"It's cheap,it's extremely robust, it won't break down, it's very lightweight."

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Eighty percent of atoms that are set up like that break down in the next 24 hours; 20 percent of them don't.

我们设定未来二十四小时中,有百分之八十的原子会分裂,另外百分之二十的原子不会

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Can we explain why the ones that do break down break down and the ones that don't break down don't break down?

我们能解释,为什么那个分裂了的原子分裂了,而没分裂的原子没有分裂吗

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Formaldehyde cross-links proteins, so, if you treated this virus with Formaldehyde, even it was able to enter a cell, it couldn't break down anymore.

甲醛使蛋白质发生交联反应,因此,如果你对病毒使用了甲醛,即使它可以侵入细胞,它也不能够再进行分解

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Yeah, I think I'll make that clear line, meaning the... like again, Israeli politics doesn't really, in that case doesn't really break down religiously.

是，我来说清楚，我的意思是。,以色列的政治也不会，因为宗教原因而崩溃。

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Now, you know, when we've got our deterministic hats on, we think to ourselves, "There's got to be some underlying causal explanation, some feature about the break-down atoms that explains why they broke down and that was missing from the non-break-down atoms that explains why they don't break down.

现在,你知道,当我们用决定论的观点去分析这个问题时,我们自己寻思着,这背后一定有某种具有,因果关系的解释,某种关于分裂原子的特性,能解释为什么它们分裂了,而由于这种特性不存在于未分裂的原子,因而解释了它们为什么不能分裂

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All there is to say is, "Some of these are going to break down, and some of these won't."

而真正的解释却是,有些原子会分裂,而有些则不会

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