宇宙时空之旅：未知世界（2020）

Cosmos: Possible Worlds S01E09

Part 5 Aug. 24, 2022, 10:55 a.m.

Think of it.
所有这些事件和无数的其他事件
All these events and trillions of others
在宇宙生成那一刻便已决定
inscribed in the potential of the first moment of the universe.
宇宙万物皆由同样的基本粒子构成
Since everything in the universe is made of those same elementary particles
我们也是
including us
所以我们也遵从那些支配量子宇宙的法则
we are subject to the same laws as those that rule the quantum universe.
接下来发生的事也是如此
And so it is for what will happen next.
在那之后的事情也是一样
And what will happen after that.
好消息是超决定论给了我们
The good news is superdeterminism gives us
一种解开纠缠之谜的方案
a solution to the mystery of entanglement
坏消息是
the bad news is
这似乎剥夺了我们的所有动力
it seems to rob us of all agency.
我们只是照本宣科
Are we just going through the motions
演出一部近140亿年前就为我们写好了的剧本吗？
acting out a script that was written for us nearly 14 billion years ago?
与此同时
All the while
还一直告诉自己我们某次辩论时有多机灵
telling ourselves how clever we were in that argument.
多么自私多么勇敢
How selfish how brave.
好像在一个没有自♥由♥意志的宇宙
If you could only change that one little thing about yourself.
那些小细节都能改变似的
In a universe devoid of free will
我们是否跟命运已定的机器人一样？
are we nothing more than deterministic robots?
我们已经找到方法善加运用不确定性
We have found a way to hitch a ride on the uncertainties.
去发展原本无法达到的科技
To forge technologies that would otherwise be unattainable.
我们打造了一座量子钟
We have built a quantum clock.
一个你永远不需要调整的量子时钟
One that you never have to wind.
在接下来的150亿年里它只会慢一秒
It will only lose a single second in the next 15 billion years.
三维的激光晶格会让锶元素的个别原子悬浮在空间里
A three-dimensional lattice of laser light keeps isolated atoms of the element strontium suspended in space.
如我们所知我们在超决定论宇宙中
For all we know we may be near collections
可能近似于预先编好程序的粒子集群
of preprogrammed particles in a deterministic universe.
但要我说我们不要这样的过活吧
But I say let's not live like we are.
此外我们没有方法知道那是真是假
Besides we have no way of knowing if that's true.
从某方面来说
And to think that in some sense
我们探索量子领域的自♥由♥竟然始于托马斯·杨
our freedom to explore the quantum realm begins with Thomas Young.
别忘了托马斯·杨也找到了破解
Remember it was Young who also found the key to
失落古埃及语言的关键
decrypting the lost language of the ancient Egyptians.
通过量子加密我们正在创造一有人想破解就会消失的密♥码♥
With quantum encryption we are creating codes that vanish the moment someone tries to hack into them.
金色的天空
*古埃及人视金为神的肉
银为神的骨
解密的密钥可以通过纠缠的光子传送
The key to the code can be sent via entangled photons.
观察者效应就是我们的保险契约
The observer effect is our insurance policy that no
保障没有间谍能够破解讯息
spy can decipher the message without causing the
一尝试就会断开光子的纠缠
entanglement to break apart.
令讯息模糊难解
Rendering the message unintelligible.
我们仍然不知道光子为何可以同时既是粒子又是波
We still don't know how a photon can be both a particle and a wave at the same time.
我喜欢科学的地方在于科学需要我们容忍♥暧昧含糊
What I love about science, is that it demands of us a tolerance for ambiguity.
科学要求我们谦卑面对自己的愚昧
It requires us to live with humility regarding our ignorance
保留判断直到证据出现
withholding judgement until the evidence comes in.
但我们无需因此就不利用自己的些微知识
That needn't prevent us from using the little we do know
搜寻并破解新的现实语言
to search for and decrypt new languages of reality.
在这个浩瀚宇宙中我们都是平面人
In this vast cosmos, we are all Flatworlders.
科学就是我们努力想象并找到"上方"的过程
Science is the struggle to imagine and find above.