I had made a mistake.
我犯了一个错误
I had been using too simple a model of the universe.
我使用的宇宙模型太过简单
Time will not reverse direction when the universe begins to contract.
当宇宙开始收缩时 时间不会反转
People will continue to get older
人们还会继续变老
so it is no good waiting until the universe recollapses to return to our youth.
所以等着宇宙再次坍缩 回到我们的青春 这不现实
Einstein once asked the question
爱因斯坦曾经问了一个问题
How much choice did God have in constructing the universe?
在构建宇宙的时候 上帝有多少种选择
If my proposal that the universe has no boundary is correct
如果我的宇宙没有边界的假设是对的
he had no freedom at all to choose how the universe began.
那么上帝在创世上 毫无选择的余地
He would only have had the freedom to choose the laws the universe obeyed.
他唯一可以选择的是 宇宙所服从的法则
This, however, may not have been all that much of a choice.
然而 这可能 也没有太多选择
There may well be only one unified theory that allows for the existence of structures
可能只有一种统一理论 这种理论允许各种复杂结构的存在
As complicated as human beings who can investigate the laws of the universe
像人类一样复杂 人类能研究宇宙法则
and ask about the nature of God.
能够探究上帝的本质