1999年的世界末日（雙語(yǔ)有聲）

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詼諧的語(yǔ)言，生動(dòng)的內(nèi)容一分鐘快速掌握科技最新動(dòng)態(tài)

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At the recent AAAS? meeting, Stony Brook University’s Robert Crease talked about a doomsday scare involving Scientific American and Brookhaven National Lab’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC:

早在1999年的美國(guó)科學(xué)促進(jìn)會(huì)會(huì)議上，石溪大學(xué)的羅伯特·克里斯向《科學(xué)美國(guó)人》雜志談及末日恐慌——布魯克海汶實(shí)驗(yàn)室開(kāi)發(fā)的重離子對(duì)撞機(jī)（RHIC）：

“As the accelerator neared completion in 1999, Scientific American ran an article about RHIC, called ‘A Little Big Bang,’ with the title referring to the machine’s ambition to study forms of matter in the early universe.”

“隨著時(shí)間越來(lái)越接近1999年，《科學(xué)美國(guó)人》刊登了一篇關(guān)于重離子對(duì)撞機(jī)的文章，名為《來(lái)點(diǎn)宇宙大爆炸》。標(biāo)題意指科學(xué)家們?yōu)檠芯坑钪嫘纬沙跗谖镔|(zhì)構(gòu)成而研發(fā)這臺(tái)機(jī)器?！?br>
A reader wrote in wondering if black holes might be created. Sci Am printed the letter with a considered response from physicist Frank Wilczek.

一位讀者來(lái)信，疑惑對(duì)撞機(jī)是否會(huì)產(chǎn)生黑洞。物理學(xué)家弗蘭克·維爾切克相當(dāng)謹(jǐn)慎地回答了讀者的問(wèn)題。同時(shí)《科學(xué)美國(guó)人》登載了這封信。

“Wilzcek said that the black hole scenario was incredible. But he also said that there’s a more likely possibility that it might create strangelets, which would swallow ordinary matter and described that as [merely] not plausible.That then prompted a series of headlines including this from the Sunday Times of London, entitled ‘Big Bang Machine Could Destroy Earth’.”

“維爾切克說(shuō)產(chǎn)生黑洞是不可能的，更有可能產(chǎn)生的是會(huì)吞噬普通物質(zhì)的奇異夸克物質(zhì)，雖然這種可能性也不大。他的發(fā)言引起一系列反響，其中就有倫敦《星期日時(shí)報(bào)》的文章：《重現(xiàn)宇宙大爆炸可能摧毀地球》。”

Scientific American, Brookhaven and the Earth survived. Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in 2004 for his earlier work.

如今已經(jīng)是2010年了，《科學(xué)美國(guó)人》雜志、布魯克海汶和地球都還好好的，維爾切克則因?yàn)樗暗难芯揩@得2004的諾貝爾。

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