I'm delighted to be here. I'm honored by the invitation, and thanks. I would love to talk about stuff that I'm interested in, but unfortunately, I suspect that what I'm interested in won't interest many other people. First off, my badge says I'm an astronomer. I would love to talk about my astronomy, but I suspect that the number of people who are interested in radiative transfer in non-gray atmospheres and polarization of light in Jupiter's upper atmosphere are the number of people who'd fit in a bus shelter. So I'm not going to talk about that. (Laughter)
Sunt incantat sa ma aflu aici Ma simt onorat pentru invitatie, si va multumesc Mi-ar placea sa vorbesc despre lucrurile in care sunt interesat dar din pacate cred ca lucrurile de care sunt eu interesat nu o sa intereseze multa lume Ca sa incep, ecusonul meu spune ca sunt astronom Mi-as dori mult sa vorbesc despre astronomie dar cred ca numarul de oameni interesati in transfer radiativ in atmosfere non-gri si polarizatia luminii in atmosfera superioara a lui Jupiter ar echivala cu numarul de persoane ce incap sub acoperisul unei statii de autobuz. Asa ca nu o sa vorbesc despre asta. (Rasete)
It would be just as much fun to talk about some stuff that happened in 1986 and 1987, when a computer hacker is breaking into our systems over at Lawrence Berkeley Labs. And I caught the guys, and they turned out to be working for what was then the Soviet KGB, and stealing information and selling it. And I'd love to talk about that -- and it'd be fun -- but, 20 years later ... I find computer security, frankly, to be kind of boring. It's tedious. I'm --
Ar fi la fel de interesant sa vorbesc despre ce s-a intamplat in 1986 si 1987 cand un hacker a patruns in sistemele noastre de la laboratorul Lawrence Berkeley I-am prins pe tipi si s-a dovedit ca lucrau pentru KGB-ul sovietic furau informatii cu scopul de a le vinde Mi-ar placea sa vorbesc despre asta -- si ar fi la fel de interesant -- dar, 20 de ani mai tarziu Am ajuns sa vad securitatea calculatoarelor, ca fiind destul de plictisitoare Este foarte migaloasa Sunt --
The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. A third time, it's just being a technician. I'm a scientist. Once I do something, I do something else. So, I'm not going to talk about that. Nor am I going to talk about what I think are obvious statements from my first book, "Silicon Snake Oil," or my second book, nor am I going to talk about why I believe computers don't belong in schools.
Prima data cand faci ceva, e stiinta. A doua oara, e inginerie. A treia oara inseamna ca esti tehnician. Eu sunt un om de stiinta. Odata ce am facut ceva, vreau sa fac altceva. Asa ca nu o sa vorbesc despre asta. Nici nu o sa vorbesc despre remarcile, cred eu, evidente din prima mea carte "Ulei de sarpe siliconic", sau a doua mea carte, nici nu o sa vorbesc despre de ce cred eu ca, calculatoarele nu au ce cauta in scoli
I feel that there's a massive and bizarre idea going around that we have to bring more computers into schools. My idea is: no! No! Get them out of schools, and keep them out of schools. And I'd love to talk about this, but I think the argument is so obvious to anyone who's hung around a fourth grade classroom that it doesn't need much talking about -- but I guess I may be very wrong about that, and everything else that I've said. So don't go back and read my dissertation. It probably has lies in it as well.
Cred ca e o idee masiva si bizara care circula ca trebuie sa aducem mai multe calculatoare in scoli Idea mea este : Nu! Nu! Scoateti-le din scoala, si tineti-le afara Mi-ar placea sa vorbesc despre asta, cred ca argumentul e atat de evident pentru orice persoana care a stat cel putin o vreme in preajama unei clase a 4-a incat nu trebuie sa vorbim mai mult despre asta -- dar s-ar putea sa si gresesc mult in privinta asta, si in privinta tuturor spuselor mele Asa ca nu va intoarceti sa cititi dizertatia mea S-ar putea ca si ea sa contina minciuni
Having said that, I outlined my talk about five minutes ago. (Laughter) And if you look at it over here, the main thing I wrote on my thumb was the future. I'm supposed to talk about the future, yes? Oh, right. And my feeling is, asking me to talk about the future is bizarre, because I've got gray hair, and so, it's kind of silly for me to talk about the future. In fact, I think that if you really want to know what the future's going to be, if you really want to know about the future, don't ask a technologist, a scientist, a physicist. No! Don't ask somebody who's writing code.
