这是一部有关现代科学发展史的既通俗易懂又引人入胜的书，作者用清晰明了、幽默风趣的笔法，将宇宙大爆炸到人类文明发展进程中所发生的繁多妙趣横生的故事一一收入笔下。惊奇和感叹组成了本书，历历在目的天下万物组成了本书，益于人们了解大千世界的无穷奥妙，掌握万事万物的发展脉络。
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书本的朗读语音很charming的磁性英音~~~大家可以好好学着模仿哦~~~！！
因为原著为美国人所写,单词采用美式拼法,不抄全文,然后听写单词或词组(用[-No-]表示)以及句子(用[---No---]表示)。请边听写边理解文意，根据上下文注意各句标号，这样有助于提高正确率。


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Zwicky

[---1---] In the early 1930s, he turned his attention to a question that had long troubled astronomers: the appearance in the sky of occasional unexplained points of light, new stars. [-2-]he wondered if the neutron—the subatomic particle that had just been discovered in England by James Chadwick, and was thus both novel and rather fashionable—might be at the heart of things. [---3---] Atoms would literally be crushed together, their electrons forced into the nucleus, forming neutrons. You would have a neutron star. Imagine a million really weighty cannonballs [-4-] down to the size of a marble and—well, you’re still not even close. [---5---] A [-6-]! But there was more. Zwicky realized that after the collapse of such a star there would be a huge amount of energy left over—enough to make the biggest bang in the universe. He called these [-7-]explosions supernovae. They would be—they are—the biggest events in creation.
But Zwicky was also capable of insights of the most startling brilliance. Improbably It occurred to him that if a star collapsed to the sort of densities found in the core of atoms, the result would be an unimaginably compacted core. squeezed The core of a neutron star is so dense that a single spoonful of matter from it would weigh 200 billion pounds. spoonful resultant
然而，兹威基聪明过人，具有敏锐的洞察力。20世纪30年代初，他把注意力转向一个长期困扰天文学家的问题：天空中偶尔出现而又无法解释的光点--新的恒星。令人难以置信的是，他怀疑问题的核心是否在于中子--英国的詹姆斯•查德威克刚刚发现的，因而是新奇而时髦的亚原子粒子。他突然想到，要是恒星坍缩到原子的核心那种密度，便会变成一个极其坚实的核。原子实际上已经被压成一团，它们的电子不得不变成核子，形成了中子。这样就形成了一颗中子星。想像一下，把100万枚很重的炮弹挤压成一粒弹子的大小--哎呀，这还差得远呢。一颗中子星核的密度如此之大，里面的一调羹物质会重达900亿千克。只是一调羹啊！然而，不仅如此。兹威基意识到，这样的一颗恒星坍缩以后会释放出大量的能量--足以产生宇宙里最大的爆炸。他把这种由此产生的爆炸叫做超新星。它们会是--实际上也是--创建宇宙过程中最大的事件。