Still unaware of what caused the noise, Wilson and Penzias phoned Dicke at Princeton and described their problem to him in the hope that he might suggest a solution. Dicke realized at once what the two young men had found. Well, boys, we've just been

发表于:2019-01-01 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 万物简史

Part I Lost in the cosmos 第一章 如何营造一个宇宙 They're all in the same plane.They're all going around in the same direction. . . . 它们都处于同一平面。 它们都在沿同一方向转动...... It's perfect,you know. It's gorgeo

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In a single blinding pulse, a moment of glory much too swift and expansive for any form of words, the singularity assumes heavenly dimensions, space beyond conception. In the first lively second (a second that many cosmologists will devote careers to

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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

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Stars, Bulbs, and Light Pollution 都是光害的! Our ancestors enjoyed a cleaner world. The water and air were cleaner, and when people went out at night, they could look at the stars above and ask questions about our place in the universe. Nowad

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本期《全美达人》精彩看点:呆萌三胞胎玩飞牌酷炫;天才神童10岁即将上大学;最厉害的主持人扮小丑逼真,大骂评委无人识;男评委暧昧互摸胸;美女为配合魔术,怎料内衣竟被套走。更多

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The Big Bang 宇宙大爆炸 Do you know about the Big Bang? 你了解宇宙大爆炸吗? The Big Bang was the beginning of the universe. 宇宙大爆炸是宇宙的开端。 The Big Bang happened at least 13.73 billion years ago. 它至少发生在一

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The eventual result was the inflation theory, which holds that a fraction of a moment after the dawn of creation, the universe underwent a sudden dramatic expansion. It inflatedin effect ran away with itself, doubling in size every 10-34seconds. The

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world 世界 orb 星球,天体 cosmos 宇宙 cosmography 宇宙结构学 cosmogony 宇宙起源学 cosmology 宇宙论 earth 地球 sphere 天体,球面 globe 球 space 空间 sky 天 vault of heav

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视频介绍:《How the Universe Works》是一部迷你系列剧。最初从2010年4月25日到5月24日在探索频道播放。由Mike Rowe讲述。本剧共有8集:Big Bang, Black Holes, Alien Galaxies, Stars, Supernovas, Planets, Solar System

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Science and technology 科学技术 Astronomy 天文学 The cosmic boogie-box 宇宙中的摇滚乐 The sky, it seems, is filled with unexpected radio signals 看上去,太空中充满了我们意想不到的无线电讯号 WHISPER it not, but doin

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Shortly after Copernicus, in the 1580s, an Italian friar, Giordano Bruno, 哥白尼死后不久,在十六世纪80年代,意大利修道士焦尔达诺布鲁诺提出, suggested the stars were suns that likely had their own planets and that the

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What is at the center of the universe? 宇宙的中心是什么? It's an essential question that humans have been wondering about for centuries. 这是个很重要的问题,几百年来,人们一直在探索。 But the journey toward an answer

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This dark energy doesn't behave like any other substance we know at all and acts more like antigravity force. 这种暗能量的性质与我们所熟知的其他物质完全不同,它更像是反重力。 We say that it has a gravitational pressure

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Looking up at the night sky, we are amazed by how it seems to go on forever. 仰望夜空,我们为它的永无止境而感到惊讶。 But what will the sky look like billions of years from now? 然而数十亿年前的天空又会是什么样子呢

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讲师: 肖恩卡罗尔 字幕:中英双文 授课语言:英文 在TEDx加州理工学院,宇宙学家肖恩卡罗尔把我们带入一段娱乐性强且发人深省的,穿梭于时间与宇宙之间的旅程,目的是探究一个貌似简单

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In 1919, now aged thirty, he moved to California and took up a position at the Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles. Swiftly, and more than a little unexpectedly, he became the most outstanding astronomer of the twentieth century. 1919年,他已

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We now know that Cepheids throb as they do because they are elderly stars that have moved past their main sequence phase, in the parlance of astronomers, and become red giants. The chemistry of red giants is a little weighty for our purposes here (it

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Leaders 社论 Cosmology 宇宙学 Man suddenly sees the start of the universe 揭秘宇宙的起源 The quest to understand reality takes a great leap backwards 科学新突破探索宇宙诞生之初的真相 IN THE beginning was the word and the w

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This was truly startling. The universe was expanding, swiftly and evenly in all directions. It didn't take a huge amount of imagination to read backwards from this and realize that it must therefore have started from some central point. Far from bein

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