Avand acestea spuse, mi-am sumarizat prezentarea mea acum 5 minute (Rasete) Si daca va uitati aici, cuvantul principal pe care mi l-am scris pe deget este "viitor" Ar trebui sa vorbesc despre viitor, nu ? A, da. Parerea mea este ca, mi se pare bizar sa ma intrebati pe mine despre viitor, pentru ca am parul carunt, si de asta e cam ciudat sa vorbesc eu despre viitor. De fapt, cred ca daca vreti sa stiti cu adevarat cum va arata viitorul, si daca vreti sa stiti despre viitor, nu intrebati un tehnolog,un om de stiinta sau un fizician. NU! Nu intrebati pe cineva care scrie coduri.
No, if you want to know what society's going to be like in 20 years, ask a kindergarten teacher. They know. In fact, don't ask just any kindergarten teacher, ask an experienced one. They're the ones who know what society is going to be like in another generation. I don't. Nor, I suspect, do many other people who are talking about what the future will bring. Certainly, all of us can imagine these cool new things that are going to be there. But to me, things aren't the future. What I ask myself is, what's society is going to be like, when the kids today are phenomenally good at text messaging and spend a huge amount of on-screen time, but have never gone bowling together?
Nu,daca vreti sa stiti cum va arata societatea peste 20 de ani, intrebati un invatator de gradinita. Ei stiu. De fapt, nu intrebati orice invatator, ci pe unul experimentat. Ei sunt cei care stiu cum va arata societatea noastra peste o generatie. Eu nu. Si, nici nu ma gandesc daca alti oameni se intreaba cum arata viitorul si ce va aduce. Sigur ca ,toti ne imaginam lucruri misto , chestii noi care urmeaza sa apara in viitor. Dar pentru mine,lucrurile nu reprezinta viitorul. Ceea ce ma intreb totusi,cum va fi societatea? cand tinerii de azi sunt extraordinari de buni la trimis SMS-uri si petrec o gramada de timp in fata calculatorului, dar nu ies niciodata la o partida de bowling impreuna.
Change is happening, and the change that is happening is not one that is in software. But that's not what I'm going to talk about. I'd love to talk about it, it'd be fun, but I want to talk about what I'm doing now. What am I doing now? Oh -- the other thing that I think I'd like to talk about is right over here. Right over here. Is that visible? What I'd like to talk about is one-sided things. I would dearly love to talk about things that have one side. Because I love Mobius loops. I not only love Mobius loops, but I'm one of the very few people, if not the only person in the world, that makes Klein bottles. Right away, I hope that all of your eyes glaze over. This is a Klein bottle. For those of you in the audience who know, you roll your eyes and say, yup, I know all about it. It's one sided. It's a bottle whose inside is its outside. It has zero volume. And it's non-orientable. It has wonderful properties. If you take two Mobius loops and sew their common edge together, you get one of these, and I make them out of glass. And I'd love to talk to you about this, but I don't have much in the way of ... things to say because -- (Laughter)
Se petrec schimbari,si schimbarile care se petrec nu sunt de domeniul software-ului. Dar nu despre asta voi vorbi acum. Mi-ar placea sa vorbesc despre asta, ar fi amuzant, dar vreau sa vorbesc despre ce fac acum.Ce fac acum? A-- celalalt lucru despre care mi-ar face placere sa vorbesc este aici. Chiar aici. Se vede? As vrea sa vorbesc despre lucrurile care au o singura latura Mi-ar face mare placere sa vorbesc despre lucruri care au o singura latura Pentru ca iubesc buclele Mobius,nu numai ca le iubesc, dar sunt unul dintre putinii oameni, daca nu singura persoana din lume care face sticlele Klein. Chiar acum,Sper ca va uitati cu atentie cu totii. Aceasta este o sticle Klein. Pentru cei din public care stiu , va dati ochi peste cap si spuneti , da, stiam despre asta. Are o singura "latura".E o sticla al carui interior e in exterior. Nu are volum. Si e non-orientabila. Are proprietati minunate. Daca iei doua bucle Mobius si le unesti in partea lor comuna, ai sa obtii asa ceva, si eu le fac din sticla. Si mi-ar placea sa vorbesc despre asta, doar ca nu mai am ce .. sa spun despre.. (Rasete)
(Chris Anderson: I've got a cold.)
