Name: 宇宙 25 號實驗 [所有老鼠都死了] (The Universe 25 Experiment [All Mice Died])
Uploaded: 2025-07-28T18:41:37.000Z
Duration: 6 min 8 s

關係子句

Calhoun detailed the specifications of a utopia designed for mice, built in the laboratory.

卡爾霍恩詳細介紹了在實驗室中為小鼠設計建造的烏托邦的規格。

Every aspect of Universe 25, as this particular model was called, was designed to cater for the well-being of its rodent residents, increase their lifespan, and allow them to mate.

宇宙 25 號"（這一特殊型號的名稱）的各個方面都是為了齧齒動物居民的福祉、延長它們的壽命並讓它們能夠交配而設計的。

There was abundant food, water, and nesting material.

這裡有豐富的食物、水和築巢材料。

Four pairs of disease-free mice, selected from the National Institute of Health's elite breeding colony, moved in on day one.

從美國國立衛生研究院的精英繁殖群中挑選出的四對無病小鼠在第一天就搬了進來。

It took months for the rodents to familiarize themselves with their new world.

齧齒動物花了幾個月的時間才熟悉新世界。

Then they started to reproduce, and the population increased exponentially, doubling every 55 days.

然後，它們開始繁殖，種群數量呈指數增長，每 55 天翻一番。

Past day 315, more than 600 mice now lived in Universe 25, rubbing shoulders on their way up and down the stairwells to eat, drink, and sleep.

過了第 315 天，第 25 號宇宙中就住進了 600 多隻小白鼠，它們在上下樓梯間的路上擦肩而過，吃喝拉撒睡。

Young ones found themselves born into a world with far more mice than meaningful social roles.

年輕人發現自己出生在一個老鼠比有意義的社會角色多得多的世界。

Males faced a lot of competitors to defend their territory against.

雄性動物面臨著許多需要保衛領地的競爭者。

Many found that so stressful, they gave up.

許多人發現壓力太大，於是放棄了。

Normal discourse within the community broke down, and with it the ability of mice to form social bonds.

社區內的正常對話中斷了，老鼠們建立社會紐帶的能力也隨之瓦解。

Lone females retreated to isolated nesting boxes on penthouse levels.

獨居雌鳥退居到頂樓的隔離巢箱中。

Other males, a group Calhoun termed the Beautiful Ones, never sought sex and never fought.

其他男性，卡爾霍恩稱之為 "美麗的人"（Beautiful Ones），從不尋求性愛，也從不打架。

They just ate, slept, and groomed, wrapped in narcissistic introspection.

他們只是在自戀的自省中吃喝拉撒睡。

Elsewhere, cannibalism, asexuality, and violence became endemic.

在其他地方，食人、無性和暴力成為流行病。

On day 560, the population peaked at 2,200 mice.

第 560 天，小鼠數量達到峰值 2 200 只。

A few mice survived past weaning until day 600, after which there were few pregnancies and no surviving young.

有幾隻小鼠在斷奶後一直存活到第 600 天，之後幾乎沒有懷孕，也沒有存活的幼鼠。

As the population had stopped regenerating itself, its path to extinction was clear.

由於種群停止了自我再生，它的滅絕之路一目瞭然。

The mice had lost the capacity to rebuild their numbers.

老鼠已經失去了重建數量的能力。

Many that could still conceive, such as the Beautiful Ones, and their secluded singleton female counterparts, had lost the social ability to do so.

許多仍能懷孕的人，如 "美麗的人"，以及與世隔絕的單身女性，已經失去了懷孕的社會能力。

The last mouse died on May 23rd, 1973, four years and ten months after colonization.

最後一隻老鼠死於 1973 年 5 月 23 日，也就是殖民四年零十個月之後。

Calhoun later said that the creatures had died two deaths.

卡爾霍恩後來說，這些生物已經死了兩次。

The first was that of their spirit and their society.

The second death was that of their physical body.

It was not the first time the ethologist had built a world for rodents.

這並不是這位人種學家第一次為齧齒動物建造世界。

Calhoun had been creating utopian environments for rats and mice since the 1940s, with consistent results.

自 20 世紀 40 年代以來，卡爾霍恩一直在為大鼠和小鼠創造烏托邦式的環境，並取得了一致的成果。

Overpopulation leads to explosive violence and hypersexual activity, followed by asexuality, self-destruction, and extinction.

人口過剩會導致爆炸性暴力和性慾亢進，隨後是無性、自我毀滅和滅絕。

In his widely cited paper, Population Density and Social Pathology, Calhoun concluded, No matter how sophisticated we are, once the number of individuals capable of filling social roles greatly exceeds the number of such roles, only violence and disruption can follow.

卡爾霍恩在其被廣泛引用的論文《人口密度與社會病理學》中總結道："無論我們多麼先進，一旦能夠充當社會角色的個體數量大大超過這種角色的數量，隨之而來的只能是暴力和混亂。

He then referred to a phenomenon he called behavioral sync.

然後，他提到了一種他稱之為行為同步的現象。

Behavioral sync is our desire to be in the presence of others, to be conditioned to seek to be near others, and to be drawn to the crowd, in spite of the conflicts that this can generate.

行為同步是指我們渴望與他人同在，習慣於尋求接近他人，被人群所吸引，儘管這會產生衝突。

Drawing from Calhoun's popular research, social scientists started to call for restrictions on reproduction as the only possible response to the world's rising population.

根據卡爾霍恩的流行研究，社會科學家開始呼籲限制生育，將其作為應對世界人口增長的唯一可能措施。

Calhoun himself was more optimistic about our future.

卡爾霍恩本人對我們的未來更加樂觀。

He argued, As our physical space declines, we are forced to extend a conceptual space, our network of ideas and technologies.

他認為，隨著物理空間的縮小，我們不得不擴展概念空間，即我們的思想和技術網絡。

Later in his career, he turned to possible solutions and began to build creative universes that minimize the ill effects of overcrowding.

在他職業生涯的後期，他轉而尋求可能的解決方案，並開始建造創造性的宇宙，以最大限度地減少過度擁擠的不良影響。

Is overcrowding a danger for mankind, or does it only affect rodents?

過度擁擠會對人類造成危害，還是隻會影響齧齒動物？

And if so, what can save the human psyche?

如果是這樣，什麼才能拯救人類的心靈？

Avoiding eye contact in crowded places is one strategy, but is that enough?

在人多的地方避免目光接觸是一種策略，但這就夠了嗎？

To read more about Universe 25 and its cultural impact, read the paper of Edmund Ramsden and John Adams.

要了解有關第 25 宇宙及其文化影響的更多資訊，請閱讀埃德蒙-拉姆斯登（Edmund Ramsden）和約翰-亞當斯（John Adams）的論文。

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請訪問我們，瞭解它是如何工作的，以及它對您有什麼好處。

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如果您是家長或教育工作者，請訪問我們的網站 sproutschools.com。

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