Dunia Ni Sayari ya Ukubwa wa Wastani Tu

Stephen Hawking: Our planet is just of average size

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KISWAHILI

"Tumekua kutoka kwa kosmolojia ya jiosentriki [dunia iko katikati ya ulimwengu] wa Ptolemy na mababu zake, kupitia kosmolojia ya anga ya Copernicus na Galileo [dunia huzunguka jua], hadi picha ya kisasa ambayo dunia ni sayari ya ukubwa wa wastani inayozunguka nyota ya wastani [jua] katika viunga vya nje vya mzunguko wa kawaida galaksi, ambayo yenyewe ni mojawapo tu ya galaksi zinazo milioni milioni katika ulimwengu unaoonekana.”

- Stephen Hawking (1942-2018), mwandishi wa The Illustrated Brief History of Time (1996)

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

“We have developed from the geocentric [the universe revolves around the Earth] cosmologies of Ptolemy and his forebears, through the heliocentric [the Earth revolves around the sun] cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the modern picture in which the earth is a medium-sized planet orbiting around an average star [the sun] in the outer suburbs of an ordinary spiral galaxy, which is itself only one of about a million million galaxies in the observable universe.”

- Stephen Hawking (1942-2018), author of The Illustrated Brief History of Time (1996)

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Kuhusu (About):

KISWAHILI

Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) alikuwa mwanafizikia wa kinadharia, profesa, na mwandishi ambaye kazi yake ilizingatia sifa za mashimo meusi na nadharia ya uhusianifu wa ujumla.

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Stephen Hawking (1942-2018) was a theoretical physicist, professor, and author whose work focused on the properties of black holes and the theory of general relativity.

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KISWAHILI: Asante na tutaonana tena,

Mmerikani

ENGLISH TRANSLATION: Thank you and may we see each other again,

Mmerikani

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Chanzo (source): Hawking, Stephen. The Illustrated Brief History of Time. New York: Bantam Books, 1996, pages 161-163.