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Let's begin by winding the timeline back 13.7 billion years, to the beginning of time.
讓我們把時間往回撥到137億年前，也就是時間的開始。
Around us, there's nothing. There's not even time or space.
四周是什么也沒有，根本沒有時間與空間。
Imagine the darkest, emptiest thing you can and cube it a gazillion times and that's where we are.
盡你的可能想象那最黑暗、最空無的情況，然后這種情況放大無數無數倍，那就是現在我們處在的時間點。
And then suddenly, bang! A universe appears, an entire universe. And we've crossed our first threshold.
然后突然，轟！宇宙出現了，一整個的宇宙。我們就這樣穿過了我們第一個起始點。
The universe is tiny; it's smaller than an atom. It's incredibly hot.
這時候的宇宙是微小的，比一個原子還小。它極度的熾熱。
It contains everything that's in today's universe, so you can imagine, it's busting.
它包含了今天這個宇宙的所有，但是你也知道，它是混沌的。
And it's expanding at incredible speed. And at first, it's just a blur, but very quickly distinct things begin to appear in that blur.
并且它以一種難以置信的速度膨脹。一開始它只是一團混沌，但是十分迅速而且各不相同的事發生在這片混沌。
Within the first second, energy itself shatters into distinct forces including electromagnetism and gravity.
就在那第一秒，能量本生粉碎進入不同的力場當中，包括電磁場以及重力場。
And energy does something else quite magical:
而且能量也產生一些其它奇妙的現象，
it congeals to form matter -- quarks that will create protons and leptons that include electrons.
它凝固從而形成物質--夸克，這種可以形成帶點的質子和電子。
And all of that happens in the first second.
所有的一切發生在第一秒。
Now we move forward 380,000 years. That's twice as long as humans have been on this planet.
再往前撥38萬年。這是人類在這個星球存在時間的兩倍。
And now simple atoms appear of hydrogen and helium.
現在氫，氦這些普通原子出現了。
Now I want to pause for a moment, 380,000 years after the origins of the universe,
現在我想暫停一會兒，在宇宙起源之后的38萬年里，
because we actually know quite a lot about the universe at this stage.
就目前為止我們對這段宇宙歷史知道的是相當多的。
We know above all that it was extremely simple.
我們知道，首先它是一個極度簡單的宇宙。
It consisted of huge clouds of hydrogen and helium atoms, and they have no structure.
有著龐大云霧般的氫與氦原子，而且它們沒有結構。
They're really a sort of cosmic mush. But that's not completely true.
它們確實是某種宇宙混沌。但是這不是完全正確的。
Recent studies by satellites such as the WMAP satellite have shown that, in fact, there are just tiny differences in that background.
根據WMAP衛星的最新研究顯示，實際上，在那個背景下有一點點不同。
What you see here, the blue areas are about a thousandth of a degree cooler than the red areas.
你現在看到的藍色的區域相比于紅色的區域要冷上大約一千度。
These are tiny differences, but it was enough for the universe to move on to the next stage of building complexity.
這就是一點不同之處，但是這足夠讓宇宙繼續演變到下一個階段創造的復雜性。
