触摸未来 第一季

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The ratio is always the same.1 to 1.618 over and over and over again.The patterns-- are hidden in plain sight.Just have to know where to look.Things most people see as chaos actually follow subtle laws of behavior.Galaxies, plants, seashells.The patterns never lie.But only some of us can see how the pieces fit together.7,080,360,000 of us live on this tiny planet.This is the story of some of those people.There's an ancient Chinese myth about the Red Thread of Fate.It says the gods have tied a red thread around every one of our ankles and attached it to all the people whose lives we're destined to touch.This thread may stretch or tangle, but it'll never break.

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I live on this planet with 7,080,360,000 other people.This is the story of some of those people.Today the average person will say 2,250 words to 7.4 other individuals.We will send over 300 billion e-mails,19 billion text messages,all adding to the giant mosaic of patterns and ratios.Mathematical in design,these patterns are hidden in plain sight.You just have to know where to look,but only some of us can see how the pieces fit together.It’s all been predetermined by mathematical probability.

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There are 3 million species of animals living in the tropical rain forests,and one of them,the red fire ant,lives underground,under constant threat of annihilation from flash floods.Nature doesn’t care.If a species want to survive,it has to prove it deserves to.When the floods come,the fire ants hold on to each other,creating a living raft that can float until the water recedes.Months,if necessary.So how does a species figure something like that out ?Instinct?Trial and error?Was there one fire ant who was being swept away by the rushing water and grabbed on to another ant,only to find that together they could float?What if you were the one who knew what needed to be done but you had no words?How do you make the others understand?How do you call for help?

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The first transatlantic telegraph cable was made of 340,500 miles of copper and iron wire,designed to stretch 2,876.95 miles along the ocean floor.Once the cable was in place,you could use electrical impulses and signal code to send any message you wanted to the other side of the world.Human beings are hard-wired with the impulses to share our ideas and the desire to know we’re been heard.It’s all part of our need for community.That’s why we’re constantly sending out signals and signs.It’s why we look for them from other people.We’re always waiting for messages,hoping for connection.And if we haven’t received a message,it doesn’t always mean it hasn’t been sent to us.Sometimes it means we haven’t been listening hard enough.

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490,000 babies will be born today,each of them unique,and each of them a link in the greater human chain.And the moment their umbilical cord is served they will become an individual with their own hopes,dreams and desires.But, in fact,each one of us is actually made up of a dozen systems.

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89 degrees,15 minutes and 50.8 seconds.That’s the current position of Polaris.The Northern Star.Viewed from another planet,it’s just one among many.But on Earth,it’s uniquely important.Fixed in place,an anchor.No matter where you are in the northern hemisphere,if you face Polaris,you face north.You know where you are.But there are other ways to get lost.In the choices we make.In events that overwhelm us.Even with our own minds.What can be an anchor then?What beacon can we turn to to guide us from darkness to light?What if it’s other people?The lives that touch our own,in ways big and small?Because unlike Polaris the light that they bring will never fade.

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During cataclysmic global events,our collective consciousness synchronizes.So do the numeric sequences created by random number generators science can’t explain the phenomenon,but religion does.It’s called prayer.A collective request sent up in unison,a shared hope,fear relieved,a life spared.Numbers are constant until they’re not.In times of tragedy times of collective joy,in these brief moments,it is only the shared emotional experience that makes the world seem less random.Maybe it’s coincidence.And maybe it’s the answer to your prayers.

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If two points are destined to touch the universe will find a way to make the connection.Even when all hope seems lost certain ties cannot be broken.They define who you are.And who we can become.Across space across time along paths we cannot predict nature always finds a way.

S01E09:

The Earth,as it rotates,emits a frequency,a musical note,at 7.83 hertz.But this frequency alters slightly for reasons as yet uncertain.Some postulate solar flares as the cause,or electrical disturbance in the atmosphere.But maybe there’s a simpler explanation.Maybe the sound of the planet is influenced by the seven billion souls whirring around it,each producing their own music,adding their own harmony.

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We’re all part of this infinite tessellation,each a single celllin the honeycomb.And though individual pieces of this puzzle may never physically touch they all from part of that same grand mosaic.Like bricks in a wall, the whole is made stronger by each brick.Remove one,and it all comes crumbling down.Though we may not realize it,the integrity of this wall is tested daily.But the wall holds because of everyone’s collective support.

S01E11:

Items that get caught in the gyre usually stay in the gyre,doomed to travel the same path,forever circulating the same waters.But not always.Their paths can be altered by a change in the weather,a storm at sea,a chance encounter with a pod of whales.

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There are 31,530,000 seconds in a year.1,000 milliseconds in a second.A million microseconds.A billion nanoseconds.And the one constant,connecting nanoseconds to years,is change the universe.From atom to galaxy,is in a perpetual state of flux.But we humans don’t like change.We fight it.It scares us.So we create the illusion of stasis.We want to believe in a world at rest,the world of right now.Yet our great paradox remains the same .The moment we grasp the “now” that “now”is gone.We cling to snapshots.

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We can’t help but wonder how much different one person makes in the world.We look inside ourselves,questioning if we have the capacity for heroism and greatness.But the truth is,every time we take an action,we make an impact.Every choice we make sends ripples out into the world.Our smallest acts of kindness can cause a chain reaction of unforeseen benefits for people we’ve never met.We might not witness those results,but they happen all the same.