Mothr Sa：Th Gray Bginnings－大海母亲——混沌初开 Mothr Sa：Th Gray BginningsBginnings ar apt to b shadowy， and so it is with th bginnings of that grat mothr of lif， th sa． Many popl hav dbatd how and whn th arth got its ocan， and it is not surprising that thir xplanations do not always agr． For th plain and inscapabl truth is that no on was thr to s， and in th absnc of ywitnss accounts thr is bound to b a crtain amount of disagrmnt． So if I tll hr a story of how th young plant arth acquird an ocan， it must b a story picd togthr from many sourcs and containing many whol chaptrs th dtails of which w can only imagin． Th story is foundd on th tstimony of th arth's most ancint rocks， which wr young whn th arth was young；on othr vidnc writtn on th fac of th arth's satllit， th moon； and on hints containd in th history of th sun and whol univrs of star-filld spac． For although no man was thr to witnss this cosmic birth， th stars and th moon and th rocks wr thr，and， indd， had much to do with th fact that thr is an ocan． 大海母亲——混沌初开事物的起源往往模糊不清，伟大的生命之母——大海的起源也是如此。不少人曾讨论过，地球上的海洋怎样形成，在什么时候形成。对于这个问题，众说纷坛，这不足为怪。因为，道理非常简单，没有人目睹过大海的形成，这是无可否认的事实。没有见证人的证词，当然会产生各种各样的见解。所以，如果我在此议论在混沌初开的大地上，海洋是如何如何形成的话，那么这种论述只能是由许多资料拼凑而成，并且其中的一些大量完整的章节内包含的细节我们只能凭想象。地球上最古老的岩石就是海洋形成过程的见证人，当时它们和地球一样年轻；地球的卫星月亮的表面上留下的痕迹提供了另外的证据；而太阳和那布满星星的茫茫天宇的历史也提供了线索。虽然没有人能够目睹宇宙的形成，但是，星星、月亮和岩石却存在着，并且的确与海洋的形成密切相关。 Mothr Sa：Th Gray Bginnings－大海母亲——混沌初开