAVE GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE, AND FORTUNATELY WE COULD HAVE ACCESS TO A MANUSCRIPT THAT HAS NEVER BEEN SEEN IN ITS ENTIRETY BEFORE', SAID THE ACADEMY'S PRESIDENT. EINSTEIN WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY IN JERUSALEM. HE CONTRIBUTED THE HISTORIC MANUSCRIPT TO THE UNIVERSITY WHEN IT WAS FOUNDED IN 1925, FOUR YEARS AFTER HE WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS. HIS WILL BEQUEATHED THE REST OF HIS PAPERS TO THE UNIVERSITY UPON HIS DEATH IN 1955. THE UNIVERSITY IS LENDING THE MANUSCRIPT, WHICH WAS FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1916 AND REMAINS A PIVOTAL BREAKTHROUGH IN MODERN PHYSICS, TO THE ACADEMY FOR THE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION. DESPITE ITS CENTRAL PLACE IN THE CANON OF EINSTEIN'S WORK, THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT HAS NEVER ATTRACTED AS MUCH ATTENTION AS THE MAN HIMSELF. ACCORDING TO A MUSEUM SPOKESPERSON, MUSEUMS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE BEEN CONTENT TO DISPLAY ONLY FEW PAGES OF THE MANUSCRIPT AT A TIME. IT TOOK EINSTEIN EIGHT YEARS AFTER PUBLISHING HIS THEORY OF OF SPECIAL RELATIVITY, IN WHICH HE CAME UP WITH THE FAMED EQUATION EMC2 (SQUARED), TO EXPAND THAT INTO HIS THEORY OF GENERAL RELATIVITY, IN WHICH HE SHOWED THAT GRAVITY CAN AFFECT SPACE AND TIME, A KEY TO UNDERSTANDING BASIC FORCES OF PHYSICS AND NATURAL PHENOMENA, INCLUDING THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE. EXHIBIT ORGANIZERS SAY THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EINSTEIN'S PAGES OF CAREFUL SCRIPT, DIAGRAMS AND PERFECTIONIST'S SCRATCHES WILL NOT BE LOST ON CASUAL VIEWERS. THEY SAY THE DISPLAY WILL PRESENT THE MANUSCRIPT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE THEORY'S LEGACY.