Quantum mechanics is a highly successful theory: it supplies methods for accurately calculating the results of diverse experiments, especially with minute particles.
量子力学是一种非常成功的理论：它提供了精确计算各种实验结果的方法，特别适用于微小粒子方面。
Because of this probabilism, Einstein remained strongly dissatisfied with the theory throughout his life, though he did not maintain that quantum mechanics is wrong.
由于这种概率性，爱因斯坦一生都强烈不满这个理论，尽管他并不认为量子力学是错误的。
Both quantum mechanics and chaos theory suggest a world constantly in flux.
量子力学和混沌理论都指出世界处在不断变化中。
So Millikan's paper is not at all, as we would now expect, an experimental proof of the quantum theory of light.
所以，密立根的文章根本不像我们现在认为的那样，是对光的量子理论的实验验证。
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。
This result should contribute to the ongoing debate over the various interpretations of quantum theory, " said Steinberg.
这一结果有助于正在进行的有关量子理论的各种解释的辩论，”斯坦伯格说。
Notoriously, the theory of quantum mechanics reveals a fundamental weirdness in the way the world works.
众所周知，量子力学的理论，透露了世界运行之道的根本古怪之处。
Quantum theory might be able to tell you where an electron is, but it can't tell you how long it's been there.
量子理论可以告诉你一个电子的位置，但是无法告诉你它在那里已经多久了。
A very rich and rewarding path was opened with the advent of quantum theory.
随着量子理论的出现，一条丰富而有意义的道路敞开了。
The idea of using the more arcane aspects of quantum theory to do things that standard information technology cannot manage has been around for a while.
将量子理论当中艰涩得多的部分应用去做常规信息技术无法达成的事情，这样的想法由来已久。
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。
The finding could mean that physicists need to rethink how they apply the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED) - or even that the theory itself needs a major overhaul.
这项发现促使科学家重新思考他们如何应用量子电动力学(QED)理论或者理论本身需要来一次重大的修正。
Most grandly, they might help test the bounds of quantum theory and our sense of reality.
更重要的是，它们有助于测定量子理论和我们日常感知的边界。
For quantum theory has shown that a vacuum (ie, nothing) only appears to be empty space.
因为量子理论已经证明真空(或者说是虚无)仅仅只是一个空旷的空间而已。
Part of the motivation behind the quest to marry relativity and quantum theory - to produce a theory of quantum gravity - is an aesthetic desire to unite all the forces of nature.
结合相对论和量子理论，提出一种量子引力的理论，它的动机之一是出于美学上的对统一各种自然作用力的渴望。
In quantum theory, it's even less well defined: time doesn't even figure as something that gets measured.
而在量子理论中，时间更加无法定义：时间甚至不具有可以测量得到的特质。
Reconciling the two, creating a theory of quantum gravity, is the holy grail of modern physics.
融合两者，我们创造出了量子引力理论，它是当代物理学的核心。
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。
Either the previously accepted measures upon which hundreds of calculations have been based are wrong, or there is a problem with the theory of quantum electrodynamics itself.
无论是以前成百上千的计算的基础是错误的，亦或是量子电动力学理论本身的问题。
M theory succeeds in unifying gravity and quantum theories.
M理论在统一量子理论和引力方面比较成功。
One of the great concerns of modern physics is to marry these two concepts into a single theory of quantum gravity.
现代物理学最关心的问题之一就是将这两个理论用量子引力统一起来。
No-one can understand quantum theory — by any account, the most successful physical theory there has ever been — unless they grasp the underlying mathematics.
没有一个人可以理解量子理论——不论从什么角度来说，他都是人类历史上最成功的物理理论——除非他们能够掌握最为深奥的数学。
This observation leads Hawking to a remarkable prediction that will raise the pulsebeat of many readers. Here is his logic: M theory unifies gravity with quantum theory.
基于这个观测结果,霍金作出了一个让很多读者心跳加速的预言.他的逻辑是这样的:M理论统一了量子理论和引力理论;
Eventually they're aiming to fulfill Einstein's unrealized goal of unifying general relativity with quantum theory.
最终他们希望能够完成爱因斯坦尚未实现的目标——将广义相对论与量子理论统一起来。
Quantum theory started at the beginning of the 20th century, in part with work on light.
量子理论始于20世纪初，是光学研究的一部分。
The next three decades turned physics on its head, with the discovery of electrons, atomic nuclei, radioactivity, quantum theory and the theory of relativity.
以后的三十年里，物理学发生了天翻地覆的变化：电子、原子核、放射性、量子理论、相对论相继出现。
Other theories of quantum gravity, including string theory and loop quantum gravity, are far more difficult for newcomers to embrace.
量子引力的其它理论，包括弦论和圈量子引力，对新人来说都更难以涉足其中。
Davies' research focuses on cosmology, quantum field theory and astrobiology.
戴维斯的研究侧重于宇宙论、量子场理论和太空生物学。
It may sound preposterous to imagine that the mathematics of quantum theory has something to say about the nature of human thinking.
从量子理论的数学说到人类思考的本质似乎有些荒唐。
Max Planck founded quantum theory, and thus wrecked the Newtonian universe.
马克斯·普朗克确立了量子理论，从而颠覆了牛顿的宇宙学说。
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