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Within 100 seconds,
在一百秒之內
it was as big as our solar system.
就已經膨脹到太陽系的大小
Trillions of miles across.
越過了數萬億英里
While this was happening,
在這個過程中
the pure energy of the cosmos began to cool and create matter,
純粹的宇宙能量開始冷卻并創造出了物質
in the form of countless trillions of subatomic particles.
形成數萬億無以計數的次原子微粒
The first stuff there ever was.
它們是宇宙中最先出現的東西
Half these particles were made of matter,
這些微粒中有一半是由物質構成
the same kind of stuff which makes us.
那是與構成人體相同的物質
The rest were made of the opposite of matter,
其余則由物質的對立面構成
stuff called antimatter.
即反物質
When the two meet they destroy each other
當它們相遇時，會互相毀滅
in a flash of energy.
釋放出能量之光
It seems as if building the universe is a pretty wasteful process.
宇宙的形成看似是一個破壞性的過程
Fortunately there was just a bit more matter than antimatter.
幸運的是，物質略多于反物質
Just one in a billion particles of stuff survived.
僅有約十億分之一的微粒存活下來
Which was lucky for us.
這對我們來說是幸運的
because that residue is what our present day universe is made of.
因為殘存的微粒構成了我們如今的宇宙
You could say we are made of the smoke of the Big Bang.
可以說我們是宇宙大爆炸煙塵的衍生物
By the time the cosmos was 10 minutes old,
在宇宙誕生十分鐘之后
it was already thousands of light years in diameter.
其直徑就已經達到數千光年
After that, everything spread out and cooled for about 330,000 years,
在那之后，一切又擴散并冷卻了近33萬年
when finally the fog cleared and the universe became visible.
直到最終大霧散去，宇宙變得清晰可見
So that's how everything got going,
這便是一切的開始
which I think it's a pretty fantastic story
是個非常美妙的故事
and probably much stranger than anything our ancestors
且或許比我們祖先們所提出的各種解釋
just came up with by way of an explanation.
聽起來更加離奇
But the next thing that happened,
但接下來發生的事情
well, that's pretty spectacular too.
壯觀程度是有過之而無不及
This is the universe seen in extreme fast forward.
你所看到的是極速快進版的宇宙
All 14 billion years
在不到一分鐘的時間內
in less than a minute.
將宇宙140億年間的變化縱觀眼底
It shows how the universe changed from the crowd of gas
它揭示了宇宙是如何從一團氣體
into a place filled with perhaps 100 billion galaxies,
發展為充滿千億星系
swirling in a vast chaotic dance.
以雜亂的舞步旋轉著的空間
