All right, you people ready to have some fun?
好了 大家准备好来点乐子了吗
You have a basic understanding of differential calculus and at least one year of algebraic topology?
你们都对微积分有基本认识 并至少学过一年代数拓扑吧
Well, then here come the jokes. Why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip?
好吧 下面是笑话时间 鸡为什么要穿过默比乌斯带
To get to the same side bazinga! All right, a neutron walks into a bar and asks, "How much for a drink?"
为了回到同一侧 逗你玩呢 还有 一个中子走进家酒吧问道 酒多少钱一杯
The bartender says, "For you, no charge." Hello?
酒保回答 你买吗 免费(无电荷) 有人在吗
I know you're out there. I can hear you metabolizing oxygen and expelling carbon dioxide.
我知道你们在的 能听到你们代谢氧气 排出二氧化碳的声音
Looks like we have some academic dignitaries in the audience.Dr. Randall from the geology department
观众中好像不乏学术权威啊 地质学系的兰德尔教授
only man who's happy when they take his work for granite.Bada cha!
唯一一位别人说他(研究花岗岩)"花岗岩脑袋" 他还得笑纳的人 巴扎嘿
I kid the geologists, of course,but it's only 'cause I have no respect for the field.
当然 我是在拿地质学家开涮 那只是因为我压根就没把那当回事儿
Let's get serious for a moment.Why are we all here?'Cause we're scientists.
下面我们来谈点严肃话题 我们今天为何齐聚于此 因为我们是科学家
And what do scientists study?The universe.And what's the universe made of?I am so glad you asked.
科学家是研究什么的 宇宙 宇宙由何构成 很高兴你提这问题
There's antimony,arsenic, aluminum, selenium And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium Everybody!
有锑 砷 铝 硒 有氢 氧 氮 铼 还有镍 钕 镎 锗 一起唱
And iron, americium Ruthenium, uranium, europium, zirconium, Lutetium, vanadium
还有铁 镅 钌 铀 铕 锆 镥 钒
Just the Asians! And lanthanum and osmium And astatine and radium...
亚洲人唱 还有镧和锇 砹和镭
Penny, Leonard. Would you be able to answer some questions I'm having about the events of last night?
佩妮 莱纳德 你们能不能帮我答疑解惑 昨天晚上我到底怎么回事
Sure.
当然
Question one... where are my pants?
问题 一 我的裤子上哪去了
You might want to check YouTube.
你可以上YouTube看一下
What do I search?
怎么找
It's already loaded. Just hit play.
已经缓冲好了 直接点开看吧
All right, people, let's get down to the math. It is only three dimensional thinking that limits our imagination.
好了各位 让我们来聊聊数学吧 仅仅用三维的思考方式 会限制我们的想象力
Can I take my pants off over my head? Of course not.
我能从头上脱了裤子吗 当然不行
My body's in the way. But if we had access to higher dimensions, we could move our pants around our bodies through the fourth dimension
我的身体在挡路。 但只要能进入更高维度 就能通过第四维度 让裤子绕着身体转圈
and our days of dropping trousers would be over.
以后就再没脱裤子这么一说了
Oh, Lord... This couldn't be any more humiliating.
天哪 真是丢人丢到家了