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1 ) 《宇宙：穿越时空的冒险》：这回咱们谈谈天朝缺乏的科学观吧
话说五四的时候，中国人想从西洋请德先生和赛先生，就是民主和科学。然后看看将近百年之后的今天，对于这种美好的愿望似乎可以用两个字来回答：呵呵
每天刷微博、朋友圈时，你是否也会因为各种谣言而困扰，什么牙膏尾巴的颜色能看出牙膏用料啊，什么胶原蛋白可以让皮肤有弹性啊，例子都说不过来。所以有时候感觉到天朝人民或许喜欢听信而疏于求证，恰是没有请来赛先生的原因。于是为了宣扬下“科学精神”，今天就推荐由Fox电视网和国家地理频道联合制作的系列纪录片《宇宙：穿越时空的冒险》（以下简称宇宙）
《宇宙》这一名字，很让人联想到08年的国家地理频道推出的《旅行到宇宙边缘》，两部作品都拥有着美轮美奂的CG技术，给我们带来了无与伦比的视觉震撼。它会将你无法感知的世界具象化，行星、太阳系、银河，恐怕只有上帝才能俯视的美景。但是《宇宙》作为系列纪录片，其拥有更为丰富视角，带给人的不仅仅是对于宏观宇宙的感慨，更多的是对人类探索宇宙真理的追忆。
回想少年时，老师问我未来想做什么，我总会坚定的回答说：“科学家”！可是这个理想并不能支撑我物理课及格。即使我们熟知牛顿被苹果砸中而想起了万有引定律，但是当年高考物理看到万有引力的考题时，我却希望当年砸中牛顿的不是苹果，而是榴莲！
这就是我曾经面对科学的心态，枯燥的书本和无聊的科学八卦夺走了骚年们本应具备的科学信仰。但是在《宇宙》一片中，我们却看到了科学所具有的精神和吸引力。《宇宙》用美式漫画的风格回溯了人类科学探索的历史：
我们只知道布鲁诺因为反对地心说而被教会烧死，但是我们却不知道教会为了碾碎他意志而整整折磨了他8年，但是布鲁诺却始终没有放弃自己的信念；我们肯定也猜不到，牛顿之所以能够发明万有引力定律，是因为哈雷与胡克的一个赌局作为引子，牛顿当上皇家学会会长之后烧掉了胡克的画像而导致后世根本不知道胡克长得什么样子。或许关于科学的故事或许远比科学本身有趣，但是《宇宙》却坚持着科学的理念展现了科学界的“人类的群星闪耀时”
《宇宙》从第一集开始就建立了一个宇宙时间体系，从大爆炸（Big Bang！）到现在，《宇宙》把这一历程浓缩成了一年12个月， 在这样一个框架下，《宇宙》带我们走进了一个视觉魔幻的历程，飞出太阳系，众览银河，甚至飘到遥远的宇宙边缘；或是探索微观，深入到晨露或是细胞之中；甚至《宇宙》带我们走到了黑洞的面前：当看到主持人奈尔•德葛拉司•泰森的飞船停留在黑洞的边缘，挣扎于黑洞强大的引力，周围的物质不断被吸进这个黑暗的掠食者，那画面绝对是过去几千年人类都无法想想的世界，此刻却可以在荧幕面前真切的感受，而随着飞船被吸进黑洞，一扇幻想的大门也在那一刻被打开！
《宇宙》的英文名字为《Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey》。剧如其名，主持人奈尔•德葛拉司•泰森乘坐着穿越时空的飞船，像奥德赛一样带来了一场视觉和心灵魔幻之旅。也展现了这个宇宙亘古不变的原理。
或许历史上的我们能够抵御战争的侵略，但是在科技上，“小米加步枪”是不会赢的！如果从民族的角度去思考，如果科学观能够普及，科学家出现的概率应该会增高。但我也担心，因为难以确定有多少人会因为我的介绍而去观看这部系列纪录片，但是我却坚定了自己的态度：如果我的孩子回答说他希望成为一名科学家的时候，我就需要像《宇宙》这样的作品去告诉我的孩子，科学有着怎样伟大的力量。
2 ) “一沙一世界”——《宇宙时空之旅》纪录片微博集锦
http://v.163.com/special/opencourse/aspacetimeodyssey.html
1、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第1集：立于银河（宇宙起源）】尼尔没有食言，在他乘座的那个酷炫的很有未来感的想象中的宇宙飞船带领下，我果然见到了“比恒星大的原子”和“比原子小的恒星”。这正是庄子说的“天下莫大于秋豪之末，而大山为小”，与片子中的布鲁诺一样，他凭想象便洞悉了宇宙的本质。 http://url.cn/WLnf0T ——2015/4/20
