原文开头
Will we ever know how the universe started? BY SARAH SCOLES The big bang wasn’t a bang in the traditional sense, but it was the start of important things. Space, for one. Time, for another. And it began the conditions and processes that eventually resulted in us humans, who can sit here and wonder about space and time. The big bang was, effectively, the beginning of the universe. According to human logic, there must have been something before the big bang, even if “before” is the wrong word because there was no time until after. The good news is that physicists do have ways of thinking about—and even empirically studying—the origins of the origin of the universe. …
摘自《科学美国人》(Scientific American)2026年10月刊。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。