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At the start of the Dark Ages, there were no galaxies, no stars, and no planets. 

在黑暗時代之初，沒有星系、沒有星星、也沒有行星

Even if there had been, we would not be able to spot them. 

即使有，在那個年代我們也沒有辦法發現它們

That is because hydrogen-gas clouds are nearly opaque to  visible  light. 

這是因為氫氣雲對可見光而言幾乎是不透光的

No ordinary  telescope  will ever be able to see what happened afterward.  

用一般的望遠鏡是沒有辦法看到發生什麼的

yet  somehow the matter that started as a sea of individual atoms managed to transform itself into something more. 

但，不知如何地，開始從...

At the start of the Dark Ages, there were no galaxies, no stars, and no planets. 

在黑暗時代之初，沒有星系、沒有星星、也沒有行星

Even if there had been, we would not be able to spot them. 

即使有，在那個年代我們也沒有辦法發現它們

That is because hydrogen-gas clouds are nearly opaque to  visible  light. 

這是因為氫氣雲對可見光而言幾乎是不透光的

No ordinary  telescope  will ever be able to see what happened afterward.  

用一般的望遠鏡是沒有辦法看到發生什麼的

yet  somehow the matter that started as a sea of individual atoms managed to transform itself into something more. 

但，不知如何地，開始從海洋發生變化，其中的個別原子轉變成更多更複雜的樣貌

So back in the early 1990s, Avi Loeb at Harvard University began lobbying theorists to make a major push to   deduce through computer simulations how the first stars formed. 

所以回到1990年代早期，哈佛大學的AL開始遊說理論家，通過電腦模擬推論出第一顆星星是如何形成的

The plan was to  re-create  the young universe digitally, plug in equations for the 

relevant physics, and see what must have happened. 

這個計畫是用數位重現年輕時的宇宙，輸入物理相關方程式，看看發生了什麼