John Lloyd: An animated tour of the invisible
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Yew Chube Common
entrée par l'autoroute Google]
given by John Lloyd in 2009]
donnée par John Lloyd en 2009]
à susciter ce sentiment d'émerveillement.
has spent his whole career
than you think, actually.
everything that matters --
but we can't see what holds them apart,
mais pas ce qui les tient éloignées,
we see only the skin of things,
nous ne voyons que la surface des choses,
nous ne pouvons pas voir ce qui fait vibrer les gens,
we can't see what makes people tick,
the more it disappears.
really closely at stuff,
si vous regardez la structure de base de la matière,
substructure of matter,
une sorte de soupe, et il n'y a que de l'énergie.
and there is only energy.
est que les choses que nous ne voyons pas,
about invisibility is,
we also can't understand.
and which we don't understand.
voir, et que nous ne comprenons pas.
of all the four fundamental forces,
des quatre forces fondamentales,
ce qu'elle est, ni pourquoi elle est là.
knows what it is or why it's there.
the greatest scientist who ever lived,
le plus grand savant ayant jamais vécu,
pour faire marcher les leviers de la gravité.
to Earth specifically
sur ce coup-là, je ne sais pas. (Rires)
on that one, I don't know.
je n'ai aucune idée de ce que vous pensez.
I've no idea what any of you are thinking.
each other's minds,
taste each other,
but we can't read each other's minds.
this great Middle Eastern religion
is the root of all religions,
du moins le disent-ils,
all telepaths, so they say,
to the rest of us that it doesn't exist.
the Sufi masters working on us.
and artificial intelligence,
et de l'intelligence artificielle,
like the study of consciousness,
comme l'étude de la conscience,
de comment fonctionne la conscience.
how consciousness works.
d'intelligence artificielle,
artificial intelligence,
de stupidité artificielle.
artificial stupidity.
eternal, omnipresent, all powerful.
omniprésentes, omnipotentes.
not a materialist, I'm an immaterialist.
OK ? Je suis un ignostique, [Dieu ?]
new word -- ignostic.
de savoir si Dieu existe
on whether God exists
correctement les termes.
is the human genome.
est le génome humain.
because about 20 years ago
car il y a une vingtaine d'années
they thought it would probably contain
on pensait qu'il contiendrait probablement
it's been revised downwards.
to be just over 20 thousand genes
because rice -- get this --
two more than people,
but they are very strange.
mais elles sont très étranges.
think that's fascinating.
moins vous pouvez voir.
the less you can see.
for the figures.
s'il n'était pas vraiment là.
except in your memory.
sauf dans votre mémoire.
things about the past
what I was like when I was two?
Vous ne vous souvenez pas de ce qui vous est arrivé
avant l'âge de deux ou trois ans.
earlier than the age of two or three.
because otherwise they'd be out of a job.
is the grid on which we hang.
la grille à laquelle nous sommes accrochés.
that cells are continually renewed.
nails, that kind of stuff --
is replaced at some point.
est remplacée à un moment ou à un autre.
take a bit longer.
un peu plus longtemps.
not one cell in your body
pas une cellule dans votre corps
seven years ago.
who then are we? What are we?
Personne ne les verra jamais. Ils sont plus petits
que la longueur d'onde de la lumière.
than the wavelength of light.
quelqu'un a mentionné 1600 récemment.
mentioned 1600 recently.
par un chimiste néerlandais appelé Van Helmont.
by a Dutch chemist called van Helmont.
invention of a word by a known individual.
called "blas," meaning astral radiation.
-- on ne voit pas la lumière.
dans les yeux, vous ne le verrez pas.
you won't see it.
will disagree with this.
the beam of light,
Ne laissez personne vous dire qu'il comprend l'électricité, ce n'est pas vrai.
they understand electricity, they don't.
in an electric wire move instantaneously
at the speed of light,
honey, they say.
Hundred billion.
galaxies, with the naked eye.
unless you've got very good eyesight.
radio waves, in 1887,
ondes radio parce qu'elles rayonnaient.
because they radiated.
"What's the point of these, Heinrich?
that you've found?"
a use for them someday.
to us is what we don't know.
of one millionth about anything."
"What's another thing we can't see?"
really worth asking.
we do about it while we are?"
you with, from two great philosophers,
grands penseurs du 20e siècle.
thinkers of the 20th century.
and the other a poet.
in order to enjoy ourselves."
W.H. Auden, one of my favorite poets,
on Earth to help others.
are here for, I've no idea."
Poursuivez votre voyage dans l'inconnu !]
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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Why you should listen
John Lloyd seems to have known every brilliant and funny person in Britain, and his collaborations are legendary. He's been a fixture on the BBC for four decades, producing such classic comedies as Blackadder, Spitting Image, the BBC's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and lately QI (short for "Quite Interesting"), hosted by Stephen Fry (read his Reddit AMA about it).
Lloyd has also written more than a dozen funny books -- including The Meaning of Liff, a collaboration with his friend Douglas Adams, which has been in print for 26 years.
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