Yet so strong was the belief in a static universe that it persisted into the early twentieth century.

然而，对静态宇宙的信念如此强烈，以至于它一直持续到 20 世纪初。

Newton, and others, should have realized that a static universe would soon start to contract under the influence of gravity.

牛顿和其他人应该已经意识到，静态宇宙很快就会在引力的影响下开始收缩。

In 1917 he began working on what he termed the 'cosmological constant', a theory which supposed the existence of a static universe.

1917 年，他开始研究他所谓的“宇宙常数”，该理论假设静态宇宙的存在。

The difficulty is that in an infinite static universe nearly every line of sight would end on the surface of a star.

困难在于，在一个无限静态的宇宙中，几乎每条视线都将终止于一颗恒星的表面。

There was also the problem that if stars had been burning indefinitely in a static universe they'd have made the whole intolerably hot-certainly much too hot for the likes of us.

要是恒星在一个静止的宇宙里不停燃烧，就会使整个宇宙酷热难当——对于我们这样的生物来说当然是太热了。