So their discovery would provide a key piece of experimental evidence for this contender for a Grand Unified Theory meshing general relativity with quantum mechanics.

所以他们的发现将为这些(对抗)结合了相对论和量子力学的大统一理论的竞争者们提供一份关键的实验证据。

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But when you zoom in to very small distances, general relativity cannot ignore quantum fluctuations of space-time.

但当你缩小到小尺度时，广义相对论不能忽视时空的量子涨落。

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String theory elegantly reconciles the otherwise competing rules of quantum mechanics and general relativity.

弦论非常优美地使量子力学与广义相对论中相互矛盾的理论一致起来。

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Having two candidates for a theory of everything is almost as upsetting to physicists as their inability to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity in the first place.

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In particle physics, sound-bite explanations are much harder: wave-particle duality, quantum mechanics, general relativity and string theory make good mathematical sense, or so I am told, but they generally defy translation into English.

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Roger Penrose, for example, has long been on record as arguing that it is quantum mechanics, not general relativity, that needs to be modified in order to successfully develop a grand unified theory.

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