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Why the universe seems so strange Richard Dawkins 2006-09-12 /talks/richard_dawkins_why_the_universe_seems_so_strange Pollykann - A powerful video player (App) for learning languages provided technical support for the subtitles. 本字幕由【小鹦看看】- 用了会后悔，不用更后悔的外语学习App，提供技术支持。 My title: Queerer than we can suppose: the strangeness of science. 我所演讲的题目是：“超乎想象的奇妙：科学的奇异之处。” Queerer than we can suppose comes from J.B.S. Haldane, the famous biologist, “超乎想象的的奇妙”这一概念来自于J.B.S.霍尔丹。他作为一个著名的生物学家，说 过：“我现在察觉到 who said, Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer 宇宙不仅仅比我们想象的更为奇妙， than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. 甚至比我们所能够想象的更为奇妙。 I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth 我怀疑天地间有更多的东西 than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. 是任何哲学观点都没有料想到过，甚至是能够料想到的。” Richard Feynman compared the accuracy of quantum theories -- 理查德.费曼曾经这样描述量子理论的精确性 experimental predictions -- to specifying the width of North America to within one hairs breadth of accuracy. —基于实验预测—量子理论的精确性就如同使用一根头发丝去厘定整个北美洲的宽度。 This means that quantum theory has got to be, in some sense, true. 这说明了量子理论只是一定程度上的准确。 Yet the assumptions that quantum theory needs to make 然而量子理论为了实现这些预言所做出的假设 in order to deliver those predictions are so mysterious 看起来是如此的不可思议， that even Feynman himself was moved to remark, 以至于费曼本人都不得不这样评论， If you think you understand quantum theory, “如果你认为你理解量子理论了， you dont understand quantum theory. 那你就没有理解它。” Its so queer that physicists resort to one or another 物理学家们求诸于或这或那相悖的解释 paradoxical interpretation of it. 是多么奇怪啊。 David Deutsch, whos talking here, in The Fabric of Reality, 大卫.多依奇在《真实世界的脉络》一书中 embraces the many-worlds interpretation of quantum theory, 采纳了量子理论中对于“多重世界”的解释 because the worst that you can say about it 因为你能够对“多重世界”理论最差的评价也只能是 is that its preposterously wasteful. 毫无根据的废话而已。 It postulates a vast and rapidly growing number of universes existing in parallel, 它假设了存在着数目巨大并且在不断增加的平行宇宙， mutual