鑽石舞台

What is the intersection between technology, art and science? Curiosity and wonder, because it drives us to explore, because we're surrounded by things we can't see. And I love to use film to take us on a journey through portals of time and space, to make the invisible visible, because what that does, it expands our horizons, it transforms our perception, it opens our minds and it touches our heart. So here are some scenes from my 3D IMAX film, "Mysteries of the Unseen World." (Music)

工藝、藝術、科學的交匯處在哪裡？好奇與思索，因為它讓我們有探索的動力，因為我們周遭充滿着看不到的東西。我樂於用電影的方式帶給大家一段穿越時空的旅程，使那不能見的，成為能見的。因為它會 開闊我們的視野，改變我們的觀點，拓寬我們的胸襟，觸動我們的心弦。以下這些片段來自我的3D IMAX電影《不見領域的奧秘》。(音樂)

There is movement which is too slow for our eyes to detect, and time lapse makes us discover and broaden our perspective of life. We can see how organisms emerge and grow, how a vine survives by creeping from the forest floor to look at the sunlight. And at the grand scale, time lapse allows us to see our planet in motion.

We can view not only the vast sweep of nature, but the restless movement of humanity. Each streaking dot represents a passenger plane, and by turning air traffic data into time-lapse imagery, we can see something that's above us constantly but invisible: the vast network of air travel over the United States.

自然界的一些活動慢到我們肉眼無法覺察到。延時攝像技術讓我們探索、拓寬我們對生命的領悟。我們看到生命體如何成型、生長，我們看到藤蔓生如何從森林地面鑽出，追尋陽光的滋養。從宏觀的角度，延時攝像讓我看到地球的運轉。我們不但能看到大自然的宏偉，也能感受到人類本身的生生不息。每條划過的藍點都代表一架客機，當我們把客機的數據轉化成延時圖像時，我們看到了那無法看見卻一直在我們頭頂的：美國上空廣大的航線網絡。

We can do the same thing with ships at sea. We can turn data into a time-lapse view of a global economy in motion. And decades of data give us the view of our entire planet as a single organism sustained by currents circulating throughout the oceans, and by clouds swirling through the atmosphere, pulsing with lightning, crowned by the aurora Borealis. It may be the ultimate time-lapse image: the anatomy of Earth brought to life. At the other extreme, there are things that move too fast for our eyes, but we have technology that can look into that world as well.

海上的船隻也一樣。我們可以把數據轉化成延時圖像，展現全球的經濟脈動。幾十年的數據使我們的星球看上去宛如一個生命體，它體內有海流循環於大洋之間，雲海渦卷於大氣之中，閃電是它的脈搏，北極光是它的王冠。這可說是延時攝像的終極作品：栩栩如生的地球解剖圖。在另一個極端，某些活動快到肉眼無法捕捉，但是現今的科技可以讓我們一窺那個世界。

With high-speed cameras, we can do the opposite of time lapse. We can shoot images that are thousands of times faster than our vision. And we can see how nature's ingenious devices work, and perhaps we can even imitate them. When a dragonfly flutters by, you may not realize, but it's the greatest flier in nature.It can hover, fly backwards, even upside down. And by tracking markers on an insect's wings, we can visualize the air flow that they produce. Nobody knew the secret, but high speed shows that a dragonfly can move all four wings in different directions at the same time.

高速攝像，可以達到和延時攝像相反的效果。我們可以捕捉到比肉眼快幾千倍的影像。我們可以觀察到自然界的高超技藝，甚至可以運用在仿生領域。當一隻蜻蜓飛過，你可能意識不到蜻蜓是自然界中最棒的飛行者。它可以盤旋、向後飛、甚至仰着飛。通過在昆蟲的翅膀上安置跟蹤標記，我們可以把它們產生的氣流成像。沒有人知道蜻蜓的秘密，但是在高速攝像的幫助下，我們發現：蜻蜓的四隻翅膀可以同時向任意方向扇動。

And what we learn can lead us to new kinds of robotic flyers that can expand our vision of important and remote places. We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see. The electron microscope fires electrons which creates images which can magnify things by as much as a million times.This is the egg of a butterfly. And there are unseen creatures living all over your body, including mites that spend their entire lives dwelling on your eyelashes, crawling over your skin at night. Can you guess what this is?

