宇宙时空之旅

这部片子的视角更偏重文艺片——宇宙发现的历史，就是人的困惑和斗争的历史。不断地探索科学，摸索科学的精神，是我们人类不断迈向宇宙的动力。
此片制作精良，从自然科学角度也特别适合作为中小学生的启蒙之作。生物学、物理学、化学课的许多概念都可以完美呈现，而且极富趣味。
最后，以第13集收官之语来表达我滔滔不绝的敬意。花了接近半个小时才手打出这些字。字字精华。
        That's here. That's home. That's us.
        On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, live out their lives.
        The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every father and mother, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of moral, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, live there...on the mote of dust suspended...in a sunbeam.
        The earth is a every small stage in a vast, cosmic arena.
        Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph so they could become the momentary masters of a fraction... of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
        Our planet...is a lonely speck in this great, enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world know so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand.
        It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than the distant image. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale dot, the only home we've ever know.
        How did we, tiny creatures living on this speck of dust, ever manage to figure out how to send spacecraft out among the stars of the Milky Way? Only a few centuries ago, a mere second of cosmic time, we knew nothing of where or when we were. Oblivious to the rest of the cosmos, we inhabited a kind of prison--a tiny universe bounded by a nutshell. How did we escape form the prion? It was the work of generates of searchers who took five simple rules to heart:
        Question authority. No idea is true just because someone say so, including me. Think for yourself.
        Question yourself. Don't believe in something just because you want to. Believing something doesn't make it so.
        Test ideas by the evidence gained from observation and experiment. If a favorite idea fails a well-designed test, it's wrong! Get over it.
        Follow the evidence, where ever it lead. If you have no evidence, reserve judgement.
        And perhaps the most important rule of all...Remember you could be wrong. Even the best scientists have been wrong about somethings. Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in the history, they all made mistakes. Of course they did--they are human. Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves...and each other. Have scientists know sin? Of cause. We have misuse science, just as we have misuse every other tool at our disposal, and that's why we can't afford to leave it in the hands of a powerful few. The more science belongs to all of us, the less likely it is to be misused. These values undermine the appeals of fanaticism and ignorance and, after all, the universe is mostly dark, dotted by islands of light.

国家地理频道纪录片：宇宙时空之旅：
http://v.163.com/special/opencourse/aspacetimeodyssey.html

1、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第1集：立于银河（宇宙起源）】尼尔没有食言，在他乘座的那个酷炫的很有未来感的想象中的宇宙飞船带领下，我果然见到了“比恒星大的原子”和“比原子小的恒星”。这正是庄子说的“天下莫大于秋豪之末，而大山为小”，与片子中的布鲁诺一样，他凭想象便洞悉了宇宙的本质。 http://url.cn/WLnf0T ——2015/4/20
2、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第2集：分子做的事（物种起源）】我们和一支苍蝇或一棵树的区别有多大？当视角进入到分子层面，我们发现我们有着同样的双螺旋结构，无非是排列组合不同罢了。这样，就会从科学层面理解宗教层面上佛教所说的“众生平等“”了。变异是进化的前提，参差多态是世界的真相。 http://url.cn/dsT7gj ——2015/4/22

3、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第3集：知者无惧（万有引力）】千万年来来，在各大文明中，彗星一直是灾难的象征，直到1705年哈雷利用牛顿定律发现了它不过是一个每隔76年就会出现的星体。更令人震撼的是，人们根据牛顿定律预测了几十亿后银河系将与仙女座星系合并，人们能够看到维持十亿年的星光秀！ http://url.cn/aBJ6lm ——2015/4/26

4、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第4集：相对论】“你如果去过黑洞还能活着回来，你可能会发现我们宇宙中的其他时间和空间。先不提相对论的第一条戒律：‘汝不可超越光速。’太空中没有什么速度可以比光速快，但太空并不空旷，空间可以延伸、收缩、被扭曲，那样的话，时间也会被扭曲。”http://url.cn/UM8yx9 ——2015/4/25

5、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第5集：光的秘密（光的世界）】光是什么？墨子是发现光的第一人，却把精力用在了政治上。海瑟姆发现光来自远方，而非眼镜。牛顿用棱镜发现了七彩成像，却错过了更伟大的发现。赫歇尔发现了红外线的温度最高。约琴夫发现了光谱中的黑线……现在，我们的眼睛才刚刚睁开。 http://open.163.com/movie/2014/3/R/P/MA069D2OR_MA06EUDRP.html ——2015/4/26
6、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第6集：微观世界】人眼睛的原子数量比浩瀚的星空还要多，因此当对事物的看法进入到微观层面，你便会理解佛家所说的“一沙一世界”并非妄谈了。而从本质上讲，人身上的原子与太阳中的原子并无不同，从而，你也会体会到庄子所说的“万物齐一”是怎么回事了。http://url.cn/YMnD2Q ——2015/5/22

