Hundreds of billions of galaxies with sextillions of stars and planets and in the middle of

在數千億的銀河系與數十垓的恆星及行星之中

it all there is earth, with you and us.

有個叫地球的行星，是你我同在的地方

But as enormous as the universe seems looking up, it seems to get even larger when you start

雖然宇宙在你往上看時已經相當巨大，它在你往下看時

looking down.

看似更大

You are towering over worlds within worlds, within worlds – each in plain sight and

你聳立於多個世界之中，每個世界即都清晰可見

yet hidden from your experience.

卻又隱藏在你的體驗之外

Let's go on a journey – we'll start in a park, about a thousand meters long, enough

讓我們來場旅行吧！先從這個約一公里長、十五分鐘能走完的

for a 15 minute walk.

公園開始

Every time we click this magic button, we'll become a thousand times smaller.

每當我們按下這個神奇的按鈕時，我們會縮小一千倍

Please slip into this magic science suit, so you don't die and can still see.

請穿上這件神奇的科學服，這樣你就死不了並且仍能看得見東西

Ready?

準備好了嗎？

Let's go.

我們出發吧

click

“按按鈕”

The Miniature Realm

小型王國

You are the size of a grain of sand just 2 mm high, standing on a blade of grass that

你的大小和一粒沙差不多，約兩毫米高。你所站在的草葉在你看來

seems as tall as an eight storey building to you.

和一棟八層樓的建築一樣高

A square meter of lawn is now a dense metropolitan area, with 100,000 blades, or two Manhattans

一平方米的草坪現在成了茂密的都市區，有著十萬葉片，或兩個曼哈頓

worth of grass towers.

這麼多的草葉塔

From your new tiny perspective, the park that you could quickly stroll through before, is

從你新的微小視角來看，這個原本能快速漫步完的公園

now the size of France.

現在和法國差不多大

Crossing it would take at least a week.

穿越這個公園至少需要一星期的時間

Human sized humans loom over you, 4 times taller than the Empire state building, their

正常體型的人類籠罩著你，其身高有四個帝國大廈這麼高

steps falling from horizon to horizon.

他們的步伐在地平線間起落

A bee the size of a helicopter lands near you, making the ground shake, as its hairy

一隻和直升機般大的蜜蜂在你附近著陸。它毛茸茸的甲殼隨著翼拍振動

carapace vibrates with each wingbeat.

進而使地面震動

You try to escape but are barely able to move because the air is so… gooey.

你嘗試逃離現場，但你幾乎不能動因為空氣感覺...黏糊糊的

Before you clicked the button air resistance was barely noticeable – but as you're

在你按下按鈕之前，空氣阻力對你幾乎沒有影響

now a thousand times smaller, it is as if the air has become a thousand times denser.

但縮小一千倍以後，空氣似乎變得一千倍濃稠

It feels like you are moving through honey.

感覺像在蜂蜜中移動一樣

Flying insects like bees use this to their advantage.

像蜜蜂這類的飛行蟲利用這個優勢

Their wings are not made for gliding but like paddles that row through the air.

它們的翅膀不是為了滑翔而設計的，而是像划槳一樣劃過空氣

Scaled up to human size, the bee would outrun a Concorde Jet – except it couldn't even

如果把蜜蜂放大到人類大小，它們會飛得比協和飛機還快

take off because it would be too heavy for its wings.

可惜它們連起飛都不行，因為它們的體型對翅膀來說太重了

click

“按按鈕”

The Microscopic Realm

微型王國

You've entered the microscopic realm and are now less than 2 micrometers tall, about

你現在來到了微型王國。你的身高不足兩微米，和大腸桿菌的

the size of an e coli bacteria.

大小差不多

From your new tiny perspective, the park you started in is now a million kilometers wide

從你新的微小視角來看，起初的公園如今已達一百公里長

to you – if you walked non stop it would take some 25 years to cross it.

如果你不斷的行走，二十五年左右後才能穿越這個公園

It is hard to grasp just how huge the microscopic world is to its tiny inhabitants.

我們很難理解這個微型世界對它的細小居民來說有多大

The giant bee that was close a moment ago, is now the size of Mt.

剛剛那隻在附近的巨大蜜蜂，現在已經如

Everest, towering high into the sky – but alive, humming and vibrating.

