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JoAnn Kuchera-Morin: Stunning data visualization in the AlloSphere
乔安库吉拉-莫丁（JoAnn Kuchera-Morin）带我们游览全息投影球
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乔安库吉拉-莫丁演示全息投影球，一个以全新的视角去看待和解释科学数据、将你环绕在一个充满色彩和声音的铁球装置。潜入大脑，感受电子的转动，聆听分子的音乐...
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin - Composer
Composer JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is the director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at UC Santa Barbara. Full bio
Composer JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is the director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at UC Santa Barbara. Full bio
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The AlloSphere: it's a three-story metal sphere
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全息投影球。是在一个无回声的隔间里
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in an echo-free chamber.
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的三层的金属球。
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Think of the AlloSphere as a large,
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你可以把全息投影球想象为
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dynamically varying digital microscope
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一个连有超级电脑的
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that's connected to a supercomputer.
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动态数码显微镜。
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20 researchers can stand on a bridge
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20个研究员可以站在球体内
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suspended inside of the sphere, and be
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悬置的桥上，而且完全和他们的
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completely immersed in their data.
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数据融为一体。
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Imagine if a team of physicists
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想象一下如果一组物理学家
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could stand inside of an atom
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可以站在原子的里面
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and watch and hear electrons spin.
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并且可以看到、听到电子的转动。
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Imagine if a group of sculptors
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想象一下如果一组雕塑家
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could be inside of a lattice of atoms
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可以站在原子的矩阵内
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and sculpt with their material.
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并用他们的材料进行雕塑。
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Imagine if a team of surgeons could fly
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想象一下如果一组外科医生可以
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into the brain, as though it was a world,
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在大脑里飞翔，就像在大脑是一个世界一样，
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and see tissues as landscapes,
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大脑组织就像世界的景观一样，
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and hear blood density levels as music.
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并且想听音乐一样来听血流的密度水平。
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This is some of the research that you're going to see
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这就是你们将要看到的一部分研究，
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that we're undertaking at the AlloSphere.
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在全息投影球里进行的研究。
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But first a little bit about this group
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但是先让我介绍一下
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of artists, scientists, and engineers
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我们一起工作的艺术家，科学家和工程师
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that are working together.
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的小组。
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I'm a composer, orchestrally-trained,
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我是一个交响乐团的作曲家，
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and the inventor of the AlloSphere.
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也是全息投影球的发明者。
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With my visual artist colleagues, we map
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和我的视觉艺术家同事，我们利用
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complex mathematical algorithms that unfold in time and space,
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声音与图象组建了各种
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visually and sonically.
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在时间与空间中拓展的数学模型。
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Our scientist colleagues are finding new patterns
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我们的科学家同时正在
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in the information.
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信息里寻找新的图案。
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And our engineering colleagues are making
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而且我们的工程师同时在制造一个
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one of the largest dynamically varying computers in the world
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世界上最大的动态计算机，
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for this kind of data exploration.
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用来探索这种数据。
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I'm going to fly you into five research projects
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我将要带你们游览在全息投影球
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in the AlloSphere that are going to take you from
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里的5个研究项目，那将带领你们从
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biological macroscopic data
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宏观生物学数据
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all the way down to electron spin.
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一直到电子的环绕。
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This first project is called the AlloBrain.
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这第一个项目叫做全息大脑。
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And it's our attempt to quantify beauty
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这是我们试图通过
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by finding which regions of the brain
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感应大脑部分区域和美丽互动时
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are interactive while witnessing something beautiful.
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去量化美丽。
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You're flying through the cortex of my colleague's brain.
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你将会飞跃我一个同事的大脑皮层。
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Our narrative here is real fMRI data
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我们的数据是可以
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that's mapped visually and sonically.
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映射视觉和听觉的fMRI数据。
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The brain now a world that we can fly through and interact with.
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现在大脑就像一个我们可以在内飞翔和与其互动的世界。
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You see 12 intelligent computer agents,
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你看到了12个智能电脑代表，
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the little rectangles that are flying in the brain with you.
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就是那些和你一起在大脑飞翔的长方形。
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They're mining blood density levels.
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他们在探测血液的密度水平。
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And they're reporting them back to you sonically.
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然后他们将通过声音给你汇报。
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Higher density levels mean
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密度高的层次表示着
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more activity in that point of the brain.
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大脑里更为活跃的地方。
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They're actually singing these densities to you
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他们实际上在用高音映射高密度
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with higher pitches mapped to higher densities.
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将这些密度唱给你听。
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We're now going to move from real biological data
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我们现在将要从真正的生物数据
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to biogenerative algorithms that create artificial nature
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移到可以创造人工自然的生物合成数据，
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in our next artistic and scientific installation.
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我将在下一个艺术和科学的装置中展现给你们。
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In this artistic and scientific installation, biogenerative algorithms
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在这个艺术和科学的装置中，生物合成数据
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are helping us to understand
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将要帮我们去了解
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self-generation and growth:
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自我衍化和生长。
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very important for simulation in the nanoscaled sciences.
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这对是在纳米科学内十分重要的一个模拟。
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For artists, we're making new worlds
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对艺术家而言，我们将要去创造一个
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that we can uncover and explore.
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我们可以开阔和探索的新世界。
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These generative algorithms grow over time,
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就在这些自我生长数据在成长的同时，
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and they interact and communicate as a swarm of insects.
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他们就像昆虫的种群一样在互动和交流。
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Our researchers are interacting with this data
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我们的研究员通过注入细菌代码
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by injecting bacterial code,
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去和这个数据互动，
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which are computer programs,
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那些都是允许让生物
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that allow these creatures to grow over time.
