想像一下数据存储装置只有原子大小、并以光速工作。
Imagine a data storage device the size of an atom, working at the speed of light.
因为每一行开始了一个新的能级，我们能够预言从上到下原子大小逐渐增加。
Because each row begins a new energy level, we can predict that the size of atoms increases from top to bottom.
在去年的毕业典礼上，伯恩斯以漫画书《原子大小的重要性》给了家人意外的惊喜。
Berns surprised her family with her comic book "Atomic Size Matters" at her graduation last year.
那么，问题在此，你能否将一只铅笔平衡在其原子大小的尖端，而不需要动态平衡吗？
So the question is this: Can you balance a pencil sharpened to a perfect single atom wide tip on its tip, without active stabilization?
描绘一个碳原子大小的数字在没有原子概念或者对没有构建这样的数值范围比例的社会是一点用处也没有的。
A number describing the size of a carbon atom would be meaningless in a society that had no notion of atoms or building blocks of that scale.
在这么长的距离之下，即使只有十亿分之一个原子大小的空间扭曲，也足以使光束在合并时出现相位差。
Over these distances, the distortions of space are approximately a billionth the size of an atom-sufficient to cause noticeable differences in the phase of the combining light beams.
显然这些转换器也可以被用于对原子大小目标进行光学操作，进行价格低廉的超高分辨率显微成像，而且甚至可用于台式离子加速器。
The converters could apparently also be used for optical manipulation of atom-sized objects, inexpensive ultra-high resolution microscopic imaging, and possibly even table-top particle accelerators.
最妙的部分来了：据亚历克斯·贝洛所说，佛陀的计算结果一个原子的大小与实际非常接近！
So here's the neat part: According to Alex Bellos, it turns out the Buddha's calculation got the size of an atom very close to right!
碳原子的大小以其范德华半径为基础。
The size of the carbon atom is based on its van der Waals radius.
佛陀“最初原子”等于是四厘米除以七的十次方，也就是0.04米乘以7的负10次方或者0.00000000001416米，差不多就是一个碳原子的大小。
The Buddha's "first atoms" are, therefore, 4 centimeters divided by 7 ten times, which is 0.04 meter x 7 to the minus 10 or 0.00000000001416 meter, which is more or less the size of a carbon atom.
这种相互作用能(interactionenergy)不仅能表现出化学亲和力的大小，尚可揭示某种元素的挥发性强弱——即便只有一个或两个原子。
However, the interaction energy reveals more than just chemical affinity. It also gives an idea of how volatile an element is, even if only one or two atoms are available.
这些“费米大天区望远镜（LAT）”所侦测到的高能伽马射线的波长仅相当于原子核大小的千分之一。
These high-energy gamma rays, detected by Fermi’s Large Area Telescope (LAT), have wavelengths one-thousandth the size of an atomic nucleus.
它所做的是我们，将要把我们可利用的空间分割成小份，每小份大体上有一个原子，或一个分子的大小，或无论什么气体粒子的大小。
And all it does is say that we're going to divide up our available volume into little bits that are basically the size of an atom or a molecule, or whatever the particle is in the gas phase.
然而她很快指出，在原子级大小下的黑洞是不具备引力效应的。
She is quick to point out, though, that the atomic scale black hole effect is not gravitational.
但镁原子每次可以携带两个电子，这样的话在储存相同能量时可以使电池的大小和重量减半。
But a magnesium atom would carry two electrons, so a battery storing a given amount of energy could be nearly halved in size and weight.
在每片硅原子膜的表面有一个金属制压力感应器，能检测压力的大小并发出信号。
A metal strain gauge on the surface of each membrane senses that deflection and generates a signal that indicates pressure.
几十年来，粒子物理学家们用氢原子作为基准衡量质子的大小。
For decades, particle physicists have used the hydrogen atom as a benchmark for measuring the size of protons, which are part of the core of atoms.
然后研究人员推动这个冷却的云斑，并进一步把反质子压缩，以致可以用一个相似大小的中子云来与它相重叠，就在那时，两个粒子（反质子和中子）成对地形成了反氢原子。
Then the researchers nudged this cloud of cold, compressed antiprotons so it overlapped with a like-size positron cloud, where the two particles mated to form antihydrogen.
为了要建立反氢原子，并且要使它不至于马上湮灭，反氢激光物理装置的研究团队把反质子冷却，并把它们压缩成火柴棍大小的云斑。
To create antihydrogen and keep it from immediately annihilating, the ALPHA team cooled antiprotons and compressed them into a matchstick-size cloud.
9月13日，据一个物理学家小组在物理学评测A中的报道，一束光照射过一团铷原子就可以直接可靠地测量出一个磁场的大小和方向。
A light beam shot through a blob of rubidium atoms can directly and reliably measure the size and orientation of a magnetic field, a team of physicists reports in the Sept. 13 Physical Review a.
这样芯片大小的原子钟即使在全球定位系统被阻断的情况下也能继续使用，如此这般，原子表在深入地下或水中时尤其有用。
A CSAC clock continues to function when GPS signals are blocked, making it incredibly useful deep underground or underwater.
无论是原子般大小的尘还是宏伟的城市，这些东西有什么差别。
Whether as atomic dust or as great cities, what's the difference in all this stuff.
这些“费米大天区望远镜（LAT）”所侦测到的高能伽马射线的波长仅相当于原子核大小的千分之一。
These high-energy gamma rays, detected by Fermi's Large Area Telescope (LAT), have wavelengths one-thousandth the size of an atomic nucleus.
这一常量非常重要，因为它确定了一个原子中的一个电子轨道的大小，周期和能量。
This constant is very important because it fixes the sizes, period and energy of an electron's orbit in an atom.
首先你要有一个和原子差不多大小的，带正电荷的球。
So, essentially you've got a positive ball which is identical to the size of the atom.
用原子分光光度计检测中毒鱼肝、肾、鳃、肌肉中铜的含量，蓄积量的大小顺序是肝脏＞肾脏＞鳃＞肌肉。
Using atomic spectrophotometer examined copper contents of liver, kidney, muscle and gill in subacute poisoned fish. The sequence of accumulation was liver, kidney , gill, muscle.
用原子分光光度计检测中毒鱼肝、肾、鳃、肌肉中铜的含量，蓄积量的大小顺序是肝脏＞肾脏＞鳃＞肌肉。
Using atomic spectrophotometer examined copper contents of liver, kidney, muscle and gill in subacute poisoned fish. The sequence of accumulation was liver, kidney , gill, muscle.
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