All over the place was six pence, but he looked up at the moon.
满地都是六便士,他却抬头看见了月亮。

A man's story with math is always full of extremely exciting moments when he came up with a new idea, embraced a revolutionary philosophy, or discovered the magical interplay among different branches.

残雪凝辉冷画屏,落梅横笛已三更。更无人处月胧明。
我是人间惆怅客,知君何事泪纵横。断肠声里忆平生。
————纳兰容若

星野浮尘 Poetry in My Heart(Click for details)

总有一些话语,在某个慵懒的午后,亦或是某个沉静的夜晚,一瞬湿润我的眉睫。

 Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We're not afraid to admit what we don't know. There's no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers.
   我们每一个人,以及我们所知所感所爱的一切,那些我们深爱的家人与朋友,那些我们眷恋的回忆与过往,那些山河日月与人间烟火,那芸芸众生与璀璨文明,那天上星辰与苍茫宇宙……一切一切,都终将归于虚无。    我们渴望永恒,但我们注定死去,我们注定同这茫茫宇宙,或早或晚,归于虚空,不留下任何记忆与痕迹。我们渴望真理,渴求得知世界与宇宙的真谛,渴望得知自己的身世以及万物的意义,渴望得知时空的奥秘与生死的玄机;但我们注定不会得知答案。
   是的,我们注定死去,并无知无名的死去。这残忍、悲凉、恐怖的虚无是最接近真相的真相。每念兹事,如沉疴之附其身,中夜起立,绕屋彷徨。
   茫茫时空之中,我们都在寻觅一种意义。有些人以诗文遣怀,有些人以酒肉自娱,有些人以碌碌自忘。
   人间的繁华极乐我轻轻笑过————我羡慕,我享受,却终不减内心忧凉。