7、游似:【#宇宙时空之旅# 第7集：地球年龄】彼得森本来一开始只负责通过测量铅的含量来测量地球的年龄，但无意中却发现生活中充斥了大量的铅，最终将矛头指向了石化行业。所以这一集一开始讲得是一个科学问题，后来成了一个环保问题，这并不矛盾，因为环保需要科学的支持。 http://url.cn/RdK7vi ——2015/5/27
8、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第8集：宇宙星空】有三点感受。一，恒星主要有氢和氦组成。极简，然后极致，这是恒星的品质。没有生命，但可赋予其他星生命。二，恒星不恒。太阳会膨胀，然后坍缩，成为白矮星，地球早晚会完蛋。三，有一种“日出”叫银河系。换一个视角，世界可以如此美丽。http://url.cn/T9YyQv ——2015/6/12

9、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第9集：蓝色星球】地球并不像我们想象的那么牢固，起初它只是浑然一体的大陆，后来才分开，而且还将继续变化。海底其实是一个更大的世界，那里有山脉，谷底，还有火山爆发。人类并不比我们的祖先幸运，我们如果控制不住自己的欲望，将会死于自己之手。http://url.cn/a5RdCP ——2015/6/13
10、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第10集：电之骄子】在牛顿与爱因斯坦之间，有一个人叫法拉第。他发现了电与磁场的关系，改变了世界的速度，让人们可以千里传音传图。他的老师曾嫉妒他的成功让他去研究镜片，他一无所获，拿了块镜片做纪念。多年之后这块镜片又让他发现了电与磁与光的关系……http://url.cn/cz99nH ——2015/6/29

11、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第11集：科学探索】生命的起源有很多种，而外星说始终显得不可思议。但这一集却充分论证了这一点。小行星撞击地球，带来石头，也撞飞石头，而石头中却可以隐藏生命，很有可能这些生命就是这样进行星际穿越的。于是便可想象，这个宇宙其实早已遍布了生命。http://url.cn/YrOvpH ——2015/7/11
12、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第12集：气候变化】曾经有一个星球像地球一样适宜生命繁衍，但后来被温室效应给毁了，这就是金星。而现在地球面临着同样的危机，一百年来人类向大地中排放了太多的二氧化碳，破坏了地球的呼吸，冰雪在融化，地球在变暖。而避免这一危机的最好方式是使用太阳能。http://url.cn/fEpTez ——2015/7/14

13、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第13集：走向未来】我们对这个宇宙了解多少？什么叫暗物质？就好比在黑夜中站在海边的人，我们现在所看到的星系就像涌到暗边的泡沫。当旅行者一号飞越海王星向地球最后一次回眸时，地球不过是一束光线中泛着苍白蓝光的小点，那里有人类所有的自负和愚蠢，当然还有希望和荣光。http://t.qq.com/p/t/472451020506963?apiType=14 ——2015/7/21
14、【#宇宙时空之旅# 豆瓣总评】虽然只有13集，但断断续续竟然看了三个月。反过来说，一个片子拉扯三个月还能让人看完，足以证明它的魅力。我虽然搞的是文学，但却也是个科学谜，对宇宙时空还保留着童年时的好奇心。但并没有与之前的宗教观念冲突，而是彼此印证。因为宇宙即便不是另有上帝，也至少很符号“一沙一世界”的佛教宇宙观。http://movie.douban.com/subject/24698699/ ——2015/7/22

——2015－7－22丽江

遵从5条简单规则who took five simple rules to heart.
1、质疑权威Question authority.
不轻信人言No idea is true just because someone says so,
包括自己在内including me.
2、独立思考Think for yourself.
3、自我质疑Question yourself.
不因自己想要相信 而相信任何事情Don't believe anything just because you want to.
相信不代表能成为现实Believing something doesn't make it so.
4、依靠观察与实验 Test ideas by the evidence gained
以实证检验想法from observation and experiment.
如果自己喜欢的想法没有通过全面的检验If a favorite idea fails a well-designed test,
它就是错的it's wrong!
乐观一点Get over it.
遵循证据 无论它指向哪里Follow the evidence, wherever it leads.
如果没有证据 不妄下定论If you have no evidence, reserve judgment.
5、也许最重要的规则就是 And perhaps the most important rule of all...
要记住 你也会犯错Remember, you could be wrong.
即使是最优秀的科学家Even the best scientists
也曾经在某些事情上犯错have been wrong about some things.
牛顿 爱因斯坦Newton, Einstein,
还有历史上每一位伟大的科学家and every other great scientist in history,
他们都犯过错they all made mistakes.
这很正常 是人都会犯错Of course they did-- they were human.


科学让我们不再欺骗自己Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves...
欺骗别人and each other.
科学家们有罪吗Have scientists known sin?
有的Of course.
我们曾滥用科学We have misused science, just as we have
就像手边的工具一样随意使用every other tool at our disposal,
因此我们不能把科学and that's why we can't afford
放在少数的掌权者手中to leave it in the hands of a powerful few.
当科学更多的属于全人类时The more science belongs to all of us,
它就越不会被乱用the less likely it is to be misused.
科学的价值能阻止These values undermine the appeals
狂热与无知of fanaticism and ignorance

“The atoms of our bodies are traceable to stars that manufactured them in their cores and exploded these enriched ingredients across our galaxy, billions of years ago. For this reason, we are biologically connected to every other living thing in the world. We are chemically connected to all molecules on Earth. And we are atomically connected to all atoms in the universe. We are not figuratively, but literally stardust.”

说的真好！