Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty and truth in physics

Prevodilac: Marija Jankovic Lektor: Ivana Korom

Thank you for putting up these pictures of my colleagues over here.

Hvala vam za postavljanje ovih slika mojih kolega ovde.

(Laughter) We'll be talking about them.

(Smeh). Pričaćemo o njima.

Now, I'm going try an experiment. I don't do experiments, normally. I'm a theorist.

Sada ću izvesti eksperiment. Obično ne radim eksperimente, teoretičar sam.

But I'm going see what happens if I press this button.

Ali sada ću videti šta se dešava kada pritisnem ovo dugme.

Sure enough. OK. I used to work in this field of elementary particles.

Svakako. Ok. Radio sam u ovoj oblasti elementarnih čestica.

What happens to matter if you chop it up very fine?

Šta se događa sa materijom ako je veoma fino iseckate?

What is it made of?

Od čega je napravljena?

And the laws of these particles are valid throughout the universe,

I zakoni ovih čestica ispravni su u celom Univerzumu

and they're very much connected with the history of the universe.

i veoma su povezani sa istorijom Univerzuma.

We know a lot about four forces. There must be a lot more,

Znamo dosta o ove četiri sile. Mora ih biti mnogo više,

but those are at very, very small distances,

ali one su na veoma, veoma malim daljinama

and we haven't really interacted with them very much yet.

i još uvek nismo zaista interagovali sa njima puno.

The main thing I want to talk about is this:

Glavna stvar o kojoj želim da pričam je sledeće:

that we have this remarkable experience in this field of fundamental physics

da mi imamo ovo predivno iskustvo u oblasti fundamentalne fizike

that beauty is a very successful criterion for choosing the right theory.

da je lepota veoma uspešan kriterijum za odabir ispravne teorije.

And why on earth could that be so?

Zašto bi to tako bilo?

Well, here's an example from my own experience.

Pa, evo primera iz mog sopstvenog iskustva.

It's fairly dramatic, actually, to have this happen.

Veoma je dramatično, zapravo, da vam se ovo dogodi.

Three or four of us, in 1957,

Troje ili četvoro nas, 1957. godine,

put forward a partially complete theory of one of these forces, this weak force.

postavilo je delom kompletnu teoriju o jednoj od ovih sila, ovoj slaboj sili.

And it was in disagreement with seven -- seven, count them, seven experiments.

I ona se nije slagala sa sedam - sedam, prebrojte ih, sedam eksperimenata.

Experiments were all wrong.

Eksperimenti su bili pogrešni.

And we published before knowing that,

I mi smo to objavili pre nego što smo to znali,

because we figured it was so beautiful, it's gotta be right!

zato što smo shvatili da zato što je tako lepo, mora biti ispravno!

The experiments had to be wrong, and they were.

Eksperimenti su morali biti pogrešni i bili su.

Now our friend over there, Albert Einstein,

Naš prijatelj tamo, Albert Ajnštajn,

used to pay very little attention when people said,

obraćao je vrlo malo pažnje na ono što su ljudi govorili,

"You know, there's a man with an experiment that seems to disagree with special relativity.

"Znate, postoji čovek sa eksperimentom koji se izgleda ne slaže sa specijalnom relativnošću.

DC Miller. What about that?" And he would say, "Aw, that'll go away." (Laughter)

DC Miler. Šta je sa tim?" On bi rekao:"O, to će nestati." (Smeh)

Now, why does stuff like that work? That's the question.

Sada, zbog čega takve stvari rade? To je pitanje.

Now, yeah, what do we mean by beautiful? That's one thing.

Sada, da, šta mi smatramo lepim? To je jedna stvar.

I'll try to make that clear -- partially clear.

Pokušaću to da objasnim - delom objasnim.

Why should it work, and is this something to do with human beings?

Zašto bi to radilo i da li to ima neke veze sa ljudskim bićima?

I'll let you in on the answer to the last one that I offer,

Daću vam svoj odgovor na ovo poslednje,

and that is, it has nothing to do with human beings.

a to je da, ovo nema nikakve veze sa ljudskim bićima.

Somewhere in some other planet, orbiting some very distant star,

Negde na nekoj drugoj planeti, obrćući se oko neke jako daleke zvezde,

maybe in a another galaxy,

možda u drugoj galaksiji,

there could well be entities that are at least as intelligent as we are,

mogli bi biti entiteti koji su najmanje inteligentni koliko i mi

and are interested in science. It's not impossible; I think there probably are lots.

i zainteresovani su za nauku. Nije nemoguće; ja mislim da ih verovatno ima mnogo.

