与摩根·弗里曼一起穿越虫洞（2010）

Through The Wormhole With Morgan Freeman S02E05

Part 6 April 19, 2021, 2:35 p.m.

测量她的紧张程度
a measure of her stress level,
对应她所观看的图片类型
against the types of images she was seeing.
迪安和其它人的心理研究
What Dean and any other psychological research
所期望发现的
should expect to find
是看到刺♥激♥♥情♥感图片后
is a sharp change in the response
反应的剧烈变化
right after an emotionally jarring image.
但是那并不是他所发现的
But that's not what he finds.
这条线表示图片的实际出现
This line shows where the actual picture shows up.
所以如果这张图片出现在这里
So if this picture shows up here,
你就会觉得此处不应该
you would think that there shouldn't be
有别于激♥情♥图片的
any difference in the overall average
整体平均水平
of the emotional pictures
及平淡图片的整体平均水平
and overall average of the calm pictures.
但是她看到激♥情♥图片后就有了一个突然升高
But when she sees an emotional picture, there's a bump up.
所以现在我们回到之前的5秒钟
So, now we go backwards in time five seconds before,
我们能够看到从那时起
and we can see that from that moment
如果下来会是激♥情♥的图片
that if it's going to be an emotional picture,
她就已经出现相对平淡图片的情绪了
she's already becoming emotional as compared to the calm.
此种差异就是我所谓的预感响应
This difference is what I call a presentiment response.
根据迪安的研究
According to Dean's research,
珍妮特身体对图片的反应
Janet's body is responding to the pictures
早于她眼见之前5秒钟
five seconds before she sees them.
同样的效果出现在他过去30年的
It's the same effect he's found in hundreds of trials
数百次测试中
over the past 30 years.
他的整个课题都表现了这种预感反应
All of his subjects show this presentiment response.
它表现出的仿佛信息
It appears as though the information
在时间上往后泄露
is leaking backwards in time.
这个实验所标明的
What this experiment suggests
是某种预期效果
is that there's some kind of anticipatory effect
有5秒钟
that's five seconds.
我们不知道其极限是多少
We don't know what the limit is.
如果我们的心智真能
If our minds really can see
洞察未来
into the future...
我们能否科学地解释它呢？
How can we explain it scientifically?
在19世纪60年代
In the 1860s,
美国内战期间
during the time of the American Civil War,
英国物理学家詹姆斯·克拉克·麦克斯韦
physicist James Clerk Maxwell in England
研究出了光电磁的整个理论
worked out the entire theory of light and electromagnetism.
麦克斯韦指出光
What Maxwell showed is that light,
弥漫在我们宇宙间的这种神秘之物
this mysterious thing that pervades our Universe,
其实是一种波
is actually a wave.
我们现在知道光无非就是一种
So we now know that light is nothing but a wave
电磁在一起震荡的波
of electricity and magnetism oscillating together.
想象一个舞者挥舞着大旗
Think of a dancer waving this gigantic flag.
先是手动起来
The hand motion comes first,
然后挥舞舒展开来
and then the wave starts to unfurl.
不过让我来告诉你其中一个见不得人的小秘密
But let me let you in on a dirty little secret.
麦克斯韦方程式有第二个解答
There is a second solution to Maxwell's equation
困扰了物理界长达150年
that has haunted physics for the last 150 years.
还存在这些怪异的超前波
There are also these bizarre advanced waves --
让你看到未来的解决方案
solutions that allow you to see the future.
在超前波解决方案里
In the advanced wave solution,
旗帜的动作先于舞者的手
the flag moves before the dancer's hand.
信息从未来传送到现在
Information travels from the future to the present.
那么这个替代方案能够
So, could this alternate solution
作为物理基本定律之一
to one of the basic laws of physics
来解释迪安·雷丁的成果吗？
explain Dean Radin's results?
在上世纪50年代天才物理学家理查德·费曼
In the 1950s, genius physicist Richard Feynman
认识到超前波方案
realized that advanced wave solutions
实际上是数学上的线索
were actually mathematical clues
表示存在有新的物质形式——反物质
that a new form of matter existed -- antimatter.
嗯
Hmm.
物质貌似在时间上往后走
