与霍金一起探索(宇宙时间旅行time travel) S01E02)中英文对照.docVIP

INTO THE UNIVERSE WITH STEPHEN HAWKING ----TIME TRAVEL Hello! My name is Stephen Hawking 大家好 我是史提芬·霍金 Physicist, cosmologist, and something of a dreamer. 物理学家 宇宙学家 有时是个梦想家 Although I cannot move and I have to speak through a computer. 虽然我行动不便 说话需要电脑的帮助 In my mind, I am free. 但我的思想是自由的 Free to explore the universe 自由地探索宇宙 And ask the big questions. 探究宇宙问题 Such as is time travel possible? 例如：时间旅行是否可行 Can we open a portal to the past? 如何开启通往过去之门 Or find a shortcut to the future? 或找到前往未来的捷径 Can we ultimately use the laws of nature. 最终我们是否可以 To become masters of time itself ? 利用大自然的法则操控时间呢 Check it out.来解开这个谜 与霍金一起了解宇宙 Time travel was once considered scientific heresy. 时间旅行曾经被认为是科学的异端邪说 I used to avoid talking about it 我一向都回避这个话题 For fear of being labeled a crank. 避免被贴上狂想家的标签 But these days, Im not so cautious. 但这段日子我不再犹豫 In fact, Im more like the people who built Stonehenge. 事实上我更中情于建造巨石柱的人（英国 Salisbury 平原上） Im obsessed by time. 我被时间记录了 If I had a time machine.. 如果我有台时间机器 Id visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime. 我可以拜访玛莉莲·梦露 在她当红的时期 Or drop in on Galileo, as he turned his telescope to the heavens. 拜访伽利略 当他把望远镜指向宇宙 Perhaps Id even travel to the end of the universe 可能我还会到宇宙的尽头 To find out how our whole cosmic story ends. 揭开我们宇宙的全貌 To see how this might be possible 要验证我们的想法是否可行 We need to look at time as physicists do 我们就要以物理学家的眼光去研究时间 As the fourth dimension.也就是四维时空 Its not as hard as it sounds.四维时空并不难理解 All physical objects, even me and my chair,所有的物体 甚至是我和我的椅子 Exist in three dimensions.都是三维的 Everything has a width and a height and a length.任何物体都有宽·高·长 But there is another kind of length 但还存在另一种维度 A length in time. 即时间维度 While a human may survive for 80 years,一个正常人可以活80岁 These stones will last much longer...这堆石头可以存在更长时间 For thousands of years. 可能是数千年 And the solar system will last for billions of years.而太阳系则是数十亿年 Everything has a length in time, as well as space.所有东西都在时间上有长度 空间也一样 Traveling in time 在时间中旅行 Means traveling through this fourth dimension.