Sinfonia da Ciência: o Mundo Quântico!

 
Symphony of Science é um projecto musical iniciado por John D Boswell no Outono de 2009, em que conjuga excertos de algumas séries televisivas científico-documentais do passado, desde "Cosmos" de Carl Sagan, a "Through the Wormhole" (apresentada pelo actor Morgan Freeman e que passou entre nós no canal de cabo Discovery Science há um par de meses atrás), com estas remisturas sonoras.

No tema que aqui destaco, "The Quantum World", ouvimos as vozes de personalidades conhecidas como Morgan Freeman e os cientistas e divulgadores Stephen Hawking, Michio Kaku, Brian Cox, Richard Feynman e Frank Close. Ouvi-los a cantar deu-me arrepios... (dos bons). e comoveu-me, mesmo. Detenhamo-nos nas palavras dos intervenientes e na... poesia (por que não?) da mensagem científica que transmitem.

Apetece-me dizer mesmo: a aventura humana é tão bonita! (quando deixamos vir ao de cima o melhor de nós próprios e o único traço de que todos nos devíamos orgulhar e procurar manter vivo.)




[Morgan Freeman]
So, what are we really made of?
Dig deep inside the atom
and you'll find tiny particles
Held together by invisible forces

Everything is made up
Of tiny packets of energy
Born in cosmic furnaces

[Frank Close]
The atoms that we're made of have
Negatively charged electrons
Whirling around a big bulky nucleus

[Michio Kaku]
The Quantum Theory
Offers a very different explanation
Of our world

[Brian Cox]
The universe is made of
Twelve particles of matter
Four forces of nature

That's a wonderful and significant story

[Richard Feynman]
Suppose that little things
Behaved very differently
Than anything big

Nothing's really as it seems
It's so wonderfully different
Than anything big

The world is a dynamic mess
Of jiggling things
It's hard to believe

[Kaku]
The quantum theory
Is so strange and bizzare
Even Einstein couldn't get his head around it

[Cox]
In the quantum world
The world of particles
Nothing is certain
It's a world of probabilities

(refrain)

[Feynman]
It's very hard to imagine
All the crazy things
That things really are like

Electrons act like waves
No they don't exactly
They act like particles
No they don't exactly

[Stephen Hawking]
We need a theory of everything
Which is still just beyond our grasp
We need a theory of everything, perhaps
The ultimate triump of science

(refrain)

[Feynman]
I gotta stop somewhere
I'll leave you something to imagine


As 11 faixas da banda sonora da nossa existência (digo eu) pode ser descarregada gratuitamente carregando na imagem infra. No site oficial do projecto estão os restantes 10 temas em vídeo, bem como acessos para as letras:

Precisamos de ver isto na TV portuguesa, URGENTEMENTE!