Lecture On Nothing
无 奈 的 演 说
【歌词】
Here's the point
这是关键所在
If we consider the huge maze of possible universes
如果我们认真的思索有关宇宙可能性的巨大迷宫
The vast majority will not have conditions hospitable to life
会发现大部分宇宙空间没有适合生命生存的条件
Or at least to anything remotely akin to life as we know it
哪怕任何与已知生命相近似的物体
For drastic changes in familiar physics
就拿世人所熟知的物理剧变来讲
This is clear
就这一点也是再清晰不过的了
If our universe didn't conform to the rules it does
如果我们的宇宙没有顺其规律运转
life, as we know it, would not exist
我们现知的生命体，都将不复存在
Even rather conservative changes to physics would interfere with the formation of stars
甚至是不那么剧烈的物理变化也会干扰星球的形成
For example
比如说
Disrupting their ability to act as cosmic furnaces
扰乱他们作为宇宙熔炉的能力
That synthesize complex life-supporting atoms
即合成维系生命的复杂的原子
Such as carbon and oxygen
如碳原子，氧原子
That normally are spewed throughout the universe
而碳氧原子通常是因超新星爆炸喷涌而出
By supernova explosions
并散布在整个宇宙中的
In the light of the sensitive dependence of life on the details of physics
鉴于生命高度依赖于物理的各个支细
If we now ask, for instance
如果我们现在质问，比如，
Why the forces and particles of nature have the particular properties we observe
为什么自然中的各种力和粒子具有我们观察到的各种特定属性组合
A possible answer emerges
一个合理的答案
Across the entire gamut of possibilities
越过所有的可能性闪现出来
These features vary widely
这些特点各有不同
Properties could be different
属性也各不同相同
What's special about the particular combination of particle and force properties we observe
粒子和力属性特定组合的特殊之处
Is that clearly they allow life to form
显然是因为他们允许生命形成
And life, intelligent life in particular
而生命，尤其是具有智慧的生命
Is a prerequisite even to ask the question of why our universe
是得以思考宇宙属性
Has the properties it does
的先决条件
In plain language
简单的来说
Things are the way they are
事物本来就是如此
Because if they weren't
因为如果不是如此
We wouldn't be here to notice
我们也不会存在也不可能会注意到
If we weren't here
如果我们视而不见
There'd be no one to see
就没人能够看清
The lack of politics and factories
政治和工业秩序的缺失
The gods at stake
诸神利害
The myopic view
短浅目光
Halts suspicion that it just might be true
不要再质疑
Your sense of awe
你的敬畏感
Your sense of wonder
你的惊愕感
Remains intact in the face of it all
我们所面对的一切是不可分割的一体
Perhaps in time
或许恰逢其时
Someone will listen to this waste of breath
是该有人听到这残喘之息
This lecture on nothing
这段无奈的演说
If we weren't here
如果我们视而不见
There'd be no one to see
就没人能够看清
The lack of politics and factories
政治和工业秩序的缺失
The gods at stake
诸神利害
The myopic view
短浅目光
Halts suspicion that it just might be true
不要再质疑
Your sense of awe
你的敬畏感
Your sense of wonder
你的惊愕感
Remains intact in the face of it all
我们所面对的一切是不可分割的一体
Perhaps in time
或许恰逢其时
Someone will listen to this waste of breath
是该有人听到这残喘之息
This lecture on nothing
这段无奈的演说
If we weren't here
如果我们视而不见
There'd be no one to see
就没人能够看清
The lack of politics and factories
政治和工业秩序的缺失
The gods at stake
诸神利害
The myopic view
短浅目光
Halts suspicion that it just might be true
不要再质疑
Your sense of awe
你的敬畏感
Your sense of wonder
你的惊愕感
Remains intact in the face of it all
我们所面对的一切是不可分割的一体
Perhaps in time
或许恰逢其时
Someone will listen to this waste of breath
是该有人听到这残喘之息
This lecture on nothing
这段无奈的演说