Name: "3I/ATLAS剛剛發出的警告信號讓NASA陷入恐慌模式》 | Michio Kaku (“3I/ATLAS Just Sent a WARNING Signal That Has NASA in PANIC Mode” | Michio Kaku)
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So we begin to wonder what happens when the universe whispers something we're not ready to hear.

所以我們開始好奇，當宇宙低語著我們還沒準備好聽見的事情時，會發生什麼事。

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There are these profound moments in physics, these turning points where a single observation shatters everything we thought was solid, where reality itself seems to tilt on its axis.

在物理學中有這些深刻的時刻，這些轉捩點，單一的觀測就粉碎了我們認為堅實的一切，現實本身似乎就這樣傾斜了。

And right now, we're standing at the edge of one of those moments.

而現在，我們正站在其中一個時刻的邊緣。

July arrives, and with it, a faint speck of light appears against the cosmic backdrop.

七月來臨，伴隨著它，一個微弱的光點在宇宙背景下出現。

Just another silent traveler drifting through an ocean of darkness.

只是一個沉默的天體流浪者，在黑暗的海洋中漂流。

That seemingly insignificant pinpoint would evolve into something that challenges the very foundations of what we know.

那個看似微不足道的光點，將演變成挑戰我們所知基礎的東西。

We call it 3i Atlas, marking it as the third visitor from beyond our solar neighborhood to cross our threshold.

我們稱它為 3i Atlas，標記它是第三個來自太陽系鄰近區域之外的訪客，跨越了我們的門檻。

Yet even that label, that simple designation, feels almost naive now, because what we're watching doesn't follow the script.

但即使是那個標籤，那個簡單的稱呼，現在回想起來都顯得有點天真，因為我們所見證的，並沒有按照劇本演出。

It refuses to behave like the comets we've studied, the asteroids we've mapped, or any celestial wanderer in our extensive catalogs.

它不像是我們研究過的彗星、我們繪製過的小行星，或是我們目錄裡任何一個天體流浪者那樣表現。

Something about it feels fundamentally different.

Let me paint you a picture that might make you pause.

讓我為你描繪一幅畫面，可能會讓你停下來思考。

Imagine something tearing through space at 152,000 miles per hour.

想像一下，有什麼東西正以每小時 152,000 英里的速度劃破太空。

Think about that velocity for just a moment.

We're talking about speeds that dwarf nearly everything else moving through our cosmic backyard by a factor of five.

我們談論的速度，幾乎是我們宇宙後院裡其他所有移動物體速度的五倍。

Your typical space debris, those asteroids and meteoroids we monitor, they glide past at maybe 20,000 or 30,000 miles per hour.

你平常看到的太空碎片，那些我們監測的小行星和流星體，它們可能以每小時 20,000 或 30,000 英里的速度掠過。

This is operating on an entirely different scale.

And here's what really captures the imagination.

而這就是真正引人入勝的地方。

When researchers rewound its path, tracing back through space and time, they discovered something extraordinary.

當研究人員回溯它的軌跡，追溯時空，他們發現了非凡的事物。

ATLAS didn't originate from our asteroid belt.

ATLAS 並非來自我們的小行星帶。

It didn't come from the distant Kuiper Belt or even the mysterious Oort Cloud.

它不是來自遙遠的凱伯帶，甚至也不是來自神祕的歐特雲。

No, this traveler emerged from the absolute darkness between the stars themselves.

不，這個旅行者是從恆星本身之間的絕對黑暗中出現的。

A cosmic drifter that may have journeyed through the void for tens of thousands of years, maybe far longer, before quietly slipping into our domain.

一個可能在虛空中漂流了數萬年，甚至可能更久，然後悄悄溜進我們領域的宇宙流浪者。

Initially, the scientific community remained cautiously intrigued.

最初，科學界保持著謹慎的興趣。

After all, we'd seen this before, hadn't we?

畢竟，我們以前也見過這種情況，不是嗎？

Back in 2017, we encountered 1i Oumuamua.

