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After another two years of full thrust,
再经过两年的全速推进
the ship would reach its top speed,
飞船将会到达它的最高速度
99% of the speed of light.
光速的99%
At this speed, a single day on board
到达了这一速度，飞船上每过一天
is a whole year of earth time.
地球上都过了一整年

Our ship will be truely flying into the future.
我们的飞船真正地是在飞向未来
The slowing of time has another benefit.
让时间放慢还有另一个好处
It means we could,
这就是
in theory, travel extraordinary distances
理论上我们能在一个人的有生之年
within one human lifetime.
航行很长的距离
A trip to the edge of the galaxy would take just 80 years.
一次到银河系边缘的旅行只需80年
But the real wonder of our journey is that
但这次探索真正的奇妙之处在于
it reveals just how strange the universe is.
它揭露了宇宙是何等的奇妙
It's a universe where
就是这个宇宙，在这里
time runs at different rates in different places.
时间会因地点不同而以不同的速度流逝
Where tiny wormholes exist all around us.
细小的虫洞无处不在
And where, ultimately,we might use our understanding of physics
我们能够运用自己的物理知识
to become time voyagers through the fourth dimension.
成为在四维空间中任意穿行的时间航行者

视频及简介

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