(Chris Anderson: Sunt racit.)
However, the "D" in TED of course stands for design. Just two weeks ago I made -- you know, I've been making small, medium and big Klein bottles for the trade. But what I've just made -- and I'm delighted to show you, first time in public here. This is a Klein bottle wine bottle, which, although in four dimensions it shouldn't be able to hold any fluid at all, it's perfectly capable of doing so because our universe has only three spatial dimensions. And because our universe is only three spatial dimensions, it can hold fluids. So it's highly -- that one's the cool one. That was a month of my life. But although I would love to talk about topology with you, I'm not going to. (Laughter)
Oricum , "D-ul" din "TED" vine de la design. Acu doua saptamani, am facut- stiti, am facut sticle Klein mici ,medii, mari, pentru vanzare. Dar ce tocmai am terminat de facut-- si sunt incantat sa va arat voua,pentru prima data in public. Aceasta este o sticla de vin Klein, care, desi intr-un univers cu patru dimensiuni nu ar fi capabila sa retina nici un lichid deloc, reuseste totusi acest lucru pentru ca universul nostru are doar trei dimensiuni spatiale. Si pentru ca universul nostru are doar 3 dimensiuni spatiale, poate retine lichide. Deci e-- asta e ala misto. A fost o luna din viata mea. Desi mi-ar placea sa vorbesc despre topologie cu voi, nu am s-o fac. (Rasete)
Instead, I'm going to mention my mom, who passed away last summer. Had collected photographs of me, as mothers will do. Could somebody put this guy up? And I looked over her album and she had collected a picture of me, standing -- well, sitting -- in 1969, in front of a bunch of dials. And I looked at it, and said, oh my god, that was me, when I was working at the electronic music studio! As a technician, repairing and maintaining the electronic music studio at SUNY Buffalo. And wow! Way back machine. And I said to myself, oh yeah! And it sent me back.
In schimb, am sa vorbesc despre mama mea, care a murit vara trecuta. A colectionat poze cu mine,cum fac mamele. Ar putea cineva sa-l filmeze pe tipu asta? Si m-am uitat peste albumul ei si avea o poza cu mine, stand- in fine ,stant, in 1969, in fata unor cadrane. Si m-am uitat la poza , si am zis , Dumnezeule, asta sunt eu pe cand lucram la un studio de muzica electronica! Ca tehnician, reparam si intretineam studioul de muzica electronica din SUNY Buffalo.Si wow! Masinarie veche.Si mi-am zis ,daa! Si mi-am adus aminte.
Soon after that, I found in another picture that she had, a picture of me. This guy over here of course is me. This man is Robert Moog, the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, who passed away this past August. Robert Moog was a generous, kind person, extraordinarily competent engineer. A musician who took time from his life to teach me, a sophomore, a freshman at SUNY Buffalo. He'd come up from Trumansburg to teach me not just about the Moog synthesizer, but we'd be sitting there -- I'm studying physics at the time. This is 1969, 70, 71. We're studying physics, I'm studying physics, and he's saying, "That's a good thing to do. Don't get caught up in electronic music if you're doing physics." Mentoring me. He'd come up and spend hours and hours with me. He wrote a letter of recommendation for me to get into graduate school. In the background, my bicycle. I realize that this picture was taken at a friend's living room. Bob Moog came by and hauled a whole pile of equipment to show Greg Flint and I things about this. We sat around talking about Fourier transforms, Bessel functions, modulation transfer functions, stuff like this. Bob's passing this past summer has been a loss to all of us. Anyone who's a musician has been profoundly influenced by Robert Moog. (Applause) And I'll just say what I'm about to do. What I'm about to do -- I hope you can recognize that there's a distorted sine wave, almost a triangular wave upon this Hewlett-Packard oscilloscope.
