来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：基础物理第7集第7集》

but it was very far from obvious in those days.

但在当时是不可想象的
It's a tremendous leap of faith.

是信仰上巨大的飞跃
And luckily for us that leap of faith is justified

但幸运的是这种飞跃是正确的
because the Laws of Gravitation--

因为引力定律
In fact, the laws of physics that we deduce near the Earth

其实在地球表面所推导出的物理定律
seemed to work all over the entire universe.

似乎对整个宇宙都是适用的
If you've seen pictures and nova of

如果你看到过照片
where we are in the scheme of things,

知道我们地球所处行星发展的阶段
we are in a very tiny part of the universe,

就知道在宇宙长河中
sampling a tiny volume,

我们是沧海中之一粟
over a tiny period of time.

天地间之蜉蝣
But we apply those equations to the far end of the galaxy,

但我们那些式子在银河系的尽头