That absolute expanse might be difficult, even unbearable, to contemplate, like an infinite snow field of time, but the conception at least carried with it the serenity of the eternal.

• 可能很难设想宇宙绵延无期,就像时间的无垠雪原,这种想法甚至令人难以忍受,但是这一观念至少给人以永恒的宁静感。