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Today,we theoretical physicists are still doing the same sort of things as Newton.
當(dāng)今理論物理學(xué)家 所做的研究和牛頓并無二致
And thankfully we don't have to worry about the plague.
只是幸好我們不用擔(dān)心黑死病
Although our work may seem complex,it's really quite simple.
雖然研究看來復(fù)雜 其實(shí)卻相當(dāng)單純
We're trying to unravel the hidden mechanism...that underlies everything.
我們純粹希望能解開 支配萬物的隱藏機(jī)制
We can only do it just because we stand on the shoulders of giants.
而我們有此能力 是因?yàn)檎驹趥ゴ罂茖W(xué)家的肩上
Scientists who piece by piece discovered what makes...the universe take.
這些科學(xué)家一點(diǎn)一滴地發(fā)現(xiàn) 宇宙運(yùn)行的奧秘
Amongst those giants was another of my scientific heroes:James Clerk Maxwell.
19世紀(jì)中期 我的另一位科學(xué)偶像 他就是詹姆斯·克拉克·麥克斯韋
Maxwell was fascinated by light...which in 1861 led to him inventing color photography.
麥克斯韋對光非常癡迷 在1861年 讓他發(fā)明了彩色照相術(shù)
But that was just the beginning of what this remarkable man achieved.
但這只是這名杰出人士的成就開端
It was when he began to investigate a completely different round of physics...that everything changed.
在他開始鉆研一種全然不同的物理領(lǐng)域后 物理學(xué)才徹底改變了
This was the strange,almost magical connection...between magnetism and electricity.
就是一種奇特得近乎神奇的關(guān)聯(lián) 出現(xiàn)在磁力和電力間的關(guān)聯(lián)
