标题: 《Crack in the Cosmic Egg 》作者：- Mike Resnick【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2013-4-4 17:38 标题: 《Crack in the Cosmic Egg 》作者：- Mike Resnick【EPUB】 The Crack in the Cosmic Egg by Mike Resnick Once upon a time there was this Primal Atom, or Cosmic Egg, or YLEM, or whatever you want to call it. And one day (though of course they didn't really have days back then) it blew up. Hence the Universe. And since the Universe will continue to expand for all eternity, that's just about all she wrote in the way of cosmic phenomena on the grand scale, right? No such luck. Yeah, I know what you're going to say: that Einstein was right and gravity is the glue that holds everything together (which isn't all that profound when you sit down and really start to think about it), and that the various stars and galaxies are so far-flung that there's no longer a sufficient gravitic force to pull them back together. Furthermore (I hear you say), there's simply not enough mass in the Universe to give any credence to the old expansion- contraction theory. Well, let me tell you about that. Old Albert E. was right about one hell of a lot of things -- and he wasn't the first, either. In