2、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第2集：分子做的事（物种起源）】我们和一支苍蝇或一棵树的区别有多大？当视角进入到分子层面，我们发现我们有着同样的双螺旋结构，无非是排列组合不同罢了。这样，就会从科学层面理解宗教层面上佛教所说的“众生平等“”了。变异是进化的前提，参差多态是世界的真相。 http://url.cn/dsT7gj ——2015/4/22
3、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第3集：知者无惧（万有引力）】千万年来来，在各大文明中，彗星一直是灾难的象征，直到1705年哈雷利用牛顿定律发现了它不过是一个每隔76年就会出现的星体。更令人震撼的是，人们根据牛顿定律预测了几十亿后银河系将与仙女座星系合并，人们能够看到维持十亿年的星光秀！ http://url.cn/aBJ6lm ——2015/4/26
4、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第4集：相对论】“你如果去过黑洞还能活着回来，你可能会发现我们宇宙中的其他时间和空间。先不提相对论的第一条戒律：‘汝不可超越光速。’太空中没有什么速度可以比光速快，但太空并不空旷，空间可以延伸、收缩、被扭曲，那样的话，时间也会被扭曲。”http://url.cn/UM8yx9 ——2015/4/25
5、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第5集：光的秘密（光的世界）】光是什么？墨子是发现光的第一人，却把精力用在了政治上。海瑟姆发现光来自远方，而非眼镜。牛顿用棱镜发现了七彩成像，却错过了更伟大的发现。赫歇尔发现了红外线的温度最高。约琴夫发现了光谱中的黑线……现在，我们的眼睛才刚刚睁开。 http://open.163.com/movie/2014/3/R/P/MA069D2OR_MA06EUDRP.html ——2015/4/26
6、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第6集：微观世界】人眼睛的原子数量比浩瀚的星空还要多，因此当对事物的看法进入到微观层面，你便会理解佛家所说的“一沙一世界”并非妄谈了。而从本质上讲，人身上的原子与太阳中的原子并无不同，从而，你也会体会到庄子所说的“万物齐一”是怎么回事了。http://url.cn/YMnD2Q ——2015/5/22
7、游似:【#宇宙时空之旅# 第7集：地球年龄】彼得森本来一开始只负责通过测量铅的含量来测量地球的年龄，但无意中却发现生活中充斥了大量的铅，最终将矛头指向了石化行业。所以这一集一开始讲得是一个科学问题，后来成了一个环保问题，这并不矛盾，因为环保需要科学的支持。 http://url.cn/RdK7vi ——2015/5/27
8、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第8集：宇宙星空】有三点感受。一，恒星主要有氢和氦组成。极简，然后极致，这是恒星的品质。没有生命，但可赋予其他星生命。二，恒星不恒。太阳会膨胀，然后坍缩，成为白矮星，地球早晚会完蛋。三，有一种“日出”叫银河系。换一个视角，世界可以如此美丽。http://url.cn/T9YyQv ——2015/6/12
9、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第9集：蓝色星球】地球并不像我们想象的那么牢固，起初它只是浑然一体的大陆，后来才分开，而且还将继续变化。海底其实是一个更大的世界，那里有山脉，谷底，还有火山爆发。人类并不比我们的祖先幸运，我们如果控制不住自己的欲望，将会死于自己之手。http://url.cn/a5RdCP ——2015/6/13
