How the Universe Works《了解宇宙是如何运行的（2010）》第十季第五集完整中英文对照剧本.docxVIP

在宇宙的中心有一个谜Theres a mystery atthe very heart of the universe.那就是我们不知道宇宙的年龄We dont know how oldthe cosmos is.奥卢塞伊:了解宇宙的年龄OLUSEYI: Understandingthe age of the universe就是了解宇宙的本质is fundamental to understandingthe universe at all.它是一切的核心Its at the heartof everything.这不仅仅是庆祝宇宙的生日Its more than justcelebrating a birthday.普莱特:我们想知道它有多少质量PLAIT: We want to knowhow much mass is in it,有多少能量，以及它是如何表现的how much energy is in it,how it behaves.我们必须确定这个数字We have to have this numbernailed down.明加雷利:宇宙的年龄MINGARELLI:The age of the universe不仅能让我们了解我们从哪里来enables us to not onlyunderstand where we came from,还可能让我们了解宇宙的命运but potentially,the fate of the universe,以及数百万年乃至数十亿年后会发生什么what will happen millions andbillions of years from now.但我们对宇宙年龄的探索But our quest to discoverthe age of the universe is引发了一场战争starting a war.萨特:通常大自然只是对我们低语SUTTER: Usually Naturejust whispers to us.现在大自然在我们耳边尖叫着说Now Nature is screamingin our ear我们做错了什么，这的确让人令人兴奋that were doing somethingwrong, and thats exciting.宇宙是如何运行的第十季第4集 追踪宇宙起源我们认为宇宙始于一次爆hearts;炸hearts;We think the universestarted with a bang.曾经存在过的一切都被压缩在Everything that has everexisted is squashed up这个比针头还小的空间里in this space smallerthan a pinhead,突然间，空间开始and all of a sudden,space just starts expanding向各处扩张everywhere at once.宇宙是由一个比针头还小的球形成的The idea thatthe universe grew from这个想法的确很难让人理解a ball smaller than a pinheadis hard to understand,但弄清它是何时发生的but figuring outwhen it happened听起来应该更简单sounds like it should bemore straightforward.这似乎是一个简单的问题，对吧？It seems like a simplequestion right?但事实证明But it turns out,getting计算宇宙的年龄是相当棘手的the age of the universe ispretty tricky.科学家们的参考点Scientists havejust a single fact只有一个——as their starting point --宇宙正在膨胀the universe is expanding.当人们意识到宇宙在膨胀时When people realizedthe universe was expanding,他们认为自己they thought they finally had终于有办法估算宇宙的年龄了a way to estimate the age ofthe universe.以现在的宇宙为例，让它回到过去Take the universe nowand run it backw