To reinforce the notion of the heavenly movements being as close to unchanging as possible, it was pointed out that only the motion of a sphere on its axis ends exactly where it begins.

为了巩固天体的运动是趋于没有变化的这一观点，希腊人指出天体围绕轴线旋转一周的终点就是它的起点。

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Others, such as the comic notion that space travelers would suddenly start to spin clockwise during normal motion in space, have not.

其他一些预测，如宇航员在太空中正常活动时会突然按顺时针方向旋转这样令人可笑的想法至今未得到证实。

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People to this day are looking for a theory of everything. And there is something very appealing about the notion that the rules that govern the motion of heavenly bodies might be applicable down at atomic dimensions.

现在人们总想寻求一些,可以阐明一切的理论,而这里正好有一些,可以吸引这种想法的东西,即支配天体运动的规则,可能对原子的尺寸也是适用的。

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