宇宙是一个奇怪的地方
The Universe is a Strange Place
摘要:
我们对普通物质的理解是非常准确和完整的,但它是基于非常奇怪和不熟悉的原理。正如我将要解释的,我们已经开始理解物质是一种虚空之音,在一个非常字面的意义上。就在我们物理学家完成了这个奇妙的理解时,在20世纪末,天文学家把我们的谦卑还给了我们,告诉我们普通物质--我们,化学家,生物学家,天文学家自己这些世纪以来一直在研究的东西,只占整个宇宙质量的5%。我将描述我们通过改进而不仅仅是复杂化我们对世界的描述来应对这一挑战的一些有希望的尝试。
英文摘要:
Our understanding of ordinary matter is remarkably accurate and complete, but it is based on principles that are very strange and unfamiliar. As I'll explain, we've come to understand matter to be a Music of the Void, in a remarkably literal sense. Just as we physicists finalized that wonderful understanding, towards the end of the twentieth century, astronomers gave us back our humility, by informing us that ordinary matter -- what we, and chemists and biologists, and astronomers themselves, have been studying all these centuries constitutes only about 5% of the mass of the universe as a whole. I'll describe some of our promising attempts to rise to this challenge by improving, rather than merely complicating, our description of the world.
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