平行世界，平行生命

英国Eels乐队的一名歌手Mark Oliver Everett将为你讲述他的天才父亲的传奇悲剧人生和神奇经历。他的父亲曾在24岁发表了一篇"多重世界"的物理论文，震惊了全世界，但物理学界并不买账，他的父亲只能放弃了量子物理学。现在这件事被认为是物理学界最严重的悲剧之一，他的理论如此超前以至于当时的人无法理解，50年后的今天人们才证明了他的理论...


　　Singer Mark Oliver Everett - E from the Eels - explains why he made a film about his brilliant, tragic father


　　Shortly after my father died the phone started ringing. My father was Hugh Everett III. When he was 24 he wrote a ground-breaking thesis about physics most commonly known as "the many worlds theory". It challenged the accepted notion of how the world works in such a huge way, stating that there were actually countless versions of ourselves splitting off and going through as many different scenarios as you could imagine, and the physics powers that be (Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr) were having none of this. They weren't about to let a 24-year-old knock their faces off the Mount Rushmore of physics. Getting no encouragement, my father gave up on quantum physics.


　　It's now considered to be one of the greatest tragedies in physics that my father wasn't taken seriously. He was so ahead of his time that there weren't even ways to prove his theory mathematically, but now, 50 years later, there are. And it checks out quite well.


　　I knew this day was coming ever since the phone started ringing in 1982. It was always some "physics groupie" asking for my mother so they could grill her for information about my father. And, as time went on and technology caught up with him, the interest kept mounting.


　　I'm a singer and songwriter in a rock band called Eels. I never knew much about physics and my father was a complete mystery to me, even though I lived in the same house with him for 18 or 19 years. He rarely spoke. He was an ever-present lump of flesh sitting at the dining room table every night writing out crazy calculations on a pad of paper. That's about all I saw of him.


　　When the BBC asked if I was interested in making a film, I jumped at the chance. I have tended to deal with my family by making them into little art projects. I made an album in 1998 called Electro-shock Blues that dealt extensively with my sister's and mother's deaths. While my sister's suicide note did indeed contain a passage about going off to meet our father in a parallel universe, I hadn't made anything that dealt with my father the way I had dealt with the rest of my family, and this was the way I liked to do it: make something that is therapeutic for me personally that, hopefully, can offer something for the rest of the world.


　　The idea made me both excited and uncomfortable. And the uncomfortable part was what made me know it was something I'd have to do. I didn't like the idea of opening up that world of pain and going back to Virginia and Washington DC, places where I can smell the dread in the air because of all the painful memories. But to get the chance to hang out with my father's college roommates, who are all still alive, friends and coworkers, was too interesting for me not to go through with. I knew I was going to learn a lot about both physics and my father. And I did.


　　The first few days of shooting were awkward and I felt pretty uptight. Then one day while I was being interviewed on camera about some painful experience, I heard Louise [Lockwood], the director, softly click her mouth and whisper, "Aw, E..." Suddenly I thought: "These people actually care about me." I then relaxed and probably started saying all sorts of things I would have been too guarded about before.


　　I was struck by what a tragedy my father's life was. He has contributed something huge to the world, but for him it was painful. How would you like to come up with something so mind-blowing about how the world works, confident that you knew it was true, but have no one support your view? It must have been the loneliest life, being the smartest guy in the room, just having to shut up and keep your thoughts to yourself while the regular chimps all chat away. I was determined to help to give him the day in the sun he never got when he was alive.


　　I spent a week at Princeton learning about physics and hanging out with my father's old friends. I did not inherit my father's gift for mathematics, and can barely calculate the tip after dinner, so it was a real challenge for me to be standing in front of blackboards learning about quantum physics. But I came to have a pretty good understanding of my father's theory. In Virginia I met some of my father's coworkers and even went inside the Pentagon (who knew security was so lax?).