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不停成长的电脑程序。
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We're going to move now from the biological
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我们现在要从这个生物
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and the macroscopic world,
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宏观世界领域，
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down into the atomic world,
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深入到原子世界，
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as we fly into a lattice of atoms.
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我们会飞到原子的矩阵中。
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This is real AFM -- Atomic Force Microscope -- data
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这是真正的AFM，原子力显微镜数据
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from my colleagues in the Solid State Lighting and Energy Center.
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这些数据来自于我同事提取固态照明和能源中心。
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They've discovered a new bond,
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他们已经发现了一个新的化学键，
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a new material for transparent solar cells.
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一种透明的太阳能电池的新材料。
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We're flying through 2,000 lattice of atoms --
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我们将飞跃2000个原子的矩阵 --
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oxygen, hydrogen and zinc.
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氧，氢，和锌。
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You view the bond in the triangle.
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你看到了这个三角形的化学键。
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It's four blue zinc atoms
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这是4个蓝色锌原子
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bonding with one white hydrogen atom.
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和一个氢原子绑在一起。
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You see the electron flow with the streamlines
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你看到了流线型滑动的电子
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we as artists have generated for the scientists.
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这是我们作为艺术家为科学家所生成的。
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This is allowing them to find the bonding nodes in any lattice of atoms.
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这可以让他们在任何原子矩阵中去寻找连接的节点。
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We think it makes a beautiful structural art.
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我们认为这创造了美丽的结构艺术。
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The sound that you're hearing are the actual
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你现在听到的声音实际上是
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emission spectrums of these atoms.
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这些原子的发射光谱。
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We've mapped them into the audio domain,
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我们将他们映射到一个声音的结构上。
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so they're singing to you.
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所以他们就在和你们唱歌。
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Oxygen, hydrogen and zinc have their own signature.
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氧，氢和锌有他们自己的特征。
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We're going to actually move even further down
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我们甚至将要更深入一点
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as we go from this lattice of atoms
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从这个原子矩阵
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to one single hydrogen atom.
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到一个单独的氢原子。
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We're working with our physicist colleagues
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我们和我们的物理学同事一起工作
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that have given us the mathematical calculations
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得出含时间的三维薛定谔方程
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of the n-dimensional Schrödinger equation in time.
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的数学算法。
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What you're seeing here right now is a superposition of an electron
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我们将要看到的是，在氢原子里
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in the lower three orbitals of a hydrogen atom.
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3个低位环绕的电子的叠加.
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You're actually hearing and seeing the electron flow with the lines.
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你可以听到和看到沿这些线所环绕的电子。
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The white dots are the probability wave
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白色的点是概率波
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that will show you where the electron is
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那将在任何时间和空间内的
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in any given point of time and space
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这3个低位环绕中
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in this particular three-orbital configuration.
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告诉你电子在哪
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In a minute we're going to move to a two-orbital configuration,
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一分钟后我们将要移去两个环绕。
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and you're going to notice a pulsing.
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然后你将注意到一个脉冲。
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And you're going to hear an undulation between the sound.
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然后你将会听到一个波形的声音。
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This is actually a light emitter.
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这实际上是一个光发射器。
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As the sound starts to pulse and contract,
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就当这声音开始脉冲和对比的同时，
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our physicists can tell when a photon is going to be emitted.
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我们的物理学家可以知道什么时候一个光子被发射了。
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They're starting to find new mathematical structures
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他们将在这些计算中找到
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in these calculations.
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新的数学结构。
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And they're understanding more about quantum mathematics.
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然后他们就会更加了解量子数学。
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We're going to move even further down,
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我们要继续深入，
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and go to one single electron spin.
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去看看单个电子的环绕。
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This will be the final project that I show you.
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这将是我给你们展示的最后一个项目。
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Our colleagues in the Center for Quantum Computation
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我们在量子计算研究中心和自旋电子学
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and Spintronics are actually measuring with their lasers
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的同事，通过激光去
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decoherence in a single electron spin.
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测量电子的环绕。
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We've taken this information and we've
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我们取得这个数据，然后
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made a mathematical model out of it.
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我们用它做出了一个数学模型。
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You're actually seeing and hearing
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你将要看到和听到
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quantum information flow.
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量子数据的流动。
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This is very important for the next step in simulating
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这是为接下来的模拟量子电脑和信息技术
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quantum computers and information technology.
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十分重要的一步。
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So these brief examples that I've shown you
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好了，这些我给你们展示的小例子
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give you an idea of the kind of work that we're doing
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会让你们大概了解我们在圣巴巴拉加利福尼亚大学
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at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
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在做什么，
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to bring together, arts, science
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是将艺术，科学
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and engineering
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和工程学放在一起
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into a new age of math, science and art.
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去到一个数学，科学和艺术的新领域。
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We hope that all of you will come to see the AlloSphere.
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我们希望你们都能来参观全息投影球。
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Inspire us to think of new ways that we can use
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来启发我们在圣巴巴拉所创造的这个新仪器
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this unique instrument that we've created at Santa Barbara.
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有什么新的用法。
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Thank you very much.
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十分感谢。
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(Applause)
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（掌声）
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin - ComposerComposer JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is the director of the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at UC Santa Barbara.
Why you should listen
Composer JoAnn Kuchera-Morin works on the Allosphere, one of the largest scientific and artistic instruments in the world. Based at UCSB, the Allosphere and its 3D immersive theater maps complex data in time and space. Kuchera-Morin founded the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) and has been the director since its birth in 1986. In 2000 she began work on a Digital Media Center within the California NanoSystems Institute at Santa Barbara. Her fascinations include gestural interfaces for performance and the expression of complex data in nontraditional forms.
Hew own music explores the boundaries of electric/acoustic instrumentation, welcoming digital players into the ensemble in works such as Concerto For Clarinet and Clarinets, a composition for solo clarinet and computer-generated tape.
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