我們了解到的這些，可以幫助我們開發新型的自動飛行器，把我們的視角擴展到那些重要而又偏遠的地方。我們身形巨大，所以對周遭的微小事物無知無覺。電子顯微鏡通過發射電子來成像，可將事物放大百萬倍。這是一隻蝴蝶的卵。我們身上也有許許多多看不到的生物，比如蟎蟲，它們的一生都在你身上度過，藏在你的睫毛上，夜間蠕動在你皮膚上。能猜得出這是什麼嗎？

Shark skin. A caterpillar's mouth. The eye of a fruit fly.An eggshell. A flea. A snail's tongue. We think we know most of the animal kingdom, but there may be millions of tiny species waiting to be discovered. A spider also has great secrets, because spiders' silk thread is pound for pound stronger than steel but completely elastic.This journey will take us all the way down to the nano world. The silk is 100 times thinner than human hair.On there is bacteria, and near that bacteria, 10 times smaller, a virus. Inside of that, 10 times smaller, three strands of DNA. And nearing the limit of our most powerful microscopes, single carbon atoms.

鯊魚皮。一隻毛毛蟲的嘴。果蠅的眼睛。一個蛋殼。一隻跳蚤。蝸牛的舌頭。我們以為自己很了解動物世界了，但可能還有數以百萬計的微小物種等待着被發現。蜘蛛也有許多秘密，蜘蛛絲比同重量的鋼鐵還要牢固，卻富有彈性。接下來，讓我們進入納米世界。蜘蛛絲比人類的頭髮還要細一百倍。上面有細菌，在細菌旁邊，比它小十倍的是：病毒。病毒里再小十倍的，有三條DNA鏈。以及將現今最強大的顯微鏡放至最高倍，才能看到的單個碳原子。

With the tip of a powerful microscope, we can actually move atoms and begin to create amazing nano devices.Some could one day patrol our body for all kinds of diseases and clean out clogged arteries along the way.Tiny chemical machines of the future can one day, perhaps, repair DNA. We are on the threshold of extraordinary advances, born of our drive to unveil the mysteries of life. So under an endless rain of cosmic dust, the air is full of pollen, micro-diamonds and jewels from other planets and supernova explosions. People go about their lives surrounded by the unseeable.

運用顯微鏡的微小的觸端，我們可以移動原子，開始設計絕妙的納米裝置。有些裝置將來也許可以在我們體內巡邏，抵禦各種疾病，順便也清理堵塞的動脈。未來的微型化學機器，有一天或許可以修復DNA。我們將要開啟絕妙的新篇章，這都源於我們希望揭開生命奧秘的渴望。宇宙塵埃如雨般落下，空氣中瀰漫着花粉、來自其他星球的微鑽石和寶石、以及超新星的爆發物。我們匆忙的一天裡，密布着這看不見的東西。

Knowing that there's so much around us we can't see forever changes our understanding of the world, and by looking at unseen worlds, we recognize that we exist in the living universe, and this new perspective creates wonder and inspires us to become explorers in our own backyards. Who knows what awaits to be seen and what new wonders will transform our lives. We'll just have to see.

意識到我們周圍還有這麼多可觀察的東西將永遠改變我們對世界的認知。探看着肉眼不能見的世界，我們體會到我們的宇宙如此活靈活現。這個新的視野令我們驚奇，激勵我們不斷探索周遭的世界。誰也無法預測我們還會有什麼樣的發現，它們又將給我們的生活帶來怎樣的改變。我們只能拭目以待了。