From bizarre antimatter to experiments that tie light up in knots, physics has revealed some spooky sides of our world.
从奇异的反物质到把光捆扎成结的实验，物理学已经揭示了我们世界的一些幽灵般的方面。
That may sound odd, but the fact is at the moment of the big bang, both matter and antimatter were created for a short time.
那听起来可能很奇怪，但事实是：在大爆炸的那一刻，物质和反物质都在很短的时间内被创造出来。
Instead, there were slightly more matter particles than antimatter.
相反，物质粒子比反物质粒子略多一些。
"Take Dan Brown's hypothetical 1 gram of antimatter," he continued.
“丹·布朗假想的1克反物质，”他继续说。
The ISV’s antimatter engines BLAZE to life and it accelerates out of orbit.
随着反物质引擎的点火，太空船加速飞离轨道。
It may even detect an 'anti-universe' made of antimatter, the physicists say.
物理学家声称，它甚至有望探测到由反物质组成的“反宇宙”。
Dirac went on to win the Nobel prize in physics in 1933 for his discovery of antimatter.
狄拉克因为发现反物质而赢得了1933年的诺贝尔物理学奖。
I told him I couldn't think of any reason why antimatter wasn't a plausible explanation.
我告诉他，我也觉得反物质算是个说得过去的解释。
Physics suggests equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been made in the Big Bang.
物理学家认为等量的正物质和反物质应该在宇宙大爆炸的过程中形成。
Earth is likely not the only planet that boasts antimatter-generating storms, researchers said.
看来地球不能自夸为产生反物质暴风雨的唯一星球，研究人员说。
The original discovery of antimatter was a nice example of theory predicting an undiscovered fact.
反物质的独特发现是理论预示未知世界这一说法的一个极好说明。
The matter/antimatter question has been bugging physicists for decades. Now, perhaps, it will be answered.
物质/反物质的问题曾让物理学家数十年来百思不得其解，如今这个问题可能会有答案了。
When matter and antimatter meet, they annihilate, converting their mass into energy in a powerful explosion.
当物质和反物质相遇时，它们就会自动湮灭，并在强大的爆炸中把它们的质量转换成能量。
It's true that when matter and antimatter meet, they do annihilate in a big explosion and convert their mass to energy.
这是真的，当物质和反物质相遇时，它们会在大爆炸相互湮灭，然后把它们的质量转换为能量。
The key is using magnetic and electric fields, instead of matter, to construct the walls of an antimatter "bottle."
这套设备的关键之处在于使用了电磁场的而不是普通物质来捕捉反粒子，电磁场犹如一道墙，把反物质牢牢地束缚在“电磁瓶”内。
Scientists have created antimatter in the form of antihydrogen, demonstrating how it's possible to capture and release it.
科学家已经创建了反氢原子形式的反物质，并证明怎样才有可能去俘获和释放它。
AMS-02 is aimed at learning more about the origin and structure of the universe by observing antimatter and 'dark' matter.
AMS- 02将通过观测反物质和暗物质研究宇宙的起源和结构。
In the standard view, where dark matter isn't the antimatter, the Universe is left with only one half of the broken mirror.
按常规观点，暗物质不是反物质，宇宙仅有破损镜像的一半。
Some of the ideas being researched, like antimatter engines, depend on established physics but go far beyond current technology.
有一些想法正在被深入研究，比如说反物质发动机，它依赖于现有的物理学知识，不过技术上却远远超过现在的水平。
However, it's rare to find antimatter in our universe, since it annihilates almost instantly when it comes into contact with matter.
然而，在我们的宇宙里很少找到反物质，因为一旦它碰到正物质，即刻就会湮灭掉。
These experiments may really head scientists in the right direction for figuring out the antimatter-matter conundrum, Charlton said.
查尔顿说，这些实验可能真的会引导科学家朝着正确的方向去解决反物质的这个难题。
But, Schmidt says, the combo antimatter fusion engine could not likely generate the thrust needed to get up to seven-tenths light speed.
不过施密特也指出，混合反物质聚变发动机产生的推力很可能达不到所需的7/10光速。
This process slowed down as our universe gradually cooled, but there should have been equal parts matter and antimatter -- and there weren't.
湮灭的过程随着我们的宇宙慢慢冷却下来而逐步减慢，物质和反物质本应该一样多，但实际上不是的。
As an added bonus, an "x" particle could solve another perplexing cosmological mystery: why is there more matter than antimatter in the universe?
额外的收获是，“X”粒子还能解决另一个困扰已久的宇宙谜题：为什么宇宙中物质多于反物质？
However, at present, antimatter can only be manufactured in particle accelerators, wasting over 99.999 percent of the energy used in the process.
但是现实中我们还只能在粒子加速器中制造出反物质，这几乎将99.999%的能量都浪费在了粒子加速的工作中。
Back when our universe was still in its earliest birthing throes, matter and antimatter were colliding and annihilating each other out of existence constantly.
回到我们宇宙诞生之初，物质和反物质不断碰撞、互相湮灭。
So while an electron has a negative charge, its antimatter counterpart, a positron, has a positive charge and they annihilate each other when they get too close.
所以，电子带负电，那它对应的反物质正电子就带正电，并且它俩如果靠太近就会湮灭掉。
In Avatar: For the interstellar journey to Alpha Centauri, humans have constructed spaceships nearly a mile long outfitted with hybrid antimatter fusion engines.
电影中：为了踏上通往半人马座阿尔法星的星际之旅，人类打造了近1英里长的太空飞船，此飞船使用了混合反物质聚合发动机。
One theory about why antimatter exists was developed by John Wheeler and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman based on the idea that physical systems should be time-reversible.
约翰-惠勒和诺贝尔奖得主理查德-弗雷曼，他们基于物理体系中时间应该可以倒流的想法，提出了一种反物质理论。
According to his idea, outlined in the current issue of the journal Astrophysics and Space Science, matter has a positive gravitational charge and antimatter a negative one.
在近期的《天体物理与空间科学》杂志上，他对物质带有一个正引力荷，而反物质带有一个负引力荷的假设进行了概述。
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