Much to the bewilderment of professional scientists, quasi-religious cults are being formed around such unlikely topics as quantum physics, space-time relativity, black holes and the big bang.
令专业水准的科学家十分困惑的是，准宗教崇拜正围绕量子物理学、时空相对论、黑洞和大爆炸等不太可能的话题而形成。
Recently, physicists trying to meld gravity and quantum theory, and so explain the nature of space and time, have begun to revisit this old question.
最近，物理学家试图把引力和量子理论融为一体，由此来解释空间和时间的性质，已经开始重新研究这个老问题。
In a conventional computer, a bit can represent either 1 or 0 at any time. Thanks to the quirks of quantum mechanics, the equivalent in a quantum computer, a qubit, can represent both values at once.
在一个传统计算机中，任何时刻一个比特被表示为1或0.由于量子力学的奇怪结果，等价的情形在一个量子计算机中，一个量子比特能够被表示为任意值的叠加。
Maybe in a hundred years time the science that comes out will seem as weird to people now as quantum mechanics does now to people of a couple hundred years ago.
也许百年后所出现的科学,对人们来说,也像几百年前的量子力学一样神秘。
According to quantum theory, the shortest moment of time that can exist is known as Planck time, or 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 second.
根据量子理论，能够存在的最小时间单位叫做普朗克时间，长度为0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001秒（一千亿亿亿亿亿分之一秒）。
One of the marvelous little wrinkles of the quantum world is a condition known as superposition, in which a particle can occupy two states at the same time.
量子世界的一个小小的令人惊奇的是一种被称作叠加态的状态。在这种状态下，一个粒子可以同时占据着两种状态。
When an executing thread expires its time quantum, it's placed at the end of the run-queue for its priority and assigned a new time quantum.
当一个执行线程超过它的时间量时，它的优先级被放在运行队列的后端并给它指定了新的时间量。
It can then perform GC work for the remainder of the quantum, scheduling itself back to sleep and resuming the JVM when the quantum end time approaches.
然后才能在剩余的时间内执行gc工作，在时间量临近结束时将自身调回休眠状态并恢复JVM的运行。
Although they do afford some incremental benefits, such as enhanced project communication, they are not capable of providing a quantum leap in productivity, quality, or time to market.
虽然它们提供了一些增加的好处，例如增强的项目交流，但是它们不能提供生产力、质量，或投放市场时间方面的巨大突破。
Indeed, theorists working on loop quantum gravity think that matter itself is merely the result of twisting and braiding ribbons of space-time.
事实上，研究环圈量子重力学的理论学家认为，物质本身不过是时空纽带扭曲缠绕而成的编织物。
So a long time before quantum mechanics was developed, people made measurements of the heat capacities of materials.
那么在量子力学建立起来，之前的很长一段时间，人们测量，物质的热容。
General relativity deals with gravity and time and space; quantum mechanics with the microscopic workings of matter.
广义相对论，描述引力与时空的关系；量子力学，研究微观粒子运动规律。
Ultimately, we may have our first indication of how space-time emerges out of quantum theory.
最终，我们将第一次从量子理论中揭开时空的庐山真面目。
But when you zoom in to very small distances, general relativity cannot ignore quantum fluctuations of space-time.
但当你缩小到小尺度时，广义相对论不能忽视时空的量子涨落。
If GEO600 really has discovered holographic noise from quantum convulsions of space-time, then it presents a double-edged sword for gravitational wave researchers.
如果GEO600真的发现了时空量子震动导致的全息噪音，这对引力波研究人员来说是把双刃剑。
Quantum-gravity theory indicates that the fabric of space-time has an "atomic" geometry that is woven with one-dimensional quantum threads.
量子引力理论指出时空结构具有一个由一维量子线编织成的“原子”几何图。
Suspending a thread requires the operating system to swap it out of the CPU often before it's time quantum has been consumed.
操作在挂起一个线程的时候需要将它换出CPU，而通常此时线程的时间片还没有使用完。
The volume of quantum dots required is minuscule, however: they are made in batches of a few milligrams at a time.
然而，量子点的需求量是极小的：每个批次的生产都只有几毫克。
"It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan.
“看起来GEO600像是在被时空的微观量子震动反复撞击。”霍根说。
They have to stitch quantum theory - our description of how very small things behave - together with relativity - the theory behind the way space, time and matter interact.
他们需要将量子力学和相对论这两大物理学理论统一起来——前者是人类对微观粒子运行的描述，而后者则适用于解释宏观的空间、时间和物质相互作用的机制。
You can use it to determine if the parameters (heap size, target utilization, window size, and quantum time) support the running application. Listing 1 shows an example of verbose output.
您可以使用它来确定参数(堆大小、目标利用率、窗口大小和时间量)是否支持应用程序运行。
The signal being detected by GEO600 isn't a noise source that's been overlooked, Hogan believes GEO600 is seeing quantum fluctuations in the fabric of space-time itself.
GEO600探测到的信号并不是来自什么被忽视的噪音源，Hogan认为GEO600探测到了时空本身发生的量子级别的波动。
If Hogan's idea is correct, the Holometer should detect this quantum noise in the fabric of space-time, throwing our whole perception of the Universe into a spin.
如果Hogan的想法是正确的，测高仪将能探测到时空结构中的量子噪声，给我们现有对宇宙的认知带来巨大的冲击。
Because of the confused role time plays in quantum mechanics, the references and meanings of energy-time uncertainty relation are different in different explanatory contexts.
由于时间在量子力学中的特殊性，能量-时间不确定性关系的指称和意义在不同的解释语境中各不相同。
For example, people can at the same time in two places, in a superposition of the state, this state, Pan Jianwei will be interpreted as quantum superposition state.
比如人，人能同时在两个地方，处于一种叠加的状态，这种状态，潘建伟将它解释为量子叠加态。
But in the real time calculated by quantum, even those grains are of different volume.
但是对于量子计算的真实时间而言，就连这些米都是不一样大的。
Quantum informatics as a newly emerging subject didn't rise in the world until 1994. Though the time is short, a series of important breakthroughs have been gained.
量子信息学作为新兴学科在国际上兴起是在1994之后，虽然时间很短，但已取得了一系列重要突破。
But anyway, in the many-worlds picture of quantum mechanics, "branch-points" are predicted to happen all the time, everywhere.
但不论如何，在量子力学的多重世界图景中，“分支点”一直在产生，无论任何时间或任何地点。
But anyway, in the many-worlds picture of quantum mechanics, "branch-points" are predicted to happen all the time, everywhere.
但不论如何，在量子力学的多重世界图景中，“分支点”一直在产生，无论任何时间或任何地点。
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