Imediat dupa asta , am gasit o poza pe care o avea ea, o poza cu mine. Asta de aici sunt eu,desigur. Omul asta e Robert Moog, inventatorul sintetizatorului Moog, care a murit in august anul trecut. Robert Moog era o persoana generoasa si buna, si un inginer extraordinar de competent. Un muzician care si-a facut timp sa ma invete pe mine, un "boboc" in anul unu-doi de studentie la SUNY Buffalo. A venit de la Trumansburg sa ma invete nu numai despre sintetizatorul Moog,dar stateam asa-- Studiam fizica atunci.E anul 1969, 70, 71. Studiam fizica, Eu studiam fizica, si el zice, " E bun ce faci tu. Dar sa nu te incurci in muzica electronica daca studiezi fizica" Imi dadea sfaturi.Venea si petrecea mult timp cu mine. A scris o scrisoare de recomandare pentru mine ca sa intru la sectia postuniversitara pentru doctoranzi. In fundal, bicicleta mea. Acum imi dau seama poza asta a fost facuta in sufrageria unui prieten. Bob Moog a venit cu o gramada de echipament dupa el ca sa ne arate mie si lui Greg Flint niste chestii. Stateam si vorbeam despre transformari in serie Fourier. Functii Bessel, functii de transfer de modulare, chestii de astea. Moartea lui Bob de vara asta a fost o pierdere pentru noi toti. Orice e muzician , a fost profund influentat de Robert Moog. (Aplauze) Si am sa spun ce am de gand sa fac acum, o sa -- Sper ca vedeti aceasta unda sinusoidala distorsionata, aproape triunghiulara de pe acest osciloscop Hewlett-Packard.
Oh, cool. I can get to this place over here, right? Kids. Kids is what I'm going to talk about -- is that okay? It says kids over here, that's what I'd like to talk about. I've decided that, for me at least, I don't have a big enough head. So I think locally and I act locally. I feel that the best way I can help out anything is to help out very, very locally. So Ph.D. this, and degree there, and the yadda yadda. I was talking about this stuff to some schoolteachers about a year ago. And one of them, several of them would come up to me and say, "Well, how come you ain't teaching?" And I said, "Well, I've taught graduate -- I've had graduate students, I've taught undergraduate classes." No, they said, "If you're so into kids and all this stuff, how come you ain't over here on the front lines? Put your money where you mouth is."
Oh misto. M-a duc aici , da? Copii.Despre copii am sa vorbesc-- se poate? Scrie copii aici, despre asta as vrea sa vorbesc. M-am decis ca , pentru mine cel putin , Nu am un cap destul de mare. Asa ca gandesc local si actionez local. Cred ca modalitea cea mai buna de a ajuta, e sa ajut foarte ,foarte "local". O diploma de Doctor in filozofie aici , alta diploma dincolo, si bla bla. Vorbeam despre chestii de astea cu niste profesori de scoala primara acum cam un an . Si unul dintre ei ma intrebat, de fapt mai multi au venit la mine si m-au intrebat, "Cum de nu predai?" Si eu am spus, "Pai am predat absolventilor-- Am avut studenti care au absolvit, am predat studentilor care inca nu au absolvit." Nu,au spus ei, "Daca tot iti plac asa mult copiii si chestii de astea, cum de nu esti aici in linia intai Hai sa pariem"
Is true. Is true. I teach eighth-grade science four days a week. Not just showing up every now and then. No, no, no, no, no. I take attendance. I take lunch hour. (Applause) This is not -- no, no, no, this is not claps. I strongly suggest that this is a good thing for each of you to do. Not just show up to class every now and then. Teach a solid week. Okay, I'm teaching three-quarters time, but good enough. One of the things that I've done for my science students is to tell them, "Look, I'm going to teach you college-level physics. No calculus, I'll cut out that. You won't need to know trig. But you will need to know eighth-grade algebra, and we're going to do serious experiments. None of this open-to-chapter-seven-and-do-all-the-odd-problem-sets. We're going to be doing genuine physics." And that's one of the things I thought I'd do right now. (High-pitched tone)
