Stephen Hawking's final research paper has been published, and it's mind-bending
(CNN)Stephen Hawking may be among the stars now, but he has managed to gift the world one more research paper, published this week in the Journal of High Energy Physics.
（美国有线电视新闻网）斯蒂芬•霍金可能已经跻身于明星行列，但他已经成功地给世界赠送了一篇研究论文，这篇论文发表在本周的《高能物理学报》上。
True to Hawking's oeuvre, the paper tackles the same questions as any other bubbly beach read: Do we live in a multiverse? Did the Big Bang create infinite universes? If there are infinite universes, does that mean that there are no laws that can govern their organization or creation? If there aren't infinite universes, and simply many, what laws govern how many and which ones?
与霍金的全部作品一样，这篇论文解决了与其他任何沙滩读物一样的问题：我们生活在多元宇宙中吗？宇宙大爆炸创造了无限的宇宙吗？如果有无限的宇宙，这是否意味着没有法则可以支配他们的组织或创造？如果没有无限的宇宙，而仅仅是许多宇宙，什么样的法则支配管理多少和哪一些宇宙？
If that sounds confusing, you should read the paper itself, co-authored by Thomas Hertog of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Leuven in Belgium.
如果这听起来让人困惑的话，你应该读读这篇论文，由霍金和比利时鲁文大学理论物理研究所的托马斯赫尔佐格合著。
The basic gist of it is this: Lets assume The Big Bang created the universe, and continues to expand infinitely (called eternal inflation). This idea, championed by Hawking and Hertog, also implies that there are infinite universes. The problem is, if there are infinite universes there is no way to position our own selves in our universe and no governing laws of physics across all universes that can be used to know them.
它的基本要点是: 假设大爆炸创造了宇宙，并继续无限膨胀(称为永恒膨胀)。霍金和赫尔佐格倡导的这一观点也暗示存在着无穷无尽的宇宙。问题是，如果有无限的宇宙，我们就没有办法在宇宙中定位我们自己，也没有可以用来了解它们的跨越所有宇宙的物理支配定律。
In this new paper, Hawking and Herzog reexamined the theoretical characteristics of the Big Bang using new mathematical applications. They conclude that, in their new model, all universes must share some law of physics. This gives future scientists and physicists a more structured set of information to identify other universes.
在这篇新论文中，霍金和赫尔佐格利用新的数学应用重新审视了大爆炸的理论特性。他们的结论是，在他们的新模型中，所有的宇宙都必须共享一些物理定律。这为未来的科学家和物理学家提供了一组更结构化的信息来识别其他宇宙。
The final version of the paper was submitted just 10 days before Hawking died in March.
这篇论文的最终版本是在霍金3月份去世前10天提交的。
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