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I spend a lot of time thinking about the universe,
我花了大量時間來思考宇宙
but I never get bored.
卻從未感到過厭倦
After all it's a pretty extraordinary place.
畢竟，這是一片非凡的領域
This is the cosmos.
這就是宇宙
And a very large scale.
浩瀚無際
Each tiny point of light is an entire galaxy.
每一個小光點都是一個完整的星系
Each a cluster of as many as 400 billion individual stars.
每一個星系都擁有多達四千億顆恒星
This view of the universe is only possible
只有通過最新的超級計算機
due to the latest super computers.
才看得到這樣的宇宙場景
I find it indescribably beautiful.
它是如此的星光燦爛
Uncountable billions of galaxies forming a vast web
數十億無以計數的星系形成了一張巨網
stretching away in all directions.
向著四面八方延伸出去
What's more, I never get over the fact
而且，有一個事實我從未忘懷
that within this massive universe
那就是，在這廣袤無垠的宇宙中
lies one perfectly ordinary spiral galaxy.
存在著一個極其普通的螺旋星系
Inside that galaxy exists a commonplace yellow star.
在這個星系中存在著一顆平凡的金色恒星
Orbited by eight planets.
圍繞著它的，是八顆行星
On one of those planets lives a species
在其中一顆行星上，生存著一個物種
that is only just worked out what a remarkable place the universe is.
他們剛剛了解到宇宙有多么奇妙
Us.
這就是我們，人類
We've discovered more about the cosmos
我們在上個世紀里對宇宙的探索發現
in the last century than in all previous human history.
達到了人類歷史上前所未有的程度
Finally we are solving the basic mysteries
終于，我們開始著手破解那些
that have perplexed our ancestors for at least 200,000 years.
困惑祖先二十多萬年的普遍神秘現象
What I like above all is
最吸引我的莫過于
that the facts themselves are both breathtakingly elegant and surprising.
事實本身是如此地驚險迷人而又出人意料
We are living just as it donates us
我們生存在宇宙贈予我們的環境中
that the earth and everything around us was made by the stars.
地球，以及我們身邊的一切都源于恒星
Boiling fantasies of hydrogen gas like our sun
甚至是構成你睫毛的原子
made even the atoms in your eyelashes.
都源于同太陽一般，充滿氫氣的熾熱球體
We've worked out that the universe is almost unimaginably ancient.
我們計算出宇宙的古老程度幾乎無法想象
About 14 billion years old.
大約存在了140億年
And that it will continue to exist for at least twice that long.
而宇宙也還會繼續存在至少兩個這么久
But without a doubt,
但無需懷疑
the most remarkable fact of all is that the entire enormous universe,
最美妙的事實莫過于整個廣袤的宇宙
all the innumerable galaxies
所有無以計數的星系
even time and space and the forces of nature themselves,
甚至是時間空間，以及自然力量本身
simply materialized out of nothing.
都源于虛無，終成宇宙
