It's a very appealing kind of a priori theory, but the thing about theories is they're supposed to make predictions.

这是一个很有吸引力的早期理论，但是理论的意义在于,它们可以被用来进行预测。

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And what you might have noted is although we described how to make predictions about these properties, I didn't talk too much about what it actually means, what the ramifications of these different properties are.

而大家可能已经注意到了我们描述了,如何对这些性质进行预言，但是我并没有讲这到底有什么意义，这些不同性质的分支是什么。

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Well, let's make predictions that can be put to the test.

好了，让我们做些能够被测试出的预测。

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The idea of falsifiability is that what distinguishes science from non science is that scientific predictions make strong claims about the world and these claims are of a sort that they could be proven wrong.

可证伪性是指,科学与非科学的区别在于,科学能够做出关于世界的有力预测,而这些预测是可以被证伪的。

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And there's actually a way that we can make predictions here, and what I'll tell you is molecular orbital theory predicts that h e 2 does not exist because it's not stabilized in terms of forming the molecule.

其实我们有一种办法可以做出预测，我要告诉你们的是分子轨道,理论预测He2不存在,因为它形成分子不稳定。

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Here we're talking about a hydrogen atom and that's what we'll focus on today. And it's incredibly precise and we're able to make the predictions and match them with experiment.

是一个氢原子，我们今天都主要讨论它,它非常准确，我们可以做出,预测与实验比较，此外。

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So it's really neat to think that your counterparts 100 years ago right here at MIT could have been sitting in a class where they had Lewis as their lecturer, and he's putting forth these ideas -- these are actually his lecture notes, even though it wasn't even published yet, and giving this idea of Lewis structure, which is exactly what we keep using today in order to make a lot of these predictions.

因此会有很棒的感觉，当想一想一百年以前像你们一样,在这上学的同学可能正坐在教室里,听路易斯讲课，而他正在提出这些想法-,-而这些正是他的课堂讲义，尽管当时还没有发表，但已经给出了路易斯结构的思想，这正是我们直到今天都一直在用的,用它来做很多预测。

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