Very likely, none is close enough to interact with us.

Vrlo verovatno, nijedni nisu dovoljno blizu da bi nas kontaktirali.

But they could be out there, very easily.

Ali mogli bi biti tamo, vrlo lako.

And suppose they have, you know, very different sensory apparatus, and so on.

I pretpostavimo da oni imaju, znate, veoma različit čulni aparat i tako dalje.

They have seven tentacles, and they have 14 little funny-looking compound eyes,

Imaju sedam pipaka i 14 malih smešnih spojenih očiju

and a brain shaped like a pretzel.

i mozak u obliku perece.

Would they really have different laws?

Da li bi oni zaista imali drugačije zakone?

There are lots of people who believe that, and I think it is utter baloney.

Mnogi ljudi veruju u to, a ja smatram da je to potpuna koještarija.

I think there are laws out there,

Mislim da tamo negde postoje zakoni

and we of course don't understand them at any given time very well

i da ih mi, naravno, ne razumemo u bilo kom trenutku vrlo dobro

-- but we try. And we try to get closer and closer.

- ali pokušavamo. I pokušavamo da priđemo sve bliže i bliže.

And someday, we may actually figure out the fundamental unified theory

I jednog dana, mi bismo mogli zapravo otkriti fundamentalnu ujedinjenu teoriju

of the particles and forces, what I call the "fundamental law."

čestica i sila, što ja nazivam "fundamentalnim zakonom".

We may not even be terribly far from it.

Možda čak nismo užasno daleko od njega.

But even if we don't run across it in our lifetimes,

Ali čak i da ne naletimo na njega za vreme naših života,

we can still think there is one out there,

i dalje možemo smatrati da postoji tamo negde,

and we're just trying to get closer and closer to it.

a mi pokušavamo da priđemo bliže i bliže.

I think that's the main point to be made.

Mislim da je to glavna poenta za izneti.

We express these things mathematically.

Mi izražavamo ove stvari matematički.

And when the mathematics is very simple --

I kada je matematika veoma jednostavna -

when in terms of some mathematical notation,

kada u smislu neke matematičke notacije

you can write the theory in a very brief space, without a lot of complication --

možete zapisati teoriju na malo prostora, bez mnogo komplikacija -

that's essentially what we mean by beauty or elegance.

to je suštinski ono što mi smatramo lepotom ili elegancijom.

Here's what I was saying about the laws. They're really there.

Evo šta sam govorio o zakonima. Oni su zaista tamo.

Newton certainly believed that.

Njutn je svakako verovao u to.

And he said, here, "It is the business of natural philosophy to find out those laws."

On je rekao:"Posao je filozofije prirode da pronađe te zakone".

The basic law, let's say -- here's an assumption.

Osnovni zakon, recimo - evo pretpostavke.

The assumption is that the basic law really takes the form

Pretpostavka je da osnovni zakon zaista uzima oblik

of a unified theory of all the particles.

ujedinjene teorije o svim česticama.

Now, some people call that a theory of everything.

Sada, neki ljudi to nazivaju teorijom svega.

That's wrong because the theory is quantum mechanical.

To je pogrešno, jer je ta teorija kvantna mehanička.

And I won't go into a lot of stuff about quantum mechanics and what it's like, and so on.

I ja neću ići i gomilu stvari o kvantnoj mehanici i kakva je ona i tako dalje.

You've heard a lot of wrong things about it anyway. (Laughter)

Čuli ste dosta pogrešnih stvari o njoj u svakom slučaju. (Smeh).

There are even movies about it with a lot of wrong stuff.

Ima čak i filmova o njoj sa mnogo pogrešnih stvari.

But the main thing here is that it predicts probabilities.

Ali glavna stvar ovde je da ona predviđa verovatnoće.

Now, sometimes those probabilities are near certainties.

Sad, ponekad su te verovatnoće blizu sigurnosti.

And in a lot of familiar cases, they of course are.

I u mnogo poznatih slučajeva, one to zaista jesu.

But other times they're not, and you have only probabilities for different outcomes.

Ali u nekim drugim prilikama nisu i imate samo verovatnoće za različite izlaze.

So what that means is that the history of the universe is not determined just by the fundamental law.

Ono što to, dakle, znači je da istorija Univerzuma nije određena samo fundamentalnim zakonom.

