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• 1.万物简史 第183期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(26)
• We now know that Cepheids throb as they do because they are elderly stars that have moved past their main sequence phase, in the parlance of astronome...
• 2.万物简史 第182期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(25)
• Hubble's luck was to come along soon after an ingenious woman named Henrietta Swan Leavitt had figured out a way to do so. Leavitt worked at the Harva...
• 3.万物简史 第181期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(24)
• In 1919, now aged thirty, he moved to California and took up a position at the Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles. Swiftly, and more than a lit...
• 4.万物简史 第180期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(23)
• This was more than a little odd, for Hubbles life was filled from an early age with a level of distinction that was at times almost ludicrously golden...
• 5.万物简史 第179期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(22)
• Slipher was the first to notice this effect with light and to realize its potential importance for understanding the motions of the cosmos. Unfortunat...
• 6.万物简史 第178期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(21)
• Coincidentally, at about the time that Einstein was affixing a cosmological constant to his theory, at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, an astronome...
• 7.万物简史 第177期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(20)
• Every object that has mass creates a little depression in the fabric of the cosmos. 凡有质量的物体在宇宙的底垫上都能造成一个小小的凹坑。 Thus the univ...
• 8.万物简史 第176期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(19)
• The most challenging and nonintuitive of all the concepts in the general theory of relativity is the idea that time is part of space. Our instinct is ...
• 9.万物简史 第175期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(18)
• Howeverand heres the thingpeople on the train would have no sense of these distortions. 然而问题就在这里车上的人并不觉得自己变了形。 To them, everythi...
• 10.万物简史 第174期:爱因斯坦的宇宙(17)
• When a journalist asked the British astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington 有一位记者问英国天文学家阿瑟爱丁顿， if it was true that he was one of only three ...