Discover Einstein’s Letter for People Living in 5000 Years Later
July 19th, 2010 by dee
In 1938 there buried an enormous “time space”, in which Einstein write a letter for the human in after five thousand years later, the short letter only occupied a tiny corner. In Yaroslave The remaining space full of various materials such as the metal, and seeds and daily necessaries, including telephone and electric shaver, cupid, and even has a bag of marlboro cigarettes. The short letter written by Einstein to the humans 5000 years later, which was planted in 1938, only occupied a litter corner in the huge “Time Capsule”. The other spaces were full of various fabric, metal, seeds and daily necessities, including telephone, electric shavers, Cupid doll, and even a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. This is a special present offered by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in order to meet the second year the World Expo that will be held in New York. In order to be in line with the theme of the coming Expo-”future world”, they decided to bury a container filled with record of contemporary civilization under the ground of the World Expo venue and made an inscription in a stone tablet : open it in 5000 years. During the production process of the container, the chairman of Westinghouse Andrew • Robertson encouraged those workers who were responsible for the assembly: “In 5000 years, when it wakes up again, the contents inside the container will be the best gift to our future generations.”
The gift has a shell that is made of chromium copper alloy, which looks like a giant bullet. In addition to the scientific inventions and daily necessities that made people proud at that time. but also a documentary film, a microfilm with more than ten million documents and the messages leaved by three persons having made significant contributions to the Times, including Einstein of course in it. Compared with those ordinary people who are cherished high technology, the epoch–making physical scientist made a discrepancy speech. In the letter he wrote that there are stuffed with the creative invention of creativity in our era, these invention freed us from heavy manual labor activity and greatly facilitated our lives.
We can travel across oceans, we learn how to fly, and we are able to transmit information to every corner of the world easily even by electric wave. But the production and distribution of commodities has been conducted in disorder, people have to bustle in and out to work for their living with anxiety. People in different countries always compete with each other, which bringing about worry and dread to people in the future. The reason is that the intelligence and ethics of common people are much lower than people really making contributions to the society. I believe that our offspring should read these few lines on this letter with a natural sense of superiority. “At that time, many scientific discoveries were used in military, transformed into more advanced weapons, driving people to kill each other and compete. This was why Einstein has expressed his unpleasantness of “the intelligence level and moral quality of general public” in that way. In his view, social science and technology was crackling then, whereas humanity environment went from bad to worse. The “classics” written by scientists were just misrepresented by the general public.
After that, the conflict between science and humanities has never stopped. In the next year after these words, Einstein affixed another letter to suggest the president of the United States, Franklin • Roosevelt, to develop atomic bombs before Nazi Germany. A few years later, these two A-bomb which embodied the latest technology claimed hundreds of thousands of civilians’ lives in And that time space still lied silently in New York at Flushing Meadows Corona Park. In 1965 in order to meet world expo held in New York again, a new “time space” was buried near the same area. Inside the so-called “time capsule II” container, the fresh stuff in the recent 20 years were put, including credit card, birth control pills, plastic heart valve and a Beatles record. But there is no letter written by scientists to future generations. Now, in this second largest park in New York, people play, have barbecues and take a stroll in the wide lawn, only an about one-person tall stone reminds people that in the granite cave 15 meters from the ground a gift for 5000-thousabd-year later people is buried.
Media once said that people noticing the “time capsule” were sinking in a gorgeous sense of moving through time and space. However, little people thought about the letters conveying apprehensions. Different from people 72 years ago, present persons are easier to achieve the “superiority complex” described by Einstein. The social reality scientists were worried about has never changed. Killing and contention among human beings have never stopped, so has their panic of the future. Nowadays, it has been a practice of every host city for World Expo to plant its own “Time Capsule”. In archaeologists’ eyes, “Time Capsule” is the “responsibility” assumed by contemporary people. 70 years ago, Jacob, the president of Oglethorpe University, Atlanta once assessed that the “Time Capsule” recorded the civilization of the present age and it can let the future generations restore our lives.
But its impact is clearly much more than that. At least, the letter Einstein wrote to people after 5,000 years has been brought to everyone by the time courier. There always are some people will stop and think about the relationship between technology and humanity, think about those things the human society lacks, once they read these words. But most people can not attend to these. While people’s eyes constantly focus on the science and technology, and the rapid development of economic, human beings’ introspection for culture passes into silence in a little nook, just like the letter written by Einstein in a little nook in that “Time Capsule”.
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