It's the fundamental law and this incredibly long series of accidents,

To su fundamentalni zakon i ovaj neverovatno dugački niz slučajnosti,

or chance outcomes, that are there in addition.

ili mogućih rezultata, koji su tu sabrani.

And the fundamental theory doesn't include those chance outcomes; they are in addition.

Fundamentalna teorija ne uključuje te moguće rezultate; oni su tu uzgredno.

So it's not a theory of everything. And in fact, a huge amount of the information

Dakle, to nije teorija svega. Zapravo, ogromna količina informacija

in the universe around us comes from those accidents,

u Univerzumu oko nas dolazi iz tih slučajnosti

and not just from the fundamental laws.

i ne samo iz fundamentalnih zakona.

Now, it's often said that getting closer and closer

Sada, često je rečeno da je približavanje

to the fundamental laws by examining phenomena at low energies, and then higher energies,

fundamentalnim zakonima izučavanjem fenomena na malim energijama i onda višim energijama

and then higher energies, or short distances, and then shorter distances,

i zatim višim energijama ili manjim rastojanjima i zatim manjim rastojanjima,

and then still shorter distances, and so on, is like peeling the skin of an onion.

a onda još manjim rastojanjima i tako dalje, jeste poput ljuštenja luka.

And we keep doing that,

I mi nastavljamo to da radimo

and build more powerful machines, accelerators for particles.

i izgrađujemo moćnije mašine, akceleratore čestica.

We look deeper and deeper into the structure of particles,

Posmatramo dublje i dublje strukturu čestica

and in that way we get probably closer and closer to this fundamental law.

i time se verovatno približavamo sve više i više ovom fundamentalnom zakonu.

Now, what happens is that as we do that, as we peel these skins of the onion,

Sada, ono što se dešava je da dok to radimo, dok ljuštimo ove slojeve luka

and we get closer and closer to the underlying law,

i približavamo se zakonu ispod,

we see that each skin has something in common with the previous one,

mi vidimo da svaki sloj ima nešto zajedničko sa prethodnim

and with the next one. We write them out mathematically,

i sa sledećim. Zapišemo ih matematički

and we see they use very similar mathematics.

i vidimo da koriste veoma sličnu matematiku.

They require very similar mathematics.

Oni zahtevaju veoma sličnu matematiku.

That is absolutely remarkable, and that is a central feature

Ovo je apsolutno fascinanto i čini centralnu crtu

of what I'm trying to say today.

onoga što pokušavam da kažem danas.

Newton called it -- that's Newton, by the way -- that one.

Njutn je to nazivao - to je Njutn, uzgred - onaj tamo.

This one is Albert Einstein. Hi, Al! And anyway,

Ovaj je Albert Ajnštajn. Zdravo, Al! I u svakom slučaju,

he said, "nature conformable to herself" -- personifying nature as a female.

on je rekao "priroda dosledna sama sebi" - personifikujući prirodu kao žensko.

And so what happens is that the new phenomena,

Dakle, ono što se dešava je da novi fenomeni,

the new skins, the inner skins of the slightly smaller skins of the onion

novi slojevi, unutrašnji slojevi malo manjih slojeva luka

that we get to, resemble the slightly larger ones.

na koje nailazimo, liče na one malo veće.

And the kind of mathematics that we had for the previous skin

Ona vrsta matematike koja nam je trebala za prethodni sloj

is almost the same as what we need for the next skin.

je gotovo ista ona koja nam treba za naredni sloj.

And that's why the equations look so simple.

I to je razlog što jednačine izgledaju tako jednostavno.

Because they use mathematics we already have.

Zato što koriste matematiku koju već imamo.

A trivial example is this: Newton found the law of gravity,

Trivijalan primer je ovaj: Njutn je pronašao zakon gravitacije,

which goes like one over the square of the distance between the things gravitated.

koji ide poput jedan kroz kvadrat rastojanja između stvari koje se privlače.

Coulomb, in France, found the same law for electric charges.

Kulon, u Francuskoj, pronašao je isti zakon za naelektrisanja.

Here's an example of this similarity.

Eto ga primer sličnosti.

You look at gravity, you see a certain law.

Pogledate gravitaciju, vidite određeni zakon.

Then you look at electricity. Sure enough. The same rule.

Zatim pogledate elektricitet. Dovoljno. Isto pravilo.

It's a very simple example.

To je veoma jednostavan primer.