聖母峰般巨大、高聳入雲。但仍然很有生命力的嗡嗡叫

The air here feels almost solid to you, on the human scale it would be as viscous as

這裡的空氣對你而言近似固態。按人類的的比例來說

lava, extremely hard to push through.

它如岩漿般濃稠，極難推進

The blade of grass now expands so far you can't see its edges, stretching as wide

你所站在的草葉片如今已寬到你無法看到它的邊界，其寬度

as Paris would to a regular sized human.

按人類比例如巴黎般寬廣

You see valleys that look like dried up riverbeds, dead patches like deserts and giant craters

你看到許多像河床乾涸的山谷、像沙漠一樣的死地，以及飢餓蚜蟲

left behind by voracious aphids.

所遺留的巨大隕石坑

But if you look closely, this is not terrain.

但如果你仔細一看，你會發現這不是地形

These are rows of individual cells, each the size of a house with hard exteriors like glass

這些其實是一排排單獨的細胞，每個和房子差不多大，有著堅硬如玻璃

shells.

的外殼

Every few cells, there are huge openings called stomata, like mouths, sucking in air and blowing

每隔幾個細胞，你看到被稱為氣孔的巨大開口正如嘴巴般吸入空氣

out oxygen.

並吐出氧氣

Suddenly the gigantic bee begins to move – a construct made of rigid pieces that slide

突然間那隻巨大的蜜蜂開始動了：一種由相互滑動的剛性部件

against each other, like a suit of armor.

所製成的結構，像盔甲一樣

It takes off to escape a drop of water the size of an Asteroid, that fell from another

它起飛躲避一如隕石般大的、從另一葉片掉落的水滴

blade of grass and is now rushing at you at breathtaking speeds.

該水滴正以驚險的速率向你襲來

You brace for impact but instead of feeling a strong punch you just get sucked in.

你為衝擊做好準備，但你並沒有感受到強烈的撞擊力，而只是被水滴吸了進去

You try to swim but the water feels thick and sticky and holds onto your limbs like

你嘗試在水滴中游泳，但卻覺得水又黏又稠，它們像膠水一樣黏著在你的

glue.

四肢上

Air molecules are free spirits while water molecules act more like social creatures that

空氣分子像無拘無束的人，而水分子則像社會生物

group together whenever possible.

時刻盡可能的靠攏在一起

They pull on each other and create a relatively strong cohesive force that traps you.

他們互相拉扯並形成相當強的內聚力把你困住

You can't help it but you are still moving, tumbling in all directions, helplessly dragged

你身不由己地往四處翻滾移動，無助地被

along by an invisible current.

隱形的水流拖著

Floating in this miniature lake are tens of thousands of micro-organisms.

在這迷你湖裡漂浮著成千上萬的微生物

They take on many forms – viruses the size of tennis balls float around you aimlessly,

它們以許多形式存在：像網球般大的病毒毫無方向的漂浮

others like the Euglena oxyuris cells which pass you like freight trains.

其他如眼蟲的生物像貨運火車般呼嘯而過

But most look like oily jellyfish the size of a car, sporting long tentacles that act

但大部分的生物看起來像油油的水母，大小和一輛車差不多，把長長的觸手

like super charged propellers.

當作強力的螺旋槳來移動

Despite the water holding onto them like glue, some move hundreds of body lengths per second,

雖然水像漿糊般黏著在微生物身上，它們有的可以每秒移動好幾百個身長

equivalent to a person shovelling through mud at over 600 km/h.

相當於一個正常人以時速六百公里的速率鏟穿泥巴

However bacteria weigh so little and water is so viscous that they basically have no

但是，細菌的重量是如此輕，水是如此黏稠，它們在運動時基本上沒有慣性

inertia – there is no gliding on this scale.

在這個尺度裡沒有滑翔運動的存在

The result is a weird jerky motion that's hard to keep track of.

其結果是一個怪異的、難以追蹤的顛簸運動

Maybe we can learn more about this strange motion if we go even deeper.

或許我們可以再次縮小來了解這個奇怪的運動模式

click

“按按鈕”

Molecule Realm

分子王國

You've become the size of a molecule, just under two nanometers wide.

你已經如分子一樣大，身高不足兩奈米

At your new tiny scale, the droplet now seems as big as the Moon to a regular human.

