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，作者用清晰明了、幽默風(fēng)趣的筆法，將宇宙大爆炸到人類文明發(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，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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因?yàn)樵鵀槊绹怂鶎?單詞采用美式拼法,不抄全文,根據(jù)上下文注意各句標(biāo)號(hào)。


Hints
Gamow
Big Bang
Penzias and Wilson

Unknown to them, just thirty miles away at Princeton University, a team of scientists led by Robert Dicke was working on how to find the very thing they were trying so diligently to get rid of. The Princeton researchers were pursuing an idea that had been suggested in the 1940s by the Russian-born astrophysicist George Gamow that if you looked deep enough into space you should find some cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang. [---1---] In a more recent paper he had even suggested an instrument that might do the job: the Bell antenna at Holmdel. Unfortunately, neither Penzias and Wilson, nor any of the Princeton team, had read Gamow's paper.

The noise that Penzias and Wilson were hearing was, of course, the noise that Gamow had postulated. [---2---] They were "seeing" the first photons—the most ancient light in the universe—though time and distance had converted them to microwaves, just as Gamow had predicted. In his book 'The Inflationary Universe', Alan Guth provides an analogy that helps to put this finding in perspective. If you think of peering into the depths of the universe as like looking down from the 100th floor of the Empire State Building ([---3---]), at the time of Wilson and Penzias's discovery the most distant galaxies anyone had ever detected were on about the 60th floor, and the most distant things—quasars—were on about the 20th. [---4---]

Gamow calculated that by the time it crossed the vastness of the cosmos, the radiation would reach Earth in the form of microwaves. They had found the edge of the universe, or at least the visible part of it, 90 billion trillion miles away. with the 100th floor representing now and street level representing the moment of the Big Bang Penzias and Wilson's finding pushed our acquaintance with the visible universe to within half an inch of the sidewalk.
他們不知道，就在50公里以外的普林斯頓大學(xué)，一組以羅伯特?迪克為首的科學(xué)家正在設(shè)法尋找的，就是這兩位天文學(xué)家想要除去的東西。普林斯頓大學(xué)的研究人員正在研究20世紀(jì)40年代在蘇聯(lián)出生的天文物理學(xué)家喬治?伽莫夫提出的假設(shè)：要是你看到空間深處，你就會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)大爆炸殘留下來的某種宇宙背景輻射。伽莫夫估計(jì)，那種輻射穿過茫茫的宇宙以后，便會(huì)以微波的形式抵達(dá)地球。在新近發(fā)表的一篇論文中，他甚至提出可以用一種儀器達(dá)到這個(gè)目的，這種儀器就是霍爾姆德爾的貝爾天線。不幸的是，無論是彭齊亞斯和威爾遜，還是普林斯頓大學(xué)小組的任何專家，都沒有看過伽莫夫的論文。 　　彭齊亞斯和威爾遜聽到的噪聲，正是伽莫夫所假設(shè)的。他們已經(jīng)找到了宇宙的邊緣，至少是宇宙150億光年以外的可見部分。他們?cè)?觀望"第一批質(zhì)子--宇宙中最古老的光--果然不出伽莫夫所料，時(shí)間和距離已經(jīng)將其轉(zhuǎn)變成了微波。艾倫?古思在他的《不斷膨脹的宇宙》一書中提出一種類比，有利于擺正這一發(fā)現(xiàn)的位置。要是你把觀望宇宙深處比做是在美國紐約帝國大廈的100層上往下看（假設(shè)100層代表現(xiàn)在，街面代表大爆炸的時(shí)刻），那么在彭齊亞斯和威爾遜發(fā)現(xiàn)那個(gè)現(xiàn)象的時(shí)候，已經(jīng)有人發(fā)現(xiàn)的最遠(yuǎn)的星系是在大約60層，最遠(yuǎn)的東西--類星體--是在大約20層。彭齊亞斯和威爾遜的發(fā)現(xiàn)，把我們對(duì)宇宙可見部分的認(rèn)識(shí)在大廳的地板上推進(jìn)了約1厘米。