E adevarat.E adevarat. Predau stiintele naturii celor de clasa a opta, patru zile pe saptamana. Nu predau asa cand si cand. Nu ,nu,nu,nu,nu. Predau regulat. Am pauza de pranz .(Aplauze) Astea nu -- nu, nu ,nu , astea nu sunt aplauze. Va recomand sa mai faceti asta , e un lucru bun pentru voi. Nu doar sa apareti la ore asa cand si cand. Predati o saptamana intreaga.Bine, eu predau cam ¾ din saptamana, da tot e bine. Unul din lucrurile pe care l-am facut pentru studentii mei a fost acela de a le spune "Nu am sa va predau fizica de nivel universitar. Nu calcule, O sa lasam asta la o parte. Nu o sa trebuiasca sa stiti trigonometrie. Dar o sa trebuiasca sa stiti algebra de nivelul clasei a opta, si o sa facem niste experimente serioase. Nu... "deschideti cartea la capitolul sapte si rezolvati toate problemele alea ciudate" O sa facem fizica in adevaratul sens al cuvantului." Si asta ma gandeam sa facem chiar acum (Ton de frecventa inalta)
Oh, before I even turn that on, one of the things that we did about three weeks ago in my class -- this is through the lens, and one of the things we used a lens for was to measure the speed of light. My students in El Cerrito -- with my help, of course, and with the help of a very beat up oscilloscope -- measured the speed of light. We were off by 25 percent. How many eighth graders do you know of who have measured the speed of light? In addition to that, we've measured the speed of sound. I'd love to measure the speed of light here. I was all set to do it and I was thinking, "Aw man," I was just going to impose upon the powers that be, and measure the speed of light. And I'm all set to do it. I'm all set to do it, but then it turns out that to set up here, you have like 10 minutes to set up! And there's no time to do it. So, next time, maybe, I'll measure the speed of light!
Oh, inainte sa pornesc asta, unul din lucrurile pe care l-am facut in clasa acum trei saptamani-- asta e prin lentile,si unul din experimentele in care folosim lentilele este sa masuram viteza luminii. Elevii mei din El Cerrito-- cu ajutorul meu, desigur, si cu ajutorul unui osciloscop destul de vechi, am masurat viteza luminii. Am gresit masuratoarea cu 25%.Cati elevi de clasa a opta cunoasteti care sa fi masurat viteza luminii? Pe langa asta, am mai masurat viteza sunetului. Mi-ar placea sa masor viteza sunetului aici. Eram pregatit s-o fac si ma gandeam, "Aw frate" O sa imi aranjez cele necesare si o sa masor viteza luminii. Sunt pregatit sa o fac. Sunt pregatit sa o fac, dar apoi aflu ca , ca sa pot face asta am nevoie de 10 minute ca sa pregatesc echipamentul! Si nu am timp sa fac asta. Asa ca , poate data viitoare, o sa masor viteza luminii!
But meanwhile, let's measure the speed of sound! Well, the obvious way to measure the speed of sound is to bounce sound off something and look at the echo. But, probably -- one of my students, Ariel [unclear], said, "Could we measure the speed of light using the wave equation?" And all of you know the wave equation is the frequency times the wavelength of any wave ... is a constant. When the frequency goes up, the wavelength comes down. Wavelength goes up, frequency goes down. So, if we have a wave here -- over here, that's what's interesting -- as the pitch goes up, things get closer, pitch goes down, things stretch out. Right? This is simple physics. All of you know this from eighth grade, remember? What they didn't tell you in physics -- in eighth-grade physics -- but they should have, and I wish they had, was that if you multiply the frequency times the wavelength of sound or light, you get