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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[---1---] Not long after, mind you. By doing a lot of math and watching carefully what goes on in particle accelerators, scientists believe they can look back to 10^-43 seconds after the moment of creation, when the universe was still so small that you would have needed a microscope to find it. [---2---] Thus 10^-43 is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001, or one 10 million trillion trillion trillionths of a second.

Most of what we know, or believe we know, about the early moments of the universe is thanks to an idea called inflation theory first propounded in 1979 by a junior particle physicist, then at Stanford, now at MIT, named Alan Guth. [---3---] He would probably never have had his great theory except that he happened to attend a lecture on the Big Bang given by none other than Robert Dicke. [---4---]

The Big Bang theory isn't about the bang itself but about what happened after the bang. We mustn't swoon over every extraordinary number that comes before us, but it is perhaps worth latching on to one from time to time just to be reminded of their ungraspable and amazing breadth. He was 32 years old and, by his own admission, had never done anything much before. The lecture inspired Guth to take an interest in cosmology, and in particular in the birth of the universe.
大爆炸理論并不是關(guān)于爆炸本身，而是關(guān)于爆炸以后發(fā)生的事。注意，是爆炸以后不久。科學(xué)家們做了大量計(jì)算，仔細(xì)觀察粒子加速器里的情況，然后認(rèn)為，他們可以回顧爆炸發(fā)生10^－43秒之后的情況，當(dāng)時(shí)宇宙仍然很小，要用顯微鏡才看得見。對于每個(gè)出現(xiàn)在我們面前的非同尋常的數(shù)字，我們無須把自己搞得頭昏腦漲，但有時(shí)候也許不妨理解一個(gè)，只是為了不忘其難以掌握、令人驚奇的程度。于是，10^－43秒就是0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 1秒，或者是一千億億億億分之一秒。 我們知道的或認(rèn)為知道的有關(guān)宇宙初期的大部分情況，都要?dú)w功于一位年輕的粒子物理學(xué)家于1979年首先提出的膨脹理論。他的名字叫艾倫?古思，他當(dāng)時(shí)在斯坦福大學(xué)工作，現(xiàn)在任職于麻省理工學(xué)院。他當(dāng)時(shí)32歲，自己承認(rèn)以前從沒有作出過很大的成績。要是他沒有恰好去聽那個(gè)關(guān)于大爆炸的講座的話，很可能永遠(yuǎn)也提不出那個(gè)偉大的理論。開那個(gè)講座的不是別人，正是羅伯特?迪克。講座使古思對宇宙學(xué)，尤其是對宇宙的形成產(chǎn)生了興趣。