The chapter begins with a temporal clause which is unfortunately often translated "In the beginning," which implies that what follows is going to give you an ultimate account of the origins of the universe.

它以时间状语开篇,但不幸的是，它常被翻译为“开始的时候“,这暗示着接下来它将会为你展示,大量关于宇宙起源的描述。

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And that implies that since the quantity we want is given by this quantity, which is zero times a constant, the quantity we want is also zero.

因为我们需要的量,是由这个量乘以一个常数，因为这个量是零，因此我们需要的量也是零。

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