"A science caf, it's a concept that actually started in Europe, and it was an idea to get scientists engaged in an informal conversation with the general public."

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now we're not just talking about 1 photon, 1/2 let's say we shoot them all at the same time at our metal, each of them having some energy that's let's say 1/2 the work function. So, just to take a little bit of an informal survey, who thinks here that we will have an electron that is ejected in this case?

我们现在不仅仅讨论一个光子，它们所具有的能量是功函数的，我们在同一时刻把它们打到金属上,我们做一个不太正式的调查,谁认为这种情况下,一个电子会被打出？

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Well, that's pretty difficult. It, you know, I think it's easiest to do that in sort of an informal way.

分配起来确实挺困难的。你知道的，以一种非正式的方式反而更容易做到。

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