10、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第10集：电之骄子】在牛顿与爱因斯坦之间，有一个人叫法拉第。他发现了电与磁场的关系，改变了世界的速度，让人们可以千里传音传图。他的老师曾嫉妒他的成功让他去研究镜片，他一无所获，拿了块镜片做纪念。多年之后这块镜片又让他发现了电与磁与光的关系……http://url.cn/cz99nH ——2015/6/29
11、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第11集：科学探索】生命的起源有很多种，而外星说始终显得不可思议。但这一集却充分论证了这一点。小行星撞击地球，带来石头，也撞飞石头，而石头中却可以隐藏生命，很有可能这些生命就是这样进行星际穿越的。于是便可想象，这个宇宙其实早已遍布了生命。http://url.cn/YrOvpH ——2015/7/11
12、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第12集：气候变化】曾经有一个星球像地球一样适宜生命繁衍，但后来被温室效应给毁了，这就是金星。而现在地球面临着同样的危机，一百年来人类向大地中排放了太多的二氧化碳，破坏了地球的呼吸，冰雪在融化，地球在变暖。而避免这一危机的最好方式是使用太阳能。http://url.cn/fEpTez ——2015/7/14
13、【#宇宙时空之旅# 第13集：走向未来】我们对这个宇宙了解多少？什么叫暗物质？就好比在黑夜中站在海边的人，我们现在所看到的星系就像涌到暗边的泡沫。当旅行者一号飞越海王星向地球最后一次回眸时，地球不过是一束光线中泛着苍白蓝光的小点，那里有人类所有的自负和愚蠢，当然还有希望和荣光。http://t.qq.com/p/t/472451020506963?apiType=14 ——2015/7/21
14、【#宇宙时空之旅# 豆瓣总评】虽然只有13集，但断断续续竟然看了三个月。反过来说，一个片子拉扯三个月还能让人看完，足以证明它的魅力。我虽然搞的是文学，但却也是个科学谜，对宇宙时空还保留着童年时的好奇心。但并没有与之前的宗教观念冲突，而是彼此印证。因为宇宙即便不是另有上帝，也至少很符号“一沙一世界”的佛教宇宙观。http://movie.douban.com/subject/24698699/ ——2015/7/22
——2015－7－22丽江
3 ) 献给所有仰望星空的人们
本片由著名天体物理学家Neil deGrasse Tyson主持，这位仁兄主持过不少关于宇宙天文的科普节目，上镜频率堪比Brian Green和Brian Cox.他曾在《生活大爆炸》第四季第7集客串，饰演自己。Neil的磁性声线让人十分难忘，难怪会被《时代杂志》（2000年）评为“最性感天文物理学家”（为什么不是Brian Cox？（＋﹏＋））。片中一再提到泰森和萨根的交集。在聊到与萨根的缘分时，泰森认为萨根影响了他一生。17岁时泰森想报考康奈尔大学，康奈尔大学招生办把他的申请转发给萨根，令泰森没想到的是，萨根写了一封私人信件给他，邀请他去康奈尔大学，“他邀请我去，帮我决定我是不是应该选择这所大学。当时他还送了我一本签名的书，我当时认为自己何德何能，所以我那时就在想，如果我日后成为物理学家，我也会这样对待我的学生,”泰森说。不过最终泰森还是选择了哈佛大学（！）。
电视系列片《Cosmos: A Personal Voyage》在当年大受欢迎，有多达60个国家7.5亿人收看，是美国PBS电视台历史上最受欢迎的节目之一，配套发行的同名书籍成为纽约时报畅销书籍第1名长达70周，更赢得皮博迪奖和3座艾美奖。
值得一提的是获得非剧情类最佳编剧的本片编剧和制片人Ann Druyan。她同时也是《Cosmos: A Personal Voyage》的编剧，而且之后更成为了卡尔·萨根的第三任夫人。
还有让人简直不敢相信的是另一位制片人Seth MacFarlane。。。没错就是节操没下限，对屎尿屁情有独钟的那位Seth MacFarlane。当片头飘过这个名字的时候，我一度以为眼花了
