英语听力：自然百科 平行宇宙(7)

It was a very lonely time in many ways. When I tried to get graduate students interested, many of them would say well look, you may be right and you may be wrong. But if I work in super gravity, I'm not going to find a job.

很多方面是一个很孤独的时间。当我试图让研究生感兴趣时,他们中的许多人说好看,也许你是对的,你也可能是错误的。但是如果我在超重力下工作,我就不打算找一份工作了。

What made the experience of the super gravity guys so galling¹ was that their theory wasn't so very different from String Theory to begin with. In fact, the main disagreement between them was a point of detail, which to outsiders, could seem like nit-picking. It was about the number of dimensions in the universe. We normally think of ourselves as living in a three dimensional world. We can move in three ways, left or right, up or down and forwards and backwards². But physics like to adding extra dimensions. Einstein suggested time should be a fourth dimension. Then someone suggested a fifth special dimension and then a sixth. The numbers just kept growing. The extra dimensions were spaces in the universe which we could never perceive. Most were microscopically³ small, but scientists believed they were really there. String Theory had been convinced there were in total exactly ten dimensions.

什么经验使这个超重力的家伙叫苦不迭，他们的理论非常不同于弦理论。事实上,主要的分歧是一点细节,这对于局外者而言可能看起来吹毛求疵。那就是关于宇宙的维数。我们通常认为我们生活在一个三维世界。我们可以在三个方面延伸,向左或向右,上升或下降及向前或向后。不过,物理学喜欢加上额外的维度。爱因斯坦推测时间应该是第四维度。然后有人建议第五维度然后是第六维度。数字只增不减。额外的空间维度是宇宙中我们永远无法察觉的。大多数只是非常渺小,但科学家们相信他们是真实存在的。弦论确定总共有10个维度。

And if you have a little oscillating string, it has to have enough room to oscillate properly, and when one works this out mathematically, you find it just got a very clear answer. It had to be in ten dimensional space.

如果你有一个小振动弦,它必须有足够的空间供其正常振动,如果按照数学方法计算,你会发现只有一个很明确的答案。只能以10维空间方式进行。

Ten dimensions. Nine special dimensions and one time.

10个维度。9个特殊维度及一种时间。

Super gravity those had been convinced there were exactly eleven dimensions.

超重力已经完全相信有十一个维度。

1 galling   

adj.难堪的,使烦恼的,使焦躁的

参考例句：

• It was galling to have to apologize to a man she hated. 令人恼火的是得向她憎恶的男人道歉。
• The insolence in the fellow's eye was galling. 这家伙的傲慢目光令人恼怒。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹

2 backwards   

adv.往回地，向原处，倒，相反，前后倒置地

参考例句：

• He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
• All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。

3 microscopically   

显微镜下

参考例句：

• Microscopically the ores are medium grained to amorphous. 显微镜下，矿石为中粒至非晶质。 来自辞典例句
• He studied microscopically the statistics of trade. 他极仔细地研究了贸易统计数字。 来自辞典例句