论文标题
伟大的辩论
The Great Debate
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论文摘要
一百年前（1920年）在史密森学会的美国国家博物馆的礼堂上，在乔治·埃莱里·黑尔（George Ellery Hale）讲座系列的主持下，有两个讲座，即“大辩论”。在辩论中，哈洛·沙普利（Harlow Shapley）和赫伯·柯蒂斯（Heber Curtis）在“宇宙的规模”上争论。柯蒂斯认为，宇宙由像我们自己的许多星系组成，它们相对较小。沙普利认为，宇宙仅由一个大银河系组成。在沙普利（Shapley）的模型中，我们的太阳远离这个大岛宇宙的中心。
A hundred years ago (1920) in the auditorium of the Smithsonian Institution's U.S. National Museum there were two lectures under the auspices of the George Ellery Hale Lecture series, what has come to be called the 'Great Debate'. In the debate, Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis argued over the 'Scale of the Universe'. Curtis argued that the Universe is composed of many galaxies like our own and they are relatively small. Shapley argued that the Universe was composed of only one big Galaxy. In Shapley's model, our Sun was far from the center of this great island Universe.
