Name: 【TED】海倫-策爾斯基：日常生活中迷人的物理學（The fascinating physics of everyday life | Helen Czerski）。 (【TED】Helen Czerski: The fascinating physics of everyday life (The fascinating physics of everyday life | Helen Czerski))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:30:53.000Z
Duration: 15 min 58 s

譯者: Lilian Chiu 審譯者: Helen Chang

And I think the way we talk about physics needs a little modification.

如各位所聽說的，我是個物理學家。

程度副詞

I am from just down the road here; I don't live here anymore.

我想，我們談論物理的方式 需要做些細微的修正。

But coming from round here means that I have a northern nana,

我以前就住在這附近， 不過現在不住這裡了。

來自這附近就意味著， 我有個來自北部地區外婆，

And Nana is very bright; she hasn't had much formal education,

外婆很聰明，沒受過多少正規教育，

And when I was a second-year undergraduate studying physics at Cambridge,

I remember spending an afternoon at Nana's house in Urmston

當我還是劍橋物理系 大二學生的時候，

記得有一天，我整個下午 都在外婆位於厄姆斯頓的房子裡，

And I had these folders open in front of me

with this, you know, hieroglyphics -- let's be honest.

我面前有一些打開了的資料夾，

And Nana came along, and she looked at this folder,

內容……你知道的， 說真的，根本就是象形文字。

And I tried to explain something about what was on the page.

我說：「那是量子力學，外婆。」

It was to do with the nucleus and Einstein A and B coefficients.

然後我試著解釋頁面上的內容，

內容關於原子核 和愛因斯坦 A、B 係數。

你知道了那些之後能用來幹嘛？」

I think I said something about computers,

because it was all I could think of at the time.

我想我說了一些關於電腦的東西，

But you can broaden that question out, because it's a very good question --

因為那是我當下唯一能想到的。

"What can you do when you know that?" when "that" is physics?

但你可以擴大那個問題， 因為它是個非常好的問題：

And I've come to realize that when we talk about physics in society

「你知道了那些之後能用來幹嘛？」 「那些」指的是物理。

we don't include the things that we can do when we know that.

當我們社會談到物理 和我們對它的印象時，

Our perception of what physics is needs a bit of a shift.

並不包含我們了解物理後能做的事。

我們對於物理的認識需要一點轉變；

but sharing this different perspective matters for our society,

and I'm not just saying that because I'm a physicist and I'm biased

而且分享這個不同的觀點 對我們的社會很重要。

and I think we're the most important people in the world.

會這麼說，並非因為 我是物理學家或是偏心，

也不因為自認我們學物理的 是世界上最重要的人。

So, the image of physics -- we've got an image problem, let's be honest --

所以老實說，物理有些形象問題，

This is a very famous photograph that's from the Solvay Conference in 1927.

一直以來它的形象差不多就這樣。

This is when the great minds of physics were grappling

這張很有名的照片 來自 1927 年的索爾維會議。

and what it means only to have a probability

只知道某粒子位於某處的機率 （註：不知道它的確切位置）

And you'll notice they're all very stern-looking men in suits.

Marie Curie -- I keep maybe saying, "Marie Antoinette,"

你們會注意到全都是 外貌嚴肅、身著西裝的男子。

which would be a turn-up for the books --

瑪麗居禮──差點說成「瑪麗安東妮」 （註：上斷頭台的法國皇后）

Marie Curie, third from the left on the bottom there,

──將成為物理書籍的轉折點。

she was allowed in, but had to dress like everybody else.

她被允許加入， 但必須穿得和其他人一樣。

So, this is what physics is like -- there's all these kinds of hieroglyphics,

these are to do with waves and particles.

物理就像這個樣子， 總有各式各樣的象形文字。

That is an artist's impression of two black holes colliding,

which makes it look worth watching, to be honest.

那圖是藝術家對 兩個黑洞互撞的印象，

I'm glad I didn't have to write the risk assessment

很高興我無須為那裡發生的事 寫風險評估報告。

The point is: this is the image of physics, right?

done by slightly strange people dressed in a slightly strange way.

從事的人有點古怪，衣著稍奇特；

最根本的是，我為什麽要在乎它？

And the problem with that is that I'm a physicist,

I study the interface between the atmosphere and the ocean.

The atmosphere is massive, the ocean is massive,

我研究大氣和海洋之間的界面。

and the thin layer that joins them together

把它們結合在一起的那薄薄一層

because that's where things go from one huge reservoir to the other.

You can see that the sea surface -- that was me who took this video --

因為東西經過它 從一個大儲存器到另一個。

the average height of those waves by the way, was 10 meters.

你們可以看到海面 ──我拍了這影片──

So this is definitely physics happening here --

順道一提，那些波浪的 平均高度是 10 公尺。

there's lots of things -- this is definitely physics.

And yet it's not included in our cultural perception of physics,

然而這些沒被包含在 我們對物理的文化認知中，

So what is included in our cultural perception of physics?

Because I'm a physicist, there has to be a graph, right?

我們對物理的文化認知包含了什麼？

因為我是物理學家， 我一定得要有張圖，對嗎？

We've got time along the bottom here, from very fast things there,

to things that take a long time over here.

下面的橫軸是時間， 這邊是非常快速移動的事物，

Small things at the bottom, big things up there.

So, our current cultural image of physics looks like this.

下面的是小東西，上面是大的。

There's quantum mechanics down in that corner,

我們目前文化印象中的物理像這樣。

and it's a long way down in the general ...

on the scale of anything that matters for everyday life.

And then there's cosmology, which is up there;

相較於日常生活重要事件的 時間尺度，它差得很遠。

而宇宙論則是在高高在上面那裡，

like black holes in the beginning of the universe,

若追溯到宇宙初始的黑洞之類地方，

we know that these are frontiers in physics, right?

那麼二者（量子力學和宇宙論） 會在後面連到一塊兒，

There's lots of work being done to discover new physics

而我們知道它們是物理學的邊陲，

正進行著許多物理新領域的研究。

But the thing is, you will notice there's a very large gap in the middle.

重點是，你會注意到 中間有很大的鴻溝。

There are planets and toasts and volcanoes and clouds

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