TED中英官方演讲稿-MattRusso_2018X什么是宇宙的声音？一段音乐之旅.docxVIP

Id like you all to close your eyes, please ... and imagine yourself sitting in the middle of a large, open field with the sun setting on your right. And as the sun sets, imagine that tonight you dont just see the stars appear, but youre able to hear the stars appear with the brightest stars being the loudest notes and the hotter, bluer stars producing the higher-pitched notes.?请各位闭上眼镜， 并想象着， 你正坐在一片广阔的田野上， 身旁是下落的夕阳。 日落之后， 请想象今夜 你不仅能看到星光闪现， 你还能听到它们闪现的声音。 最亮的星星 将成为了最响亮的音符， 而星星愈炽热、愈蓝 它的音调愈高。 （音乐）(Music)由于不同星系的组成各不相同， 每个星系都有它们独特的旋律， 比如白羊座的旋律像公羊一样。And since each constellation is made up of different types of stars, theyll each produce their own unique melody, such as Aries, the ram.（音乐）(Music)猎户座的旋律像猎人一般。Or Orion, the hunter.（音乐）(Music)而金牛座的旋律像公牛似的。Or even Taurus, the bull.（音乐）(Music)我们生活在充满旋律的宇宙中， 借此，我们可以 通过新的角度来感受宇宙 并与更多的人分享这种角度。 让我来告诉你们。We live in a musical universe, and we can use that to experience it from a new perspective, and to share that perspective with a wider range of people. Let me show you what I mean.（音乐结束）(Music ends)现在，当我告诉别人 我是一个天体物理学家时， 他们通常会对我印象深刻。 而当我说我还是一位音乐家时， 他们会说“我们知道。”Now, when I tell people Im an astrophysicist, theyre usually pretty impressed. And then I say Im also a musician -- theyre like, Yeah, we know.（笑声）(Laughter)好像每个人都知道 音乐和天文学之间 有很密切的联系。 这不是一个新的概念； 最早提出这个概念的是 两千多年前的毕达哥拉斯。 你可能听过这个名字 比如毕达哥拉斯定理。So everyone seems to know that theres this deep connection between music and astronomy. And its actually a very old idea; it goes back over 2,000 years to Pythagoras. You might remember Pythagoras from such theorems as the Pythagorean theorem --（笑声）(Laughter)毕达哥拉斯认为： 几何存在于琴弦的震动中， 音乐存在于球面上的空间。 他还认为，And he said: There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. And so he literally thought that the motions of the planets along the celestial sphere created harmonious music. And if you asked him, Why dont we hear anything? hed say you cant hear it because you dont know what its li