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

霍金也是一位宇宙学家、数学家和作家。

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

而当今宇宙学家可能会描述月球对地球稳定起了很大作用。

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兴趣。

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，但是这让好几代顶级宇宙学家彻夜难眠。

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

搞清楚暗能量是什么可能是宇宙学家现在排在首位目标。

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

让宇宙学家回顾了宇宙黎明时期。

David Schlegel is a cosmologist from the University of California at Berkeley.

大卫·施莱格尔是一位宇宙学家，来自于伯加州大学分校。

Cosmologists don't know what dark energy is.

宇宙学家不知暗能量是什么。

But cosmologists take everything into account, by using careful measurements of the expansion rate.

但宇宙学家仔细测量了膨胀率，把一切都考虑在内。

For cosmologists, the expansion of the universe is not a problem.

对宇宙学家来说，宇宙膨胀不是问题。

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，甚至宇宙学家也会承认这一点。

Anthony Aguirre, from the University of California in Santa Cruz, is a theoretical cosmologist.

安东尼·阿吉雷来自于圣鲁斯加福尼亚大学，是一位理论宇宙学家。

Cosmologists are making sense of startling discoveries.

宇宙学家正在研究那些惊人发现。

Cosmologists worked out that there must be some form of energy that keeps the universe from collapsing.

宇宙学家推论必定存在某种能量使宇宙免于坍缩。

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，我们要做就是把爱因斯坦相对论应用到整个宇宙中。

Cosmologists have come up with a name, dark energy.

宇宙学家给它起了名字，暗能量。

For cosmologists, the road ahead has become a lot less certain.

对宇宙学家来说，前进路上充满了太多不确定因素。

Here, astronomers like Richard Ellis are working on a problem that has been all-consuming for cosmologists since Edwin Hubble.

理查艾斯等天文学家在这里研究自从艾德温哈勃以来让宇宙学家费尽心思问题。

But for cosmologists like Sean Carroll, that's not enough.

但对于肖恩·卡罗尔这样宇宙学家来说，这还不够。

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 将数学模型极限向外推，来推断在我们空间时间之外 有什麽存在（如果有话）。