So I would help myself to this language of space-time worm object that extends not only over space but also over time, and distinguish the entire worm from the various slices or stages that either make up the worm or we could slice the worm into.

然后我借助时间虫这个词,这是描写物体,贯穿时间和空间的词语，并区分出整条虫,和不同的部分,这些部分是组成虫，或者虫可以切分成的。

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That was Cartesian space. When I plot r as a distance out from the nucleus that is sort of our simple-minded planetary model. Now let's look at energy.

笛卡尔坐标系，当我用r表示,离原子核的距离时，那只是我们头脑中简单的,类似行星的模型，现在我们看一下能量问题。

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