2005年NPR美国国家公共电台九月-E=mc² at 100

One hundred years ago today, September (the) 27th, 1905, a physics paper was dropped into the mail, addressed to a German journal called AT. The paper was penned by a 26-year-old Swiss patent clerk with dark curly hair years before he sprouted¹ that signature nest of white hair. The paper was just 3 pages long and it introduced / what argubly become the most famous string of letters and numbers in the world E=MC^2.
The equation E=mc^2, in which energy is put equal to mass multiply the square of the velocity² of light showed that very small amount of mass may be converted into very large amount of energy, and vice³ versa"
As Albert Einstain says vice versa, mass may be converted into energy and back again.
“It is vice versa, and Einstein what he showed was that in fact these two things are the same."
That is John Rigden, a Physicist⁴ at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Einstain, 1905, a book on Einstain's so-called miraculous⁵ year. in 1905, Einstein published 5 major papers, “we would have no understanding of the Big Bang without E=MC^2, because in the early seconds, minutes of the Big Bang, energy and mass were being exchanged just indiscriminately going back and forth⁶ between mass and energy, energy and mass”. E=MC^2 also explains the power behind the atomic bombs and it is all due to that number C^2. "Small amount of mass, produces enough energy because of that C^2 to destroy a city. So happy one hundred birthday to the physics paper so enticing⁷, titled “Does the inertia⁸ of a body depend on its energy content" and happy centennial to the simple and famous equation./.
Everybody knows the equation, I had to run to pick up my eyeglasses , and so I had to pick them up. I said you know this is a hundredth anniversary of this famous equation, and the person behind the counter said what's that? And I said E equals, and then he said "oh MC^2" .
That's physicist John Rigden, the author of Einstein, 1905--- the standard of greatness.
If you want to know more about Einstein’s miraculous year, go to our website npr.org.

1 sprouted   

v.发芽( sprout的过去式和过去分词 )；抽芽；出现；（使）涌现出

参考例句：

• We can't use these potatoes; they've all sprouted. 这些土豆儿不能吃了，都出芽了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The rice seeds have sprouted. 稻种已经出芽了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

2 velocity   

n.速度，速率

参考例句：

• Einstein's theory links energy with mass and velocity of light.爱因斯坦的理论把能量同质量和光速联系起来。
• The velocity of light is about 300000 kilometres per second.光速约为每秒300000公里。

3 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

4 physicist   

n.物理学家，研究物理学的人

参考例句：

• He is a physicist of the first rank.他是一流的物理学家。
• The successful physicist never puts on airs.这位卓有成就的物理学家从不摆架子。

5 miraculous   

adj.像奇迹一样的，不可思议的

参考例句：

• The wounded man made a miraculous recovery.伤员奇迹般地痊愈了。
• They won a miraculous victory over much stronger enemy.他们战胜了远比自己强大的敌人，赢得了非凡的胜利。

6 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

7 enticing   

adj.迷人的；诱人的

参考例句：

• The offer was too enticing to refuse. 这提议太有诱惑力，使人难以拒绝。
• Her neck was short but rounded and her arms plump and enticing. 她的脖子短，但浑圆可爱；两臂丰腴，也很动人。

8 inertia   

adj.惰性，惯性，懒惰，迟钝

参考例句：

• We had a feeling of inertia in the afternoon.下午我们感觉很懒。
• Inertia carried the plane onto the ground.飞机靠惯性着陆。