When I was a child, I always wanted to be a superhero. I wanted to save the world and make everyone happy.
小时候,我一直梦想成为一个超级英雄。我想要拯救世界并让所有人快乐。
But I knew that I'd need superpowers to make my dreams come true.
但我知道我需要拥有超能力来实现梦想。
So I used to embark on these imaginary journeys to find intergalactic objects from planet Krypton, which was a lot of fun, but didn't yield much result.
于是我经常幻想在银河间寻找超人的故乡氪星,这可有意思了,只不过一直没有找到。
When I grew up and realized that science fiction was not a good source for superpowers,
长大以后,我才明白科幻小说并不是超能力的源头,
I decided instead to embark on a journey of real science, to find a more useful truth.
我于是决定踏上真正的科学旅程寻找更有意义的真相。
I started my journey in California, with a UC Berkeley 30-year longitudinal study that examined the photos of students in an old yearbook,