I'd like to apologize, first of all, to all of you because I have no form of PowerPoint presentation. So what I'm going to do is, every now and again, I will make this gesture, and in a moment of PowerPoint democracy, you can imagine what you'd like to see.
Prvo želim da vam se svima izvinim jer nemam nikakav oblik prezentacije u "PowerPoint"-u. Zato ću povremeno da gestikuliram ovako, i u ovoj "PowerPoint" demokratiji, vi možete da zamislite ono što biste želeli da vidite.
I do a radio show. The radio show is called "The Infinite Monkey Cage." It's about science, it's about rationalism. So therefore, we get a lot of complaints every single week -- complaints including one we get very often, which is to say the very title, "Infinite Monkey Cage," celebrates the idea of vivisection. We have made it quite clear to these people that an infinite monkey cage is roomy.
Imam emisiju na radiju. Radio emisija se zove ''Beskonačni kavez za majmune.'' Bavi se naukom, racionalizmom. Što znači da dobijamo mnogo pritužbi svake nedelje -- žalbe, ukljujući jednu koju često dobijamo, da sam naziv, ''Beskonačni kavez za majmune'', propagira ideju vivisekcije. Veoma jasno smo rekli ovim ljudima da je beskonačni kavez za majmune prostran.
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We also had someone else who said, "'The Infinite Monkey Cage' idea is ridiculous. An infinite number of monkeys could never write the works of Shakespeare. We know this because they did an experiment." Yes, they gave 12 monkeys a typewriter for a week, and after a week, they only used it as a bathroom.
Takođe nam je neko drugi rekao, da je ideja o ''Beskonačnom kavezu za majmune'' smešna. Beskonačni broj majmuna nikada ne bi mogao da napiše dela Šekspira. To znamo jer smo uradili eksperiment''. Da, dali su pisaću mašinu 12 majmuna nedelju dana, i nakon nedelju dana, samo su je koristili kao toalet.
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So the main element though, the main complaint we get -- and one that I find most worrying -- is that people say, "Oh, why do you insist on ruining the magic? You bring in science, and it ruins the magic." Now I'm an arts graduate; I love myth and magic and existentialism and self-loathing. That's what I do. But I also don't understand how it does ruin the magic. All of the magic, I think, that may well be taken away by science is then replaced by something as wonderful.
Znači glavni element, glavna pritužba koju dobijamo -- i koja mene najviše brine -- je da nam ljudi govore, ''Zašto insistirate na tome da uništavate magiju? Uvodite nauku i to uništava magiju.'' Ja sam završio društvene nauke; Volim mit i magiju i egzistencijalizam i samoprezir. Time se bavim. Ali ne mogu da shvatim kako to uništava magiju. Sva magija, mislim, koju nauka ipak može oduzeti se onda zamenjuje nečim podjednako divnim.
Astrology, for instance: like many rationalists, I'm a Pisces. (Laughter) Now astrology -- we remove the banal idea that your life could be predicted; that you'll, perhaps today, meet a lucky man who's wearing a hat. That is gone. But if we want to look at the sky and see predictions, we still can. We can see predictions of galaxies forming, of galaxies colliding into each other, of new solar systems. This is a wonderful thing. If the Sun could one day -- and indeed the Earth, in fact -- if the Earth could read its own astrological, astronomical chart, one day it would say, "Not a good day for making plans. You'll been engulfed by a red giant."
Astrologija, na primer: kao i mnogi racionalisti, ja sam Riba. (Smeh) Sada astrologija -- mi odbijamo banalnu ideju da se vaš život može predvideti; da ćete, možda danas, sresti srećnog čoveka koji nosi šešir. Toga nema. Ali ako želimo da pogledamo u nebo i nešto predvidimo, to i dalje možemo. Postoje predviđanja o formiranju galaksija, o galaksijama koje se sudaraju međusobno, o novi sunčevim sistemima. To je divna stvar. Ako bi Sunce jednog dana - i zapravo Zemlja, - ako bi Zemlja mogla da čita svoju astrološku, astronomsku kartu, jednog dana bi tu pisalo, ''Nije dobar dan za pravljenje planova. Progutaće vas crveni džin''.
And that to me as well, that if you think I'm worried about losing worlds, well Many Worlds theory -- one of the most beautiful, fascinating, sometimes terrifying ideas from the quantum interpretation -- is a wonderful thing. That every person here, every decision that you've made today, every decision you've made in your life, you've not really made that decision, but in fact, every single permutation of those decisions is made, each one going off into a new universe. That is a wonderful idea. If you ever think that your life is rubbish, always remember there's another you that's made much worse decisions than that. (Laughter) If you ever think, "Ah, I want to end it all," don't end it all. Remember that in the majority of universes, you don't even exist in the first place. This to me, in its own strange way, is very, very comforting.
