John Lloyd: An animated tour of the invisible
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given by John Lloyd in 2009]
has spent his whole career
(Aplauze)
than you think, actually.
everything that matters --
but we can't see what holds them apart,
dar nu vedem ce le ţine la distanţă,
we see only the skin of things,
vedem doar suprafaţa lucrurilor
nu vedem din ce-s făcuți oamenii,
we can't see what makes people tick,
the more it disappears.
really closely at stuff,
dacă te uiţi la substructura materiei, nu vezi nimic.
substructure of matter,
şi există numai energie.
and there is only energy.
e că lucrurile pe care nu le vedem,
about invisibility is,
we also can't understand.
and which we don't understand.
vedea şi pe care nu-l înţelegem.
of all the four fundamental forces,
cele 4 forţe fundamentale,
ce este sau de ce există.
knows what it is or why it's there.
the greatest scientist who ever lived,
să facă să funcţioneze pârghiile gravitaţiei.
to Earth specifically
(Râsete)
on that one, I don't know.
Dar n-am idee ce gândiţi.
I've no idea what any of you are thinking.
nu ne putem citi unul altuia mintea.
each other's minds,
suficient, dar nu ne putem citi mintea.
taste each other,
but we can't read each other's minds.
this great Middle Eastern religion
despre care unii cred că e rădăcina tuturor religiilor,
is the root of all religions,
all telepaths, so they say,
to the rest of us that it doesn't exist.
the Sufi masters working on us.
maeştrii Sufi lucrează asupra noastră.
and artificial intelligence,
like the study of consciousness,
ca şi studiul conştiinţei,
cum funcţionează conştiinţa.
how consciousness works.
artificial intelligence,
artificial stupidity.
eternal, omnipresent, all powerful.
un materialist, sunt imaterialist.
not a materialist, I'm an immaterialist.
OK? Sunt ignostic.
new word -- ignostic.
de întrebarea „Există D-zeu?”
on whether God exists
is the human genome.
because about 20 years ago
they thought it would probably contain
au crezut că probabil conţine
De atunci, în fiecare an,
it's been revised downwards.
că sunt puțin peste 20.000 de gene
to be just over 20 thousand genes
because rice -- get this --
two more than people,
cu doi mai mult decât oamenii,
(Râsete)
but they are very strange.
dar ele sunt foarte ciudate.
think that's fascinating.
Cu cât e mai multă lumină cu atât vezi mai puţin.
the less you can see.
Nimeni nu poate vedea timpul.
există un trend în fizica modernă
fiindcă e incomod pentru cifre.
for the figures.
except in your memory.
things about the past
„Tată, îţi aminteşti cum eram la 2 ani?”
what I was like when I was two?
El a spus: eu de ce nu pot?
ce s-a întâmplat mai devreme de 2-3 ani.
earlier than the age of two or three.
fiindcă altfel ar fi rămas fără slujbe.
because otherwise they'd be out of a job.
is the grid on which we hang.
că celulele se reînnoiesc continuu.
that cells are continually renewed.
unghiile etc.
nails, that kind of stuff --
is replaced at some point.
take a bit longer.
not one cell in your body
seven years ago.
who then are we? What are we?
Ce-i acest lucru care reprezintă
Sunt mai mici decât unda de lumină.
than the wavelength of light.
cineva a menţionat recent anul 1600.
mentioned 1600 recently.
un chimist olandez pe nume Van Helmont.
by a Dutch chemist called van Helmont.
invention of a word by a known individual.
făcută vreodată de o persoană cunoscută.
called "blas," meaning astral radiation.
adică radiaţie astrală.
Lumina – nu poţi vedea lumina.
de lumină prin faţa ochilor, n-o vei vedea.
you won't see it.
will disagree with this.
Dar e ciudat că nu vezi raza de lumină,
the beam of light,
they understand electricity, they don't.
Probabil credeţi că electronii dintr-o sârmă se mişcă instantaneu
in an electric wire move instantaneously
at the speed of light,
cu viteza mierii, se spune.
honey, they say.
O sută de miliarde.
Hundred billion.
Cinci, dintr-o sută de miliarde – cu ochiul liber.
galaxies, with the naked eye.
unless you've got very good eyesight.
numai dacă ai vedere foarte bună.
Când Heinrich Hertz a descoperit undele radio,
radio waves, in 1887,
because they radiated.
cu undele astea radio pe care le-ai găsit?
"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,
de la doi mari filosofi,
thinkers of the 20th century.
and the other a poet.
sunt convins că nu pentru a ne distra.
in order to enjoy ourselves."
(Râsete)
W.H. Auden, one of my favorite poets,
unul dintre poeţii mei preferaţi a spus:
on Earth to help others.
Pentru ce sunt alţii pe aici, n-am idee.
are here for, I've no idea."
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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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