[20130902]A Short History of Nearly Everything[serial]
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Big Bang
PART I LOST IN THE COSMOS
第一部分 迷失在宇宙
They’re all in the same plane. They’re all going around in the same direction. . . . It’s perfect, you know. It’s gorgeous. It’s almost uncanny.
它们都处于同一平面。 它们都在沿同一方向转动...... 你要知道，这真是完美无缺的， 这真是不可思议的，这几乎是很神奇的。
--天文学家杰弗里•马西对太阳系的描述
1 HOW TO BUILD A UNIVERSE
一 如何营造一个宇宙
NO MATTER HOW hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming(在空间上不耗费的), is a proton. It is just way too small.
无论怎么努力，你都永远也想像不出质子有多么微小，占有多么小的空间。它实在太小了。
A proton is an infinitesimal part of an atom, which is itself of course an insubstantial thing. Protons are so small that a little dib of ink like the dot on this i can hold something in the region of 500 billion of them, rather more than the number of seconds contained in half a million years. So protons are exceedingly microscopic, to say the very least.
质子是原子极其微小的组成部分，而原子本身当然也小不可言。质子小到什么程度？像字母"i"上的点这样大小的一滴墨水，就可以拥有约5000亿个质子，说得更确切一点，要比组成1.5万年的秒数还多。因此，起码可以说，质子是极其微小的。
Now imagine if you can (and of course you can’t) shrinking one of those protons down to a billionth of its normal size into a space so small that it would make a proton look enormous. Now pack into that tiny, tiny space about an ounce of matter. Excellent. You are ready to start a universe.
现在，请你想像一下，假如你能（你当然不能）把一个质子缩小到它正常大小的十亿分之一，放进一个极小的空间，使它显得很大，然后，你把大约30克物质装进那个极小极小的空间。很好，你已作好创建一个宇宙的准备。
I’m assuming of course that you wish to build an inflationary universe. If you'd prefer instead to build a more old-fashioned, standard Big Bang universe, you'll need additional materials. In fact, you will need to gather up everything there is every last mote and(前:尘埃,斑点. 注意连读) particle of matter between here and the edge of creation and squeeze it into a spot so infinitesimally compact that it has no dimensions at all. It is known as a singularity.
我当然估计到，你希望创建一个会膨胀的宇宙。不过，要是你愿意创建一个比较老式而又标准的大爆炸型宇宙，你还需要别的材料。事实上，你需要收集现有的一切东西--从现在到宇宙创建之时的每个粒子--把它塞进一个根本谈不上大小的极小地方。这就是所谓的奇点。
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