从原始人类第一次把好奇的目光投向星空，到今天旅行者1号已航行至太阳系的郊外，对于宇宙138亿年的历史而言不过是一瞬间。当旅行者1号飞过海王星时最后一次回头凝望，地球不过是浩瀚宇宙中的一个不起眼的暗淡的小光点。我们越是对宇宙了解的多，就越是明白人类的渺小和无知。难怪有人说学习天文学会让人学会谦虚。。在几千年探索未知的道路上，一代又一代的科学家付出了毕生的努力，就算被忽视，被指责，被排挤，被迫害，追求真理的脚步却从未停止，即使在漫长的中世纪那些黑暗年代，依然闪烁着人类理性的光芒。然而其中能被人记住的总是少数，太多人被少数大牌的光芒掩盖。。在读《万物简史》的时候，我不时感叹，这根本就是科学史的无名英雄赞歌啊，《Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey 》也给我同样的感觉,有不少科学家我第一次听说（我敢说好多人也是），这个节目让我记住了他们的名字。因为他们的不懈努力，刷新了人类对世界的认识，他们终将被历史铭记。
4 ) 时空之旅
第一集：从宇宙起源说到地球的起源，如果把地球的历史在时间轴上浓缩到一年的12个月的话，那么人类的历史就是那最后几秒钟的时间。
在浩瀚的宇宙中，地球就像是大洋中的一滴小水滴。地球的产生是偶然的，人类的产生也是偶然的。
第二集：物种的进化。为什么北极熊是白色的，其实白色的熊是由于基因突变而造成的，大多数情况下，基因突变本身没有优劣，但环境选择了基因，也就是说环境的因素导致某些基因因素更加容易生存。白色的北极熊更加容易在冰雪覆盖的环境中隐藏起来，这一基因元素改变了生活在北极的熊的繁衍。而狗的产生，不是由环境，而是人类的驯化产生的。狗来自于狼，由于狼体内的激素差别，某些狼可以亲近人类，并且能够慢慢和人类相处共同抗争。于是，人类驯服了这些“狼”，并且把这些“狼”驯服成人类需要的功能，比如长的可爱的“狼”，成为了人类的宠物，另一些“狼”，被驯服成了牧羊犬。物种的进化，既有随机性，又有人为性。随着人类在这个地球上的强大，人类也越来越多地控制和改变着地球物种的进化。
第三集：带领人类探索美丽宇宙的两位伟大的科学家，牛顿和哈雷。哈雷彗星，每76年出现一次，这不是巧合。建立在牛顿的理论基础上，哈雷发现了彗星的奥秘。彗星是离太阳很远很远的冰石，受到万有引力和惯性的作用，它会以椭圆形的轨迹绕太阳运动。而我们看到的长长的扫把，就是彗星遇热而挥发的气体。
第四集：当我们仰望星空，感叹繁星的时候，也许那个星星已经不存在了。它们可能离我们几万光年，以至于当光传到地球的时候，这颗恒星已经毁灭。爱因斯坦告诉我们，光速是这个宇宙中的极限速度，当另一个速度无限接近于光速的时候，时空就会发生扭曲。另一个我们并不熟悉的伟大科学家John Michell发现了暗星，也就是我们所说的黑洞。黑洞，是质量十分巨大的恒星萎缩而成的，所以它具有非常大的质量，密度和引力，以至于光也难以逃脱它。那么既然黑洞我们无法看见，那么John Michell又是如何发现它的呢？John Michell发现有一些行星围绕着某个轨迹在运动，而现代科学通过X光射线，再次证明了黑洞的存在。黑洞里面是什么？这个仍然是人类需要探究的领域。黑洞的引力足够大，以至于它可以将周围的行星都吸进去。它可能是电影中的时空隧道，带领我们到达过去，或者到达另一个星系。黑洞里面也可能是另一个宇宙，而黑洞里面可能也存在黑洞，而地球可能也是存在于某个黑洞中。宇宙太神秘，神秘到即使人类的脑洞打开，还是无法知道它的秘密。
第五集：光的奥秘。从最早发现小孔成像的墨子，到1000年后伟大的阿拉伯文明，再到牛顿发现了光谱，William Herschel发现了光谱和温度的关系，发现了不可见光-红外线。夫琅禾费制造了分光仪，揭示了宇宙中不同物质，光谱不同，通过对宇宙中物质的光谱的分析进一步探索宇宙的奥秘。人类依靠这一个个天才，一步步登上科学探索的阶梯。
第六集：微观世界。人类的历史只有几千年，而植物的历史有几亿年。叶绿体从事太阳能采集工作，是微观世界的太阳能电池。光合作用是终极能源，不会污染大气。碳原子是世界上一切生物分子的支柱，碳基分子我们称为蛋白质，组成生命的分子。氢原子的原子核中只有一个质子，所以元素表中排第一位。两个质子的原子核，就需要有中子把它们聚集在一起。质子越多，需要的中子就越多。
