读了《激动人心的年代》(四川人民版),感想油然而生.也许世纪之交的物理学革命,在今天看来才是“激动人心”的.之所以如此,除因为当时就能深知物理学革命意义的人是很少的外,大概更主要的是,由于这次革命涉及到对一个古老而又复杂的哲学命题——我们所认识的自然界的规律性,是否就是自然界本身所固有的规律性——的认识.在将近三百年间,得到辉煌证实的牛顿经典力学被推崇为宇宙唯一的诠释.自然界的规律性是因果决定的.知道它的现在就是寻出它的过去,同样,知道它的现在亦能推出它的未来.但是令人迷惑而又惊诧的相对论缔造者爱因斯坦仅用了几个思想实验的例子就轻而易举地推 Reading “Exciting Times” (Sichuan People’s Edition), feeling arises spontaneously perhaps the turn of the century physical revolution, today it is “Exciting ”, except because at that time There are very few people who know the meaning of revolution in physics. Perhaps more importantly, since the revolution involves an ancient and complex philosophical proposition - the regularity of the natural world we know is whether it is nature Its inherent regularity - and Newton’s classical mechanics, splendidly substantiated for nearly three hundred years, has been praised as the only interpretation of the universe, and the regularity of nature is causal, knowing that its present is to find out In the same vein, knowing that it can now also launch its future, Einstein, the mesmerizing and awe-inspiring founder of relativity, can easily push with just a few examples of thought experiments