With a lightning "switch" at their fingertips, materials scientists could find out what happens when mighty currents meet matter.

有一个便于取用的闪电“转换器”，材料科学家们就可以弄清当强大的电流与物质相遇时会发生什么。

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Of course, it came as a big surprise when tears came up, no matter how hard I tried, I wasn't able to control myself.

当然，当眼泪涌上来的时候，我感到很惊讶，无论我怎么努力，我都无法控制自己。

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A recent study seems to point to the fact that when matter and anti-matter were first created, there were slightly more particles of matter, which allowed the universe we all live in to form.

最近的一项研究似乎指出了一个事实，当物质和反物质最初被创造出来的时候，有更多的物质粒子，这使得我们生活的宇宙得以形成。

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And all this is, is saying that when you take a mixed second derivative, it doesn't matter in which order you take the two derivatives.

麦克斯韦关系的本质是,当你考虑混合的二阶导数时，求导的顺序不影响最后的结果,现在，我们利用这些关系。

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When I said that questions are important and answers matter less, I am not coming from a point of relativism.

当我说问题重要而答案没那么重要时，我不是从相对论的观点来说的。

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