這是一部有關(guān)現(xiàn)代科學(xué)發(fā)展史的既通俗易懂又引人入勝的書(shū)，作者用清晰明了、幽默風(fēng)趣的筆法，將宇宙大爆炸到人類(lèi)文明發(fā)展進(jìn)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(shū)，歷歷在目的天下萬(wàn)物組成了本書(shū)，益于人們了解大千世界的無(wú)窮奧妙，掌握萬(wàn)事萬(wàn)物的發(fā)展脈絡(luò)。
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Hints:
Bell Laboratories
Holmdel
New Jersey

[---1---] Even the notion of the Big Bang is quite a recent one. The idea had been kicking around since the 1920s, when Georges Lema?tre, a Belgian priest-scholar, first tentatively proposed it, but it didn't really become an active notion in cosmology until the mid-1960s when two young radio astronomers made an extraordinary and inadvertent discovery.

Their names were Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. [---2---] but they were troubled by a persistent background noise—a steady, steamy hiss that made any experimental work impossible. The noise was unrelenting and unfocused. It came from every point in the sky, day and night, through every season. [---3---] They tested every electrical system. [---4---] They climbed into the dish and placed duct tape over every seam and rivet. They climbed back into the dish with brooms and scrubbing brushes and carefully swept it clean of what they referred to in a later paper as "white dielectric material," or what is known more commonly as bird shit. Nothing they tried worked.

There is of course a great deal we don't know, and much of what we think we know we haven't known, or thought we've known, for long. In 1965, they were trying to make use of a large communications antenna owned by Bell Laboratories at Holmdel, New Jersey, For a year the young astronomers did everything they could think of to track down and eliminate the noise. They rebuilt instruments, checked circuits, wiggled wires, dusted plugs.
當(dāng)然，有大量的事情我們不知道，還有大量的事情我們現(xiàn)在或在過(guò)去很長(zhǎng)時(shí)間里以為自己知道而其實(shí)并不知道。連大爆炸理論也是不久以前才提出來(lái)的。這個(gè)概念自20世紀(jì)20年代以來(lái)一直很流行，是一位名叫喬治?勒梅特的比利時(shí)教士兼學(xué)者首先提出了這種假設(shè)。但是，直到20世紀(jì)60年代中，這種理論才在宇宙學(xué)界活躍起來(lái)。當(dāng)時(shí)，兩位年輕的射電天文學(xué)家無(wú)意中發(fā)現(xiàn)了一種非同尋常的現(xiàn)象。 　　他們的名字分別叫做阿諾?彭齊亞斯和羅伯特?威爾遜。1965年，他們?cè)诿绹?guó)新澤西州霍爾姆德?tīng)柕呢悹枌?shí)驗(yàn)室，想要使用一根大型通信天線，可是不斷受到一個(gè)本底噪聲--一種連續(xù)不斷的蒸汽般的咝咝聲的干擾，使得實(shí)驗(yàn)無(wú)法進(jìn)行下去。那個(gè)噪聲是一刻不停的，很不集中的。它來(lái)自天空的各個(gè)方位，日日夜夜，一年四季。有一年時(shí)間，兩位年輕的天文學(xué)家想盡了辦法，想要跟蹤和除去這個(gè)噪聲。他們測(cè)試了每個(gè)電器系統(tǒng)。他們重新組裝了儀器，檢查了線路，察看了電線，撣掉了插座上的灰塵。他們爬進(jìn)拋物面天線，用管道膠布蓋住每一條接縫，每一顆鉚釘。他們拿起掃帚和抹布再次爬進(jìn)拋物面天線，小心翼翼地把他們后來(lái)在一篇論文中稱(chēng)之為"白色電介質(zhì)"的、用更通常的說(shuō)法是鳥(niǎo)糞的東西掃得干干凈凈?？墒撬麄兊呐z毫不起作用。