(CNN) — For the first time ever, influential British scientist Stephen Hawking’s doctoral thesis is available to the public -- if you can get the web page to load.

　　CNN电 有影响力的英国科学家史蒂芬.霍金的博士论文首度对公众开放——如果你能登录网页下载。

　　In honor of Open Access Week, the University of Cambridge on Monday put the 1966 PhD thesis, "Properties of Expanding Universes," on its open access repository. Shortly after it went live, requests to view the research crashed the website.

　　为了庆贺开放存取周，剑桥大学于周一将霍金1966年博士论文《宇宙膨胀的性质》至于了其开放存取知识库上。论文上线不久，浏览此研究的请求致使网站瘫痪。

　　As of Monday afternoon, the main research page was reachable after several minutes, but nothing on the page was.

　　截止周一下午，几分钟后该研究主界面才能被打开，但是页面上什么也没有。

　　"We have had a huge response to Professor Hawking’s decision to make his PhD thesis publicly available to download, with almost 60,000 downloads in less than 24 hours," spokesman Stuart Roberts said. "As a result, visitors to our open access site may find that it is performing slower than usual and may at times be temporarily unavailable."

　　“我们对霍金教授对公众开放下载其博士论文的决定作出了巨大反响，不到24个小时内下载量近6万，”发言人斯图亚特.罗伯特说道。“结果，来我们开放存取网站的访客们可能发现，网站打开比平常慢，有时可能临时无法获得。”

　　"It’s wonderful to hear how many people have already shown an interest in downloading my thesis -- hopefully they won’t be disappointed now that they finally have access to it!" Hawking said in a statement before the website crashed.

　　霍金在网站瘫痪前发表的声明中称：“听说这么多人对于下载我的论文有兴趣，这太好了——希望他们在获得后不会失望。”

　　"By making my PhD thesis Open Access, I hope to inspire people around the world to look up at the stars and not down at their feet; to wonder about our place in the universe and to try and make sense of the cosmos. Anyone, anywhere in the world should have free, unhindered access to not just my research, but to the research of every great and inquiring mind across the spectrum of human understanding," he said.

　　他说道：“通过开放我的博士论文，我希望激励世界各地的人们仰望星空，而不非匍匐脚下;想要知道我们在宇宙中的位置，并且尝试和理解宇宙。世界上任何人、任何地方都应该是自由、不受阻碍地访问不仅仅是我的研究，而且应该是对人类理解范围内的每一个伟大、激励人心的研究。”

　　"Each generation stands on the shoulders of those who have gone before them, just as I did as a young PhD student in Cambridge, inspired by the work of Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell and Albert Einstein."

　　“每一代人都是站在前一代人的肩膀上，正如当我还是剑桥一名年轻的博士生时，受到了艾萨克.牛顿、詹姆斯.克拉克.麦克维尔和阿尔伯特.爱因斯坦的启发。”

　　Hawking’s life, including his battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis -- known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease -- was made into a 2014 biopic, "The Theory of Everything," starring Eddie Redmayne

　　霍金的一生，包括他与肌萎缩侧索硬化症战斗——亦称“ALS”或卢伽雷氏病——已于2014年被制成电影《万物理论》——由埃迪.雷特梅尼领衔主演。