從你新的微小視角來看，水滴現在如月球般大

The blade of grass it rests on could reach from the tip of Alaska to the end of Australia,

水滴上的葉片已經長到可以從阿拉斯加的頂部碰到澳洲的底部

and the park is now almost the size of the Solar System – but instead of mostly empty

現在的公園幾乎和太陽系一樣大小，但與之不同

space, it is filled with stuff.

的地方是，公園裡充滿著東西

Everywhere you look, there are innumerable amounts of molecules and atoms.

放眼望去，到處是不計其數的分子和原子

The rigid walls of the grass cells beneath you are clearly vibrating, rippling with waves

原本看似堅固的草葉細胞壁現在明顯的在振動

of energy.

盪漾著能量波

The water droplet contains nearly a sextillion water molecules that are all in motion.

水滴裡有將近十垓不停運動的水分子

Water is actually a storm of H2O molecules smashing into each other hundreds of trillions

水其實是由大量互相衝撞的水分子風暴構成，它們每秒互相撞擊

of times a second.

數百萬億次

Each of them is moving at speeds of around 2300 km/h and bombard their surroundings mercilessly,

每個水分子以約時速兩千三百公里的速率移動，無情的撞擊周遭

sending small objects hurtling in all directions.

使其它小物體向四面八方飛馳

This is the source of the invisible current that you noticed when you were a thousand

這就是你當時比現在一千倍大時所感受到的

times larger.

隱形水流的形成原因

Scaling this speed up to the human scale is impossible, as a human sized molecule would

把這些分子放大到人類的大小是不可能的事情，因為它們會

be 2000 times faster than the speed of light.

以比光速快兩千倍的速率移動

All this furious motion comes from heat.

這些劇烈運動因為熱量而產生

Heat is a bit abstract at our human scale, where you touch something and get a vague

熱量在人類的尺度上有點模糊，你只能透過觸摸事物來稍微

sense of whether it is hot or cold.

感受物體的冷熱程度

But down here, you really feel what 'heat' is: the motion of molecules, vibrating, twisting

但在這裡，你能確實的感受到熱量是什麼：分子的運動、振動、轉動與

and colliding as if they're inside a furious ballpit.

撞擊，彷彿在一個劇烈的球池裡

When these molecules lose heat, they move more slowly and collide less often.

當這些分子失去熱量時，它們移動的速率相對減緩，也更不經常撞到其他分子

When they gain heat, they speed up and smash together with renewed fervour.

當獲得熱量時，它們會再度燃起熱情加速並撞擊其它分子

Temperature is basically the measure of the average speed of these fantastic dancers performing

溫度基本上就是在測量這些傑出舞蹈家整天下來的

all day.

平均速率

Suddenly a molecule hits you especially hard and you are catapulted out of the water droplet

這時候突然有個分子特別用力的把你撞出水滴并將你

into the air again.

彈到空氣中

And here you see something unexpected: The stuff between the air molecules: Nothing.

在這裡你看到了意想不到的事情：空氣分子之間什麼也沒有

Between the molecules that make up the air there is a vacuum.

空氣分子之間處於真空狀態

On average a molecule in the air travels for about 60 nanometers, which is about the length

分子在空氣中平均移動六十奈米，放大到人類大小的話

of a hockey rink if it were the size of a human.

其距離和冰上曲棍球場差不多長

If we were to compress all the molecules and atoms buzzing around in the room you are watching

如果我們把各位觀眾室內的空氣分子聚集起來的話

this in, they would only fill about 0.1% of its volume.

它們只佔了室內體積的百分之零點一

99.9% of the space around you is a vacuum, you just don't notice it.

剩餘的百分之九十九點九處於真空，只是你沒察覺而已

Which also means that every time you take a breath, you breathe in mostly nothing with

這也代表每當你吸氣時，除了幾個原子以外你幾乎沒有

a few atoms.

吸入任何東西

Click

“按按鈕”

Subatomic Realm

亞原子王國

At your size of under 2 picometers, scale starts to lose its meaning.

在你矮於兩皮米的身高下，尺度開始喪失意義

A human would be nearly 2 billion kilometers tall relative to you, so large they could

一個人類的身高在你看來將近二十億公里長，其身型之大，他們伸展雙臂

stretch their arms from the Sun to Saturn.

可以碰到太陽和土星

An atomic nucleus would be the size of a grain of sand you could hold on the tip of your

原子核會像沙粒一樣大，讓你有辦法用指尖

finger.

頂著

That grain holds 99.97% of the atom's mass.

