This new device demonstrates that the technologies to enable fabrication and measurement at the atomic scale have begun to arrive.

这台新电子装置表明，实现设备在原子刻度下制造和测量的技术已经开始来临。

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Physicists have no trouble using, on the one hand, picoseconds (trillionths of a second) or even femtoseconds (quadrillionths of a second) to discuss time at the atomic scale.

在讨论原子级别时间的时候，物理学家用起皮秒（百万兆分之一秒）甚至飞秒（千万亿分之一秒）来都没任何不便。 这是一方面。

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Beginning in the 1960s, physicists were using tools adapted from the semiconductor industry to create new materials from scratch, building them up layer-by-layer at the atomic scale.

在20世纪60年代初，物理学家们使用半导体工业中使用的工具来从头开始创建新材料，在原子尺度上一层层地建立它们。

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Working at the atomic scale has other advantages.

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For example, the distance between the centers of two black holes in galaxy clusters distant from each other and the gap between cell walls in a living organism differ on a vast scale, despite their sharing of common structures at the atomic level.

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His goal is to create molecules unknown to nature but adept at serving humans by absorbing environmental toxins, fighting cancer or extending Moore's Law down to the atomic scale.

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