Only then can they hope to describe conditions at the Big Bang, when all space and time was compressed into a volume far smaller than a proton.

只有那样他们才能指望描述大爆炸的情况，所有的空间和时间全部在那时被压缩成一个远小于质子的体积。

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This cosmic microwave background radiation, they said, represents the ancient afterglow of the big bang.

他们说，这宇宙微波背景幅射代表着宇宙大爆炸的余辉。

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They were looking at exploding stars in the distant universe, and they noticed that not only is the universe expanding from its big bang origin, but its expansion is actually speeding up.

观察远处宇宙恒星爆炸的时候，他们注意到宇宙不仅从大爆炸起源点开始不断膨胀，膨胀的速度还越来越快。

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If they truly were perfect opposites, equal amounts of the two would have been made in the Big Bang, and they would have annihilated each other long since, leaving only light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation to fill the universe.

ECONOMIST: Fundamental physics

But its main purpose is serious: to reveal the large-scale structure of the universe and thus uncover what happened in the first billion-trillion-trillionth of a second after the Big Bang to cause things to turn out the way they did.

ECONOMIST: The Sloan star survey

They maintain that the big bang legislation promised by Labour in every manifesto since 1974 has turned into a damp squib.

ECONOMIST: Freedom of information