TED中英官方演讲稿-HelenCzerski_2017X日常生活中迷人的物理现象.docxVIP

As you heard, Im a physicist. And I think the way we talk about physics needs a little modification. I am from just down the road here; I dont live here anymore. But coming from round here means that I have a northern nana, my mums mom. And Nana is very bright; she hasnt had much formal education, but shes sharp. And when I was a second-year undergraduate studying physics at Cambridge, I remember spending an afternoon at Nanas house in Urmston studying quantum mechanics. And I had these folders open in front of me with this, you know, hieroglyphics -- lets be honest. And Nana came along, and she looked at this folder, and she said, Whats that? I said, Its quantum mechanics, Nana. And I tried to explain something about what was on the page. It was to do with the nucleus and Einstein A and B coefficients. And Nana looked very impressed. And then she said, Oh. What can you do when you know that??就像刚才介绍的， 我是一名物理学家。 我觉得我们需要 稍微改变对物理的看法。(Laughter)我就出生在本地， 但我已经不住在这儿了。 我来自这里，意味着 我有一个北方外婆， 即我母亲的母亲。 外婆非常睿智， 她没有接受过多少正规教育， 但她很聪明。 我在剑桥物理系念大二时， 记得有一个下午， 我在厄姆斯顿的外婆家， 学习量子力学。Dont know, maam.我打开了资料夹，(Laughter)老实讲，资料中的文字晦涩难懂。 这时，外婆走进来， 看到我面前的资料。 她问：“这是什么？” 我说：“外婆，这是量子力学。” 然后，我试着去解释那是什么， 解释书上讲的内容，I think I said something about computers, because it was all I could think of at the time.关于原子核，还有 爱因斯坦A、B系数的内容。But you can broaden that question out, because its a very good question -- What can you do when you know that? when that is physics? And Ive come to realize that when we talk about physics in society and our sort of image of it, we dont include the things that we can do when we know that. Our perception of what physics is needs a bit of a shift. Not only does it need a bit of a shift, but sharing this different perspective matters for our society, and Im not just saying that because Im a physicist and Im biased and I think were the most important people in the world. Honest.外婆看上去很惊讶， 然后她说，“哦， 那你知道了这些后 能做些什么呀？” （笑声） “我也不知道啊。” （笑声） 我想当时我说了些 跟电脑有关的事情， 因为这是当时 我唯一能想到的用途。So, the