
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.
今年仲夏至這一天,陽光透過嵌在得克薩斯一座山體中的一扇窗灑下,喚醒了一座正在建造中的時鐘,這座時鐘旨在精確計量未來一萬年的時光。陽光穿過由藍寶石制成的窗,再投射到一枚巨大的圓形石英透鏡上,使其下方腔室中的空氣變暖。
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