They count down the final seconds to midnight as they watch a brightly lit ball slide down a pole on top of a tall building.

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Because of that you can't count on molecules moving rapidly over the size of a cell that's ten to 30 Microns in diameter.

因此不要对生物大分子能在,直径十到三十微米的,细胞里高速穿行抱有任何指望

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So that you take every sodium and you count all of its nearest neighbors, next nearest neighbors, next next nearest neighbors, not only on a line but in the plane and above and below in all three dimensions and go through that calculation, it is even more negative.

你考虑到每一个钠原子,你要考虑到它最近的原子，第二近的原子，第三近的原子，不是在一条线而是在一个面上,以及面上与面下的三维空间,再完成计算，这将会更负。

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