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  • Dear Mr. President,

    親愛的主席先生,

  • Do you know much about physics? I mean, you're the President of the United States: a country

    你對物理學瞭解多少?我是說,你是美國總統,一個國家的總統

  • with five thousand nuclear weapons, birthplace of the world's computing and telecommunications

    擁有五千枚核武器,是世界計算機和電信的發源地。

  • industry, home of the first atomic clock and creator of the global positioning system.

    工業,第一個原子鐘的故鄉,全球定位系統的創造者。

  • But chances are, if you just took regular American high school physics, you don't know

    但有可能,如果你只是上了普通的美國高中物理課,你不知道';。

  • one iota about the science behind these things (No offense). That's because high school physics

    關於這些東西背後的科學的一絲一毫(沒有違法)。那是因為高中的物理學

  • students across most of America are not required to learn about pretty much any physical phenomena

    美國大部分地區的學生都不需要學習任何物理現象

  • discovered or explained more recently than 1865. Yes, 1865. That's the year the civil

    發現或解釋比1865年更晚。是的,1865年。這一年的民事

  • war ended and well over a decade before Albert Einstein was even born!

    戰爭結束後,在愛因斯坦出生前的十多年裡,就已經結束了!

  • You know what can happen in 150 years, Mr. President? A lot. Velcro, for one. But let

    你知道150年後會發生什麼嗎,總統先生?很多事情魔術貼,其中之一。但讓

  • me list some useful and important ideas of the last 150 years of physics that aren't

    我列出了一些有用的和重要的思想的過去150年的物理學,是不是'。

  • a required part of most standard US high school physics courses:

    是美國大多數標準高中物理課程的必修課。

  • Photons. The structure of atoms. The existence of Antimatter. GPS. Lasers. Transistors. Diodes

    光子。原子的結構。反物質的存在。全球定位系統。激光器。半導體。二極管

  • and LEDs. Quarks. Chaos Theory. Electron Microscopy. MRI scanning. The Big Bang. Black Holes. Star

    和LED。夸克。混沌理論。電子顯微鏡。核磁共振掃描。宇宙大爆炸。黑洞。恆星

  • formation. The fact that gravity bends light. The fact that the universe is expanding. The

    形成。引力使光彎曲的事實。宇宙正在膨脹的事實。宇宙正在膨脹的事實。

  • Higgs Boson and the weak and strong nuclear forces and all the rest of quantum mechanics

    希格斯玻色子和弱核力和強核力,以及所有其他量子力學的內容

  • and relativity and the topic of every single Nobel Prize in Physics sincealways. Basically,

    和相對論的主題 每一個諾貝爾物理學獎,因為... 總是。基本上是這樣的

  • most of the important stuff.

    大多數重要的東西。

  • I mean, Mr. President, imagine if history classes didn't talk about the abolition of

    我的意思是,總統先生,想象一下,如果歷史課沒有談論廢除

  • slavery, world wars I or II, the great depression, the rise of the US as a global superpower,

    奴隸制,第一次或第二次世界大戰,大蕭條,美國作為全球超級大國的崛起。

  • the cold war or the civil rights movement or heaven forbid the first African American

    冷戰或民權運動或上天賜予的第一個非裔美國人。

  • President. Or imagine if biology classes didn't talk about DNA, or hormones, or cell reproduction

    總統。"或者想象一下,如果生物課上不講DNA、不講荷爾蒙、不講細胞繁殖。或者想象一下,如果生物課沒有談論DNA,或激素,或細胞繁殖。

  • or the modern germ theory of disease or ecology. Or if geologists didn't talk about plate tectonics.

    或現代病菌理論或生態學。或者如果地質學家沒有談論板塊構造學。

  • And computer scientistswellin 1865 a computer was a person who computed your

    而計算機科學家... 1865年,計算機是一個計算你的...

  • taxes.

