It was impossible-- doctors and scientists showed, runners, athletes, the top-ones in the world proved that the doctors were right.

那是不可能的，医生和科学家证明了，跑手，运动员，世上顶尖选手证明了医生们是对的。

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Oh, by the way, just to let you know, these scientists of that era were polymaths.

顺便说一下，只是为了让你们知道，那个时代的科学家非常博学。

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And at first this was done by Davidson and Germer, and they were American scientists who tried diffracting electrons from a nickel crystal.

这个实验首先是由，美国科学家Davidson和Germer完成的,他们尝试从镍晶体中衍射电子。

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The interest there was what do--can we learn about this because there were populations all over the world starving and scientists wanted to know what was happening physiologically to people and then what was the best way to re-feed them when you got--when they got access to food again?

我们关心的是从这项研究中能学到什么,世界上有很多人还在忍饥挨饿,科学家们想知道,饥饿对人们生理上的影响,以及当饥饿的人重新拥有足够食物的时候,最好的进食方法

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And runners proved the doctors and scientists-- proved that they were right and ran the mile in two seconds and 4 minutes, one second, but no runner could run the mile in under 4 minutes, ever since the mile was actually timed-- when they started to time runs.

跑手们证明了医生和科学家…,证明了他们是对的,一英里跑四分钟两秒，四分钟一秒，但没有跑手能少于四分钟，从一英里跑计时以来-,当人们开始计时跑时。

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These were very young scientists, of course, so what you would expect that they would do, which makes sense, is go to someone more established in their field, because they have the completely radical revolutionary idea, let's just run it by someone before we go ahead and publish this paper that makes this huge statement about this fourth quantum number.

他们是非常年轻的科学家，所以你们可以想象他们会怎么做，很自然的，他们去请教他们领域里更权威的人，因为他们的概念是彻底的革命性的，让我们在发表这个关于,第四个量子数的巨大的发现之前,先和别人讨论一下。

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