　　It was a very difficult process for me, but when it was over I felt really glad that I had done it. It's not easy going back to a place you really don't want to go back to and opening boxes of memories. Particularly with a film crew following you, trying to make you cry ("How does that make you feel, E?"). I'd be really glad if I had a son do something like this for me some day, so I'd like to think that my dad is smiling down from some parallel universe and saying, "thanks".

在父亲去世多年后开始去探寻关于父亲的一切，写了许多关于父亲的歌。普林斯顿真是人才众多，24岁发表平行宇宙理论，真是棒。对量子物理和平行世界感兴趣所以看到这个电影。最后，Mark的歌很好听。

一个摇滚音乐家探索自己并不了解的父亲生前科研 而这位父亲恰是平行理论的重要物理学家。仅是这个事实已够贴合平行理论。片中更有大量科学界历史时刻的影像 让我不禁热血沸腾的类型。推荐！

虽然主题是围绕“平行世界”展开，但其实谈多重宇宙的量子物理不多，到后面更多涉及的还是“平行人生”，即身为摇滚歌手的儿子如何理解一个量子物理学家父亲（父亲去世时他才19岁）。不过这里的两个“平行”其实意思并不一样，前者是量子物理下的宇宙之多元性，后者简单地说则是代沟。当然，拍得还是很轻松，既不煽情也不苦大仇深，这可能也是父子两代人的家族性相似之处。

平行世界理论的提出者，对量子物理学创始人波尔的一次颠覆，但是由于时代的局限，三年研究出来的理论、24岁提出，却没有得到世人的认可，直到七十年代末期才慢慢开始被人研究，真可惜！PS：之前看的“观察者”理论原来是波尔提的，果然不能全信啊，因为还有平行世界理论。

用一种从未想过的方式在爹死了几十年以后认识他。很神奇。我希望我在我爹还在的时候真的认识他。另外我相信平行世界的。我也想去有另一个我的星球。

内容和平行世界没什么关系，就是一个儿子“寻找”父亲的感人故事，相信Mark余生都会以他爹为荣。BTW，他爹真是太牛逼了。

平行时空中，存在无数个我。是不是有那么一个最好的我呢？下一次，在面临选择时，想想那个最好的我会怎样做？ps.物理大师的儿子竟然是摇滚歌星，，我为你叫好。

还是有点无法接受平行宇宙的概念，这不就是概率的问题嘛。就像抛硬币一样，不知道结果之前，正面还是反面都有50%的可能，但最后只有一个结果，薛定谔的猫不也是这样吗？而且，能量守恒在量子物理世界里不管用了吗？

“你知道，我爹就像是物理学界的摇滚巨星！”这片真是巧合的巧合，天才的物理学家儿子是个摇滚歌手!影片配乐直接切到儿子演唱会，播放和前段采访父亲生平相应的歌曲，视角和切入点很逗趣和贴近人；父亲只花了三年时间撰写和研究了平行世界理论；而姐姐和母亲有抑郁症，姐姐死于自杀；封存遗物重启很酷

主人公虽然说家人的表达方式是幽默，虽然他也确实很幽默，但很难想象他每天在几乎为陌生人的父亲，自杀的母亲和妹妹的家庭氛围中度过的。平行理论还是理解无能，但整个片子看得不沉闷，反而小乐趣小感动不断。字幕组很给力：-You're blowing my mind-Good,that's our job to do-我被雷到了-雷雷更健康

Eels写给父亲的歌《Things the Grandchildren Should Know》真动人，结尾他说，如果早点了解这一切，也许不会从事音乐，可父亲不正是物理界的摇滚明星吗，一场跨越几十年的父子和解，当他把父亲的遗物重启，从磁带里传来父亲的声音，瞬间泪目

”英国Eels乐队的Mark为你讲述他的天才父亲的传奇：在24岁发表了一篇"多重世界"的物理论文，但物理学界并不买账，他只能放弃了量子物理学。现在这件事被认为是物理学界最严重的悲剧之一，他的理论如此超前以至于当时的人无法理解，50年后的今天人们才证明了他的理论。“