人类大历史（2013）

Big History S01E05

Part 3 March 29, 2021, 2:02 p.m.

to an internal steel skeleton for that to happen.
大历史揭示了大自然才是终极工程师
Big History reveals that nature is the ultimate engineer.
它的设计隐藏在人类
Its designs are the hidden blueprints...
最大的建筑结构蓝图之中
for mankind's biggest structures...
从金字塔到摩天大楼
from pyramids to skyscrapers.
但是他们能概括
But could they contain the secret code
建造整个宇宙的密♥码♥吗
that built the entire universe?
大历史将我们建造巨大建筑的愿望
Big History links our desire to build big...
与人类的本能力量联♥系♥到一起
to a powerful human instinct...
这力量使我们去抗拒地心引力
that pushes us to defy gravity.
隐藏在大型建筑模式中的密♥码♥
And decodes the hidden pattern of
遍布世界各地
mega-structures across the world...
穿越古往今来
and through time.
现在人类大历史要揭示一个更深的联♥系♥
Now, Big History reveals a deeper connection...
一个人造大型建筑与
that links mankind's mega-structures...
宇宙的神秘工程之间的联♥系♥
to the mysterious engineering of the universe.
无论古代世界还是是当今社会
In the ancient world, and even today...
大型建筑结构都吸引着人类活动
mega-structures are magnets of activity.
他们逐步成长为人口众多的中心地区
They rise up in great population centers...
然后吸引更多的人聚集加入他们
and attract even more people around them, and within them.
尽管他们建造的原因是为了使人们敬畏
Even if they were built for awe-inspiring reasons...
他们仍然成为人们的聚集地
they become a place where people come together.
他们处于城镇之中成为社会中心
They become a hub for society within a town or a city.
这些中心会成为
These hubs become places...
人类的能量流相遇碰撞的地方
where the energy flows of the human race meet...
而这碰撞也往往会带来
and out of this come often
意想不到的惊喜结果
unexpected and wonderful results.
这是我们在各个范围都能见到的模式
It's a pattern we see across all scales...
小到构成生物细胞组合
from cells clustering together to form creatures...
大到汇集人类组成大城市的巨大
to human mega-structures that pull people together
建筑结构
into great cities.
它们都联♥系♥着更加巨大的
It all connects to something even more gigantic...
宇宙能量中心
hubs of energy in the cosmos.
随着早期宇宙逐渐冷却下来
As the early universe cools,
最早的巨型结构开始出现
its first mega-structures appear...
恒星太阳系银河系
stars, solar systems and galaxies.
宇宙的大部分空间都是真空的...
Most of the universe is just empty space...
或者并不那么活跃
or not very much activity.
哪里有活跃的事物哪里就能构成中心
Where you get the interesting things, you get the hubs...
那里有许多物质集中成的
where you get a lot of matter concentrated
特殊地带
into one particular zone...
那里有恒星以及其环绕的行星
where you get stars, you get planets circling it.
然后你就会发现一堆有趣的事在发生
Then you get a bunch of interesting things going on.
在地球上人类的大型建筑结构
On Earth, man's mega-structures...
呼应着这条宇宙法则
echo this universal law.
复杂性的存在促使事物的生成
Things happen where complexity exists.
所以我们可以从一个城市或大型建筑
So we can look at it from the perspective of
这个角度来看
a city or a mega-structure...
或者甚至可以从一个更大更广阔的角度来看
or even from a much bigger, broader perspective,
真正的宇宙的角度
really, of the universe.
大历史试图将
Big History tries to connect events...
以宇宙规模发生的事件与
that are occurring on the scale of the universe...
以星球规模发生的时间
with events that are occurring
或者以生物圈规模
on the scale of the planet...
和人类所发生的时间相比较
the biosphere, if you like, and humans.
关键主题之一是
And one of these key themes
进化的复杂性
that seems to run through all those processes...
贯穿了任何过程
from all those perspectives, is evolving complexity.
在宇宙里那些复杂的构成物中
The evolution of more complex structures biologically...
又有构造物进行生物演化
of more complex structures in the universe.
很明显大工程或者
Clearly the appearance of mega engineering,
纪念性建筑的出现...
or monumental architecture...
是人类已经越过另一个
is another example that humans have crossed
复杂性的临界值的又一力证
another threshold of complexity.
大历史向我们展示了
Big History shows us...
尽管人们总是建造巨型建筑
that although humans have always built giant structures...
为了激发敬畏
to inspire awe...
巩固社会权利
cement social power...
和模仿自然
and mimic nature.
它却也将我们与深远的秘密联♥系♥起来
It also connects us to a profound mystery...
这秘密就是人类是怎样模仿
how humans build civilizations...
宇宙的巨大结构来创建人类文明的
that echo the very structure of the cosmos.
但巨型建筑结构的故事才刚刚开始
But the story of mega-structures is just the beginning.
还有更多的谜团隐藏在人类大历史中
There is a much bigger puzzle hidden in Big History.
每一集都会解开一个线索
Each episode unlocks a clue.
日常事务像是牛肉
Everyday things like beef ..
武器
weapons...
或是水都是关键
and water hold the key.
审视他们你就会解开这个大谜团
Watch them all and you'll see this grand mystery revealed...
时间空间
the Big History of time, of space...
以及人类的大历史
the Big History of us.