我深爱群星，因此无惧黑夜。
——莎拉·威廉斯
这是献给每一颗好奇心的一场星际之旅、时空之旅。
从我们仰头就可以看到的太阳、星星与月亮，到更远的星系乃至宇宙边缘，这段旅程将覆盖930亿光年的空间，横跨近140亿年的时间。
从熟悉的太阳、月亮讲起，直到恒星、星系，再到黑洞 、暗物质、大爆炸理论……作者精心编排了一条富有趣味的路线，带我们领略那些我们好奇的关于宇宙的一切，同时体验一段人类探索星空和宇宙奥秘的“浓缩版”认知历程。
让我们一同踏上探索宇宙的旅途吧，希望你也爱上这片繁星点点的夜空。

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作者运用大量观测事实而非数学公式，把恒星的生命过程讲述得十分清晰，令人印象深刻。
千亿个太阳在百亿年的时间中不断的出生、成长、爆发和凋零，那是一种远比我们所 能理解与想象的极限还要广大无数倍的生命。
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Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity.
For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific breakthrough as it happens. Particle Fever follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation.
As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries joined forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter. But our heroes confront an even bigger challenge: have we reached our limit in understanding why we exist?
Directed by Mark Levinson, a physicist turned filmmaker, from the inspiration and initiative of producer David Kaplan and masterfully edited by Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Godfather trilogy), Particle Fever is a celebration of discovery, revealing the very human stories behind this epic machine.