回到 2017 年，我們遇到了 1i Oumuamua。

Then, in 2019, 2i Borisov passed through unusual objects.

然後，在 2019 年，2i Borisov 經過了不同尋常的物體。

But perhaps they thought ATLAS was simply another fragment torn from some distant planetary system.

但也許他們認為 ATLAS 只是從某個遙遠行星系統撕裂下來的另一塊碎片。

They calculated its trajectory with precision.

And for months, ATLAS remained enigmatic but silent, a phantom drifting through the machinery of our solar system.

幾個月來，ATLAS 一直是個謎，但又沉默著，像個幽靈在我們太陽系運轉的機器中漂流。

But then, in an instant that no one predicted, the story transformed completely.

但接著，在一個誰也沒預料到的瞬間，故事完全變了。

Radio telescopes scattered across our planet, listening devices pointed toward the heavens, suddenly erupted with energy.

遍佈我們星球的無線電望遠鏡，指向天際的聆聽裝置，突然爆發出能量。

This wasn't mere interference or the Usual hiss of the cosmos.

這不是單純的幹擾，也不是宇宙裡常見的嘶嘶聲。

What came through was deliberate, focused.

傳來的訊號是有目的、有方向的。

A signal so distinct, it rippled across monitoring stations on opposite sides of our world.

一個如此獨特的訊號，甚至能跨越我們星球兩端的監測站，激起陣陣漣漪。

The universe, silent for billions of years, suddenly finding its voice.

宇宙沉默了數十億年，突然開口說話了。

Was this some strange atmospheric distortion?

Perhaps an eruption from our own sun playing tricks on our instruments?

還是我們太陽的一次爆發，在捉弄我們的儀器？

Or could it be something far more profound?

又或者，它可能代表著更深層次的意義？

A transmission from an intelligence we've barely begun to comprehend?

來自我們才剛開始理解的智慧的傳輸？

The honest answer is we still don't know.

但有一件事一直縈繞在我們心頭。

ATLAS sent that signal once, piercing through the darkness with unmistakable clarity.

ATLAS 曾經發送過那個訊號，清晰無誤地劃破黑暗。

And if it happened once, what's stopping it from happening again?

如果它發生過一次，還有什麼能阻止它再次發生？

That question, that lingering possibility, is exactly what keeps researchers staring at their monitors long after midnight.

這個問題，這個揮之不去的可能性，正是讓研究人員在午夜過後仍然盯著螢幕的原因。

Now, if this were where the enigma ended, we'd already have enough material to fuel decades of investigation.

現在，如果謎團到此為止，我們就已經有足夠的素材可以進行數十年的研究了。

By any rule book we've written, the anomalies stack up one after another, each more puzzling than the last.

按照我們寫下的任何規則，異常現象接踵而至，一個比一個令人費解。

So let's examine what makes this object so profoundly strange.

所以，讓我們來看看是什麼讓這個物體如此奇特。

First, when we study celestial bodies, we determine their dimensions by analyzing how they reflect our sun's light.

首先，當我們研究天體時，我們會透過分析它們反射太陽光的方式來確定它們的尺寸。

Natural space rocks, battered by eons of cosmic violence possess rough, irregular surfaces.

經過數萬年的宇宙暴力摧殘，天然的太空岩石表面粗糙不規則。

Scarred by radiation, their textures absorbing and scattering light in unpredictable patterns.

受到輻射的侵蝕，它們的表面紋理以不可預測的方式吸收和散射光線。

這些天體看起來黯淡、不規則。

Its surface reflects light with an intensity that reminds us more of manufactured alloys than primordial style.

它的表面反射光線的強度，讓人聯想到人造合金，而非原始的風格。

When the Webb Space Telescope turned its gaze toward this visitor, the data revealed something remarkable.

當韋伯太空望遠鏡將目光投向這位訪客時，數據揭示了令人驚嘆的發現。

Photons bounce off ATLAS with a uniformity that suggests incredible smoothness, an almost engineered consistency.

