Name: 【TED】李克羅寧：讓物質活起來（李克羅寧：讓物質活起來）。 (【TED】Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive (Lee Cronin: Making matter come alive))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:27:11.000Z
Duration: 15 min 12 s

What I'm going to try and do in the next 15 minutes or so

譯者: Yingzhi Vera Gu 審譯者: Yen-chung Nora Huang

我想在接下來的15分鍾左右的時間

of how we're going to make matter come alive.

but when you look at yourself, you look at your hands,

但是如果你看你自己，看你的手

Now this quest started four billion years ago on planet Earth.

my friends and colleagues make this distinction

And what I'm going to try and do is plant some ideas

和無機、無生命的世界之間劃出區分

about how we can transform inorganic, dead matter

into living matter, into inorganic biology.

我們怎樣可以把無機、無生命的物質

I want to kind of put biology in its place.

And I'm absolutely enthralled by biology.

I love manipulating the infrastructure of biology.

although it was established well over 100 years ago by Charles Darwin

雖然早在100年前就由達爾文所創立了

evolution still is a little bit intangible.

And when I talk about Darwinian evolution,

只是想說明一件事，唯一的一件事

形而上學（純哲學）的方法去思考進化論

And this seems quite a profound question.

we're not used to profound questions every day.

我們不習慣每天問有深度的問題

So this raises three really important questions:

因此這導出三個真正重要的問題：

Now if we answer those questions in reverse order,

the third question -- is matter evolvable? --

從第三個問題問起：物質可以進化嗎？

then we're going to know how special biology is,

we'll have some idea of what life really is.

it's kind of pollinating, germinating, growing.

And all these crystals here under the microscope

were dead a few minutes ago, and they look alive.

都是在幾分鍾前死去的，它們看起來就像還是活的

It's a chemistry experiment where I've made a crystal garden.

But when I saw this, I was really fascinated,

這是我做的一個化學試驗，在其中我做了一個水晶園

And as I pause for a few seconds, have a look at the screen.

You can see there's architecture growing, filling the void.

我現在停幾秒鍾，我們來看看螢幕

妳可以看到建築物在生長，填補了空虛

if somehow we can make things mimic life,

and that we were the most incredible miracle in the universe.

我們只知道生命是不可能製造的

我們是宇宙中最不可思議的奇蹟

I wanted to say, "Hang on. What is going on here?

難道生命的出現真的那麼不可思議嗎？」

I think that perhaps the emergence of the first cells

was as probable as the emergence of the stars.

And in fact, let's take that one step further.

可能和第一個星球的出現一樣不可思議吧

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