約瑟夫的诗 ～统一场论

約瑟夫(Tim Joseph)/作 陈之藩/译
Unified Field Theory

In the beginning there was Aristotle,

And objects at rest tended to remain at rest,

And objects in motion tended to come to rest,

And soon everything was at rest,

And God saw that it was boring.

当其始也，亚里士多德出來，

靜者恆靜，

动者終归于静，

不久，万物俱靜，

上帝看了一下：这多无聊。

Then God created Newton,

And objects at rest tended to remain at rest,

But objects in motion tended to remain in motion,

And energy was conserved and momentum was conserved and matter was conserved,

And God saw that it was conservative.

于是,上帝创造了牛頓，

靜者恆靜

而动者恆动

能量不减 动量不减 物质不减

上帝看了一下：这多保守。

Then God created Einstein,

And everything was relative,

And fast things became short,

and straight things became curved,

And the universe was filled with inertial frames,

And God saw that it was relatively general,

but some of it was especially relative.

于是,上帝創造了愛因斯坦

一切都是相对

快者变短

直者变弯

宇宙中充滿了种种惰性架位

上帝看了一下，这很相对，

可是其中有些特別的相对。

Then God created Bohr,

And there was the Principle,

And the Principle was Quantum,

And all things were quantified,

But some things were still relative,

And God saw that it was confusing.

于是上帝創造了波尔

原理在此，

原理就是量子，

一切化為量子

可是有些東西仍是相對

上帝看了一下：这太乱了。

Then God was going to create Ferguson,

And Ferguson would have unified,

And he would have fielded a theory,

And all would have been one,

But it was the seventh day,

And God rested,