Adam Savage: How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
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about owning a brain
med att äga en hjärna
över vad den samlar in och bevarar,
no control over the things
the facts and the stories.
desto värre blir det.
why you're interested in them,
varför de är intressanta,
var en ung pojke i Queens
was a young boy in Queens,
en liten vagn och en boll.
and his wagon and a ball.
the ball went to the back of the wagon.
"Varför rullar bollen bakåt i vagnen?"
the ball go to the back of the wagon?"
Och hans far sa: "Ah".
And his dad said, "Ah.
som forskarna gett fenomenet
going to the back of the wagon."
vet ingen riktigt vad det är."
att skaffa sig examina
the Challenger disaster,
förklarade Challenger-katastrofen,
att få ett Nobelpris i fysik
the Nobel Prize in Physics
som beskriver subatomära partikelrörelser.
the movement of subatomic particles.
with his father as giving him a sense
det samtalet med pappan
you out to the edge of human knowledge,
mot gränserna för det mänskliga vetandet,
at the great Library of Alexandria,
vid det stora biblioteket i Alexandria,
många bidrag till vetenskapen.
som bibliotekarie från staden Syene,
as the librarian,
which was south of Alexandria.
som fastnade i Eratosthenes minne.
that stuck in Eratosthenes' mind,
when he looked down this deep well,
titta ner i en djup brunn
och också att huvudet blockerade solen.
that his head was blocking the sun.
att Kristoffer Colombus
that Christopher Columbus
is spherical is total bull.
visste varje bildad människa
understood that the world was spherical
och han hade bevisat det
with a simple observation.
the Earth's shadow on the Moon,
som alltid ger en rund skugga
creates a circular shadow
med den här uppgiften.
this letter with this fact.
stod rakt över staden Syene,
was directly above the city of Swenet,
it was a straight line
i en brunn, finns det en linje
right past the guy's head up to the sun.
förbi killens huvud upp till solen.
in the ground in Alexandria
som satts i marken i Alexandria.
and the same day, at noon,
that it was 7.2 degrees off-axis.
i vinkeln 7,2 grader.
hur stor cirkelns omkrets är,
and you have two points on it,
mellan dessa två punkter,
between those two points,
är lika med 50.
of a round number,
gör att jag också blir
of this story too,
så vi fortsätter den.
so we'll continue with it.
mellan Syene och Alexandria,
between Swenet and Alexandria,
var bra på geografi.
was good at geography.
som uppfann ordet geografi.
was a road of commerce,
how long it took to get there.
att veta hur lång tid resan tog.
so he knew very precisely
så han visste med stor precision
the two cities was 500 miles.
of the actual diameter of the Earth.
från det rätta värdet på jordens omkrets.
are looking for the Higgs boson.
letar efter Higgs boson.
röra sig snabbare än ljuset,
than the speed of light,
har blivit möjliga
are made possible
in the last few decades.
under de senaste decennierna.
av mänsklighetens historia,
our eyes and our ears and our minds.
med våra ögon, öron och hjärnor.
en experimentell fysiker i Paris.
an experimental physicist in Paris.
and confirming other people's results,
och bekräfta andras resultat,
lite av en tjatig verksamhet,
like a bit of an also-ran,
vetenskapens kärna,
som fakta som inte kan bekräftas.
that cannot be independently corroborated.
with Galileo's experiments
om ljus har en hastighet
whether or not light had a speed.
really wonderful experiment
ett fantastiskt experiment
hade var sin lampa.
each one of them was holding a lamp.
and his assistant would open his.
och hans assistent slog på sin.
rätt så samtidiga.
och sedan ställde de sig
and they did the same thing,
och Galileos antagandet var att
that if light had a discernible speed,
coming back from his assistant's lamp.
i ljussignalen tillbaka från assistenten.
of magnitude when he assumed
var flera storleksordningar fel
var ungefär 10 gånger snabbare än ljudet.
as fast as the speed of sound.
två experimentstationer,
two experimental stations,
med ganska enkel utrustning.
trivial piece of equipment.
fjärrkontrollen ett ögonblick
the clicker for a second
your brains in this.
and it's got a bunch of teeth.
to sending discrete pulses of light.
för att skicka korta pulser av ljus.
mellan kuggarna mot en spegel
through this notch at a mirror,
att reflekteras i spegeln
is bouncing off the mirror
genom samma hack.
när han roterar hjulet allt fortare.
as he spins the wheel faster.
som en dörr börjar stängas
like a door is starting to close
that's coming back to his eye.
inte kommer igenom
of light is not coming back
den träffar faktisk en kugge.
tillräckligt snabbt
and he fully occludes the light.
between the two stations
mellan de två försöksplatserna,
and the number of notches in the wheel,
to within two percent of its actual value.
så nära som 2% från det rätta värdet.
going about science.
mitt intresse för vetenskap.
tar jag reda på saker om dem
understanding a concept,
the people that discovered that concept.
om hur de kom att inse saker.
they came to understand it.
vad dessa upptäckare tänkte på
were thinking about
är att man förstår
they are not so different from us.
Vi har alla samma förutsättningar.
We all start with the same tools.
av vetenskap kallas forskningsområden.
of science are called fields of study.
som en stängd, svart låda,
as a closed, black box,
just thought a little bit harder
har bara tänkt lite mer
and they were a little bit more curious.
people thought about the world,
vår syn på världen,
och det kan du också göra.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Adam Savage - Maker, critical thinkerAdam Savage is an internationally renowned television producer, host and public speaker.
Why you should listen
Adam Savage's mother is a psychologist; his father was a celebrated artist, painter and filmmaker. From the youngest age they encouraged his flights of fancy. Savage has been a paperboy, a projectionist, juggler, unicycle rider, sculptor, graphic designer, scenic painter, robot builder, welder, carpenter, machinist, prop maker, toy designer, actor, writer, executive producer and director. He spent six years in theater and 10 years in commercial and film special effects working for clients such as Nike, Corning, Hershey's, and Coca-Cola, and films like Star Wars, The Matrix films, A.I., Space Cowboys, Terminator 3 and Galaxy Quest.
Savage has built everything from theater sets to miniature particle accelerators. From spaceships to animatronic arms. He's made Rube Goldberg machines, hand props and spacesuits. His online videos have generated over 230 million page views. He's written for Popular Mechanics, the Wall Street Journal and Wired Magazine, among others. His program "Mythbusters" produced 270 episodes that aired in over 100 countries for 14 years. Adam shares his builds, his love for movie props and costumes, and passion for the transformative power of making on his award winning website Tested.com. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Julia, his twin boys Thing1 and Thing2, and two amazing dogs.
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