There's nothing mysterious from the physicalist perspective about the idea that a physical object can break.

对于物理主义来说,物体会损坏是微不足道的

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Anyway, what physicists do is they put bodies in various circumstances and they deduce various forces.

总之,物理学家的工作就是,将物体置于不同的环境中,得到不同的力

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And fairly soon into the conversation I demonstrated some principle that you've probably learned in your physics class having to do with an object at rest remaining at rest unless acted upon by a force.

很快，在交谈中,我就展示了一些原理,可能你们在物理课上学过,要使静止的物体保持静止,必须有外力作用。

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The physicist has to constantly find out what forces act on bodies.

物理学家必须,不断地寻找都有哪些力作用在物体上

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