第七集：地球年龄。通过探测岩石来推算地球的年龄，最下面的一层是最古老的，通过把每一层的沉积时间加起来来推算地球的年龄，但是不同时期，每一层的沉积时间不同，所以科学家推算出的地球年龄差异很大。另一方面，最下面的一层岩石，也不能确定它是最古老的岩石。太阳系形成时残留的遗迹，它存在于木星和火星轨道间，这些是产生地球的原料。100万年左右之前，一个大的小行星恰巧撞击了一颗较小的，这颗铁质小行星的碎片撞击到地球上形成一个大坑，就在现在亚利桑那大峡谷所在的位置。如果我们知道这块铁的形成时间，那么就能知道地球的年龄。每种元素都有其固定的衰变时间，从铀慢慢衰变成稳定的铅，所需的时间是恒定的。要了解地球真是的年龄，最好的办法就是测量陨石的铅。
测量铅含量没有那么简单，需要在一个高度洁净的环境下，利用质谱仪，测量样本中铅和铀的含量。质谱仪利用磁场将样本中的元素分离，从而使各种元素可以被量化，最后通过测得的铅和铀的含量，知道地球的年龄是45亿年。
罗马人刚开始大量使用铅作为下水道，餐具。部分历史学家认为，罗马的灭亡和铅有关。那么为什么还要使用铅呢，因为它便宜，延展性好，制造简单。
为什么铅对我们的危害那么大？因为当铅进入我们体内时，它会假装成锌或者铁这些细胞成长的确需要的元素。细胞中的酶被铅的伪装迷惑，开始结合，这个是致命的结合，因为铅无法满足对细胞至关重要的需要。铅也会妨碍神经系统，干扰对记忆能力至关重要的神经末梢，对孩童更为有害。
直到克莱尔彼得森开始研究地球的年龄，它发现在深海中铅的含量很少，而浅海中铅的含量要高出几百倍，这是由于当时美国含铅汽油导致的。当克莱尔彼得森在自然杂志上发表了关于铅的研究后，触动了石油化工业的经济利益。坚持20年之后，克莱尔彼得森获得了最后的胜利。
5 ) Pale Blue Dot
//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot
(由旅行者1号于1990年2月14日在距离地球60亿英里处拍摄，拍摄完照片后，旅行者1号驶离太阳系，踏上寻找其它文明的漫漫征途。在照片中的地球，只有一个像素点大小。)
第13集临近结尾Neil deGrasse Tyson引用卡尔萨根关于地球——the “Pale Blue Dot”——解说词。
Carl Sagan titled his 1994 book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space after the photograph. In it, he expresses his thoughts on a deeper meaning of the image:
From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
—Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, 1997 reprint, pp. xv–xvi
6 ) we are made of star stuff —— 那些令人感动的台词
01 Standing Up in the Milky Way
To make this journey, we'll need imagination. But imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine. This adventure is made possible by generations of searchers strictly adhering to a simple set of rules, test ideas by experiment and observation, build on those ideas that pass the test, reject the ones that fail, follow the evidence wherever it leads and question everything. Accept these terms, and the cosmos is yours.
