布莱恩.考克斯教授科学家是怎样炼成.docVIP

布莱恩.考克斯教授科学家是怎样炼成 　　你想成为科学家吗？你是否觉得科学遥不可及，或者科学家都是天才？为了解答这些看似深奥的问题，我们请到了英国著名物理学家布莱恩?考克斯教授。他曾为英国广播公司和科学频道共同制作的节目《太阳系的 　　奇迹》担任主持。他将告诉我们科学非但不可怕，而且还很有趣呢！ 　　 　　1. Science is about asking interesting questions... 　　The key point is to make sure that people understand that science is something they can do. You definitely don’t have to be some kind of genius. What you need to do, 1)primarily, is be interested. I was always interested in 2)astronomy, and loads of kids are; it’s just interesting. 　　You just have to notice these things: the 3)aurora borealis, what’s that? How old is the universe? Is there 4)alien life out there somewhere? Those things are 　　obviously interesting questions. No kid would think that “are there aliens?” is not an interesting question. ??　 　　2. ...and finding out how to answer them. 　　What’s 5)vital to know is that you can have that as a job, if you want. So you can be one of the many people around the world who are building and designing 　　spacecraft to go to Mars to look for life. I always knew this as a kid, that you had to do 6)physics, and I 　　enjoyed it because I knew where it was going, as well as the process of doing it. 　　 　　3. Science is all around you. 　　Because of the kind of science I do―astronomy, 7)particle physics, 8)cosmology and those things―I tend to come at it from the big questions. But the other approach is to say that your iPod works because of 　　9)quantum 10)mechanics. It’s also worth saying, “How does my phone work?” because, in order to do that, you need to know about the structure of 11)atoms. That came from research into the way that atoms glow. 　　 　　4. We are all particle physicists. 　　The Internet was invented at CERN注1 in order to do particle physics. If you ask what is the major 　　12)contribution of particle physics to the world, it’s probably the web, and therefore Facebook, Google, Amazon. All that money, all those things, came from Tim Berners-Lee注2 13)messing around at CERN. 　　One of the key t