   或许,我们是宇宙意识的自我觉醒。
   为此,我愿忍受无限的孤独。


   立于月球之上遥望,那里,那个微白的蓝点,那是家园,那是我们。在那里,你爱的每个人,你认识的每个人,你听说过的每个人,在这世上存在过的每个人,度过了自己的一生。
   聚集在这里的,是我们的欢乐和痛苦,是成千上万的宗教信仰、意识形态和经济学说;每个猎手与觅食者,每个英雄与懦夫,每个文明的创立者和毁灭者,每个国王与农夫,每对年轻的爱侣,每一个母亲与父亲、充满希望的孩子们,发明家与探险家,每一位高尚的教师、每一位贪腐的政客,每一位超级明星、每一位最高领袖,人类史上的每一位圣人和罪人,都生活在这里。如一粒微尘,悬浮在一束阳光之中。地球是一个很小的舞台,在浩瀚的宇宙背景下,想想过去的血流成河,那为帝王将相而流的血,只为让他们在光荣和胜利中,成为瞬间的伟人,占有那一个小点中…那一小部分。
   想想那无尽的残酷,图像里那一个像素点的某个角落的民众,每天把这残酷施加到与他们没什么区别的另一个角落的民众身上。他们为何常常误解,他们为何渴望杀死对方,他们的憎恨为何如此狂热。
   我们在装模做样,我们自以为很重要,妄想着我们人类地位特殊,在宇宙中与众不同,这一切,都因这泛着苍白蓝光的小点而动摇。我们的星球,不过是一粒孤独的微尘,笼罩在伟大的宇宙黑暗之中。
   我们默默无闻,沉浸在无尽的浩瀚里,没有一丝线索显示,除了我们自己,还有谁能拯救我们。地球是目前已知唯一有生命的世界,生命再无其他去处,至少在不久的将来,亦是如此。没有外星球,供人类迁移,只可参观,不能定居。不管你喜欢与否,现在,只有地球供我们立足。据说研习天文,可以让人谦卑,塑造人心,磨炼个性,也许再没有更好的方法能比这遥远的画面更好地显示出人类的自负与愚蠢。
   对我而言,它强调了我们的责任,要对人更友善,懂得珍惜与爱护,这泛着苍白蓝光的小点是我们知道的唯一的家园。
   我们是如何在这一粒微尘上居住的渺小生物,是如何千方百计地把宇宙飞船送入银河的星星之间?
   就在几百年前,也就是宇宙历中的几秒时间,我们尚不知道自己身在何方,时为何时,对宇宙的其他部分一无所知。我们身居囚笼,活在自己的小宇宙里,困在坚壳之中,我们是如何逃出囚笼?
   是因为世世代代探索者的不懈努力,他们发自内心地遵从5条简单规则: 质疑权威,不轻信人言,包括我在内; 独立思考,自我质疑,不因自己想要相信,而相信任何事情,相信不代表能成为现实; 以实证检验想法,依靠观察与实验,如果自己喜欢的想法没有通过全面的检验,它就是错的,乐观一点,遵循证据,无论它指向哪里,如果没有证据,不妄下定论。
   也许最重要的规则就是...要记住,你也会犯错,即使是最优秀的科学家也曾经在某些事情上犯错,牛顿、爱因斯坦,还有历史上每一位伟大的科学家,他们都犯过错。这很正常,是人都会犯错,科学让我们不再欺骗自己,欺骗别人。科学家们有罪吗? 有的。
   我们曾滥用科学,就像手边的工具一样随意使用,因此我们不能把科学放在少数的掌权者手中。当科学更多的属于全人类时,它就越不会被乱用。科学的价值能阻止狂热与无知,毕竟宇宙的大部分是黑暗的,只有点点的星光点缀着。
   了解了地球的年龄,恒星的距离,生命的演变,这会让世界有什么区别?
   嗯,这取决于你愿意生活在多大的宇宙里,有些人喜欢小宇宙,没关系,完全可以理解,但我喜欢大的宇宙,当我把这一切放在我的心里,我的脑海里,我会感到心情振奋。当这种感觉涌起,我希望看到它是真实,而不仅仅是我脑海中的想象。因为这就是真相,而我们的想象与自然中令人惊叹的现实相比,根本不算什么。我想要知道,在那黑暗的地方有什么,在创世大爆炸之前发生了什么,我想要知道,在宇宙的视界之外是什么,生命又是如何起源的,宇宙中有没有个地方,物质和能量在那里被赋予生命和意识?我想要了解我们的先祖,了解他们每一个人,我想要成为一个美好而强大的联接,联系世世代代的人类。我想要保护我的孩子们以及未来的子孙后代。
   我们,代表着宇宙在这个世界的耳目,代表着宇宙在这个世界的想法与情感,我们开始了解人类的起源,思考繁星的故事,物质的演化。回溯意识起源之前那条漫长的道路,我们与这个星球上的其他生物,携带着宇宙进化的遗产跨越了数十亿年。如果我们将这些知识铭记于心,如果我们了解并热爱大自然的本质,我们的子孙们一定会记住我们,因为我们是生命之链中美好而强大的一环。我们的子孙们也会继续这神圣的探索,薪火相传,不断开拓,发现我们做梦都想不到的奇迹,
   就在这宇宙之中。
    That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
   The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
   The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

   Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the solar system and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage, by their regard for their home planet, and by their knowledge that, whatever other life may be, the only humans in all the universe came from Earth.    They will gaze up and strain to find the blue dot in their skies. They will marvel at how vulnerable the repository of all our potential once was, how perilous our infancy, how humble our beginnings, how many rivers we had to cross... before we found our way.



 一花一世界,一沙一天国。君掌盛无边,刹那含永劫。
 To see a world in a grain of sand,
 And a heaven in a wild flower,
 Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
 And eternity in an hour.


  谁终将声震人间,必长久深自缄默。谁终将点燃闪电,必长久如云漂泊。



古宇梦影 The Rising Sea(Click for details)

你来人间一趟,你要看看太阳。 At the beach of the charming sea of math, with the stars of universe.



青青子衿 La vie en rose(Click for details)

和你的心上人,一起走在街上。 Romance in my imagination or life.

死生契阔,与子成说。执子之手,与子偕老。

秋风凉 Wait  记得曾与三两好友,过未名湖之春色,绿水柔波,心意悠弛而豪情壮发,自嘲笑道: “我等志在穹庐,情在星野,不敢耽情山水,诗酒年华。”
 记得曾登临天山,俯望群岭,山河壮阔,悲情油然,伤慨动容道: “层林静谧,白鸟飞回,千古深情,如凝一瞬;不容人不泪落牛山,怆然无言。转念月水流光,万里星河,聊慰朝闻夕死,几曾心甘。”
 今仰望星宇,寂寂无言。人生浮梦,渺若尘辉;情深似醉,如饮月光。夜染心宣,有语难言;暗露沾衣,云胡宵征。
 几点雨声,不胜萧瑟;风吹林叶,不尽薄凉。
 等你一任秋风凉。


流年拾英 Moments(Click for details)
12/12/2021