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Within 100 seconds,
在一百秒之内
it was as big as our solar system.
就已经膨胀到太阳系的大小
Trillions of miles across.
越过了数万亿英里
While this was happening,
在这个过程中
the pure energy of the cosmos began to cool and create matter,
纯粹的宇宙能量开始冷却并创造出了物质
in the form of countless trillions of subatomic particles.
形成数万亿无以计数的次原子微粒
The first stuff there ever was.
它们是宇宙中最先出现的东西
Half these particles were made of matter,
这些微粒中有一半是由物质构成
the same kind of stuff which makes us.
那是与构成人体相同的物质
The rest were made of the opposite of matter,
其余则由物质的对立面构成
stuff called antimatter.
即反物质
When the two meet they destroy each other
当它们相遇时，会互相毁灭
in a flash of energy.
释放出能量之光
It seems as if building the universe is a pretty wasteful process.
宇宙的形成看似是一个破坏性的过程
Fortunately there was just a bit more matter than antimatter.
幸运的是，物质略多于反物质
Just one in a billion particles of stuff survived.
仅有约十亿分之一的微粒存活下来
Which was lucky for us.
这对我们来说是幸运的
because that residue is what our present day universe is made of.
因为残存的微粒构成了我们如今的宇宙
You could say we are made of the smoke of the Big Bang.
可以说我们是宇宙大爆炸烟尘的衍生物
By the time the cosmos was 10 minutes old,
在宇宙诞生十分钟之后
it was already thousands of light years in diameter.
其直径就已经达到数千光年
After that, everything spread out and cooled for about 330,000 years,
在那之后，一切又扩散并冷却了近33万年
when finally the fog cleared and the universe became visible.
直到最终大雾散去，宇宙变得清晰可见
So that's how everything got going,
这便是一切的开始
which I think it's a pretty fantastic story
是个非常美妙的故事
and probably much stranger than anything our ancestors
且或许比我们祖先们所提出的各种解释
just came up with by way of an explanation.
听起来更加离奇
But the next thing that happened,
但接下来发生的事情
well, that's pretty spectacular too.
壮观程度是有过之而无不及
This is the universe seen in extreme fast forward.
你所看到的是极速快进版的宇宙
All 14 billion years
在不到一分钟的时间内
in less than a minute.
将宇宙140亿年间的变化纵观眼底
It shows how the universe changed from the crowd of gas
它揭示了宇宙是如何从一团气体
into a place filled with perhaps 100 billion galaxies,
发展为充满千亿星系
swirling in a vast chaotic dance.
以杂乱的舞步旋转着的空间
