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This little spinner has on it what,
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in my opinion, is the most important picture in the history of science.
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And while I work up to telling you about it,
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I'm gonna spin it and see how long it can go.
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Because in order to tell you about this image,
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I have to ask you a question about atoms.
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And that question is, do you know that atoms exist?
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Like, for sure.
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And more than that, do we know that atoms exist?
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Is that a thing that humanity,
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like, 100% definitely has nailed down?
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Like, if you pressed me,
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I couldn't really tell you what atoms are.
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Certainly, they are some combination of protons, electrons, and sometimes neutrons.
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Certainly, there's a nucleus and an electron cloud.
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Also, by definition, they're neutral.
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If there's more electrons than protons or more protons than electrons,
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then that's an ion.
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And certainly, when you do chemistry,
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it only ever happens in whole number increments.
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There's like definitely an atom-like thing going on there.
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And this was actually the first big hint that atoms might really be a real thing.
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When early chemists did early chemistry,
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they kept finding these nice big whole numbers.
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You break water apart, you don't just get hydrogen and oxygen,
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which is a very weird outcome on its own.
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You get exactly two parts hydrogen for every one part oxygen.
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I mean, as exactly as their methods and instruments would allow.
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But that is not enough on its own to say that an atom is a real physical thing.
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Like maybe there's just some other force pushing everything toward these whole number ratios.
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A century after John Dalton and Joseph Proust noticed these ratios,
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So scientists were still arguing about whether atoms were a real physical thing or just a useful mathematical tool.
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It's still going.
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But if there's one thing you know about Albert Einstein,
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it's the whole E equals mc squared thing.
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But if there's two things you know,
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it's probably the photoelectric effect.
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But if there's three things you know,
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it's that he also kind of proved that physical atoms actually exist.
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This is a big deal.
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The fact that this is not his most famous discovery is honestly pretty messed up.
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Perhaps he should have, like, done a little less.
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You know, leave something for the rest of us.
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In 1905, Einstein used math to describe a very weird effect called Brownian motion,
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where little flecks of stuff on the top of water would jitter, seemingly at random.
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Einstein's math proved very elegantly that this would only happen
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if the water itself were made of tiny particles bumping into pollen grains.
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Oh, it stopped.
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It stopped.
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Turns out I could go longer.
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The fact that Einstein showed that if atoms were real,
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tiny particles suspended in water should jitter in a very specific way
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that was indeed the way that they jitter here in the real physical world convinced a lot of people.
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It was kinda seeing atoms with our own eyes,
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but it was not actually seeing atoms.
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And even though Einstein's 1905 Brownian motion paper is often cited as the moment
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that we knew for sure that there really were atoms,
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many scientists continued to argue that atoms weren't a real thing
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and they were more of an idea for quite a long time.
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After all, if atoms were real,
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why couldn't anyone see one?
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Now you might be thinking,
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is this, what I think is the most important image in the history of science,
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is this the first picture of atoms?
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No, it's not.
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But it kinda is.
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We're gonna get to it it.
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Atoms, it turns out, are incredibly small.
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About one ten billionth of a meter across, which is pretty strange.
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Like, that's just very small.
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Also, it turns out quite a lot smaller than the wavelengths of visible light.
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So atoms, actually, are literally impossible to see with the light we use to see things.
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So surely, seeing would not be the thing
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that would put the final nail in the coffin of the atoms don't physically exist theory.
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But right around this time,
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something else very interesting had been discovered.
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A new kind of light.
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God, this must have been very exciting and weird at the time.
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That new kind of light was the X-ray.
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And importantly, no one in the early 20th century knew what the heck an X-ray was.
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Some scientists thought that they were particles,
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others thought that they were waves like light,
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just with like way shorter wavelengths.
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And if that were true,
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then perhaps those waves might be small enough to interact with atoms.
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And this was the very clever insight of not Einstein,
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but the German physicist Max von Lau.
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He thought that perhaps X-rays could interact with atoms,
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and he had the perfect tool for testing this—crystals.
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The atoms of crystals are arranged in extremely regular repeating patterns.
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Salt, quartz, diamond—they all have atoms arranged in orderly grids.
