宇宙膨胀说虽然听似奇特，但它是基本粒子物理学中一些公认的理论在科学上看来可信的推论。
Odd though it sounds, cosmicinflation is a scientifically plausible consequence of some respected ideas in elementary-particle physics.
我很高兴欢迎理论物理学教授MelissaPhillips 博士。
I'm very pleased to welcome Doctor Melissa Phillips, professor of theoretical physics.
获得爱因斯坦奖是在理论物理学能达到的最高成就。
Winning the Albert Einstein Award is the highest achievement in theoretical physics.
今天，我很高兴地欢迎理论物理学教授梅丽莎·菲利普斯博士。
Today, I'm very pleased to welcome Dr. Melissa Phillips, professor of theoretical physics.
理论物理学家杰弗里·韦斯特认为，当企业机构变大，往往更不容易接受变化。
According to theoretical physicist Geoffrey West, when corporate institutions get bigger, they often become less receptive to change.
我们采访了一些最伟大的物理学家，因为他们会帮助我们去理解一些最复杂的理论。
We interview some of the greatest minds in physics, as they help us to understand some of the most complicated theories.
在这里，我们采访了一些最伟大的物理学家，因为他们会帮助我们去理解一些最复杂的理论。
Here we interview some of the greatest minds in physics, as they help us to understand some of the most complicated theories.
例如，物理学可以让你观察并理解世界，但也可以将观察到的现象整合成模型，提炼出理论或定律用以对未来做出预测。
For instance, physics allows you to observe and rationalise the world, but also to integrate observations into models and, sometimes, models into theories or laws that can be used to make predictions.
事实上，恶魔理论并不能很好地解释疾病的问题，而微生物理论却能将疾病问题分析得很透彻。
The fact of the matter is that demon theory doesn't do a very good job of explaining the disease, while germ theory does do a good job.
进一步证实中微子有质量的实验可以帮助物理学家确定这些理论中哪一个（如果有的话）是正确的。
Further experiments to confirm that neutrinos have mass could help physicists determine which, if any, of these theories is correct.
在爱因斯坦的时代，全世界只有几千名物理学家，那些在智力上能与爱因斯坦匹敌的理论家，可能一辆有轨电车就都坐下了。
In Einstein's day, there were only a few thousand physicists worldwide, and the theoreticians who could intellectually rival Einstein probably would fit into a streetcar with seats to spare.
我猜想，那次偶遇之后，他开始吸烟，并对理论物理失去了全部兴趣。
After that encounter he started smoking and lost all interest in theoretical physics, I imagine.
他甚至并不擅长理论物理。简单地谈了重力中心问题之后，他承认，自己的这门课没有达到O级。
He's not even very good with theoretical physics. After a brief conversation about centres of gravity, he admits that he failed his O-level in the subject.
霍金现年68岁，上星期日，他开始了在安大略省滑铁卢著名的圆周理论物理研究所的为期6个星期的工作，当时他讲了以上的话。
Hawking, now aged 68, was speaking on Sunday at the prestigious Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, as he begins a six-week stint there.
他所从事的理论涉及到几个天体物理学和理论物理中很难的问题。
The theory that he's working on involves several of the toughest problems in astrophysics and theoretical physics.
狄拉克诸多发现在基础理论已经具有深远影响，即便是现在，我们在理论物理方面的研究都是由狄拉克的思想和他的表示法引导的。
The impact of Dirac's discoveries at the fundamental level has been far reaching, since even now our research in theoretical physics is guided by Dirac's ideas and his formulations.
无可否认，尽管多元宇宙在理论物理中是一个极其著名的概念，但是除了对它精神上的支持，并没有经验证明其真实性。
Admittedly, the multiverse, although a perfectly respectable concept in theoretical physics, is supported by no more empirical evidence than the soul itself.
霍金在圆周理论物理研究保留着一个杰出研究员的职位，预计每年的夏天，他将在那里工作几个星期。
Hawking holds a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute, and is expected to spend several weeks there each summer.
在电邮中，霍金表示在安大略省滑铁卢市周界理论物理研究所进行工作让他很兴奋。
By email, Hawking says he's excited by work underway at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ont.
当时狄拉克的同行们正在为他们的公式的哲学内涵争论不休，而他认为语言是靠不住的，在理论物理上数学有着绝对的优势。
But while his colleagues struggled with the philosophical implications of their equations, Dirac thought words were treacherous and saw merit only in mathematics.
然后他很有礼貌地把圆周理论物理研究所的环境比作那些有创新性的强大国家。
He then courteously likened the environment at Perimeter to these powerhouses of innovation.
现代物理学奠基人艾伯特·爱因斯坦的一份珍贵手稿日前在荷兰莱顿大学洛仑兹理论物理研究院的档案文件中被发现，这份原稿记录着爱因斯坦于1925年发表的一个重要理论。
The original manuscript of a paper Albert Einstein published in 1925 has been found in the archives of Leiden University's Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, scholars said Saturday.
“我将帮助我的女儿和她患有自闭症的儿子，也许会买一个度假别墅，不是我有很多假日，因为我喜欢从事理论物理的工作，”他写道。
"I will help my daughter with her autistic son, and maybe buy a holiday home, not that I take many holidays because I enjoy my work in theoretical physics," he wrote.
“接下来的问题是需要对理论做出怎样的修正”，加拿大圆周理论物理研究所的拉斐尔·苏尔钦(RafaelSorkin)解释说。
"The question then is how radical a revision will be needed", explains Rafael Sorkin of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Canada.
用本书的两位作者的话来说，“研究理论物理是他能做的屈指可数的几件工作之一——这些工作实际需要的工具仅是他的大脑。”
Rs the authors note, theoretical physics was "one of the very few jobs for which his mind was the only real tool he needed."
之前我在加州理工学院教过理论物理和计算物理，2008年我参加了Y - Combinator企业家计划。
Previously, I taught theoretical and computational physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and in 2008 I participated in the Y-Combinator entrepreneur program.
之前我在加州理工学院教过理论物理和计算物理，2008年我参加了Y - Combinator企业家计划。
Previously, I taught theoretical and computational physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and in 2008 I participated in the Y-Combinator entrepreneur program.
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