Despite the complexity and variety of the Universe,
盡管宇宙如此復雜多變
it turns out that to make one,you need just three ingredients.
但事實上 要造出宇宙 只需要3種材料
Let's imagine we could list them in some kind of cosmic cookbook.
想象一下我們可以把它們列在某本宇宙食譜中
So,what are the three ingredients we need to cook up a Universe?
打造宇宙需要哪3種材料呢?
The first is matter stuff that has mass.
第1樣是物質 具有質量的東西
Matter is all around us,in the ground beneath our feet...
我們周遭都是物質 存在于我們腳下的土地里
and out in space...dust,rock,ice,liquids,vast clouds of gas,
也存在于太空中 塵埃 巖石 冰 液體 龐大的氣體云
massive spirals of stars each containing billions of suns,
壯觀的螺旋星系 每個都有數十億顆太陽
stretching away for incredible distances.The second thing you need is energy.
延伸至難以估算的距離 你需要的第2樣材料是能量
Even if we've never thought about it,we all know what energy is.
就算未曾想過 我們也都知道什么是能量
Something we encounter every day.
我們每天都會體驗到
Look up at the Sun,and you can feel it on your face...
抬頭看太陽 你的臉龐就能感覺到
energy produced by a star 93 million miles away.
1.5億千米外的恒星所產生的能量