A few years later, the treaty was put to a test.

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What's the method of science? You have a theory; what do you do? Put it to the test.

科学的方法是什么，现在有一个理论;,准备怎么办，验证它。

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And what we did was he put two detection plates on either side of these cathode rays, and when he put a voltage difference between these two plates, he wanted to see if he could actually bend the rays and test if they're actually charged or not.

但没有实验证明这件事,这就是Thomson所做的，它在阴极射线旁边放两块探测板,他想通过看当他,在两板之间加上电压后,阴极射线是不是会。

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