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這是一部有關(guān)現(xiàn)代科學發(fā)展史的既通俗易懂又引人入勝的書，作者用清晰明了、幽默風趣的筆法，將宇宙大爆炸到人類文明發(fā)展進程中所發(fā)生的繁多妙趣橫生的故事一一收入筆下。驚奇和感嘆組成了本書，歷歷在目的天下萬物組成了本書，益于人們了解大千世界的無窮奧妙，掌握萬事萬物的發(fā)展脈絡(luò)。
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書本的朗讀語音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好學著模仿哦~~~！！
因為原著為美國人所寫,單詞采用美式拼法,不抄全文,不寫各句標號。

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Big Bang


PART I LOST IN THE COSMOS

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.
-Astronomer Geoffrey Marcy
describing the solar system

1 HOW TO BUILD A UNIVERSE

NO MATTER HOW hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton. It is just way too small.

[---1---] 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. [---2---]

Now imagine if you can (and of course you can’t) [---3---] Now pack into that tiny, tiny space about an ounce of matter. Excellent. You are ready to start a universe.

I’m assuming of course that you wish to build an inflationary universe. [---4---] In fact, you will need to gather up everything there is every last mote and 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.

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A proton is an infinitesimal part of an atom, which is itself of course an insubstantial thing. So protons are exceedingly microscopic, to say the very least. 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. If you’d prefer instead to build a more old-fashioned, standard Big Bang universe, you’ll need additional materials.
第一章　如何營造一個宇宙 它們都處于同一平面。 它們都在沿同一方向轉(zhuǎn)動...... 你要知道，這真是完美無缺的， 這真是不可思議的，這幾乎是很神奇的。 --天文學家杰弗里?馬西對太陽系的描述 　　無論怎么努力，你都永遠也想像不出質(zhì)子有多么微小，占有多么小的空間。它實在太小了。 　　質(zhì)子是原子極其微小的組成部分，而原子本身當然也小不可言。質(zhì)子小到什么程度？像字母"i"上的點這樣大小的一滴墨水，就可以擁有約莫5000億個質(zhì)子，說得更確切一點，要比組成1.5萬年的秒數(shù)還多。因此，起碼可以說，質(zhì)子是極其微小的。 　　現(xiàn)在，請你想像一下，假如你能（你當然不能）把一個質(zhì)子縮小到它正常大小的十億分之一，放進一個極小的空間，使它顯得很大，然后，你把大約30克物質(zhì)裝進那個極小極小的空間。很好，你已作好創(chuàng)建一個宇宙的準備。 　　我當然估計到，你希望創(chuàng)建一個會膨脹的宇宙。不過，要是你愿意創(chuàng)建一個比較老式而又標準的大爆炸型宇宙，你還需要別的材料。事實上，你需要收集現(xiàn)有的一切東西--從現(xiàn)在到宇宙創(chuàng)建之時的每個粒子--把它塞進一個根本談不上大小的極小地方。這就是所謂的奇點。