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M: Good evening and welcome to Physics Today. Here we interview some of the greatest minds in physics as they help us to understand some of the most complicated theories. Today, I'm very pleased to welcome Dr. Melissa Phillips, professor of theoretical physics. She's here to tell us a little about what it is she studies. Dr. Phillips, you seem to study everything.
男：晚上好，歡迎來到今日物理。今天，我們采訪了一些最偉大的物理學家，他們幫助我們理解一些最復雜的理論。今天，我很高興地歡迎理論物理學教授梅麗莎·菲利普斯博士。她今天將為我們講述她的研究。菲利普斯博士，你好像什么都研究過了。
W: I guess that would be fair to say I spent most of my time studying the Big Bang theory and where our universe came from.
女：準確說，我大部分時間都在研究宇宙大爆炸理論和宇宙的起源。
M: Can you tell us a little about that?
男：你能給我們講講嗎？
W: Well, I'm very interested in why the universe exists at all. That may sound odd, but the fact is at the moment of the Big Bang, both matter and anti-matter were created for a short time, and I mean just a fraction of a second. The whole universe was a super-hot soup of radiation filled with these particles. So what's baffled scientists for so long is "why is there a universe at all?"
女：嗯，我對宇宙存在的原因很感興趣。這聽起來可能很奇怪，但事實是在大爆炸的那一刻，物質和反物質都是在很短的時間內被創造出來的，我的意思是只有幾分之一秒。整個宇宙就像一碗充滿這些粒子的超熱輻射湯。因此，讓科學家們困惑了這么久的是“為什么會有宇宙呢?”
M: That's because matter and anti-matter are basically opposites of each other. They are exactly alike except that they have opposite electrical charges. So when they collide, they destroy each other?
男：那是因為物質和反物質基本上是對立的。除了電荷相反外，它們完全一樣。所以當它們碰撞時，它們會互相毀滅嗎？
W: Exactly. So during the first few moments of the Big Bang, the universe was extremely hot and very small. Matter and the now more exotic anti-matter would have had little space to avoid each other. This means that they should have totally wiped each other out, leaving the universe completely barren.
女：沒錯。所以在大爆炸的最初幾分鐘，宇宙非常熱，非常小。物質和現在更奇特的反物質將幾乎沒有空間相互回避。這意味著它們應該完全相互毀滅，讓宇宙完全荒蕪。
M: But a recent study seems to point to the fact that when matter and anti-matter were first created, there were slightly more particles of matter, which allowed the universe we all live in to form?
男：但是最近的一項研究似乎指出了一個事實，當物質和反物質最初被創造出來的時候，有更多的物質粒子，這使得我們生活的宇宙得以形成。
W: Exactly. Because there was slightly more matter, the collisions quickly depleted all the anti-matter and left just enough matter to create stars, planets and eventually us.
女：沒錯。因為有更多的物質，碰撞很快耗盡了所有的反物質，只留下足夠的物質來創造恒星、行星和我們。
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
請根據你剛剛聽到的對話回答第5題至第8題。
5. What does the man say is Physics Today?
5. 男士說的今日物理是什么？
6. What is the woman physicist's main research area?
6. 女物理學家的主要研究領域是什么？
7. What is the woman interested in?
7. 女士對什么感興趣？
8. What seems to be the finding of the recent study?
8. 最近的研究有什么發現？
