那些改变我们理解世界的物理学家

• 出 处: 工会博览(下旬版)
• 发表日期: 2016年11期

你或许知道物理学是什么。它是研究物质世界的学问,从落下的苹果到星体的运动,以及构成我们身边世界的微小亚原子粒子的行为等。物理学无处不在。它在浩淼宇宙之至远,它在狂暴于星系中心的超大质量黑洞中,它在很小的组成地球上生命之基本单位中,甚至也存在于我们身边看似空无一物的地方。有时一位物理学家会彻底变革我们对宇宙以及万物的理解。这里有20位物理学家,他们的理论、思想或者发现彻底地变革了我们看待世界的方式。

You may know what physics is. It is the study of the physical world of knowledge, from falling apples to the movement of stars, and the behavior of tiny subatomic particles that make up the world around us. Physics is everywhere. It is the vast expanse of the vast universe, which is violently in the supermassive black hole in the center of the galaxy, and even in the basic unit of life that makes up Earth, there seems to be a seemingly empty place. Sometimes a physicist can revolutionize our understanding of the universe and of all things. Here are twenty physicists whose theories, ideas, or discoveries radically change the way we look at the world.