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在另一些阶段不会成为
shouldn’t be part of somebody else’s…
别人意识的一部分
at some other stage.
我不知道这是否可信 说一个人死后
I don’t know if it’s fair to say what happens after one dies…
他可能会成为另一个人
but it’s a plausible picture…
但这貌似是很有可能的
that you could be somebody else…
并且某人可能是活在过去的某个人
and that somebody else could be somebody that lived in the past,
而不是未来的
not in the future.
即使只有一种可能的大统一理论
Even if there is only one possible unified theory…
即一套准则和方程
that is just a set of rules and equations…
那是什么扰乱了这些等式
what is it that breathes fire into the equations…
制♥造♥出一个它们所描绘的宇宙呢
and makes a universe for them to describe ?
为什么宇宙要自寻烦恼
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
是否是大统一理论如此势不可挡
Is the unified theory so compelling…
以至于引起其自身存在的问题
that it brings about its own existence?
或许 他需要一个创造者
Or does it need a creator?
如果是这样
And, if so…
是谁创造了创造者
who created him?
我想我会说宇宙有个目的
I think I would say that the universe has a purpose.
它不是偶然地莫名其妙地存在
It’s not somehow just there by chance.
我想它是
I think it’s… Yeah.
那么的
So…
它是
it’s… it’s…
我想有些人会持这么一种观点 宇宙就在那
Some people, I think, take the view that the universe is just there…
它只是不停地运行
and it sort of runs and runs, and it just sort of computes…
我们偶然发现了我们身处其中
and we happen somehow by accident to find ourselves in this thing.
但我觉得这不是一种
But I don’t think that’s a very fruitful…
正确的看待宇宙的方式
or helpful way of looking at the universe.
我认为宇宙有更深层次的东西
I think that there is something much deeper about it.
在实时间中 就是我们所生活的这种时间
In real time, the time in which we live…
宇宙有两种可能的命运
the universe has two possible destinies:
它可能永远继续扩张
It may continue to expand forever…
或者 它可能在大收缩中
or it may recollapse and come to an end…
再次坍缩 最终结束
at the Big Crunch.
这与大爆♥炸♥相当类似
It would be rather like the Big Bang…
但过程相反
but in reverse.
现在我相信宇宙最终会在
I now believe that the universe will come to an end…
大收缩中结束
at the Big Crunch.
然而 我确实
I do, however, have certain advantages…
比其他厄运先知更占优势
over many other prophets of doom.
无论一百亿年之后会发生什么
Whatever happens ten billion years from now…
我都不希望被证明是错误的
I don’t expect to be around to be proved wrong.
我所知道的所有画面
Of all the pictures that I know…
任何最简单的宇宙学的结论
the simplest of any cosmology…
就是宇宙是封闭的
is that in which the universe is closed…
拥有有限的寿命
has a finite lifetime…
会坍缩
and collapses with the same kind of collapse…
像黑洞坍缩那样
that a black hole does.
如果结果确实是那样
If it should turn out that indeed…
宇宙的生命是有限的
the universe is limited in its life…
那么它的生命
how is that different from the life…
与我们每个人的又有什么不同
of each one of us?
在3月5日 星期二的晚上
On the evening of Tuesday, March 5fh…
大概10点45分
at about 10:45. . .
我正准备回去皮恩斯的公♥寓♥
I was returning to my flat in Pinehurst.
天色很暗 又下着雨
It was dark and raining.
我来到格兰芝路
I came up to Grange Road…
看见车灯正在接近
and saw headlights approaching…
但是我判断他们离我足够远
but judged that they were far enough away…
使我能安全地通过
that I could cross safely.
那辆车一定是开得非常快
The vehicle must have been traveling very fast…
因为当我仅仅到路中间时
for when I got just past the middle of the road…
我的护士就惊呼 “小心”
my nurse screamed, “Look out!”
我听到轮胎在滑行
I heard tires skidding…
一阵强风从我轮椅后面吹来
and my wheelchair was struck a tremendous blow in the back.
我最后躺在路上
I ended up in the road…
腿搭着剩下的轮椅
with my legs over the remains of the wheelchair.
这场事故弄坏了我的轮椅
The accident destroyed my wheelchair…
还毁了
and damaged my computer system…
我用来交流的计算机
with which I communicate.
我要在头上缝十三针
I required 13 stitches in my head…
但是几天之后我就能够回去工作了
but I was able to go back to work several days later.
我对那一段的记忆
The memories I have are very much…
大概是
kind of…
史蒂芬当时的样子
visual pictures of what Stephen was…
以及他在那种情形下的情况
of seeing Stephen in certain situations.
他总是在动
He was always moving.
总是
Always.
几乎没安静过
Well, hardly ever still.
关于他的表情和姿态也一样
It was the same thing about his face and gesture…
他曾常用的那些 我应该说
which he used a great deal, I should say…
但这仅仅是记忆了
but it’s only memory.
最近我找到一些照片
I found some photographs recently…
使我想起每一个人的样子
which reminded me of the general look of everybody…
我必须说史蒂芬非常像他现在的样子
and I must say Stephen looked very much like he does now…
如果你能想起以前的他
if one thinks of him like that.
他非常强烈地相信
He does believe very intensely…
人类的思想有无限可能
in the almost infinite possibility of the human mind.
在你知道你不能之前
You have to find out what you can’t know…
你一定能发现那些你没法知道的事情 不是吗
before you know you can’t, don’t you?
所以我认为思想一点都不应该被束缚
So I don’t think that thought should be restricted at all.
为什么你不该继续想那些无法想象的东西
Why shouldn’t you go on thinking about the unthinkable?
或许有些人已经开始了
Somebody’s got to start sometime.
想想在一个世纪以前有多少事情是无法想象的
Think how many things were unthinkable a century ago…
还有人们曾想过的
and yet people have thought them.
它们经常看起来不切实际
And often they also seemed quite unpractical.
史蒂芬说的东西
Not all the things Stephen says probably…
并不一定都被当作真理
are to be taken as gospel truth.
他是一个探索者 他正在探索
He’s a searcher. He’s looking for things.
有时他可能是胡说八道 好吧 难道我们不也是吗
And sometimes he probably talks nonsense. Well, don’t we all?
但关键是
But the point is…
人类必须思考
people must think.
必须继续思考
People must go on thinking.
他们必须试着扩展知识的边界
They must try to extend the boundaries of knowledge…
有时他们甚至不知道从何开始
and they don’t sometimes even know where to start.
你不知道边界在哪 不是吗
You don’t know where the boundaries are, do you?
你不知道你的起点是什么
You don’t know what your taking-off point is.
如果我们确实发现了一个完整的宇宙理论
If we do discover a complete theory of the universe…
它应该及时就成为广泛的原则
it should in time be understandable…
被每个人所理解
in broad principle by everyone…
而不仅仅是少数的科学家
not just a few scientists.
然后我们所有人
Then we shall all…
无论哲学家 科学家 还是普通人
philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people…
都能够参与讨论
be able to take part in the discussion of why it is…
我们和这宇宙为什么存在
that we and the universe exist.
如果我们找到答案
If we find the answer to that…
这将是人类理性的
it would be the ultimate triumph…
最终胜利
of human reason…
因为我们知道了
for then we would know…
上帝的想法
the mind of God.