宇宙的奇迹（2011）

Why are we here?
我们为何在此
Where do we come from?
我们又来自何方
These are the most enduring of questions
这些问题源远流长
and it's an essential part of human nature to want to find the answers.
而人类天性就爱探索答案
And we can trace our
追根溯源
ancestry back hundreds of thousands of years, to the dawn of humankind,
时间定格在几十万年前 人类文明出现之刻
but, in reality, our story extends far further back in time.
实际上 我们的故事将延伸至更早的年代
Our story starts with the beginning of the universe.
从宇宙起源说起
It began 13.7 billion years ago.
宇宙起源于一百三十七亿年前
And today, it's filled with over 100 billion galaxies,
而今 宇宙中已形成逾千亿星系
each containing hundreds of billions of stars.
每个星系中数千亿星球
In this series, I want to tell that story,
在本节目中 我将向大家讲述这个故事
because, ultimately, we are part of the universe,
因为说到底 我们是宇宙的一部分
so its story is our story.
宇宙的故事 便是我们的故事
This film is about the stuff that makes us
这集节目中我们要探讨构成人体的元素
and where it all came from,
以及它们的来源
because understanding our own origins
因为人类的起源
means understanding the lives of stars.
与星球的起源息息相关
And how their catastrophic deaths
它们灾难般的毁灭
bring new life to the universe.
如何赋予宇宙新生
Because every mountain,
因为地球上的每座山岗
every rock on this planet, every living thing,
每块岩石 包括你我在内的芸芸众生
every piece of you and me was forged
都将在宇宙的大熔炉中
in the furnaces of space.
化为一体
This is Pashupatinath,
这里是帕苏·帕提神庙
in the Nepalese capital city of Kathmandu.
位于尼泊尔首都加德满都
And Hindus come here from all over India and Nepal
来自印度及尼泊尔的印度教教♥徒♥
to worship the god Shiva. That is Shiva's temple.
都信奉湿婆神 那里就是湿婆神庙
Now, Shiva is the god of destruction.
湿婆是毁灭之神
In the Hindu faith, everything has to be destroyed,
在印度教教义中 万物尽须毁灭
so that new things can be created
事物才能得以重生
and that's why pilgrims
这就是信徒们
come here to the banks of the Bagmati River,
来到湿婆庙脚下
at the foot of Shiva's temple.
这条巴尔玛蒂河边的原因
The belief in this cycle of creation and destruction
对毁灭与重生的信仰
lends Pashupatinath an added significance.
让帕苏·帕提神庙显得格外意义非凡
Many of these pilgrims
许多信徒
will have come here at the end of their lives,
都会在弥留之际来到这里
to die here and be cremated.
在此安息并火化
Hindus believe in reincarnation,
印度教相信灵魂转世
an eternal sequence of death and rebirth.
生与死构成永恒的循环
Cremation helps free the soul
火葬能够释放灵魂
so it's ready for the next life.
为新生做好准备
They also believe
他们亦相信
that the physical elements of the body
人类身体的物质基础
are released back to the world
会回归世界
so they can be recycled in the next stage of creation.
这样他们就能进入下一世的轮回
It's an ancient belief that touches
这个古老的信仰
on a deeper truth about how the universe works.
暗合了宇宙运转的真谛
Every civilisation,
世界上所有的
every religion across the world, has a creation story.
文明和宗教都有自己的创世说
It tells of where we came from
用以描述我们来自何方
of how we came to be here
如何到达人世
and of what will happen when we die.
死后又将去往何处
Well, I have a different creation story to tell
不过我所说的创世论与众不同
and it's based entirely on physics and cosmology.
它完全遵循物理学以及宇宙学的规律
It can tell us what we're made of and where we came from.
告诉我们人体的组成和人类的诞生
In fact, it can tell us what everything in the world
事实上 它诠释了世间万物的
is made of and where it came from.
组成和来源
It also answers that most basic of human needs
同时也满足了人类试图探求
to feel part of something much bigger,
更为宏观的事物的本性
because to tell this story
因为若想讲完这个故事
you have to understand the history of the universe.
你必须了解宇宙的历史
And it teaches us that the path to enlightenment
也就是说 寻求启蒙的道路
is not an understanding of our own lives and deaths,
不是探究自身的生与死
but the lives and deaths of the stars.
