Quantum theory dictates that a very tiny thing can absorb energy only in discrete amounts, can never sit perfectly still, and can literally be in two places at once.
量子理论决定了每个微小物体只能吸收不连续的能量，且不能保持完美的静止，甚至能同时出现在两个地方。
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。
After my return to Strasbourg, I began to work in the area of physical organic chemistry, where I could combine the knowledge acquired in organic chemistry, in quantum theory and on physical methods.
返回斯特拉斯堡之后，我开始了在物理有机化学领域的研究工作，这样我就可以把我在有机化学、量子理论和物理方法等方面获得的知识结合在一起。
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。
A simple experiment that sends photons through three slits provides the best proof yet of an important axiom of quantum theory called Born's rule, say physicists in Canada and Austria.
加拿大和奥地利的物理学家介绍，这个简单的实验通过三个缝发出光子，为量子理论的一个重要公理“波恩定则”提供了最好的证明。
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。
This could help solve the problem, and lead to a quantum theory of gravity.
这可能会帮助解决难题，带来引力的量子理论。
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。
Quantum theory is pretty weird, but it isn't as weird as it could be.
量子理论是很荒诞，但不是如其所能的荒诞。
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。
A the area of physics that applies to the very small is called quantum theory.
这种应用于非常微观领域的物理学叫作量子理论。
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。
One area where the conflict between quantum theory and relativity comes to the fore is in the gravitational constant, g, the quantity that describes the strength of gravity.
凸显量子理论和相对论冲突的地方之一是引力常数g，这个量描述引力的强度。
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。
Perhaps only humans, with our seemingly illogical minds, are uniquely capable of discovering and understanding quantum theory. To be human is to be quantum.
或许只有人类有着看上去不合逻辑的大脑，具有发现和理解量子物理的独一无二的能力。作为人类也同时成为量子。
The confirmation also provides important guidance to those seeking the holy grail of physics - a quantum theory that includes gravity.
这个证明也为寻求物理学的圣杯——量子引力论——提供了重要的指导。
Afterwards, they needed a proper quantum theory, and Dr Glauber provided it.
后来，他们需要一种合适的量子理论，而格劳伯博士提供了这样的理论。
Afterwards, they needed a proper quantum theory, and Dr Glauber provided it.
后来，他们需要一种合适的量子理论，而格劳伯博士提供了这样的理论。
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