目的从科技期刊史和科学传播视角研究《少年中国·相对论号》,为相对论在中国早期传播提供新线索。方法原始期刊分析与考证法。结果《少年中国·相对论号》创造了相对论在中国传播的数个第一:刊载爱因斯坦(AlertEinstein,1879-1955)光锥图向国人介绍四维时空概念;表述光速最大原理的数学推论;对相对论尺缩效应下观测到的物体是瘦长形的图像进行批判;提及爱因斯坦及其学说成为国际物理界关注焦点的萨尔茨堡会议。结论《少年中国·相对论号》虽然所栽文章仅有3篇,但其对相对论概念介绍、数理推导以及时空观的科学内涵等方面具有较高的准确性和科学性,它减少了相对论在中国传播过程中的噪音和失真,对当时“相对”成风,相对论渐趋社会化演化有着极为重要的科学意义。
Aim From the history perspective of the scientific journals and communication, to research Young China Issue on Relativity, provide new clues for the dissemination of the relativity theory in China. Methods Analysis of the originals journals and research. Results Young China Issue on Relativity created a number of innovations in spreading the relativity theory: It is the first to introduce the concept of the relativistic four-dimensional space-time to Chinese,using Einstein's( A. Einstein, 1879-1955) light-cone diagram. It is the first to express the principle of the maximum light speed by using mathematical deduction. It is the first to criticize that the object observed in the relativistic effect is fiat. It is the first to introduce Salzburg meeting in which Einstein and the theory of relativity became an center of international physics. Conclusion Although Issue on Relativity contained only three articles, it had a high level of scientific accuracy in introducing the concept of relativity, mathematical deduction, and other aspects of the scientific connotation of time and space. It reduced the noise and distortion in the spread of the relativity theory. It had a very important scientific significance that relativity theory has become popular and its further social evolution.