There are lots of more sophisticated examples.

Postoji još mnogo sofisticiranijih primera.

Symmetry is very important in this discussion.

Simetrija je veoma važna u ovoj diskusiji.

You know what it means. A circle, for example,

Znate šta to znači. Krug, na primer,

is symmetric under rotations about the center of the circle.

simetričan je pod rotacijama oko svog centra.

You rotate around the center of the circle, the circle remains unchanged.

Rotirate ga oko centra kruga, krug ostaje nepromenjen.

You take a sphere, in three dimensions, you rotate around the center of the sphere,

Uzmete sferu, u tri dimenzije, rotirate je oko centra sfere

and all those rotations leave the sphere alone.

i sve te rotacije čine samo sferu.

They are symmetries of the sphere.

To su simetrije sfere.

So we say, in general, that there's a symmetry

Pa mi kažemo generalno da postoji simetrija

under certain operations if those operations leave the phenomenon,

pod određenim operacijama, ako te operacije ostavljaju fenomen

or its description, unchanged.

ili njegov opis nepromenjen.

Maxwell's equations are of course symmetrical

Maksvelove jednačine su, naravno, simetrične

under rotations of all of space.

pod rotacijama celog prostora.

Doesn't matter if we turn the whole of space around by some angle,

Nije bitno da li obrnemo ceo prostor za neki ugao,

it doesn't leave the -- doesn't change the phenomenon of electricity or magnetism.

to ne ostavlja - ne menja fenomene elektriciteta ili magnetizma.

There's a new notation in the 19th century that expressed this,

Postojala je nova notacija u 19. veku koja je izražavala ovo,

and if you use that notation, the equations get a lot simpler.

i ukoliko koristite tu notaciju, jednačine postaju jednostavnije.

Then Einstein, with his special theory of relativity,

Zatim je Ajnštajn, sa svojom specijalnom teorijom relativnosti,

looked at a whole set of symmetries of Maxwell's equations,

pogledao ceo niz simetrija Maksvelovih jednačina,

which are called special relativity.

koje se nazivaju specijalnom relativnošću.

And those symmetries, then, make the equations even shorter, and even prettier, therefore.

I te simetrije, zatim, čine jednačine još kraćim, još lepšim.

Let's look. You don't have to know what these things mean, doesn't make any difference.

Pogledajmo. Ne morate znati šta ove stvari znače, ne čini nikakvu razliku.

But you can just look at the form. (Laughter) You can look at the form.

Ali možete samo pogledati izgled. (Smeh). Možete pogledati izgled.

You see above, at the top, a long list

Vidite gore, na vrhu, nalazi se duga lista

of equations with three components for the three directions of space: x, y and z.

jednačina sa tri komponente za tri pravca u prostoru: x, y i z.

Then, using vector analysis, you use rotational symmetry, and you get this next set.

Zatim, koristeći vektorsku analizu, koristite rotacionu simetriju, te dobijate sledeći skup.

Then you use the symmetry of special relativity and you get an even simpler set

Zatim koristite simetriju specijalne relativnosti i dobijate još jednostavniji skup

down here, showing that symmetry exhibits better and better.

tamo dole, pokazujući da se simetrije pokazuju sve bolje i bolje.

The more and more symmetry you have, the better you exhibit the simplicity and elegance of the theory.

Što više simetrija imate, bolje ćete izraziti jednostavnost i elegantnost teorije.

The last two, the first equation says that electric charges and currents

Poslednje dve, prva jednačina govori da naelektrisanja i električne struje

give rise to all the electric and magnetic fields.

stvaraju sva električna i magnetna polja.

The next -- second -- equation says that there is no magnetism other than that.

Sledeća - druga - jednačina kaže da nema magnetizma van toga.

The only magnetism comes from electric charges and currents.

Jedini magnetizam dolazi od naelektrisanja i električnih struja.

Someday we may find some slight hole in that argument.

Nekog dana ćemo možda naći sitnu rupu u tom članu.

But for the moment, that's the case.

Ali za sada, to je slučaj.

Now, here is a very exciting development that many people have not heard of.

Sada, ovde je veoma zanimljiv razvoj za koji mnogi ljudi nisu čuli.

They should have heard of it, but it's a little tricky to explain in technical detail,

Trebalo bi da su čuli za to, ali je malo mučno objasniti to sa tehničkim detaljima,

so I won't do it. I'll just mention it. (Laughter)

pa to neću uraditi. Samo ću spomenuti. (Smeh).

