研究生科技英语阅读课文翻译对照(23)

我不喜欢一些电影中科学家被描述成疯狂的群体，但在这种情况下，确实如此。这个家伙决心建立一个悖论，即便付出生命代价在所不惜。可以想见，他是在建造虫洞——仅需一分钟就来到过去的时光隧道。通过虫洞，这位科学家可以看到他一分钟以前的自我。
Through the wormhole, the scientist can see himself as he was one minute ago. But what if our scientist uses the wormhole to shoot his earlier self? He"s now dead. So who fired the shot? It"s a paradox. It just doesn"t make sense. It"s the sort of situation that gives cosmologists nightmares.
如果这位科学家利用虫洞向以前的自我开枪，会发生什么事情？他现在已经一命呜呼。那又是谁开的枪呢？这便是一个悖论，听上去毫无意义。但这却是那种让宇宙学家做噩梦的状况。
This kind of time machine would violate a fundamental rule that governs the entire universe - that causes happen before effects, and never the other way around. I believe things can"t make themselves impossible. If they could then there"d be nothing to stop the whole universe from descending into chaos. So I think something will always happen that prevents the paradox. Somehow there must be a reason why our scientist will never find himself in a situation where he could shoot himself. And in this case, I"m sorry to say, the wormhole itself is the problem.