If I get you down to a cluster of about 30 water molecules, the boiling point is a function of the size of the water droplet.

如果对于一个由30个水分子,组成的簇，沸点是,水珠尺寸的函数。

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Well, if I go through that, the wavelength of such a photon is going to be so big that I am back to measuring the dimension of the human hair with the yardstick.

好的，如果我做完了这个，那个一光子的的波长将成为,我将回头测量的,用一个尺度测量出人头发的尺寸。

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So this is, first of all, even just on an absolute scale, this is way, way larger than the wavelengths we're talking about for baseball.

首先，即使在一个绝对标度下，棒球的尺寸也,远远地大于它的波长。

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The way he described is when you try to get down a quantum dimensions and you are standing there with your camera, just remember the sun is at your back and your shadow is always in the picture.

这种方法被他描述为,当你试着处理一个量子尺寸时,并且你试着拿着你的相机在那，记住太阳在你的背后,而你的影子总是在照片上。

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So, this is exactly how Rutherford did discover that these particles were present and made this new model for the atom that we now know has both a nucleus, and we know the size, and also has electrons.

他提出了一个,新的原子模型,这里面有一个原子核,和一个电子，原子核的尺寸是知道的。

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So, not only did Professor Sayer, who's in the Chemistry Department who put together this contraption for all of you, not only did she magnify the size of these gold nuclei, but she actually had to smoosh all of these atoms closer together then they normally would be.

化学系的Sayer教授把这些玩意放到一起，她不仅把金原子核的,尺寸放大了,还把原子核的间距压缩了,事实上，如果原子核的尺寸有这么大,我们需要另一个大教室，放这个原子核。

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But instead in this chemistry course, I will just tell you the solutions to differential equations. And what we can do is we can start with some initial value of r, and here I write r being ten angstroms. That's a good approximation when we're talking about atoms because that's about the size of and atom.

但在这个课里，我会直接，告诉你们微分方程的解,我们可以给距离r一个初始值,我这里把r取10埃,当我们讨论原子时,这是一个很好的近似,因为原子的尺寸。

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