今年早些时候,研究小组使用了一个40平方米的长方形尼龙帆,对克莱蒙斯的不可能理论进行了测试。
Earlier this year, the team put Clemmons's unlikely theory to the test, using a 40-square-metre rectangular nylon sail.
与上述不可能理论相反,大多数人格理论引用两个观察,它们声称几乎总是包括在所有的人格改变中。
In contrast to the aforementioned theoretical impossibilities, most theories of personality cite two observations, which they assert are nearly always involved in personality change.
他也应该知道,没有100年前第一代量子物理学家所奠定的理论基础,如今就不可能有黑莓。
He should know. The BlackBerry itself would be impossible without theoretical insights developed 100 years ago by the first quantum physicists.
坏男孩身上的“黑暗性格”很明显,而且根据某一类理论,他们的行为是带有遗传性的,意味着他们不可能改变自己的处事方式。
Bad boys exhibit dark triad traits and their behaviour, according to one theory, is genetic, meaning they are unlikely to change their ways.
看似不可能,但将人格理论,拖入无分支规则的问题就是,人格可被拷贝这个事实。
The problem with — what drove the personality theory into the no branching rule, implausible as it may be, was the fact that your personality is like software, and it can be copied.
Fukuyama看起来比较正确的把握了这种偶然性的理论,但是我想他错误的认为这种偶然性不可能被一种更系统的,甚至数学的,的框架来描述。
Fukuyama seems quite correct to grasp for this type of contingent theory, but I think he is wrong to believe that it cannot be formulated much more systematically, even mathematically.
有效市场理论(efficient market theory)的一个基本思想是:你不可能在大街上发现20美元钞票等着你去捡。
THE basic idea behind efficient market theory is that it seems implausible that there are $20 notes lying on pavements waiting to be picked up.
这让那种认为暗物质和暗能量不存在的辩驳变得非常困难,更不可能抛开它们去解释任何事情,比如修改爱因斯坦的引力理论。
That makes it hard to argue that dark matter and dark energy are not real and to explain them away by, for example, modifying Einstein's theory of gravity.
如果你只是阅读了一些锤子和钉子的理论,从来不使用工具,你就不可能成为一个木匠。
You cannot be a carpenter if you just read about hammers and nails, and never use a tool.
至少在理论上讲,圣母马利是绝不可能通过无沾怀胎而生育一个男孩的--圣诞火鸡倒还可能。
While Mary should not have been able to sire a son through a virgin birth, your Christmas turkey could – at least in theory.
但当时美国的房价在理论上是不可能下跌的。
经济理论说法却是这种现象不可能发生。
诚然,把课堂上的每个理论知识都牢牢记住是不可能的。
Yes, it is impossible to retain every theoretical lesson ever learned.
理论上,测试一个版本的构建、然后错误地部署另一个版本,这样的事情不可能发生。
In theory there is no possibility of testing a build and then deploying a different build by mistake.
这不可能是一个完整的理论,然而,有时现实中感到恐怖或厌烦或压抑的画面在想象中会变得异常享受。
This can't be a complete theory, however. Sometimes what is terrible or boring or depressing in reality is intensely enjoyable in imagination.
事实上,对象具有质量,根据爱因斯坦的理论,不管是人们的汽车,还是中微子,都不可能达到光的速度,因为它们要这样做就需要无限大的能量。
In fact, objects with mass, be they cars or neutrinos, can't reach the speed of light because they would need infinite energy to do so, according to the theory.
假设灵魂理论者对上个异议的答案是,这事情根本不可能发生。
Suppose the soul theorist answers that last objection by saying,Ain't ever going to happen.
不同于很多现代理论家,柏拉图认为,对世界和人类事务作“中性”或者“不作价值判断”的描述无论是否可取,都是根本不可能的。
In contrast to many modern theoreticians, Plato did not think that a "neutral" or "value-free" description of the world and human affairs is possible, let alone desirable.
也许你要把建造通量电容器的计划搁置下来:实验室下的大爆炸理论模型表明时间旅行也许根本不可能。
You may want to put plans for building that flux capacitor on hold: a "toy" big bang created in the lab suggests time travel may not be possible after all.
理论上,这些金融产品可以帮助投资人和公司分散风险,但是要给这些产品估值几乎是不可能的。
In theory, those products can help investors and companies diversify risk, but they are nearly impossible to value.
他说,我们尚未排除在上海上市的可能,不过理论上讲至少在一年半内是不可能的。
'it [a Shanghai listing] is something that we haven't ruled out, but it would be logistically impossible for at least a year and a half anyway,' he said.
然而,修正后的Eddington理论要求早期时空的尺度应该具有某个最小值,这意味着那时的宇宙不可能是一个奇点。
However, Eddington's revised theory requires a minimum length of space-time at early times, which means that the Universe could not have been a singularity.
计算理论很好的证明了对一个非平凡系统你不可能核实它的所有的可能的状态。
It's true that computation theory pretty much proves you can't validate every possible state of a non-trivial system.
理论上讲,刺激更多的浮游生物的生长能够将更多的二氧化碳存入大海的底部,在那里不可能引起全球变暖。
Stimulate the growth of more phytoplankton, the theory goes, and you might send more CO2 to the bottom of the ocean, where it cannot contribute to global warming.
对一种特别的道德直觉的需要标志着这种理论不可能被大多数哲学家所接受。
The need for a special kind of moral perception (or 'intuition') marks the theory as unacceptable for most philosophers.
任何物理理论都是暂时的,因为它只是一种假设:人们永远不可能也证明它。
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.
任何物理理论都是暂时的,因为它只是一种假设:人们永远不可能也证明它。
Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it.
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