送交者: 方舟子 于 2005-8-12, 11:45:51:
回答: 是离家门口不到半英寸,很好。翻成“容易得俯拾即是”如何？ 由 Enlighten 于 2005-8-12, 11:33:12:
If you think of peering into the depths of the universe as
like looking down from the hundredth floor of the Empire State
Building (with the hundredth floor representing now and street level
representing the moment of the Big Bang), at the time of Wilson and
Penzias’s discovery the most distant galaxies anyone had ever
detected were on about the sixtieth floor, and the most distant things
—quasars—were on about the twentieth. Penzias and Wilson’s finding
pushed our acquaintance with the visible universe to within half an
inch of the sidewalk.