But the unfinished business for 21st-century science is to link together cosmos and micro-world with a unified theory -- symbolized, as it were, gastronomically at the top of that picture.  And until we have that synthesis, we won't be able to understand the very beginning of our universe because when our universe was itself the size of an atom, quantum effects could shake everything.
而二十一世纪科学尚需完成的任务 是将宏观宇宙和微观量子世界用 一个统一理论联系起来 - 正如在图的上部 以美食的角度所象征的那样。 在我们找到那样的统一理论之前， 我们无法理解宇宙最开端时的情况， 因为当宇宙的尺度同一个原子大小相仿时， 量子效应可以摧毁一切。