上帝造物

What could cause the spontaneous appearance of a universe?

是什么让宇宙无中生有

At first, it seems a baffling problem.

起初这问题似乎令人困惑

After all,in our daily lives,things don't simply materialize out of the blue.

毕竟在日常生活中 东西不会凭空出现

You can't just click your fingers and summon up a cup of coffee when you feel like one,can you?

你不能弾弹手指 就在想喝时变出一杯咖啡吧

You have to make it out of other stuff,

你得用其它东西冲泡出来

like coffee beans,water,perhaps some milk and sugar.

像是咖啡豆 和水 也许还会加牛奶和糖

But travel down into this coffee cup...Through the milk particles...Down to the atomic level...

但我们往咖啡深处走 穿过牛奶粒子 到原子层次

And right down to the subatomic level...

再到亚原子层次

And you enter a world where conjuring something out of nothing is possible...

就进入了一个 能无中生有的世界 是有可能的

At least for a short while.

至少能短暂出现

That's because at this scale,particles such as protons

那是因为这个层次的 粒子和质子

behave according to the laws of nature we call quantum mechanics.

其行为依据的自然法则 是所谓的量子力学

And they really can appear at random,

它们可以随机出现

stick around for a while,and then vanish again...

短暂停留 然后又消失无踪

To reappear somewhere else.

在别处再度出现

Since we know the Universe itself was once very small

既然我们知道宇宙曾经很小

smaller than a proton, in fact this means something quite remarkable.

比质子还要小 这意味着一件了不起的事

重点讲解

1、appearance

出席；参加；露面

It was the president's second public appearance to date.

这是总统到那时为止的第二次公开露面。

Keegan made 68 appearances in two seasons for Southampton, scoring 37 times.

基冈为南安普敦队踢了两个赛季，共上场68次，进球37个。

（尤指出乎意料的）到来，出现

The sudden appearance of a few bags of rice could start a riot.

突然出现几袋大米可能会引起骚乱。

last Christmas, when there'd been the welcome appearance of Cousin Fred.

去年圣诞，堂兄弗雷德的现身受到热烈欢迎。

样子;表现

We tried to meet both children's needs without the appearance of favoritism or unfairness.

我们尽力对两个孩子的需要都予以满足，而不显得有所偏向或袒护。

The US president risked giving the appearance that the US was taking sides.

美国总统冒险作出美国正在摆明立场的姿态。

2、vanish

消失;失踪;突然不见

He just vanished and was never seen again.

他就这么消失了，再也没人见到过他。

The aircraft vanished without trace.

飞机消失得无影无踪。

(物种）灭绝;（传统）消亡

Near the end of Devonian times, thirty percent of all animal life vanished.

在泥盆纪末期，30％的动物物种都灭绝了。

all the species of birds that had vanished from Iowa.

艾奥瓦州所有消失了的鸟类物种