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Big bang 宇宙大爆炸 Popular physics has enjoyed a new-found regard.Now comes a brave attempt to inject mathematicsinto an otherwise fashionable subject 科普物理再次得到新的关注。如今，学者大胆的尝试将数学引入另外一个流行学科; The Quantum Universe: Everything That CanHappen Does Happen. By Brian Cox and JeffForshaw. 量子宇宙：一切可能发生的的确发生。布莱恩考克斯和杰夫福肖著。 Previously the preserve of dusty, tweed-jacketed academics, physics has enjoyed asurprising popular renaissance over the past few years. In America Michio Kaku, a stringtheorist, has penned several successful books and wowed television and radio audiences withhis presentations on esoteric subjects such as the existence of wormholes and the possibilityof alien life. In Britain Brian Cox, a former pop star whose music helped propel Tony Blair topower, has become the front man for physics, which recently regained its status as apopular subject in British classrooms, an effect many attribute to Mr Cox s astonishingappeal. 从前的学者保持着蓬头垢面、身着花呢夹克的形象。在过去几年里，物理学迎来了惊人的全面复兴。在美国，弦论学家米奇霍卡库创作出数本反响不错的书。他对诸如虫洞及外星生命存在的可能性等小众课题的介绍赢得了电视观众和电台听众的赞赏。在英国，其作品曾帮助托尼布莱尔登上大宝的前流行歌星布莱恩考克斯，现在成了物理学的领军人物。近来物理学在英国学生中再次获得了受欢迎的科目的地位。产生这样的效果很大程度上归功于考克斯先生惊人的感召力。 | 