那個沙粒擁有百分之九十九點九七的原子質量

The rest, a sphere of influence about as large as the Eiffel tower from your perspective,

剩下的會是以一個在你看來和艾菲爾鐵塔同高的影響球體存在

is filled with an electron cloud.

裡頭充滿了電子雲

That's basically all the places where electrons might be at any given moment in time.

那基本上描述了電子在任何時候所有可能出現的方位

Electrons are shapeshifters that morph around outside a nucleus, creating a new and vibrating

電子在原子核周圍變形，在每一時刻呈現出

mess of different shapes with every new moment.

嶄新且不同的複雜形狀

Unlike the graceful motion of planets, the atomic nuclei are chaotic blurs.

和優雅地移動的行星不同，原子核是很混亂的

They bulge, roll, quiver and breathe.

它們膨脹、滾動、顫抖和呼吸

They hold back the same energy that powers nuclear bombs and it doesn't let them sit

抑制著給與核彈威力的相同能量，這也使得它們坐不住

still..

它們每秒鐘旋轉與振動數十垓次

They twist and vibrate sextillions of times a second.

是時候結束我們的旅程，回到......

It is time to end our journey and return to…

“按按鈕”

click

你在幹什麼？

What are you doing?

“按按鈕”

click

停下！

Stop it!

最小的地方（？）

click, click, click, click, click, click, click….

我們來到了低端，在現實與非現實的邊界

The Smallest Place (?)

這裡的尺度是普朗克長度，表示光在一普朗克時間所傳播的

We have reached the bottom, the border between reality and unreality.

距離

The scale here is the Planck length, which is the distance light travels in a Planck

普朗克時間則是光需要傳播一普朗克長度所需的時間

Time.

呃，好喔

Planck time is the time it takes light to travel a Planck length.

我們所用的宇宙模型在比這更小的尺度下沒有意義。所以目前的話我們

Ah ok.

到此為止了

None of our models of the universe make sense at scales smaller than this, so for now, this

"失落的按按鈕" :(

is it.

我們覺得在這裡，物質隨機浮出，又隨機消失

Sad click :(

形成一個無法想像的量子泡沫

We think that down here, particles bubble into existence and then spontaneously disappear,

我們有辦法縮的更小嗎？

creating a quantum foam of unimaginable energy.

我們不知道

Can we go even smaller?

是時候回去了

We don't know.

如果你往上看，宇宙即大且奇特

It is time to return.

如此讓人難以置信的大且奇特

If you look up, the universe is large and strange.

但當你往下看，看到這些小又極小的事物時，宇宙看似更加巨大

So incredibly large and strange.

也更加奇特

But if you look down, into the tiny and extremely tiny, the universe seems even larger, and

最後，可能這世界上最完美的地方就是你現在的所在地：不大不小

even stranger.

剛剛好

In the end, the perfect place might be where you are right now – not too big, not too

這次你可以加入我們踏上微觀之旅

small.

每翻一頁，你會發現一個就存在於你腳下的未知

These hidden worlds are all part of our 12,023 Human Era Calendar.

新世界

This time you can join us on a journey through the microcosm.

如今你已經知道要怎麼做了：和以往一樣，這是個超高品質的月曆，非常閃亮

With each turn of the page you will reveal a new world you didn't know existed right

且只限定販售一段時間

beneath your feet.

我們的商店頁面裡也有幾個特別優惠給你

You know the drill by now: as always it's a super high-quality calendar, very shiny

這個月曆讓你有辦法把Kurzgesagt實際帶回家

and – only available for a short time.

雖然我們每年都這麼說，但這是事實：每個月曆的購買都直接的支持

We also have a few special deals for you in our shop.

我們在Kurzgesagt所做的事情

The calendar is a true piece of kurzgesagt you can take home with you.

那不只是包括製作影片，還有激起世界各地的好奇心

And we say this every year but it's true: every calendar purchase directly supports

所以因為你的支持，我們才能向世界各地的人散播知識，並激起他們對宇宙、大自然

what we do here at kurzgesagt.

以及生命的感激

And that's not just creating videos but – sparking curiosity all around the world.

非常感謝你讓這成為可能！

So because of you, we can spread knowledge and ignite an appreciation for space, nature

祝你有個美好的12,023！

and life in people everywhere.

我們一月份再見！

Thank you so much for making this possible!

Have a wonderful 12,023!

See you down in January!