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M: Good evening and welcome to Physics Today. Here we interview some of the greatest minds in physics as they help us to understand some of the most complicated theories. Today, I'm very pleased to welcome Dr. Melissa Phillips, professor of theoretical physics. She's here to tell us a little about what it is she studies. Dr. Phillips, you seem to study everything.
男：晚上好，欢迎来到今日物理。今天，我们采访了一些最伟大的物理学家，他们帮助我们理解一些最复杂的理论。今天，我很高兴地欢迎理论物理学教授梅丽莎·菲利普斯博士。她今天将为我们讲述她的研究。菲利普斯博士，你好像什么都研究过了。
W: I guess that would be fair to say I spent most of my time studying the Big Bang theory and where our universe came from.
女：准确说，我大部分时间都在研究宇宙大爆炸理论和宇宙的起源。
M: Can you tell us a little about that?
男：你能给我们讲讲吗？
W: Well, I'm very interested in why the universe exists at all. That may sound odd, but the fact is at the moment of the Big Bang, both matter and anti-matter were created for a short time, and I mean just a fraction of a second. The whole universe was a super-hot soup of radiation filled with these particles. So what's baffled scientists for so long is "why is there a universe at all?"
女：嗯，我对宇宙存在的原因很感兴趣。这听起来可能很奇怪，但事实是在大爆炸的那一刻，物质和反物质都是在很短的时间内被创造出来的，我的意思是只有几分之一秒。整个宇宙就像一碗充满这些粒子的超热辐射汤。因此，让科学家们困惑了这么久的是“为什么会有宇宙呢?”
M: That's because matter and anti-matter are basically opposites of each other. They are exactly alike except that they have opposite electrical charges. So when they collide, they destroy each other?
男：那是因为物质和反物质基本上是对立的。除了电荷相反外，它们完全一样。所以当它们碰撞时，它们会互相毁灭吗？
W: Exactly. So during the first few moments of the Big Bang, the universe was extremely hot and very small. Matter and the now more exotic anti-matter would have had little space to avoid each other. This means that they should have totally wiped each other out, leaving the universe completely barren.
女：没错。所以在大爆炸的最初几分钟，宇宙非常热，非常小。物质和现在更奇特的反物质将几乎没有空间相互回避。这意味着它们应该完全相互毁灭，让宇宙完全荒芜。
M: But a recent study seems to point to the fact that when matter and anti-matter were first created, there were slightly more particles of matter, which allowed the universe we all live in to form?
男：但是最近的一项研究似乎指出了一个事实，当物质和反物质最初被创造出来的时候，有更多的物质粒子，这使得我们生活的宇宙得以形成。
W: Exactly. Because there was slightly more matter, the collisions quickly depleted all the anti-matter and left just enough matter to create stars, planets and eventually us.
女：没错。因为有更多的物质，碰撞很快耗尽了所有的反物质，只留下足够的物质来创造恒星、行星和我们。
Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.
请根据你刚刚听到的对话回答第5题至第8题。
5. What does the man say is Physics Today?
5. 男士说的今日物理是什么？
6. What is the woman physicist's main research area?
6. 女物理学家的主要研究领域是什么？
7. What is the woman interested in?
7. 女士对什么感兴趣？
8. What seems to be the finding of the recent study?
8. 最近的研究有什么发现？