I to je za mene takođe, ako mislite da me brine to što gubimo svetove, zapravo teorija o Mnoštvu svetova -- je jedna od najlepših, najfascinantnijih, ponekada najužasnijih ideja od kvantnog tumačenja -- je divna stvar. Da je svaka osoba ovde, svaka odluka koju ste danas doneli, svaka odluka koju ste ikada doneli u životu, niste zapravo doneli tu odluku, već zapravo, svaka pojedinačna permutacija tih odluka je doneta, svaka odlazi u novi svet. To je divna ideja. Ako ikada posmislite da je vaš život promašen, uvek se setite da postoji još neki u kome ste doneli mnogo gore odluke od toga. (Smeh) Ako ikada pomislite, ''Želim da sve okončam'', nemojte. Setite se da u većini svetova, za početak čak ni ne postojite. To je meni, na neki čudan način, veoma umirujuće.
Now reincarnation, that's another thing gone -- the afterlife. But it's not gone. Science actually says we will live forever. Well, there is one proviso. We won't actually live forever. You won't live forever. Your consciousness, the you-ness of you, the me-ness of me -- that gets this one go. But every single thing that makes us, every atom in us, has already created a myriad of different things and will go on to create a myriad of new things. We have been mountains and apples and pulsars and other people's knees. Who knows, maybe one of your atoms was once Napoleon's knee. That is a good thing. Unlike the occupants of the universe, the universe itself is not wasteful. We are all totally recyclable. And when we die, we don't even have to be placed in different refuse sacs. This is a wonderful thing.
A reinkarnacija, još jedna stvar koje nema - zagrobni život. Ali nije nestala. Nauka zapravo kaže da ćemo živeti zauvek. Mada, ima jedan uslov. Nećemo mi zapravo živeti zauvek. Nećete vi živeti zauvek. Vaša svest, ono što vas čini vama i mene mene -- to ima samo ovu jednu šansu. Ali svaka pojedina stvar koja nas čini, svaki atom u nama, je već stvorio niz različitih stvari i nastaviće da stvara niz novih stvari. Bili smo planine i jabuke i pulsari i kolena drugih ljudi. Ko zna, možda je jedan od vaših atoma jednom bio Napoleonovo koleno. To je dobra stvar. Za razliku od stanovnika svemira, sam svemir ništa ne baca. Mi se svi potpuno možemo reciklirati. A kada umremo, ne moraju nas čak ni razvrstavati po kesama za različite materijale. To je divna stvar.
Understanding, to me, does not remove the wonder and the joy. For instance, my wife could turn to me and she may say, "Why do you love me?" And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, "Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors." (Laughter) Though I'll probably also say something about her hair and personality as well. And that is a wonderful thing there. Love does not die because of that thing.
Razumevanje, po meni, ne uništava divljenje i radost. Na primer, moja žena me može pitati, ''Zašto me voliš?'' A ja je potpuno iskreno mogu pogledati u oči i reći, ''Jer su se naši feromoni poklopili sa našim receptorima za miris''. (Smeh) Mada bih verovatno dodao nešto o njenoj kosi i ličnosti takođe. I to je divna stvar ovde. Ljubav ne umire zbog toga.
Pain doesn't go away either. This is a terrible thing, even though I understand pain. If someone punches me -- and because of my personality, this is recently a regular occurrence -- I understand where the pain comes from. It is basically momentum to energy where the four-vector is constant -- that's what it is. But at no point can I react and go, "Ha! Is that the best momentum-to-energy fourth vector constant you've got?" No, I just spit out a tooth.
Ali ni bol ne prestaje. To je užasna stvar, iako razumem bol. Ako me neko udari -- i to je zbog moje ličnosti, od nedavno to je redovna pojava -- ja znam odakle dolazi bol. To je u suštini sila zamaha pretvorena u energiju gde su četiri vektora konstantni - to je to. Ali ja nikada neću reagovati i reći, ''Ha! Da li je to najbolje pretvaranje sile zamaha u energiju pri konstanti od četiri vektora koje imaš?'' Ne, samo ću ispljunuti zub.
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And that is all of these different things -- the love for my child. I have a son. His name is Archie. I'm very lucky, because he's better than all the other children. Now I know you don't think that. You may well have your own children and think, "Oh no, my child's best." That's the wonderful thing about evolution -- the predilection to believe that our child is best. Now in many ways, that's just a survival thing. The fact we see here is the vehicle for our genes, and therefore we love it. But we don't notice that bit; we just unconditionally love. That is a wonderful thing. Though I should say that my son is best and is better than your children. I've done some tests.