而是星球的存或亡
My creation story
我的创世论
is the story of how we were made by the universe.
讲述的是宇宙如何造就我们人类
It explains how every atom in our bodies
构成人体的每一个小原子
was formed, not on Earth,
并非在地球上形成
but was created in the depths of space,
而是在星球史诗般的生命循环中
through the epic lifecycle of the stars.
拜辽远的太空所赐
And to understand that story
想要理解这个理论
we will journey to the stars in all their stages of life.
我们要走进它们的生命历程
This is where stars are born, a nebula -
这就是它们的诞生地--星云
a stellar nursery, where new stars burst into life.
也是恒星孕育场 许多新星在此浴火重生
Those stars will burn for billions of years,
这些恒星会燃烧几十亿年
until their voracious hunger for fuel
贪婪地吸收能量
forces them to blow up, to become giants...
直到发生爆♥炸♥ 形成巨星
..Hundreds of times the size of our sun.
它的能量超过太阳数百倍
And when they die,
继而当它们死亡时
stars go out with the biggest bang in the universe.
将发生宇宙中最强烈的大爆♥炸♥
But to understand how we came from the stars,
但是想要了解星球创造人类的过程
we must begin our journey much closer to home.
我们要先从地球上说起
Well, this is sunrise over Nepal
这是尼泊尔的日出
and those are the tallest mountains
而远处那些就是世界上最高的山脉
in the world, the Himalayas.
喜马拉雅山
Every one of those peaks is over 6,500 metres.
这里的每座山峰海拔都超过6500米
What a spectacular sight.
真是壮观的景象
But it's incredible to think that,
但令人难以置信的是
just a few tens of millions of years ago,
就在几千万年前
those mountains were something very different.
这片高山完全是另一副模样
The Himalayas haven't always been mountains.
喜马拉雅山脉原本并不是山
We can find clues to their true origin
如果我们走近它仔细观察
by looking at them more closely.
就能找到山脉起源的蛛丝马迹
This is Himalayan limestone,
这是喜马拉雅石灰岩
the rock out of which much of this
这片雄伟的山脉
magnificent mountain range is made.
就是由这样的石头构成的
If you look closely,
如果你仔细查看
you can see a kind of chalky granular structure,
就会发现一些白色颗粒状结构
because limestone is made primarily
那是因为石灰岩的主要成分
out of the bodies,
来自于生物尸体
the shells, of dead sea creatures
比如海洋生物死后留下的空壳
coral and polyps and when they die,
珊瑚和珊瑚虫等 它们死去以后
they are put under immense pressures and squashed
被巨大的水压挤压变形
and eventually form limestone.
最终形成沉积石灰岩
So the Himalayas were once living creatures.
也就是说喜马拉雅山脉原本有生命存在
Much of the rock in the Himalayas was formed
这片山川的绝大多数石头
at the bottom of an ocean,
都是在海底形成的
and then over millions of years, it was raised up,
几百万年前 地壳被抬升
to become these vast peaks.
形成了这些高耸入云的山峰
We've even found fossils at the top of Mount Everest.
我们甚至在珠穆朗玛峰顶上找到了化石
It's a beautiful example
这是从诞生伊始至今
of the endless recycling of the earth's resources
地球上的物质无休止
that has been going on since the dawn of time -
循环的真实写照
and we are part of that system.
我们亦是其中的一份子
Every atom in my body was once part of something else,
我身体中的每个原子曾经都属于其他事物
so an ancient tree or a dinosaur
一棵古树或是一只恐龙
or a rock, in fact, definitely, a rock.
或是一块岩石 事实上正是岩石
And the reason that the rocks of the Earth
地球上的岩石之所以能够
can become living things and then living things will return
演化成生物 生物死后又回归泥土
to the rocks of the Earth is because everything
其原因就在于
is made of the same basic ingredients.
构成它们的要素别无二致
Those ingredients are the chemical elements,
那就是化学元素
the building blocks of everything on Earth.
构成地球上一切事物的组成元件
Elements like hydrogen, helium, lithium,
比如氢 氦 锂
beryllium, borum, carbon, nitrogen,
铍 硼 碳 氮
oxygen, fluorine, neon,
氧 氟 氖
sodium, magnesium...
钠 镁...
Everything in the world is made up of the same basic sets
万事万物均由这些固定的化学元素构成