The Boston-based RR Auction House announced a letter written by Albert Einstein referring to the famous equation for mass and energy equivalence, E = mc2, worth more than $ 1.2 million (about three times More than expected) sold at auction.
There are only three known known examples of this great scientist in which the equations of global change are written, according to the editors of the Einstein Paper Project at the California Institute of Technology.
A fourth copy of Einstein's handwritten letters was recently unveiled to the public. The RR auction bureau expected to sell it for $ 400,000. "From a holographic and physical point of view, this letter is very important," said Bobby Livingstone, executive director of the auction bureau, who said the equation of mass and energy was the world's most famous equation.
Albert Einstein's equation of mass and energy changed the science of physics by making it clear that time is not absolute and that mass and energy are equivalent. This one-page manuscript dates back to October 26, 1946, and was written in German to Ludwik Silberstein, a Polish-American physicist. Silberstein has been a well-known critic and challenger of some of Einstein's theories.
"Your question can be answered through the formula E = mc2, without any grace or knowledge," Einstein wrote in the letter, which bears the "Princeton University" letterhead, according to the translation provided by the RR auction. The letter is part of Silberstein's personal archive, which was sold by his children.
According to RR, the only buyer of the letter was an anonymous document collector, and the rarity of the letter led to a kind of bidding war. Initially, five different parties submitted bids, and when the price reached at least $ 700,000, the competition became two-way.
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