Name: 【TED】Erika Hamden:發射望遠鏡需要的條件（發射望遠鏡需要的條件｜Erika Hamden）。 (【TED】Erika Hamden: What it takes to launch a telescope (What it takes to launch a telescope | Erika Hamden))
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T08:17:55.000Z
Duration: 7 min 19 s

關係子句

譯者: Helen Chang 審譯者: Marssi Draw

I build telescopes because, number one, they are awesome.

I believe if you want to discover a new thing about the universe,

我相信如果想發現 有關宇宙的新事物，

就必須以一種新的方式看宇宙。

each gave us new ways to see the universe

各個都給予我們看待宇宙的新方法，

還直接引領我們認知 我們在其中的位置。

to get the Hubble Space Telescope from an idea into orbit.

才讓發射哈伯太空望遠鏡 進入軌道的想法實現。

因為我經歷過， 所以我知道這選擇有多難。

I know how hard that choice is because I live it.

現實是我的工作幾乎每次都失敗， 而我仍然繼續前進，

The reality of my job is that I fail almost all the time and still keep going,

因為望遠鏡就是這樣造出來的。

微弱星系間介質紅移發射氣球，

the faint intergalactic-medium red-shifted emission balloon,

所以我們稱之為 「火球（FIREBall）」。

別擔心，它不會在故事結尾時爆炸。

And don't worry, it is not going to explode at the end of this story.

I've been working on FIREBall for more than 10 years

目前帶領一組很棒的團隊來建造它。

and now lead the team of incredible people who built it.

火球旨在觀察 一些已知的最微弱結構：

FIREBall is designed to observe some of the faintest structures known:

甚至比你想像中的 任何東西都還更大，

They are even bigger than whatever you're thinking of.

我們認為巨大的氫雲 流入和流出星系。

huge clouds of hydrogen that we think flow into and out of galaxies.

because what I really want is to take our view of the universe

還可以看到和衡量存在的每個原子。

to one where we can see and measure every atom that exists.

But observing at least some of those atoms

是理解為什麼星系有此樣貌的關鍵。

is crucial to our understanding of why galaxies look the way they do.

how that hydrogen gas gets into a galaxy and creates a star.

原先不是做望遠鏡， 而是做光感測器，

working not on the telescope but on the light sensor,

光感測器是每個望遠鏡的核心。

我加入的團隊正在開發新感測器，

This new sensor was being developed by a team that I joined

地點是太空總署的噴射推進實驗室。

And our goal was to prove that this sensor would work really well

I destroyed several very, very, very expensive sensors

然後才意識到 我之前使用的機器產生電漿，

before realizing that the machine I was using

使我們放入的所有電器全短路了。

created a plasma that shorted out anything electrical that we put in it.

我們換了不同的機器， 又遇到其他的挑戰，

We used a different machine, there were other challenges,

我們現在的感測器 比以前最佳的好上十倍，

And our sensors are now 10 times better than the previous state of the art

and are getting put into all kinds of new telescopes.

我們的感測器讓我們得以用新的方式， 看到宇宙和我們在其中的位置。

Our sensors will give us a new way to see the universe and our place in it.

And FIREBall is weird as far as telescopes go,

因為它既不在太空中 也不在地面上，

because it's not in space, and it's not on the ground.

Instead, it hangs on a cable from a giant balloon

從 13 萬英尺高的平流層邊緣觀察，

部分原因是上到太空的邊緣 要比實際到太空中便宜得多。

This is partly because the edge of space is much cheaper than actual space.

So building it, of course, more failures:

校準失敗，我們無數次重複地測試；

calibration failures, we ran tests again and again and again and again;

failures when you literally least expect them:

一天有一隻可愛但超級生氣的小獵鷹

we had an adorable but super angry baby falcon that landed

儘管平心來說， 那是此專案史上最棒的一天。

Although to be fair, this was the greatest day

卻由於新墨西哥州的沙漠 連續六週下雨

due to six weeks of continuous rain in the New Mexico desert.

Our spirits dampened, we showed up again,

I have put so much of myself -- my whole life -- into this project,

and I, like, still can't believe that that happened.

And I have this picture that's taken right around sunset on that day

【TED】Erika Hamden:發射望遠鏡需要的條件（發射望遠鏡需要的條件｜Erika Hamden）。 (【TED】Erika Hamden: What it takes to launch a telescope (What it takes to launch a telescope | Erika Hamden))

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