I'm betting my career that it's string theory.

我拿我的事业来打赌就是弦理论。

Proponents say that string theory is elegant and beautiful.

支持者称弦理论是一流的和很好的理论。

Of its many predecessors, the most popular is string theory.

在它的众多先驱里，最著名的当属弦论。

There is just one consolation. Humans don't understand string theory either.

唯一值得安慰的是，人类也无法理解弦论string theory（译者按：弦论是理论物理学的一门学说，这里string语带双关）。

So I admire this man who could not only deal with string theory but also play the bongos.

所以说，我之所以敬佩费曼不仅仅是因为他能够处理高深的弦理论，而且因为他鼓打得不赖。

Sheldon is a string theorist, and string theory also predicts the existence of magnetic monopoles.

Sheldon是搞弦论的理论物理学家，而弦论也预言了磁单极子的存在。

This can be measured in a lab, and the results will demonstrate whether string theory actually works.

这可以在实验室中进行测量，而且结果将证明弦论是否真正有效。

A new study says string theory can be tested by observing the behavior of entangled quantum particles.

一项最新研究认为，弦论能够通过观察纠缠态的量子粒子的行为表现进行检验。

In spite of a present lack of such evidence, Jackson is confident string theory will weather the storm.

虽然现在缺少诸如此类的一个证据，Jackson对弦理论能历尽风雨有信心。

In string theory we have several extra dimensions, which results in many more adjustable parameters.

在弦论里，我们有数个额外维度，结果产生更多的可调参数。

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。

A new study says string theory can be tested by observing the behavior of entangled quantum particles. Wikipedia.

一项最新研究认为，弦论能够通过观察纠缠态的量子粒子的行为表现进行检验。

You’re not going to meet a Ph.D. in string theory or hear a talk about playing the lute at Davos the way you do at TED.

不过你别指望在达沃斯上碰到一个谈论超弦理论string theory的物理学博士，或是听到有人用在TED上的方式来谈论该怎么弹奏琉特琴。

Some string theorists think the extra dimensions of space-time, which are predicted in string theory, may take this shape.

一些弦论理论家认为弦论所预测的时空以外的额外维度，可能就是这个形状。

Using string theory math, Duff predicted the pattern that would occur when four quantum bits are entangled with each other.

使用弦论数学，达夫预测了当四个量子位元相互纠缠时将会发生的模式。

He had campaigned to keep string theorists out of the Harvard physics department and when it embraced string theory, he left.

他曾经组织运动阻止哈佛研究超弦论，但是最后当哈佛开始搞超弦论的时候，他就义无反顾的走人了。

Other theories of quantum gravity, including string theory and loop quantum gravity, are far more difficult for newcomers to embrace.

量子引力的其它理论，包括弦论和圈量子引力，对新人来说都更难以涉足其中。

String theory smooths out the mathematical inconsistencies that currently exist between quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity.

弦理论缓和了量子力学和相对论之间的数学矛盾。

String theory, one route to quantum gravity, gives an unsatisfactorily vague answer: space can have anything from zero to 10 dimensions.

弦理论，它作为一条通向量子引力的道路，对上述的这个问题，只是提供了一个含糊不清的答案，不能使人满意：空间，既然可以从零维到10维。

Most of us are happy to admit that we do not understand, say, string theory in physics, yet we are all convinced we understand evolution.

虽然我们大多数人乐于承认，比如说，我们不懂物理学中的弦理论，但我们都确信我们理解进化。

"Holographic space-time is used in certain approaches to quantising gravity that have a strong connection to string theory, " says Cramer.

全息时空被用于某种研究量子化引力的方法，这种方法与超弦理论联系紧密。

These cosmic strings are predicted by most models of the universe, such as the string theory wherein two kinds of “strings” are unrelated.

大部分宇宙模型都有预测宇宙弦，比如弦理论里两种互不相干的“弦”。

Greene thinks the key to understanding these multiverses comes from string theory, the area of physics he has studied for the past 25 years.

格林尼认为理解多元宇宙的关键是弦理论。过去的25年间，他一直在研究弦理论。

So if OPERA's results hold up, they could provide support for the existence of sterile neutrinos, extra dimensions and perhaps string theory.

因此，如果OPERA的实验结果站得住脚，它们就可以支持惰性中微子、额外维度、也许还有弦理论的存在。

It's true that nobody has any good idea of how to test string theory, but who's to say someone won't wake up tomorrow morning and think of one?

确实，怎样检验弦理论，现在没有什么好主意，但是谁又能说某人明早醒来时不会想出一个好主意呢？

According to string theory, space has six extra dimensions that we don't see because they're curled and tangled up at very small length scales.

根据弦理论，空间有6个额外维度，我们看不见，因为它们蜷缩纠缠在很小的范围里。