What looks like matter traveling backwards in time
实际上是反物质完全正常的行事
is actually antimatter acting perfectly normal.
物质在时间上倒行
Matter going backwards in time
等同于反物质在时间上超前
is the same as antimatter going forwards in time.
我们认为那或许只是或许
We thought that maybe, just maybe,
有可能能够看到未来
it might be possible to see the future,
在现在与我们的子孙后代打交道
communicate with our descendents from the present time.
不过且听费曼的“没这回事”
But here comes Feynman, who says, "no."
费曼以此项研究获得了诺贝尔大奖
Feynman won a nobel prize for this work.
但是迪安·雷丁并不认为超前波
But Dean Radin isn't convinced that advanced waves
在时间上的倒行
rippling backwards in time from the future
可以被一笔勾销
can be written off entirely.
在现在物理学里
In modern physics,
我们现在至少有了一个可信的论据
now we at least have a plausibility argument,
我们可以不再说现实世界
where we can no longer say that the physical world
对此无能为力
makes it impossible.
我们知道它是有可能的
We know that it is possible.
所以现在的挑战是说
So the challenge now is to say,
啊我们如何才能填补这个缺失？
"Well, how do we connect this missing gap?"
理论物理学的进展是华山一条路
Advances in theoretical physics are one way.
但是还有别的路
But there is another --
更多的证据
more evidence.
这个研究者可能就是那个人
This researcher could be the man
他最终让世界明白
who finally convinces the world
第六感
that the sixth sense
是真实的
is real.
一个多世纪以来
Scientists have been searching for evidence
科学家一直在寻找第六感的证据
of the sixth sense for well over a century.
如果它存在
If it exists,
它不可能强如其它五个感官
it can't be as strong as the other five senses.
否则我们就不会对此还在争论不休了
Otherwise, we wouldn't still be arguing about it.
但是若我们能够证明第六感是真实的
But if we can prove that the sixth sense is real,
也就不在乎它有多弱了
it won't matter how weak it is.
它将会把现代科学彻底颠覆了
It would turn modern science on its head.
达里尔·本有一个稳定而成功的职业
Daryl Bem has had a long and successful career
是康奈尔大学心理学教授
as a Professor of Psychology at Cornell University.
现在他也将自己的重点转向了第六感
Now he, too, has turned his focus to the sixth sense.
我愿意致力于先知或预感
I wanted to do work on precognition or premonition
因为它就是不可思议
because it just boggles the mind
未来居然可以影响过去
to think that the future can affect the past.
达里尔花了8年时间
Daryl has spent the last eight years
测试这个基本问题
testing this very question.
一个人面前是两块窗帘
A person is shown two curtains
被告知一块窗帘背后
and are told that behind one of the curtains
会是一幅画
will be a picture
而另一块窗帘背后是一片空白的墙面
and behind the other is a blank wall.
他们的任务是挑选出
And their task is to pick the curtain
背后有画的窗帘
that has the picture behind it.
和迪安·雷丁一样
Just like Dean Radin,
达里尔想看看人们是否能预见
Daryl is trying to see whether people can anticipate
未来的事件
future events.
电脑在等待直到他们做出选择
The computer waits until they've made their selection,
没有看到他们有任何作弊
and then, without cheating by looking at what they did,
就是抛硬币
it flips a coin.
大部分时间他们的成功率是50对50
Most of the time, their success rate is 50/50.
也就是说他们在猜
In other words, they're guessing.
不过一旦且唯有当
But when and only when
电脑出现色情画面时
the computer shows erotic images,
试验者能够预测到窗帘后面的东西
subjects can predict what's behind the curtain
53%的比例
53% of the time --
一个不大但统计意义重大的
a small but statistically significant
概率跳动
beating of the odds.
达里尔认为这种觉察
Daryl believes this ability to sense erotic opportunities
未来的色情机会的能力
in the future
已经发展了有数百万年
has developed over millions of years.
它是进化形成的
It was shaped by evolution to give individuals an edge
赋予了人找到配偶的优势
in finding mates.
进化凭借着繁衍的优势
Evolution rides on reproductive advantage --