a constant. And that constant is the speed of sound. So, in order to measure the speed of sound, all I've got to do is know its frequency. Well, that's easy. I've got a frequency counter right here. Set it up to around A, above A, above A. There's an A, more or less. Now, so I know the frequency. It's 1.76 kilohertz. I measure its wavelength. All I need now is to flip on another beam, and the bottom beam is me talking, right? So anytime I talk, you'd see it on the screen. I'll put it over here, and as I move this away from the source, you'll notice the spiral. The slinky moves. We're going through different nodes of the wave, coming out this way. Those of you who are physicists, I hear you rolling your eyes, but bear with me. (Laughter)
Dar intre timp , sa masuram viteza sunetului! Metoda logica de a masura viteza sunetului este sa ricoseze sunetul din ceva si sa te uiti la ecou. Dar, probabil-- unul din elevii mei, Ariel,a spus, "Putem masura viteza luminii folosind ecuatia undelor?" Si dupa cum stiti cu totii ecuatia undelor este: frecventa inmultita cu lungimea undei a oricarei unde... este o constanta.Cand frecventa creste, lungimea de unda coboara. Lungimea de unda creste, frecventa coboara. Deci daca avem aici o unda-- aici, asta e intresant-- Cand frecventa urca,lucrurile se apropie, frecventa coboara,lucrurile se departeaza. Da? E simpla fizica. Stiti asta din clasa a opta , va aduceti aminte? Ce nu v-au spus la fizica- in clasa a opta-- dar ar fi trebuit --si sper sa va fi spus -- e ca daca inmultesti frecventa cu lungimea undei sunetului sau a luminii, rezulta o constanta. Si acea constanta e viteza sunetului. Asa ca, pentru a masura viteza sunetului, tot ce trebuie sa fac e sa ii stiu frecventa.Bine , asta e usor. Am un aparat de masurat frecventa chiar aici. Setati-l cam la A peste A peste A. Este un A, mai mult sau mai putin. Asa ,deci stiu frecventa. Este 1.76 kilohertz. Ii masor lungimea de unda. Tot ce mai am de facut este sa schimb pe alta raza, raza de jos sunt eu vorbind, da? Deci de fiecare data cand vorbesc, o sa vedeti asta pe ecran. O sa il trag aici, si cand mut asta departe de sursa, o sa vedeti spirala. Miscarile serpuitoare.O sa trecem prin noduri diferite ale undei, venind incoace. Pe cei dintre voi care sunteti fizicieni, parca va vad cum va dati ochii peste cap, dar fiti atenti.(Rasete)
To measure the wavelength, all I need to do is measure the distance from here -- one full wave -- over to here. From here to here is the wavelength of sound. So, I'll put a measuring tape here, measuring tape here, move it back over to here. I've moved the microphone 20 centimeters. 0.2 meters from here, back to here, 20 centimeters. OK, let's go back to Mr. Elmo. And we'll say the frequency is 1.76 kilohertz, or 1760. The wavelength was 0.2 meters. Let's figure out what this is. (Laughter) (Applause) 1.76 times 0.2 over here is 352 meters per second. If you look it up in the book, it's really 343. But, here with kludgy material, and lousy drink -- we've been able to measure the speed of sound to -- not bad. Pretty good.
Ca sa masor lungimea de unda, tot ce trebuie sa fac e sa masor distanta de aici, o unda intreaga, pana aici. De aici pana aici e lungimea de unda a sunetului. Deci, am sa pun ruleta aici,ruleta aici, si trag pana aici. Am mutat microfonul 20 de centimetri. 0.2 metri de aici , pana aici, 20 de centimetri. Ok, sa ne intoarcem la domnul Elmo. Sa zicem ca frecventa e de 1.76 kiloherti, sau 1760. Lungimea de unda are 0.2 metri. Sa vedem cat inseamna asta. (Rasete)(Aplauze) 1.76 inmultit cu 0.2 face 352 de metri pe secunda. Si daca caut in carte , e de fapt 343. Dar aici cu instrumente de vechi si proasta calitate , si cu o bautura jalnica-- am reusit sa masuram viteza sunetului-- Nu e rau. Destul de bine.