You, me, everyone... we are made of star stuff.
All of recorded history occupies only the last 14 seconds, and every person you've ever heard of lived somewhere in there. All those kings and battles, migrations and inventions, wars and loves, everything in the history books happened here, in the last seconds of the Cosmic Calendar.
Who was I back then? I was just a 17-year-old kid from the Bronx with dreams of becoming a scientist, and somehow the world's most famous astronomer found time to invite me to Ithaca, in upstate New York, and spend a Saturday with him. I remember that snowy day like it was yesterday. He met me at the bus stop and showed me his laboratory at Cornell University. Carl reached behind his desk and inscribed this book for me. "For Neil, a future astronomer. Carl." At the end of the day, he drove me back to the bus station. The snow was falling harder. He wrote his phone number on a scrap of paper and he said, "If the bus can't get through, call me and spend the night at my home with my family." I already knew I wanted to become a scientist, but that afternoon, I learned from Carl the kind of person I wanted to become. He reached out to me and to countless others, inspiring so many of us to study, teach and do science.
02 Some of the Things That Molecules Do
The awesome power of evolution transformed the ravenous wolf into the faithful shepherd, who protects the herd and drives the wolf away.
Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We're not afraid to admit what we don't know. There's no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers.
03 When Knowledge Conquered Fear
Using nothing more than Newton's laws of gravitation, we astronomers can confidently predict that several billion years from now, our home galaxy, the Milky Way, will merge with our neighboring galaxy Andromeda. Because the distances between the stars are so great compared to their sizes, few if any stars in either galaxy will actually collide. Any life on the worlds of that far-off future should be safe, but they would be treated to an amazing, billion-year-long light show… a dance of a half a trillion stars… to music first heard on one little world by a man who had but one true friend.
04 A Sky Full of Ghosts
-Father... do you believe in ghosts? -Why, yes, my son! -You, you do? I would not have thought so. -Oh, no, not in the human kind of ghost. No... not at all. But look up, my boy, and see a sky full of them. -The stars, father? I do not follow. -Every star is a sun as big, as bright as our own. Just imagine how far away from us you'd have to move the sun to make it appear as small and faint as a star. The light from the stars travels very fast, faster than anything, but not infinitely fast. It takes time for their light to reach us. For the nearest ones, it takes years. For others, centuries. Some stars are so far away, it takes eons for their light to get to Earth. By the time the light from some stars gets here, they are already dead. For those stars, we see only their ghosts. We see their light, but their bodies perished long, long ago. John, I have seen further back in time than any man before me -- millions of years into the past.
If you somehow survived the perilous journey across the event horizon, you'd be able to look back out and see the entire future history of the universe unfold before your eyes.
He broke through the walls of heaven.
The ones that still shine their light upon us long after they're gone.
05 Hiding in The Light
His spectral lines revealed that the visible cosmos is all made of the same elements. The planets... The stars... The galaxies... We, ourselves, and all of life... The same star stuff.
06 Deeper, Deeper, Deeper Still
Every one of them a unique phrase of life's poetry, written in the atoms by eons of evolution.
07 The Clean Room
Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature will not be fooled.
08 Sisters of The Sun
I was to blame for not having pressed my point. I had given in to authority when I believed I was right. If you are sure of your facts, you should defend your position.
The words of the powerful may prevail in other spheres of human experience, but in science, the only thing that counts is the evidence and the logic of the argument itself.
Will the beings of a distant future, sailing past this wreck of a star, have any idea of the life and worlds that it once warmed?
When a massive star dies, it blows itself to smithereens. Its substance is propelled across the vastness to be stirred by starlight and gathered up by gravity. Stars to dust and dust to stars. In the cosmos, nothing is wasted.
