In the parlance of quantum mechanics, however, to call a particle pointlike is to say no more than that it is elementary, ie, that it is not known to be made up of smaller bits.

而在量子力学术语中，“点粒子”即为“基本粒子”（迄今还未发现有用来构成基本粒子的更小单位）。

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These go through various possible scenarios for fiscal policy, exploring whether, in effect, the shadow chancellor Ed Balls is right to say that the economy would be better off tightening more slowly - ie whether we would get more growth, overall, if we saved some of the cuts for later.

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Which is to say that while all these activities will certainly continue on a limited and sporadic (ie, unreliable) basis, the former days of their getting performed on-demand will no longer be possible.

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