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And if X-rays were really waves and atoms were really physical objects arranged in these orderly patterns,
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then sending X-rays through a crystal should do something very specific and very cool.
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Each atom would scatter the X-rays a little bit,
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and those scattered waves would interfere with one another,
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reinforcing in some directions, canceling out in others.
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If you placed a photographic plate behind the crystal and shot an X-ray through it,
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you You should see a specific and symmetrical pattern when you develop the plate.
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If that happened, X-rays would definitely be waves,
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and atoms would definitely be things.
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And in 1912, while the atom debate continued to fester,
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two of von Laue's colleagues did exactly this,
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firing X-rays through a crystal of copper sulfate and onto photographic plates.
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And when they went and developed the film,
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this must have been very exciting,
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they saw a constellation of spots arranged in perfect symmetry.
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This photograph revealed two deep truths about the universe at the same time.
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X-rays were not mysterious particles,
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they were a new kind of light.
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Electromagnetic radiation with much smaller wavelengths.
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And second, crystals were not smooth continuous solids the way they appear to be to us.
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They were built from extremely tiny objects arranged in precise repeating structures.
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Now this was not a photograph of atoms.
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We would have to wait decades for that if you can call what we do now when we image atoms a photograph.
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This was instead the pattern atoms imprint on light as it passes through them.
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Which let's be honest is cooler.
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It is so cool that I would like to make you a deal.
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Are you ready?
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So some of you watching this video you would like to celebrate Von Laus work.
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humanity's labor of never being satisfied and always striving to figure out more,
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to the point where we now teach seemingly unknowable truths to every elementary school student.
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This is remarkable work.
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This is human work.
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It is the work of science.
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And here at SciShow, we love to tell you about that work.
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We love what we do.
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We are also part of Complexly,
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which is a 501c3 nonprofit full of people working their butts off to make high-quality,
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So for the third year in a row we are selling a $60 postcard,
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Some of you have been asking for something cooler,
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These X-ray diffraction pictures of crystals,
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called X-ray crystallographs, it turns out,
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weren't just good for learning about the nature of our universe,
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they also became an important tool for understanding chemical structures.
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Most famously, Rosalind Franklin managed the finicky work of creating a crystal of DNA,
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and then shining x-rays through it to create this famous image.
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Once scientists learned how to read these patterns,
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they had a way to map the invisible architecture of atoms.
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From minerals to metals to complex molecules to eventually the molecule that encodes our genome, DNA.
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このビデオは、科学史における重要な画像についての解説を含んでおり、その過程で使われる英語は特に効果的です。スピーチの文脈で、視聴者は著名な科学者の発見を通じて基本的な英文法や語彙を学ぶことができます。IELTS スピーキング対策として非常に価値があり、科学的なテーマはディスカッションの幅を広げる助けともなります。このビデオを使って話す練習をすることで、具体的な表現や言い回しを習得し、流暢さを高めることができるでしょう。
文法と表現の文脈
このスピーチの中で使われている重要な構文や表現を以下に分析します：
- Do you know that atoms exist? - 質問形式を使用して、聴衆を引き込む効果的な方法です。
- Like, if you pressed me, I couldn't really tell you what atoms are. - 自然な会話を模した非公式な表現は、リスニングスキルを強化します。
- This is a big deal. - 重要性を強調するためのカジュアルな表現。
- the whole E equals mc squared thing - 専門的な概念を日常会話の流れに取り入れることができる。
これらの表現は、英語シャドーイングやshadowing siteで実践する際にも役立ち、リスナーがスピーキング能力を向上させる手助けをします。
一般的な発音の罠
このビデオでは、いくつかの難しい発音やアクセントがあります。特に注目すべきポイントは以下の通りです：
- atoms（アトムズ） - 日本語では「原子」と訳されるが、英語では母音の発音が重要です。
- Brownian motion（ブラウン運動） - 難しい固有名詞は注意が必要。
- 動詞のアクセント - stopやproveなど、要所でのアクセントに気を付けてください。
これらの発音を改善するためには、YouTubeで英語学習を利用して、言葉を繰り返すことが効果的です。シャドーイングの技術を使って、自然な流れで話せるように練習しましょう。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。