For 4,500 years, the Great Pyramid, or Khufu’s Pyramid, has kept watch over the Egyptian desert. In that time, it’s suffered the indignities of tomb raiders and gunpowder-toting archaeologists, a la Indiana Jones. But the latest investigation of the pyramid’s mysteries is far more sophisticated—and takes a page from particle physics.

　　4500年以来，大金字塔或者胡夫金字塔一直在俯瞰埃及的沙漠。在这段时间里，它饱受了盗墓者以及带枪考古学家的屈辱。但是，最近的金字塔之谜的调查手段更加的复杂，并在量子物理探究金字塔方面翻开了新的篇章。

　　Scientists used muons, a by-product of the cosmic rays constantly raining down on our planet, to image the interior of the pyramid. The particles interact differently with stone than with empty space—and that fact led the scientists to discover a previously unknown 100-foot-long void, sitting somewhere above the pyramid’s Grand Gallery.

　　科学家们使用宇宙射线的附加产物介子向金字塔整体发射(就像下雨一样)来进行金字塔的内部成像。这些介子与金字塔石头基体作用后，与和空气作用后的表现不一致，因此科学家利用这种特性在金字塔内部发现了一个先前不为人知的100英尺长的空洞，这个空洞位于金字塔大画廊上方的某个部位。

　　“The good news is the void is there, the other good news is that this void is very big. Now what is it? We need the help of other people.” Mehdi Tayoubi, of the Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute, and an author of a paper detailing the findings in the journal Nature. [Kunihiro Morishima et al., Discovery of a big void in Khufu’s Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons]

　　“令人振奋的是金字塔内部确实存在一个空洞，更令人兴奋的是这个空洞居然这么大!那么这个空洞是什么呢?我们还需要其他人的帮助。”遗迹创新保护研究所曾的Mehdi Tayoubi说，其研究成果也发表到了自然期刊。(Kunihiro Morishima等，通过宇宙射线介子发现胡夫金字塔内部存在一巨大空洞)。

　　Maybe Egyptologists and specialists in ancient Egyptian architecture will provide us with some hypotheses we can use for simulation and to compare with the data we have to find some sort of architectural explanation for this void.

　　也许在古埃及建筑方面的埃及古物学者以及专家可以为我们提供一些假设，借助这些假设我们可以用来对金字塔进行模拟，并与那些我们必须找到的关于该空洞建筑解释的数据进行比对。

　　Until then—the newly discovered space will be just one of many enduring mysteries of this very old wonder of the world.

　　但是即使到那时，这一空洞的发现也只是解开了这一世界伟大奇迹神秘面纱的冰山一角。