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第34章 The Ideological Giants 思想巨人(14)

事实上,它还对霍金辐射的精细结构做了更进一步的预测。

Hawking was inspired by his mathematics teacher and found his love for mathematics。

霍金受到数学老师的启发并发现了自己对数学的热爱。

Moreover, it might even allow for experimental observation of a Hawking-like phenomenon。

而且,它说不定可让类霍金现象的实验观测成真。

Hawking took the scholarship examinations with the aim of studying natural sciences at Oxford。

霍金抱着去牛津学习自然科学的目的参加了奖学金考试。

Hawking has questioned the way that people think about the world in terms of theories of space and time。

霍金对人们根据时间和空间论考虑世界的方法产生了质疑。

Unless the hole swallows matter or energy to make up the loss, the Hawking radiation will drain it of all its mass。

除非黑洞吞噬新物质或新能量来弥补损失,要不然霍金辐射会把它所有的质量洩漏个精光。

The result is the same as the temperature that Hawking computed by very different means。

他们的结果,和霍金用很不一样的方法算出来的温度相同。

Applied to real black holes, the fluid analogy lends confidence that Hawking’s result is correct despite the simplifications he made。

应用在真正的黑洞上,流体类比为霍金所得结果的正确性增添了信心,尽管霍金做了不少简化。

Proving his theory by observing actual Hawking radiation from a black hole in outer space has therefore remained a practical impossibility。

因此,通过从外空的一个黑洞来观察实际的霍金辐射来证明其理论的正确性,就成了在实践上一个不可能完成的任务。

Black holes are predicted to emit Hawking radiation, named after Stephen W。 Hawking of the University of Cambridge, who discovered this result。

剑桥大学的霍金预测黑洞会放出辐射,这些来自黑洞的辐射有一定的温度。

The proof, says Hawking, lies in the Global Positioning System satellite network, which in addition to helping us navigate on Earth, reveals that time runs faster in space。

霍金说,这些证据位于全球定位系统的卫星网络,这种卫星网络除了帮助我们地球上的导航之外,还显示时间在太空中的运行速度的谎言。

These particles, the bulk of which are photons (the particles of light), make up Hawking radiation。

能最终组成光子(光粒子)的这些粒子就形成了霍金辐射。

They were rooted in Euclidean quantum gravity, a research program initiated at the end of the 1970s and popularized by physicist Hawking’s best-selling book A Brief History of Time。

它们根源于欧几里得量子重力,这是一个起始于1970年代末期的研究概念,后来因物理学家霍金的畅销书《时间简史》而开始普及。

Brief History of Time by the great British physicist Stephen Hawking is one of the classics of the universe。

英国伟大的物理学家斯蒂芬·霍金撰写的《时间简史》是一本有关宇宙学的经典著作。

Hawking is confined to a wheelchair by motor neuron disease, MND。

霍金教授由于运动神经元病而困坐轮椅。

Hawking was commenting using a muscle below his right eye to operate–via a switch on his glasses–his voice synthesizer。

霍金用右眼下的肌肉,透过眼镜上的开关,操作他的发声合成器发表这项意见。

In 1974 Stephen Hawking, had a startling theoretical insight about black holes。

1974年,斯蒂芬·霍金提出了一个关于黑洞的理论性理解。

Let’s Talk!

开始交流吧!

Mike: What are you reading·

麦克:你在读什么·

Daisy: I am reading the “Brief History of Time”。

黛西:我在看《时间简史》

Mike: Can you understand it·

麦克:你能看懂吗·

Daisy: Well most of it, it was written in plain language。

黛西:大部分可以看懂,它是用平实的语言写的。

Mike: The author is Stephern Hawking right·

麦克:作者是斯蒂芬·霍金,对吗·

Daisy: Yes, he is the most famous scientist now。

黛西:是的,他是现在最出名的科学家了。

Mike: It is a pity of him to be paralyzed。

麦克:可惜他是残疾人。

Daisy: Yes, but it does not affect his thought。

黛西:是的,但这并没有影响他的思维。

Mike: And he is a very positive person。

麦克:而且他是个很乐观的人。

Daisy: I heard he can even dance on the wheelchair。

黛西:我听说他甚至可以坐着轮椅跳舞。

Mike: I also read about it, it’s amazing。

麦克:我也看过这个,太神奇了。

Daisy: I hope to see him in person。

黛西:我很想见到他本人。

Mike: You can invite him to give a lecture here。

麦克:你可以请他来做讲座。

Daisy: I don’t know whether he is willing to come。

黛西:我不知道他是不是愿意来。

Mike: You can have a try。

麦克:你可以试一试。

Sigmund Freud

弗洛伊德

西格蒙德·弗洛伊德是精神分析学派的创始人。他的著作极大地引起了人们对心理学的兴趣,对他的许多观点在过去和现在都存在着很大的争论,而且自从他提出之日起就引起了热烈的争论。

About Freud

关于弗洛伊德

Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud was an Austrian neurologist who founded the discipline of psychoanalysis。

Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the mechanism of repression, and for creating the clinical method of psychoanalysis for investigating the mind and treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient (or “analysand”) and a psychoanalyst。

Freud established sexual drives as the primary motivational forces of human life, developed therapeutic techniques such as the use of free association, discovered the phenomenon of transference in the therapeutic relationship and established its central role in the analytic process; he interpreted dreams as sources of insight into unconscious desires。 He was an early neurological researcher into cerebral palsy, aphasia and microscopic neuroanatomy, and a prolific essayist, drawing on psychoanalysis to contribute to the history, interpretation and critique of culture。