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Dr. Sheldon Cooper's quotes (II)
谢耳朵博士的科普时间

From left to right: Howard, Sheldon, Leonard, Penny and Rajesh [Agencies]

如果你还不清楚英语中“nerd”这个词的含义，快去看《生活大爆炸》。这部爆笑美剧围绕着四个任职于美国加州理工大学的天才科技宅男展开，在他们的身上凝聚了各种你所能想象到的“nerd”的特质。

这群书呆子的IQ远超常人，EQ却低得离谱：有总在两性关系上受挫的老好人莱纳德（Leonard）；言行猥琐，至今仍与母亲同住的语言天才霍华德（Howard）；社交障碍严重到只要有女人在场就无法开口讲话的印度小伙拉什（Rajesh）；此外还有“nerd”中的“nerd”，中国网民昵称“谢耳朵”的加州理工物理学博士谢尔顿•库珀（Sheldon Cooper）。

谢耳朵其人智商高达187，有一个硕士学位、两个博士学位。他满脑子公式理论，自命不凡又毫无生活社交常识，习惯在日常对话中夹杂大量艰深的物理学名词，令人或如坠云雾，或啼笑皆非。这一点时常令平凡人的代表——住在对门的美女侍应生彭妮抓狂。

下面就让我们迎来谢尔顿博士的科普时间：

1. 有关台阶的有趣事实
Sheldon: You want to hear an interesting thing about stairs? If the height of a single step is off by as little as two millimeters, most people will trip.	谢尔顿：关于楼梯有件蛮好玩的事，你想听听吗？假如单个台阶的高度比标准高度低2毫米，大多数人就会绊倒。
It's true. I did a series of experiments when I was twelve; my father broke his clavicle.	是真的。我12岁那年曾经做过一系列实验，我父亲因此摔断了锁骨。
2. 科幻电影事实上并不科学
Sheldon: Let's assume that they can (fly). Lois Lane is falling, accelerating at an initial rate of 32 feet per second per second. Superman swoops down to save her by reaching out two arms of steel.	谢尔顿：让我们假设人类可以（飞）。路易丝•莱恩从高空坠落，初始加速度为32英尺/秒的平方，途中不断加速。超人俯冲下来，用钢铁般的双臂接住她。
Miss Lane, who is now traveling at approximately 120 miles an hour, hits them and is immediately slice into three equal pieces.	莱恩小姐此时的运动速度约为120英里/时，猛撞上超人的手臂后，身体立即被切为三等份。
Frankly, if he really loved her, he'd let her hit the pavement. It'd be a more merciful death.	坦白讲，如果他真的爱她，就应该让她直接摔在马路上。那会是种更仁慈的死法。
3. 维生素药剂 = 昂贵的尿液原料
Sheldon: Well, there's some value to taking a multivitamin, but the human body can only absorb so much. What you're buying here are the ingredients for very expensive urine.	谢尔顿：服用多合维他命有一定的好处，但人体所能吸收的量是有限的。你所购买的维生素药剂会变成十分昂贵的尿液原料。
4. 时间旅行的悖论
Sheldon: If you would've prevented yourself from buying it (the time machine) in the past, you would not have it available in the present to travel back and stop yourself from buying it. Ergo you will still have it. This is the classic rookie time travel mistake.	谢尔顿：如果你用时间机器回到过去，阻止了自己购买这台机器，那么在当前的时间点，你就没有一台时间机器能够送你回到过去阻止自己购买这台机器了。因此你还是会拥有它。这是典型的新手在时间旅行中会犯的错误。
Same paradox. If you would've travel back in time and, say, knock me unconscious, you would not then have a conversation that irritated you, motivating you to go back and knock me unconscious.	同理可证。如果你回到过去并且……比方说把我打晕；那么现在，你就不必和我进行这段令你心烦意乱的谈话，但同时也就没有了动机要回到过去把我打晕。
5. 发硬的面包所蕴含的科学道理
Sheldon: You shouldn't keep your bread in the refrigerator. Staleness is caused by crystallization of the starch molecules, which occurs faster at cool temperatures.	谢尔顿：你不应该把面包放进冰箱里。面包变硬是由淀粉分子间的结晶作用引起的，在低温条件下，这一过程会加速。