宇宙膨胀说虽然听似奇特，但它是基本粒子物理学中一些公认的理论在科学上看来可信的推论。
Odd though it sounds, cosmicinflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary-particle physics.
宇宙膨胀——宇宙从一个奇点爆发增长。
Cosmic inflation - explosive growth of the Universe from a singularity.
令他们吃惊的是，它们发现宇宙膨胀完全没有减慢的意思。
What they found, to their astonishment, was that the universe wasn't slowing down at all.
科学家们通过研究那些超新星去测量宇宙膨胀随时间的变化。
They were using these supernovae to measure how the universe's expansion is changing with time.
如果说暗物质真的存在，那将最终导致宇宙膨胀速度的加快。
If dark energy does exist, then it ultimately causes the expansion of the Universe to accelerate.
然后，宇宙膨胀速度正在加快的发现让世人震惊。
However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding.
爱因斯坦的这个失误导致了宇宙膨胀假说的产生。
This misplay by Einstein leads to the hypothesis of the big bang.
很多精力都集中在研究宇宙膨胀过程中暗物质密度如何变化。
Much effort focuses on how the density of dark energy changes as space expands.
这个怪异但明显正确的结论，几乎同时被这两个研究宇宙膨胀的团体得出。
This bizarre, but apparently true, conclusion was reached at about the same time by the two groups working to measure the expansion of the universe.
在封闭的宇宙中，有足够的物质阻止宇宙膨胀，最终这样的宇宙就会崩缩。
In a closed universe, there is enough matter to reverse expansion. Eventually, such a universe will collapse on itself.
或换言之，为何无序度增加的时间方向正是宇宙膨胀的时间方向？
Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?
暗能量产生一种与万有引力相反的排斥力，这种排斥力推动着宇宙膨胀。
Dark energy creates a repulsive force that counters gravity and is now tearing apart space-time.
我们有过各种各样的惊喜：暗物质，暗能量，宇宙膨胀，诸如此类的事情。
We've had all kinds of surprises: dark matter, dark energy, inflation, things like that.
因为发现宇宙膨胀加速现象，三位研究宇宙的科学家被授予诺贝尔物理学奖。
Three cosmologists have Shared a Nobel prize in physics for their discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.
物理学家们描述宇宙膨胀只需寥寥数语，但量化地球上的生命的一些基本属性则困难得多。
Though physicists can describe the universe's expansion in a few lines, the basic properties of life on Earth are far harder to quantify.
实际上，并不是他们发现了有什么东西正在让宇宙膨胀，而是宇宙正在加速膨胀。
It was actually not the discovery that something inflates the Universe, but that it expands with an increasing speed.
此外，由于宇宙膨胀，物体(比如恒星或星系)离开地球的速度，通过红移可以被算出来。
In addition, the speed at which an object such as a star or galaxy is moving away from Earth, because of the expansion of the universe, can be worked out from its red-shift.
通过引力产生的效应知道暗物质的存在，而从宇宙膨胀的加速度中判断暗能量的存在。
We can realize the existence of dark matter from the effects of gravity, and discern the existence of dark energy from the acceleration of cosmic inflation.
和球类似，随着球的半径增长(正如宇宙膨胀)，球(宇宙)表面的任意点都以同样方式与其他点远离。
In the ball analogy, the radius of the ball grows as the universe expands, but all points on the surface of the ball (the universe) recede from each other in an identical fashion.
有企图心的未来观测者，或许会发射一些能够脱离超级星系的探测器，做为侦测宇宙膨胀的参考点。
Ambitious future observers might also send out probes that escape the supergalaxy and could serve as reference points for detecting a possible cosmic expansion.
西班牙有三名科学家提出假说认为，现在人们所观察到的宇宙膨胀现象，实质上是因为时间变慢而产生的假象。
Three Spanish scientists posit that the observed acceleration of the expanding cosmos is an illusion caused by the slowing of time.
原因之三，如果有类似于我们世界的隐性粒子的存在，它们将影响宇宙膨胀，多种观测都证明这一点。
Last, the existence of hidden particles identical to ours would have affected cosmic expansion; compositional measurements rule that out.
原因之三，如果有类似于我们世界的隐性粒子的存在，它们将影响宇宙膨胀，多种观测都证明这一点。
Last, the existence of hidden particles identical to ours would have affected cosmic expansion; compositional measurements rule that out.
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