Hawking was also a cosmologist, a mathematician and an author.

霍一位宇宙学家、数学家和作家。

And by comparison, the entire universe is very simple and even the cosmologists will admit that.

相比之下，整个宇宙非常简单，甚至宇宙学家会承认这一点。

In this context, Boltzmann's paradox has found renewed interest by contemporary cosmologists.

在这种情况下，玻尔兹曼悖论重新引起了当代宇宙学家的兴趣。

And that lets cosmologists look back to the very dawn of the universe.

让宇宙学家回顾了宇宙的黎明时期。

While a present-day cosmologist might describe the stabilising influence of our Earth's tilt.

而当今的宇宙学家可能会描述月球对地球倾斜的稳定起了很大作用。

Figuring out what dark energy is, is probably the number one goal of cosmologists today.

清楚暗能量什么可能宇宙学家现在排在首位的目标。

That may sound absurd, but it's kept several generations of top cosmologists up at night.

听起来可能有些奇怪，但这让好几代顶级宇宙学家彻夜难眠。

So as cosmologists what we do is we apply Einstein's theory of relativity to the universe as a whole.

作为宇宙学家，我们要做的就把爱因斯坦的相对论应用到整个宇宙中。

That said, cosmologists are pushing the limits of mathematical models to speculate on what, if anything, exists beyond our spacetime.

然而，宇宙学家还在 将数学模型的极限向外推，来推断在我们的空间时间之外 有什麽存在（如果有的话）。

Supernovae provided the explanation, and it was an English cosmologist almost as singular in manner as Fritz Zwicky who figured it out.

超新了解释。这个解释一位几乎像弗里茨? 兹威基一样行为古怪的英国宇宙学家作出的。

It tells us that some cosmologists believe the universe will just keep expanding forever.

它告诉我们， 一些宇宙学家相信宇宙会永远膨胀下去。

Boltzmann didn't get quite that far in his thinking; the brains themselves were introduced by later cosmologists building on his work.

玻尔兹曼在他的想法中并没有到达这一步，大脑本身的理论由后续宇宙学家基于他的成果得出。

Some of the most exciting research in physics today is being done by astrophysicists and cosmologists.

当今物理学中一些最激动人心的研究 正在由天体物理学家和宇宙学家完成。

Cosmologists study the universe overall and ask questions about the origin of everything, as well as its future.

宇宙学家从整体上研究宇宙，并 就万物的起源 及其未来出问题。

Stephen Hawking, renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist, left an indelible mark on the way we perceive and understand the cosmos.

斯蒂芬霍，著名的理论物理学家和宇宙学家，在我们感知和理解宇宙的方式上留下了不可磨灭的印记。

To be clear, this concept is important to cosmologists, but it can be weird and confusing to someone who is just learning about all this.

需要说明的，这个概念对宇宙学家来说很重要，但对于刚开始学习这些的人来说，它可能很奇怪，很令人感到困惑。

If you had to offer one piece of advice for future generations of scientists, namely physicists and cosmologists, what would it be?

如果你必须给未来几代科学家 就物理学家和宇宙学家一条建议 你会什么？

The big issue, even for cosmologists today, is whether or not that primordial state contained some of the information needed for the appearance and development of the cosmos.

即使对今天的宇宙学家来说，这个大问题：原始形态否包含对宇宙的外观和发展所需的一些信息。

Cosmologists have done the equivalent of measuring our Universe's triangles by looking at a picture of the early Universe, and studying the spatial relationship between different points on that picture.

宇宙学家进行了类似的实验，通过观察早期宇宙的图像，研究图中不同点之间的空间关系来测量我们宇宙的三角形。

Cosmologists should be able to spot the imprint of these gravitational waves by measuring the polarisation of the microwaves; this is the way the light is ordered together.

宇宙学家应该能够通过测量微波的极化来发现这些引力波的印记；这就灯一起排序的方式。