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《时间简史》是美国“新纪录电影”的代表人物之一艾罗尔·莫里斯（Ｅｒｒｏｌ Ｍｏｒｒｉｓ）于９０年代初拍摄的一部纪录片的片名，影片试图阐释英国当代理论物理学家史帝芬·霍金（Ｓｔｅｐｈｅｎ Ｈａｗｋｉｎｇ）的科学理论。如何用电影阐述纯科学？这是莫里斯给自己提出的新挑战。值得一提的是，史蒂芬·斯皮尔伯格是本片的执行制片，后因不同意莫里斯的某些观点，将自己的名字从影片的职员表中删除了。 此片取名为《时间简史》，源于霍金写作的阐述自己科学理论的通俗读物《时间简史：从大爆炸到黑洞》。霍金被认为是当令世界上继爱因斯坦之后最杰出的理论物理学家，目前在剑桥大学担任着牛顿曾担任过的数学讲座教授职位。在《时间简史》一书中，他指出了当今人类对物理学及时空本质的认识上存在的局限性，以敏锐的洞察力向人们展现了一幅人类科学发展的“世界图景”。 霍金还对当代哲学的发展状况甚为担忧，认为１９世纪以前的哲学家将包括科学在内的整个人类知识都当作他们的研究领域，并且讨论诸如宇宙有无开初这样的问题。可是在 １９和 ２０世纪，“哲学家如此地缩小他们的质疑范围，以至于连维特根斯坦这位本世纪最著名的哲学家都说：‘哲学仅余下的任务是语言分析。’这是自亚里士多德到
A Brief History of Time is the title of a documentary taken by Errol Morris, one of the representatives of the New Records Film in the United States, in the early 90’s. The film attempts to explain how Stephen Stiefen, a contemporary theoretical physicist in Britain, Stephen Hawking’s scientific theory. How to use film to explain pure science? This is Maurice’s new challenge for himself. It is worth mentioning that Stephen Spielberg is the executive producer of the film, because after disagreeing with some of Morris’s views, his name was deleted from the film’s staff list. The film is titled “A Brief History of Time,” a brief account of Hawking’s popular book “A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to the Black Hole”, which expresses his scientific theory. Hawking is considered the most prominent theoretical physicist since the world’s Einstein. He is currently a professor of mathematics at New England University at Cambridge. In A Brief History of Time, he pointed out the limitations of today’s human understanding of physics and the nature of space-time, with a keen insight to show people a “world picture” of the development of human science. Hawking is also concerned about the development of contemporary philosophy, thinking that philosophers before the 19th century used the entire human knowledge, including science, as their field of study and discussed issues such as whether the universe was open or not. But in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, “philosophers narrow the scope of their question so much that even Wittgenstein, the most famous philosopher of the century, said:” The only task of philosophy is linguistic analysis. Aristotle arrived