But Chen Ning Yang, called by us "Frank" Yang -- (Laughter)

Ali Čen Ning Jang, koga smo zvali "Frenk" Jang - (Smeh)

-- and Bob Mills put forward, 50 years ago,

- i Bob Mils postavili su, pre 50 godina,

this generalization of Maxwell's equations, with a new symmetry.

ovu generalizaciju Maksvelovih jednačina, sa novom simetrijom.

A whole new symmetry.

Potpuno novom simetrijom.

Mathematics very similar, but there was a whole new symmetry.

Matematika je veoma slična, ali je tu cela nova simetrija.

They hoped that this would contribute somehow to particle physics

Nadali su se da će ovo doprineti nekako fizici čestica

-- didn't. It didn't, by itself, contribute to particle physics.

- nije. Nije, samo po sebi, doprinelo fizici čestica.

But then some of us generalized it further. And then it did!

Ali onda su neki od nas ovo uopštili još više. I tada jeste!

And it gave a very beautiful description of the strong force and of the weak force.

I dalo je veoma lep opis jake sile i slabe sile.

So here we say, again, what we said before:

Dakle ovde kažemo, ponovo, ono što smo rekli ranije:

that each skin of the onion shows a similarity to the adjoining skins.

svaki sloj luka pokazuje sličnosti sa susednim slojevima.

So the mathematics for the adjoining skins is very similar to what we need for the new one.

Dakle, matematika susednih slojeva je veoma slična onome što nam je potrebno za novi sloj.

And therefore it looks beautiful

I zbog toga izgleda lepo.

because we already know how to write it in a lovely, concise way.

Zato što već znamo kako to da zapišemo na divni, koncizni način.

So here are the themes. We believe there is a unified theory underlying all the regularities.

Evo sadržaja. Verujemo da postoji ujedinjena teorija ispod svih zakonitosti.

Steps toward unification exhibit the simplicity.

Koraci ka ujedinjenju ispoljavaju jednostavnost.

Symmetry exhibits the simplicity.

Simetrija ispoljava jednostavnost.

And then there is self-similarity across the scales -- in other words,

Zatim su tu i samosličnosti duž skala - drugim rečima,

from one skin of the onion to another one.

od jednog sloja luka do drugog.

Proximate self-similarity. And that accounts for this phenomenon.

Približna samosličnost. I to objašnjava ovaj fenomen.

That will account for why beauty is a successful criterion for selecting the right theory.

To će objasniti zašto je lepota uspešan kriterijum za odabir ispravne teorije.

Here's what Newton himself said:

Evo šta je Njutn rekao:

"Nature is very consonant and conformable to her self."

"Priroda je vrlo skladna i saglasna samoj sebi".

One thing he was thinking of is something that most of us take for granted today,

Jedna od stvari na koje je mislio je ono što većina nas danas uzima zdravo za gotovo,

but in his day it wasn't taken for granted.

ali u njegovim danima to nije bilo uzimano zdravo za gotovo.

There's the story, which is not absolutely certain to be right, but a lot of people told it.

Postoji priča, za koju nije potpuno sigurno da je tačna, ali mnogi ljudi su je ispričali.

Four sources told it. That when they had the plague in Cambridge,

Četiri izvora su je ispričala. Kada se kuga pojavila u Kembridžu

and he went down to his mother's farm -- because the university was closed --

i kada je on otišao na farmu svoje majke - jer je univerzitet bio zatvoren -

he saw an apple fall from a tree, or on his head or something.

video je jabuku da pada sa drveta ili na njegovu glavu ili tako nešto.

And he realized suddenly that the force that drew the apple down to the earth

I on je shvatio odjednom da bi sila koja je privukla jabuku dole ka zemlji

could be the same as the force regulating the motions of the planets and the moon.

mogla biti ista kao sila koja regulište kretanje planeta i meseca.

That was a big unification for those days, although today we take it for granted.

To je bilo veliko ujedinjenje za te dane, iako danas to uzimamo zdravo za gotovo.

It's the same theory of gravity.

To je ista teorija gravitacije.

So he said that this principle of nature, consonance:

Pa je on rekao da je ovaj princip prirode, harmonija:

"This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of philosophers,

"Ovaj princip prirode daleko je od shvatanja filozofa,

I forbore to describe it in that book,

te sam se suzdržavao da ga opišem u toj knjizi,

lest I should be accounted an extravagant freak ... "

jer bih mogao biti smatran za ekstravagantnog čudaka..."

