
On the midsummer solstice this year, shining down through a window built into a Texas mountain, the sun woke up a clock in the process of being constructed to measure precisely 10,000 years to come. The rays passed through the window, made from sapphire, and on to a giant round quartz lens, warming air in a chamber beneath.
今年仲夏至这一天,阳光透过嵌在得克萨斯一座山体中的一扇窗洒下,唤醒了一座正在建造中的时钟,这座时钟旨在精确计量未来一万年的时光。阳光穿过由蓝宝石制成的窗,再投射到一枚巨大的圆形石英透镜上,使其下方腔室中的空气变暖。
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