講題一(對學生)：Taking Measure of the Universe
宇宙的估量
Astronomers believe our Universe began in a Big Bang, and is expanding around us. Brian Schmidt will describe the life of the Universe that we live in, and how astronomers have used observations to trace our Universe's history back more than 13 billion years. With these data a puzzling picture has been pieced together where 96% of the Cosmos is made up of two mysterious substances, Dark Matter and Dark Energy. These two mysterious forms of matter are in a battle for domination of the Universe, and Schmidt will describe new experiments that are monitoring the struggle between Dark Energy and Dark Matter, trying to better understand these elusive pieces of our Universe, and predict the ultimate fate of the Cosmos.
天文學家相信我們所存在的宇宙起源於一場大爆炸，現今在我們的周圍，宇宙正在膨脹中。講者將描述我們所在宇宙的命運，以及天文學家如何利用觀測，來追溯超過 130億年的宇宙歷史。這些天文觀測的數據已經拼湊出一幅令人困惑的圖像：宇宙的96%是由兩種神祕的成分構成—暗物質和暗能量。這兩種神祕的成分彼此競爭，以支配宇宙。講者將描述幾項新的實驗，用以監視暗能量和暗物質之間的爭鬥，試著能較佳地理解宇宙中這些令人撲朔迷離的部分，並且預測宇宙的最終命運。
講題二(對教師)：The Life of the Universe
宇宙的命運
13.7 Billion years ago the Universe as we know it was created, and it has been growing older ever since. I will describe how observations and theory combine together to show us how the Universe has evolved into the Cosmos we live in today - a complex web of atoms, planets, stars, black holes and Galaxies.
我們知道宇宙誕生於137億年前，從那時開始它一直在成長也變老。我將描述天文觀測和理論如何結合，顯示出起始的混沌如何演化到我們現居的宇宙—由原子、行星、恆星、黑洞、和銀河系交織成的複雜網絡。 |
