Adam Savage: How simple ideas lead to scientific discoveries
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của việc sở hữu một bộ não là
about owning a brain
no control over the things
the facts and the stories.
Điều này càng chuyển biến xấu đi khi chúng ta già đi.
đã nằm hằng năm trong đầu mình
lại quan tâm tới chuyện đó,
why you're interested in them,
was a young boy in Queens,
and his wagon and a ball.
the ball went to the back of the wagon.
lại chạy về phía sau xe?"
the ball go to the back of the wagon?"
Cha ông trả lời, "Ờ thì,..
And his dad said, "Ah.
going to the back of the wagon."
the Challenger disaster,
the Nobel Prize in Physics
the movement of subatomic particles.
with his father as giving him a sense
you out to the edge of human knowledge,
at the great Library of Alexandria,
as the librarian,
which was south of Alexandria.
that stuck in Eratosthenes' mind,
when he looked down this deep well,
that his head was blocking the sun.
that Christopher Columbus
is spherical is total bull.
understood that the world was spherical
with a simple observation.
the Earth's shadow on the Moon,
creates a circular shadow
Bài toán trái đất hình cầu đã được chứng minh.
this letter with this fact.
was directly above the city of Swenet,
it was a straight line
right past the guy's head up to the sun.
in the ground in Alexandria
and the same day, at noon,
that it was 7.2 degrees off-axis.
and you have two points on it,
between those two points,
làm tôi cũng thấy hơi nghi ngờ câu chuyện này,
of a round number,
of this story too,
so we'll continue with it.
between Swenet and Alexandria,
was good at geography.
was a road of commerce,
how long it took to get there.
so he knew very precisely
the two cities was 500 miles.
of the actual diameter of the Earth.
are looking for the Higgs boson.
có thể di chuyển nhanh hơn vận tốc ánh sáng,
than the speed of light,
are made possible
được phát triển trong vài thập kỷ gần đây.
in the last few decades.
để phát hiện ra những điều này.
our eyes and our ears and our minds.
an experimental physicist in Paris.
kết quả thí nghiệm của các nhà vật lý khác,
and confirming other people's results,
like a bit of an also-ran,
that cannot be independently corroborated.
with Galileo's experiments
whether or not light had a speed.
really wonderful experiment
each one of them was holding a lamp.
and his assistant would open his.
and they did the same thing,
that if light had a discernible speed,
phát ra từ đèn của anh trợ lý.
coming back from his assistant's lamp.
cho Galileo kịp trông thấy điều gì.
of magnitude when he assumed
tốc độ âm thanh chừng 10 lần.
as fast as the speed of sound.
Ông sống ở Paris,
two experimental stations,
có thể nói là khá tầm thường.
trivial piece of equipment.
the clicker for a second
your brains in this.
and it's got a bunch of teeth.
để phân ra các xung ánh sáng.
to sending discrete pulses of light.
through this notch at a mirror,
phản chiếu từ mặt gương
is bouncing off the mirror
as he spins the wheel faster.
like a door is starting to close
that's coming back to his eye.
of light is not coming back
Ánh sáng thực ra đang chạm phải một cái răng cưa.
nhanh đến một mức nhất định,
and he fully occludes the light.
between the two stations
and the number of notches in the wheel,
với số rãnh trên bánh răng cưa,
so với vận tốc chính xác.
to within two percent of its actual value.
đam mê nghiên cứu khoa học.
going about science.
understanding a concept,
the people that discovered that concept.
they came to understand it.
were thinking about
they are not so different from us.
Họ và chúng ta đều sinh ra với từng đó bộ phận.
We all start with the same tools.
of science are called fields of study.
một ngôi nhà kín cổng cao tường khó vào
as a closed, black box,
cố gắng suy nghĩ sâu hơn một chút
just thought a little bit harder
và họ tò mò hơn người thường chút xíu.
and they were a little bit more curious.
cách con người suy nghĩ về thế giới
people thought about the world,
và các bạn cũng có thể làm được như vậy.
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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