I had made a mistake.
我犯了一個錯誤
I had been using too simple a model of the universe.
我使用的宇宙模型太過簡單
Time will not reverse direction when the universe begins to contract.
當(dāng)宇宙開始收縮時 時間不會反轉(zhuǎn)
People will continue to get older
人們還會繼續(xù)變老
so it is no good waiting until the universe recollapses to return to our youth.
所以等著宇宙再次坍縮 回到我們的青春 這不現(xiàn)實(shí)
Einstein once asked the question
愛因斯坦曾經(jīng)問了一個問題
How much choice did God have in constructing the universe?
在構(gòu)建宇宙的時候 上帝有多少種選擇
If my proposal that the universe has no boundary is correct
如果我的宇宙沒有邊界的假設(shè)是對的
he had no freedom at all to choose how the universe began.
那么上帝在創(chuàng)世上 毫無選擇的余地
He would only have had the freedom to choose the laws the universe obeyed.
他唯一可以選擇的是 宇宙所服從的法則
This, however, may not have been all that much of a choice.
然而 這可能 也沒有太多選擇
There may well be only one unified theory that allows for the existence of structures
可能只有一種統(tǒng)一理論 這種理論允許各種復(fù)雜結(jié)構(gòu)的存在
As complicated as human beings who can investigate the laws of the universe
像人類一樣復(fù)雜 人類能研究宇宙法則
and ask about the nature of God.
能夠探究上帝的本質(zhì)