“The Raman effect is part of the innate quality of matter—like DNA, ” he told me.

他说，“就像DNA，拉曼效应是物质内在特性的一部分。

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Rocks are made from minerals, which like all matter are composed of individual chemical elements.

岩石由矿物构成，矿物像所有物质一样，由各种化学元素组成。

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The heat from the Big Bang literally melted the nuclear matter of atoms, releasing the particles inside (like gluons and quarks).

大爆炸产生的热量逐个地熔化了原子的核物质，释放出了原子内部的粒子(比如胶子和夸克)。

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"We felt like no matter how non-violent you were, unless you had a law on the books or a decree by a court, that the same restaurant that could open up its door to a black person on Monday could close it on Tuesday if there were no law demanding it be kept open."

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But let's just try maybe one of the basic questions they could ask, and they can say, all right, de Broglie, so you say that all matter, absolutely all matter has wave-like behavior.

让我们试一试他们,可能问到的一个基础问题，他们会说，好的，德布罗意，你说所有的物质，所有物质绝对会有波的特性。

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Why don't we see the influence of the wave-like behavior on every day matter?

在每天的生活中,我们为什么看不到物质的,波动性质带来的影响呢？

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That's because as the Earth moves around the Sun, it is moving into a stationary field of dark matter - and for half the year it will be moving against the tide of dark matter - just like driving into the rain.

BBC: Dark Matter: Experiment to shed light on dark particles

Just on the level of sheer spectacle -- and these are movies we're talking about, spectacle is no small matter -- a flick like "Jack the Giant Slayer" has a lot going for it: a perilous daylong climb into the clouds, a castle in the sky worthy of Hayao Miyazaki, waterfalls that drain into thin air and the delightful sight of a 100-foot chef sneezing into his pastries.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

And that's just the matter -- just like congressional travel paid for by taxpayers, require congressmen and women fly home on recess, as they'll do shortly, back and forth to their districts and states.

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