    稅收;

  • Now, if you were lucky enough to have an ambitious teacher or take Advanced Placement Physics,

    現在,如果你足夠幸運,有一個雄心勃勃的老師,或者參加聯考物理。

  • then you might have learned about some of Einstein's discoveries of 1905! Yes! Current

    那麼你可能已經瞭解了一些愛因斯坦'1905年的發現!是的!當前

  • events! But learning about how Einstein's work helped set the stage for a century of

    事件!但瞭解愛因斯坦的工作如何幫助奠定了一個世紀的基礎。

  • amazing developments in our understanding of the universe is not a part of the standard

    在我們對宇宙的理解中,驚人的發展並不是標準的一部分。

  • curriculum.

    課程;

  • So why, Mr. President, am I addressing this letter to you? Well, you appoint the Secretary

    那麼,總統先生,我為什麼要給你寫這封信?嗯,你任命了部長

  • of Education, for one - and I do believe that high school physics is somewhat related to

  • education.

    教育;

  • Now, maybe your education secretary says, "ancient physics is already hard to teach

    現在,也許你的教育祕書說,"古代物理已經很難教了。

  • to high schoolers. And you want us to teach them modern physics which is even harder?!

    對高中生來說,你想讓我們教他們更難的現代物理?你想讓我們教他們現代物理學,這更難嗎?

  • Students can't really appreciate the beauty of modern physics without fancy college level

    學生如果沒有花哨的大學水準,是無法真正領略到現代物理學的美感的

  • mathematics." RUBBISH. Ever heard of Carl Sagan? Richard Feynman? Or Neil deGrasse Tyson?

    數學." RUBBISH。聽說過卡爾-薩根嗎?理查德-費曼?或者尼爾-德格拉斯-泰森?

  • These great men have been 100% committed to the appreciation and dissemination of the

    這些偉人一直百分百致力於欣賞和傳播。

  • awesomeness of the universe. And we should be too. How else are we supposed to foster

    宇宙的可怕之處。我們也應該如此。否則,我們應該如何培養

  • and find our future brilliant innovators, inventors, and explorers? How can we expect

    並找到我們未來優秀的創新者、發明者和探索者?我們怎麼能指望

  • to educate our citizens for the next century if we don't teach about the last?

    來教育我們的公民為下一個世紀,如果我們不教關於上一個?

  • And that's not to say that we should ignore math, either - on the contrary, math is one

    這也並不是說我們應該忽略數學--相反,數學是一個。

  • of the most beautiful and awesome things in the universe, especially because it allows

    宇宙中最美最棒的東西,特別是因為它可以讓

  • us to understand the universe.

    我們要了解宇宙。

  • In particular, the last 150 years have borne fruit to perhaps the most drastic changes

    特別是,過去150年的成果可能是最劇烈的變化。

  • in our understanding of the universe, ever, and these new ways of thinking and solving

    在我們對宇宙的理解中,有史以來,這些新的思維方式和解決方式

  • problems should be the centerpiece of an education in physics.

    問題應該是物理學教育的核心。

  • Between you and me, Mr. President, I think we'd better start making physics education

    你和我之間,總統先生,我認為我們最好開始讓物理教育

  • more awesome here in the US, otherwise the next Carl Sagan or Richard Feynman will come

    在美國這裡更厲害,否則下一個卡爾-薩根或理查德-費曼就會來。

  • from somewhere with more educational foresight - maybe even, the Internet.

    來自更有教育遠見的地方--甚至可能是,互聯網。

  • Sincerely,

    真誠的,

  • A collection of atoms known as Henry

    被稱為亨利的原子集合

  • ps you're probably super busy, but if you'd like to hear about physics education across

    ps你'可能超級忙,但如果你'想聽聽物理教育的跨越。

  • the Atlantic, I highly recommend heading over to Brady's channel, Sixty Symbols, for a perspective

    大西洋,我強烈建議前往布拉迪'的頻道,60符號,為一個觀點

  • from the UK. I bet you'll enjoy it.

    來自英國的。我敢打賭,你'會喜歡它。

Dear Mr. President,

親愛的主席先生,

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