His calculations showed that the Sun could not have possibly existed long enough to allow the slow incremental development by evolution – unless some energy source beyond what he or any other Victorian era person knew of was found.
他的计算表明，太阳可能的存在时间不是很长，无法允许缓慢的一步一步发展的演化——除非发现了在他或任何其他维多利亚时代的人所了解的之外的能量来源。