All of which comes to what I wanted to say. Go back to this picture of me a million years ago. It was 1971, the Vietnam War was going on, and I'm like, "Oh my God!" I'm studying physics: Landau, Lipschitz, Resnick and Halliday. I'm going home for a midterm. A riot's going on on campus. There's a riot! Hey, Elmo's done: off. There's a riot going on on campus, and the police are chasing me, right? I'm walking across campus. Cop comes and looks at me and says, "You! You're a student." Pulls out a gun. Goes boom! And a tear gas canister the size of a Pepsi can goes by my head. Whoosh! I get a breath of tear gas and I can't breathe. This cop comes after me with a rifle. He wants to clunk me over the head! I'm saying, "I got to clear out of here!" I go running across campus quick as I can. I duck into Hayes Hall. It's one of these bell-tower buildings. The cop's chasing me. Chasing me up the first floor, second floor, third floor. Chases me into this room. The entranceway to the bell tower. I slam the door behind me, climb up, go past this place where I see a pendulum ticking. And I'm thinking, "Oh yeah, the square root of the length is proportional to its period." (Laughter)
Am ajuns la ce vroiam sa zic. Arata poza asta cu mine de acum un milion de ani din nou. Era anul 1971, in timpul razboiului din Vietnam, si ma gandeam, "O, Dumnezeule!" Eu studiez fizica: Landau,Lipschitz, Resnick si Halliday. Ma duceam acasa in vacanta dintre semestre. Era o rascoala in campus. O rascoala! Am zis ca Elmo e terminat. Era rascoala in campus, si politia ma fugarea, da ? Merg prin campus. Politistul vine si se uita la mine si zice, "TU! tu esti student." Scoate o arma. Si trage! Si o grenada cu gaz lacrimogen cat o cutie de Pepsi imi trece pe langa cap. Inhalez o gura de gaz lacrimogen si nu mai pot sa respir. Politistul vine dupa mine cu o pusca. Vrea sa ma pocneasca in cap cu ea! Imi zic, "Trebuie sa o sterg de aici" Fug prin campus cat de repede pot. Ma ascund in amfiteatrul Hayes. E o cladire din acea cu clopot in turn. Politistul ma fugareste. Ma fugareste pana la etajul unu, doi, pana la trei. Ma fugareste intr-o camera. La intrarea in turnul cu clopot. Trantesc usa dupa mine,ma catar, si trec pe langa un loc unde vad pendulul miscandu-se. Si ma gandesc, a da, radacina patrata a lungimii e proportionala cu durata ei.(Rasete)
I keep climbing up, go back. I go to a place where a dowel splits off. There's a clock, clock, clock, clock. The time's going backwards because I'm inside of it. I'm thinking of Lorenz contractions and Einsteinian relativity. I climb up, and there's this place, way in the back, that you climb up this wooden ladder. I pop up the top, and there's a cupola. A dome, one of these ten-foot domes. I'm looking out and I'm seeing the cops bashing students' heads, shooting tear gas, and watching students throwing bricks. And I'm asking, "What am I doing here? Why am I here?" Then I remember what my English teacher in high school said. Namely, that when they cast bells, they write inscriptions on them. So, I wipe the pigeon manure off one of the bells, and I look at it. I'm asking myself, "Why am I here?"
Continui sa ma catar, ma intorc. Ma duc intr-un loc in care cui de lemn se despica. Era un ceas,ceas,ceas,ceas. Ceasul mergea inapoi pentru ca eu eram inauntrul lui. Ma gandeam la contractiile Lorenz si la teoria relativitatii a lui Einstein. Ma urc , si era un loc , chiar in spate, la care ajungi cu ajutorul scarii din lemn. Deschid usa,si vad o cupola. Un dom, din ala de vreo 3 metri. Ma uit afara si vad cum politisti pocnesc studentii in cap , trageau cu gaz lacrimogen, si vedeam studenti care aruncau cu caramizi. Si ma intrebam, Ce fac aici? De ce sunt aici? Apoi mi-am adus aminte de ce mi-a spus profesorul de engleza in liceu. Si anume,ca dupa ce termina de fabricat clopotele, ei scriu niste inscriptii pe ele. Asa ca , sterg gainatul de porumbel de pe unul dintre clopote, si ma uit la el. Si ma intreb, de ce sunt aici?
So, at this time, I'd like to tell you the words inscribed upon the Hayes Hall tower bells: "All truth is one. In this light, may science and religion endeavor here for the steady evolution of mankind, from darkness to light, from narrowness to broad-mindedness, from prejudice to tolerance. It is the voice of life, which calls us to come and learn." Thank you very much.
Si acum as vrea sa va spun ce era inscriptionat pe clopotul din turnul Hayes: "Adevarul este numai unul. Stiinta si religia vor incerca aici pentru evolutia omenirii , de la intuneric la lumina, de la cei ingusti la minte la cei mai intelepti, de la prejudecata la toleranta. E vocea vietii , cea care ne cheama sa venim si sa invatam" Va multumesc foarte mult.