09 The Lost Worlds of Planet Earth
Our sense of the stability of the Earth is an illusion due to the shortness of our lives.
The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
All this beauty will have vanished and the Earth of our moment in time will take its place among the lost worlds. The great internal engine of plate tectonics is indifferent to life, as are the small changes in the Earth's orbit and tilt and the occasional collisions with little worlds on rogue orbits. These processes have no notion of what has been going on over billions of years on our planet's surface. They do not care.
10 The Electric Boy
Science is a harsh mistress.
Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
11 The Immortals
Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.
Space is so vast that it would take billions of years for a rock ejected from the Earth to collide with a planet circling another star.
They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross... before we found our way.
12 The World Set Free
There are no scientific or technological obstacles to protecting our world and the precious life that it supports. It all depends on what we truly value and if we can summon the will to act.
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
13 Unafraid of the Dark
It was as if we had been standing on the seashore at night, mistakenly believing that the froth on the waves was all there was to the ocean.
We call it "dark energy," but that name, like "dark matter," is merely a code word for our ignorance. It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there.
That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species, lived there... on a mote of dust suspended... in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast, cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction... of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet... is a lonely speck in the great, enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the Pale Blue Dot, the only home we've ever known.
Learning the age of the Earth or the distance to the stars or how life evolves-- what difference does that make? Well, part of it depends on how big a universe you're willing to live in. Some of us like it small. That's fine. Understandable. But I like it big. And when I take all of this into my heart and my mind, I'm uplifted by it. And when I have that feeling, I want to know that it's real, that it's not just something happening inside my own head, because it matters what's true, and our imagination is nothing compared with Nature's awesome reality. I want to know what's in those dark places, and what happened before the Big Bang. I want to know what lies beyond the Cosmic Horizon, and how life began. Are there other places in the cosmos where matter and energy have become alive... and aware? I want to know my ancestors-- all of them. I want to be a good, strong link in the chain of generations. I want to protect my children and the children of ages to come. We, who embody the local eyes and ears and thoughts and feelings of the cosmos, we've begun to learn the story of our origins-- star stuff contemplating the evolution of matter, tracing that long path by which it arrived at consciousness. We and the other living things on this planet carry a legacy of cosmic evolution spanning billions of years. If we take that knowledge to heart, if we come to know and love Nature as it really is, then we will surely be remembered by our descendants as good, strong links in the chain of life. And our children will continue this sacred searching, seeing for us as we have seen for those who came before, discovering wonders yet undreamt of... in the cosmos.
7 ) Carl Edward Sagan Side
聚集在这里的，是我们的欢乐和痛苦，是成千上万的宗教信仰、意识形态，和经济学说每个猎手与觅食者，每个英雄与懦夫，每个文明的创立者和毁灭者，每个国王与农夫，每对年轻的爱侣，每一个母亲与父亲、充满希望的孩子们，发明家与探险家，每一位高尚的教师、每一位贪腐的政客，每一位超级明星、每一位最高领袖，人类史上的每一位圣人和罪人，都生活在这里，
如一粒微尘，悬浮在一束阳光之中。地球是一个很小的舞台，在浩瀚的宇宙背景下，想想过去的血流成河，那为帝王将相而流的血，只为让他们在光荣和胜利中，成为瞬间的伟人，占有那一个小点中…那一小部分。想想那无尽的残酷，图像里那一个像素点的某个角落的民众，每天把这残酷施加到与他们没什么区别的另一个角落的民众身上。他们为何常常误解，他们为何渴望杀死对方，他们的憎恨为何如此狂热。
我们在装模做样，我们自以为很重要，妄想着我们人类地位特殊，在宇宙中与众不同，这一切，都因这泛着苍白蓝光的小点而动摇。我们的星球，不过是一粒孤独的微尘，笼罩在伟大的宇宙黑暗之中。
我们默默无闻，沉浸在无尽的浩瀚里，没有一丝线索显示，除了我们自己，
还有谁能拯救我们。地球是目前已知唯一有生命的世界，生命再无其他去处，至少在不久的将来，亦是如此。没有外星球，供人类迁移，只可参观，不能定居。不管你喜欢与否，现在，只有地球供我们立足。据说研习天文，可以让人谦卑，塑造人心，磨炼个性，也许再没有更好的方法能比这遥远的画面更好地显示出人类的自负与愚蠢。
对我而言，它强调了我们的责任，要对人更友善，懂得珍惜与爱护，这泛着苍白蓝光的小点是我们知道的唯一的家园。
“That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
8 ) As Above, So Below.
