First, a video. Yes, it is a scrambled egg. But as you look at it, I hope you'll begin to feel just slightly uneasy. 首先，来段录像。对，这是个被搅拌的鸡蛋。但是，当你看它的时候，我希望你能开始感受到有一点点的怪异。 Because you may notice that what'
But of course, life is more than just exotic chemistry. 但是当然，生命不仅仅是奇异的化学物质。 How do you stabilize those huge molecules that seem to be viable? 那是怎么稳定那些大量的、似乎有存活的分子的呢？ Well, it's here that life introduc
So -- Here we are, back at the convention center. 那么，我们现在回到演讲厅。 We've been on a journey, a return journey, of 13.7 billion years. 我们已经在一个旅行、一个追溯137亿年的旅行中。 I hope you agree this is a powerful story. 我希
For most of that time of life on Earth, living organisms have been relatively simple -- single cells. 地球的大多数时间，生物体多是以简单的单细胞存在的。 But they had great diversity, and, inside, great complexity. 但是它们是十分多样的，
Now, the going gets tougher. The next stage introduces entities that are significantly more fragile, significantly more vulnerable, 现在，（变化的条件）就更加苛刻了。下一个阶段是初次形成的个体，个体是明显更加弱小，更加脆弱的， but they're also muc
Let's begin by winding the timeline back 13.7 billion years, to the beginning of time. 让我们把时间往回拨到137亿年前，也就是时间的开始。 Around us, there's nothing. There's not even time or space. 四周是什么也没有，根本没有时间与空间。 Imagin
I call this ability collective learning. It's what makes us different. 我把这个叫做集体学习的能力。这使我们如此特殊。 We can see it at work in the earliest stages of human history. 我们可以看到在人类历史早期的阶段这种能力的运作。 We evolved as a s
And this is how it works. Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff. 这就是它怎么运作的。重力场的作用力更大，拥有比较多的物质。 So where you get slightly denser areas, gravity starts compacting clouds of hydrogen and heli
So here's a great puzzle: in a universe ruled by the second law of thermodynamics, 所以，这就是个大谜团：在宇宙中，在被热力学第二定律规范下， how is it possible to generate the sort of complexity I've described, 怎么样才有可能产生这种我刚才论述的