光子以一種均勻的方式從 ATLAS 上彈開，這表明其表面異常光滑，近乎人為的規整。

These are descriptors we rarely, if ever, apply to the chaotic remnants nature leaves scattered through space.

這些描述詞我們很少，甚至從未用來形容大自然散落在太空中的混亂殘骸。

Natural celestial objects don't spin with grace.

They tumble through the void erratically, wobbling like a poorly thrown ball, their rotations irregular and unpredictable.

它們會在虛空中不規則地翻滾，像顆投歪的球一樣搖晃，旋轉不規則且難以預測。

Yet ATLAS rotates with mathematical precision, maintaining specific orientations toward our observation points, as if following some predetermined choreography.

然而 ATLAS 卻以數學般的精確度旋轉，對準我們的觀測點，彷彿遵循著某種預設的編排。

The luminosity remains remarkably stable.

What we're witnessing appears less like a tumbling fragment of rock and more like a deliberately oriented mechanism, something that seems to know exactly which surfaces should face our direction.

我們所見的，似乎不像是一塊翻滾的岩石碎片，更像是一個刻意定向的機械裝置，似乎知道哪些表面該朝向我們。

When Webb's infrared sensor is locked onto three I, ATLAS researchers anticipated the standard thermal mosaic, those shifting patterns of warmth and cold as different surfaces rotate through sunlight and shadow.

當韋伯的紅外線感測器鎖定在三 I 上時，ATLAS 的研究人員預期會看到標準的熱影像，那些隨著不同表面輪流進入陽光和陰影而變化的冷暖模式。

Instead, one side maintained a persistently elevated temperature compared to the other.

相反，一側的溫度持續偏高，與另一側相比。

So we have to ask ourselves, how is this possible?

所以我們不禁要問，這怎麼可能？

Either 3i Atlas is producing heat from within, A phenomenon no natural comet in our experience has ever demonstrated.

要嘛是 3i Atlas 內部產生熱能，這是我們經驗中沒有任何天然彗星表現過的現象。

Or it's equipped with some form of thermal regulation system.

要嘛就是它配備了某種形式的熱能調節系統。

Picture a vessel with radiators, Technology capable of distributing and managing heat across its exterior.

想像一個有散熱器的載具，這項技術能夠將熱能分佈並管理在它的外層。

The implications make you stop and reconsider everything.

這其中的意涵，會讓你停下來重新思考一切。

現在我們來談談它是由什麼組成的。

The spectroscopic analysis absolutely astounded researchers.

光譜分析結果讓研究人員們驚訝不已。

Where we'd normally detect abundant water vapor Streaming from a comet, Atlas instead releases carbon dioxide at levels 10 times higher than expected.

我們通常會偵測到大量的水蒸氣從彗星中噴發出來，但 Atlas 反而釋放出高出預期十倍的二氧化碳。

But the metallic signatures are where things get truly bizarre.

但金屬的特徵，才是事情變得真正離奇的地方。

Nickel pours from this object in extraordinary quantities, While iron, which should dominate, Is virtually nowhere to be found.

鎳從這個天體中噴湧而出，數量驚人，而本應佔主導地位的鐵卻幾乎蹤影全無。

This completely inverts every pattern we documented from cometary bodies throughout history.

這完全顛覆了我們歷史上從彗星體記錄下的所有模式。

The carbon based molecules we're detecting Aren't primitive or random.

我們偵測到的碳基分子並非原始或隨機的。

They're intricate, organized, Displaying complexity we typically associate with either living systems or deliberate fabrication, not the chaotic chemistry of deep space.

它們錯綜複雜、組織有序，展現出我們通常與生命系統或刻意製造相關聯的複雜性，而不是深空的混亂化學反應。

Then we examine its internal architecture.

接著我們來檢查它的內部結構。

Density measurements reveal something that defies natural formation.

密度測量揭示了某種違反自然形成的現象。

Instead, it contains voids, Empty spaces, what appears to be layered construction.

相反地，它包含虛空、空隙，似乎是分層結構。

Think about how celestial bodies normally form.

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