It's almost as important as the second law of thermodynamics, which you'll see in a week or so.

几乎同热力学第二定律,一样重要，你们将在接下来的几周时间里看到这点。

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The second law is going to define entropy, and is going to tell us about the direction of time, something that conceptually we, clearly, understand but is going to put a mathematical foundation on which way does time go.

第二定律定义了熵，它告诉我们,时间的流向，虽然我们清楚地,知道这个概念,但还是要为时间流动的方向,建立一个数学基础。

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So, just, if you can take what I'm saying for a moment right now that in fact this should collapse in this very small time frame, we have to see that there's a problem with one of these two things, either the Coulomb force law or Newtonian mechanics. So, what do you guys think is probably the issue here?

所以如果你们考虑我,开始说的这个塌缩应该,发生在很短的时间里，那么这两者之一就有问题,要么是库伦定律,要么是牛顿力学,你们觉得应该是哪个的问题？

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