That's what we all have to watch out for, (Laughter) especially at this meeting.

I to je ono na šta svi moramo da pazimo. (Smeh). Naročito na ovom okupljanju.

" ... and so prejudice my readers against all those things which were the main design of the book."

"... i tako stvoriti predrasude svojih čitalaca protiv svih onih stvari koje su bile glavne ideje knjige."

Now, who today would claim that as a mere conceit of the human mind?

Sad, ko bi danas tvrdio da je to puka uobrazilja ljudskog uma?

That the force that causes the apple to fall to the ground

Da je sila koja izaziva pad jabuke na zemlju

is the same force that causes the planets and the moon to move around,

ista sila koja je uzrok kruženja planeta i meseca,

and so on? Everybody knows that. It's a property of gravitation.

i tako dalje? Svako to zna. To je osobina gravitacije.

It's not something in the human mind. The human mind can, of course, appreciate it

To nije nešto u ljudskom umu. Ljudski um može, naravno, to poštovati

and enjoy it, use it, but it's not -- it doesn't stem from the human mind.

i uživati, koristiti, ali to nije - to ne vuče korenje iz ljudskog uma.

It stems from the character of gravity.

To vuče korenje iz osobina gravitacije.

And that's true of all the things we're talking about.

I to je istina za sve stvari o kojima pričamo.

They are properties of the fundamental law.

One su osobine fundamentalnog zakona.

The fundamental law is such that the different skins of the onion resemble one another,

Fundamentalni zakon je takav da različiti slojevi luka liče jedan na drugi

and therefore the math for one skin allows you to express beautifully and simply

i tako matematika jednog sloja dozvoljava da se izraze lepota i jednostavnost

the phenomenon of the next skin.

fenomena sledećeg sloja.

I say here that Newton did a lot of things that year:

Kažem ovde da je Njutn uradio dosta stvari te godine:

gravity, the laws of motion, the calculus, white light composed of all the colors of the rainbow.

gravitacija, zakoni kretanja, kalkulus, belo svetlo sastoji se od svih boja duge.

And he could have written quite an essay on "What I Did Over My Summer Vacation."

Mogao je napisati dosta u eseju na temu "Šta sam radio na letnjem raspustu".

(Laughter)

(Smeh).

So we don't have to assume these principles as separate metaphysical postulates.

Dakle ne moramo posmatrati ove principe kao odvojene metafizičke postulate.

They follow from the fundamental theory.

Oni proizlaze iz fundamentalne teorije.

They are what we call emergent properties.

Oni su ono što zovemo proizlazećim osobinama.

You don't need -- you don't need something more to get something more.

Nije vam potrebno - nije vam potrebno nešto više da biste dobili nešto više.

That's what emergence means.

To je ono što proizlaženje znači.

Life can emerge from physics and chemistry, plus a lot of accidents.

Život može proizići iz fizike i hemije, plus mnogo slučajnosti.

The human mind can arise from neurobiology and a lot of accidents,

Ljudski um može proizići iz neurobiologije i mnogo slučajnosti,

the way the chemical bond arises from physics and certain accidents.

načinom na koji hemijske veze proizlaze iz fizike i određenih slučajnosti.

It doesn't diminish the importance of these subjects

To ne umanjuje značaj ovih predmeta

to know that they follow from more fundamental things, plus accidents.

da se zna da oni proizlaze iz fundamentalnijih stvari, plus slučajnosti.

That's a general rule, and it's critically important to realize that.

Postoji opšte pravilo i veoma je važno da se to shvati.

You don't need something more in order to get something more.

Nije vam potrebno nešto više da biste dobili nešto više.

People keep asking that when they read my book, "The Quark and the Jaguar,"

Ljudi nastavljaju da postavljaju pitanja kad pročitaju moju knjigu, "Kvark i Jaguar".

and they say, "Isn't there something more beyond what you have there?"

Oni kažu:"Nema li nečeg više iza onoga što imate tamo?"

Presumably, they mean something supernatural.

Po svoj prilici, oni misle na nešto natprirodno.

Anyway, there isn't. (Laughter)

U svakom slučaju, nema ga. (Smeh).

You don't need something more to explain something more.

Nije vam potrebno nešto više da biste objasnili nešto više.

Thank you very much. (Applause)

Hvala vam puno. (Aplauz)