说的真好！
人类在浩瀚的宇宙面前渺小的连一枚细胞都不如... 这部系列纪录片拍得太好了... 非常适合拿来科普宇宙常识的人看...非常精彩
两个字：神作，要给我将来的儿子看，不看就打
卧槽这片子虽然内容比较浅显，但特效太棒了，制作的如此精良！解说词也很感人，当中穿插的动画也很有意思。颜值太高，令本宝宝颤抖了。。。
很棒，不仅仅是宇宙、天体物理学的科普，还包罗了量子力学、生物学、环境科学等等。然而更重要的是，本片有大量科学史的内容，以及科学精神的阐释，甚至以及德先生。宇宙，从最宏观到最微观，生命诞生进化的历程，以及我们了解这些知识的历程，在今天具有越来越重要的本体论意义。请选对你的"世界观"。
才看了一集就飙泪两次。。。虽然讲的都是浅显的知识，但是这种上天入地在时间中穿梭的感觉，就是这么让人沉迷。。。对于大众和青少年来说，并不只是传授某种知识便足够，更重要的是将科学的精神埋在新一代的心中。。。科普不就应该是这样的吗？
用一段跨越时间与空间的旅行深入浅出的介绍宇宙的概貌和人类的科学发展史，又蕴含着对于地球文明的关怀和历史的反思，传达科学的方法和态度，指引通向未来和真理的道路：质疑权威，独立思考，自我质疑，观察和实验，遵循证据。特效制作水平比大多数科幻片更震撼，科学知识的介绍更利于欣赏科幻片。
希望我可以活到知道黑洞里到底是什么那一天
“也许你会说，知道这些有什么用呢？对我而言，这个问题取决于你想活在一个多大的宇宙中。”
不愧为IMDB排名前6的电视系列，本剧展现出的科学精神以及带给观众的思考远远超越了影片视觉效果给人的震撼。既能够深入浅出地讲解人类对宇宙的探索史，又能够形象乃至是煽情地激发出普通人对于科学的崇敬，严肃的态度给人以无限哲思。绝对开阔视野，若早七八年看过，说不定我会爱上物理学。
Neil讲述与Carl的师徒情谊的那段太感人了。。。
每次看这种纪录片都觉得尘埃人类还要为自己的琐事烦恼，不值一提都不能形容了。
剧组好像特别有钱的感觉！
我觉得这片可以当做教科书
如果是一个科幻迷和纪录片爱好者，不看一定是一生的损失。如果不是科幻迷，不看就是巨大的损失……五星，没有疑问
一部伟大的剧，震撼无以描述
坑货一个，第一集开了个大头，以为接下来要探索宇宙了，结果剩下的11集全都是在地球上呆着，变成讲历史了，各种动画也是让人烦得受不了，这就是一部30分钟能讲完的宇宙纪录片硬生生砸钱加特效和动画改成了12集而已，华而不实，看了以后有一种被欺骗的感觉。
人类认识宇宙的过程，也是认识自我的过程。光年尺度下的叙事，让人类显得无足轻重，并不比一粒宇宙尘埃更有意义。但正是通过一代代科学家的不懈努力，才能使我们能够突破肉体的局限性，将人类的视野拓宽到目所能及之外的世界，或许有一天，直至宇宙的边缘。
没看过的感觉很难做朋友
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如果我是初中物理老师，一定在第一堂课上播一集这！为了能让更多孩子起根儿上决心学好物理！比如我！