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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書(shū)本的朗讀語(yǔ)音很charming的磁性英音~(yú)~~大家可以好好學(xué)著模仿哦~~~?。?
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[---1---] It was, rather, a vast, sudden expansion on a whopping scale. So what caused it?

One notion is that perhaps the singularity was the relic of an earlier, collapsed universe—that we're just one of an eternal cycle of expanding and collapsing universes, like the bladder on an oxygen machine. Others attribute the Big Bang to what they call "a false vacuum" or "a scalar field' or "vacuum energy"—some quality or thing, at any rate, that introduced a measure of instability into the nothingness that was. [---2---] [---3---] Or it may be that space and time had some other forms altogether before the Big Bang—forms too alien for us to imagine—[---4---] "These are very close to religious questions," Dr. Andrei Linde, a cosmologist at Stanford, told the New York Times in 2001.

Although everyone calls it the Big Bang, many books caution us not to think of it as an explosion in the conventional sense. It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can. It may be that our universe is merely part of many larger universes, some in different dimensions, and that Big Bangs are going on all the time all over the place. and that the Big Bang represents some sort of transition phase, where the universe went from a form we can't understand to one we almost can.
雖然人人都稱其為大爆炸，但許多書(shū)上都提醒我們，不要把它看做是普通意義上的爆炸，而是一次范圍和規(guī)模都極其大的突然爆炸。那么，它的原因是什么？ 　　有人認(rèn)為，那個(gè)奇點(diǎn)也許是早年業(yè)已毀滅的宇宙的殘余--我們的宇宙只是一系列宇宙中的一個(gè)。這些宇宙周而復(fù)始，不停地?cái)U(kuò)大和毀滅，就像一臺(tái)制氧機(jī)上的氣囊。有的人把大爆炸歸因于所謂的"偽真空"，或"標(biāo)量場(chǎng)"，或"真空能"--反正是某種物質(zhì)或東西，將一定量的不穩(wěn)定性帶進(jìn)了當(dāng)時(shí)的不存在。從不存在獲得某種存在，這似乎不大可能，但過(guò)去什么也不存在，現(xiàn)在有了個(gè)宇宙，事實(shí)證明這顯然是可能的。情況也許是，我們的宇宙只是眾多更大的、大小不等的宇宙的部分，大爆炸到處不停地發(fā)生。要不然也許是，在那次大爆炸之前，時(shí)間和空間具有某種完全不同的形式--那些形式我們非常不熟悉，因此無(wú)法想像--大爆炸代表某個(gè)過(guò)渡階段，宇宙從一種我們無(wú)法理解的形式過(guò)渡到一種我們幾乎可以理解的形式。"這與宗教問(wèn)題很相似。"斯坦福大學(xué)的宇宙學(xué)家安德烈?林德博士2001年對(duì)《紐約時(shí)報(bào)》的記者說(shuō)。