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(wàn)物組成了本書,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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Evans

So when a hopeful and softspoken minister got in touch to ask if they had any usable field charts for hunting supernovae, the astronomical community thought he [-1-]. At the time Evans had a ten-inch telescope—a very [-2-] size for amateur stargazing but hardly the sort of thing with which to do serious cosmology—and he was proposing to find one of the universe's rarer phenomena. [---3---] (At the time I visited him, in August of 2001, he had just recorded his 34th visual discovery; a 35th followed three months later and a 36th in early 2003.)

Evans, however, had certain advantages. Most observers, like most people generally, are in the northern [-4-], so he had a lot of sky largely to himself, especially at first. [---5---] Large telescopes are cumbersome things, and much of their operational time [-6-] being maneuvered into position. Evans could swing his little 16-inch telescope around like a tail gunner in a dogfight, spending no more than a couple of seconds on any particular point in the sky. [-7-], he could observe perhaps four hundred galaxies in an evening while a large professional telescope would be lucky to do 50 or 60.
was out of his mind respectable In the whole of astronomical history before Evans started looking in 1980, fewer than 60 supernovae had been found. hemisphere He also had speed and his uncanny memory. is consumed with In consequence
因此,要是有一位滿懷希望、說(shuō)話細(xì)聲細(xì)氣的牧師前來(lái)聯(lián)系,問(wèn)一聲他們有沒(méi)有可用的星場(chǎng)地圖,以便尋找超新星,天文學(xué)界一定會(huì)認(rèn)為他的腦子出了毛病。當(dāng)時(shí),埃文斯只有一臺(tái)5厘米的天文望遠(yuǎn)鏡--這供業(yè)余觀星之用倒差不多,但用那玩意兒來(lái)搞嚴(yán)肅的宇宙研究還遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)不夠--他卻提出要尋找宇宙里比較稀罕的現(xiàn)象。埃文斯于1980年開(kāi)始觀察,在此之前,整個(gè)天文學(xué)史上發(fā)現(xiàn)的超新星還不到60顆。(到我2001年8月拜訪他的時(shí)候,他已經(jīng)記錄了他的第34次目視發(fā)現(xiàn);3個(gè)月以后,他有了第35次發(fā)現(xiàn);2003年初,第36次。) 然而,埃文斯有著某些優(yōu)勢(shì)。大部分觀察者像大部分人口一樣身處北半球,因此身處南半球的他在很大程度上獨(dú)自擁有一大片天空,尤其是在最初的時(shí)候。他還擁有速度和超人的記憶力。大型天文望遠(yuǎn)鏡是很笨重的東西,移動(dòng)到位要花掉好多操作時(shí)間。埃文斯可以像近距離空戰(zhàn)中的機(jī)尾射手那樣把5厘米小型望遠(yuǎn)鏡轉(zhuǎn)來(lái)轉(zhuǎn)去,用幾秒鐘時(shí)間就可以瞄準(zhǔn)天空中任何一個(gè)特定的點(diǎn)。因此,他一個(gè)晚上也許可以觀測(cè)400個(gè)星系,而一臺(tái)大型專業(yè)天文望遠(yuǎn)鏡能觀測(cè)五六十個(gè)就很不錯(cuò)了。