I to su sve te različite stvari - ljubav prema mom detetu. Imam sina. Zove se Arči. Veoma sam srećan, jer je bolji od sve ostale dece. Znam da vi tako ne mislite. Možda imate sopstvenu decu i mislite, ''Ne, moje dete je najbolje''. To je divna stvar kod evolucije -- predodređenost da verujete da je vaše dete najbolje. U mnogim aspektima, to je pitanje preživljavanja. Činjenica da u njemu vidimo sredstvo za prenos naših gena, i da ga zato volimo. Ali taj deo ne primećujemo; mi samo bezuslovno volimo. To je divna stvar. Mada ću ipak reći da je moj sin najbolji i bolji od vaše dece. Testirao sam ga.
And all of these things to me give such joy and excitement and wonder. Even quantum mechanics can give you an excuse for bad housework, for instance. Perhaps you've been at home for a week on your own. You house is in a terrible state. Your partner is about to return. You think, what should I do? Do nothing. All you have to do is, when she walks in, using a quantum interpretation, say, "I'm so sorry. I stopped observing the house for a moment, and when I started observing again, everything had happened." (Laughter) That's the strong anthropic principle of vacuuming.
I sve ove stvari mene toliko raduju i uzbuđuju i divne su. Čak vam i kvantna mehanika može dati izgovor da ne radite po kući, na primer. Možda ste ostali sami kod kuće nedelju dana. Kuća je u užasnom stanju. Partner samo što se nije vratio. Mislite, šta da radim? Ništa. Sve što je potrebno jeste kada uđe, koristeći kvantno tumačenje, da kažete, ''Izvini, ali prestao sam da posmatram kuću na trenutak i kada sam počeo ponovo da je posmatram, sve se dogodilo''. (Smeh) To je jaki antropski princip usisavanja.
For me, it's a very, very important thing. Even on my journey up here -- the joy that I have on my journey up here every single time. If you actually think, you remove the myth and there is still something wonderful. I'm sitting on a train. Every time I breathe in, I'm breathing in a million-billion-billion atoms of oxygen. I'm sitting on a chair. Even though I know the chair is made of atoms and therefore actually in many ways empty space, I find it comfortable. I look out the window, and I realize that every single time we stop and I look out that window, framed in that window, wherever we are, I am observing more life than there is in the rest of the known universe beyond the planet Earth. If you go to the safari parks on Saturn or Jupiter, you will be disappointed. And I realize I'm observing this with the brain, the human brain, the most complex thing in the known universe. That, to me, is an incredible thing. And do you know what, that might be enough.
Za mene, to je veoma važna stvar. Čak i moje putovanje do ovde -- radost koju doživljavam na ovom putu, svaki put. Ako zapravo razmislite o tome, ukidate mit ali i dalje je to nešto divno. Sedim u vozu. I svaki put kada udahnem, Udišem milion-milijardu-milijardu atoma kiseonika. Sedim na stolici. Iako znam da je stolica napravljena od atoma i zato je u mnogome prazan prostor, meni je udobna. Pogledam kroz prozor i shvatim da svaki put kada stanemo i kada pogledam kroz prozor, uokvireno kroz taj prozor, gde god da smo, posmatram više života nego što postoji u ostatku poznatog svemira van planete Zemlje. Ako budete išli na safari na Saturnu ili Jupiteru, bićete razočarani. Shvatam da ovo primećujem mozgom, ljudskim mozgom, najsloženijom stvari u poznatom svemiru. To je za mene neverovatno. I znate šta, to je možda i dovoljno.
Steven Weinberg, the Nobel laureate, once said, "The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless." Now for some people, that seems to lead to an idea of nihilism. But for me, it doesn't. That is a wonderful thing. I'm glad the universe is pointless. It means if I get to the end of my life, the universe can't turn to me and go, "What have you been doing, you idiot? That's not the point." I can make my own purpose. You can make your own purpose. We have the individual power to go, "This is what I want to do." And in a pointless universe, that, to me, is a wonderful thing. I have chosen to make silly jokes about quantum mechanics and the Copenhagen interpretation. You, I imagine, can do much better things with your time.
Stiven Vajnberg, dobitnik Nobelove nagrade, je jednom rekao, ''Što nam se svemir čini razumljivijim, to se više čini da nema smisla''. Mada nekim ljudima, to se čini da vodi do ideje nihilizma. Ali meni ne. To je divna stvar. Drago mi je što svemir nema smisla. To znači da mogu da završim svoj život, i da mi svemir ne može reći, ''Šta si radio, idiote? To nije bio smisao toga''. Mogu sam da stvorim svoj smisao. Vi možete da stvorite svoj smisao. Imate individualnu moć da kažete, ''Ovo je ono što želim da radim''. I u svemiru bez smisla, to je meni, divna stvar. Ja sam odabrao da smišljam luckaste viceve o kvantnoj mehanici i interpretaciji iz Kopenhagena. Vi, verovatno, mnogo pametnije trošite vreme.
Thank you very much. Goodbye.
Hvala puno. Doviđenja.
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