I'm an atomic physicist by day and my secret identity is football physicist at night.

白天我是原子理学家，晚上，我的秘密身份是橄榄球理学家。

On one hand, we have the theory of the big, general relativity, black holes, big bangs, and the theory of the small, quantum theory, atomic physics.

一方面，我们有大的广义相对论，黑洞，大爆炸理论和小的量子理论，原子理学。

There's not nearly as much oxygen as hydrogen, but kilo for kilo oxygen glows more brightly than hydrogen due to the atomic physics involved.

氧没有氢那么多，但由于涉及到原子理学的知识——每公斤氧比氢更亮。

Mister Lawrence had won the Nobel Prize in nineteen thirty-nine for his work in nuclear physics.

劳伦斯先生因其在原子核理学方面的贡献获得了1939的诺贝尔奖。

Secondly, cold atoms hold enormous potential for probing the frontiers of physics.

其次，冷原子具有探索理学前沿的巨大潜力。

Wait, so atoms are like a surprise egg for physicists?

等等，所以说原子就像是理学家的惊喜蛋？

And there have been a bunch of examples of that around quantum mechanics, around, I mean, even just electricity, subatomic physics, the discovery of antimatter, you know, is now, like, people get PET scans, right?

而在量子力学、甚至仅仅是电学、亚原子理学以及反质的发现方面，有很多例子。你知道，现在人们会做PET扫描，对吧？

Around the turn of the 20th century, action popped up as the key part of a solution to one of the biggest problems in atomic physics at the time.

在 20 世纪，成为解决当时原子理学中最大问题之一的关键部分。

For Neil Cloud, atomic physicist, knew his lightning, and he was taking no chances whatever with the safety of his lovely wife and their three wonderful kids.

对于尼尔·克劳德这位原子理学家来说， 他对闪电了如指掌，绝不会在心爱的妻子和三个可爱的孩子安全问题上冒任何风险。

They're all following a path pioneered by the National Ignition Facility, or NIF, an American government project to study the physics of atomic weapons.

他们都在沿着国家点火装置 (National Ignition Facility, NIF) 开创的道路前进，NIF 是美国政府研究原子武器理学的一个项目。

Using her knowledge of atomic physics, she determined the abundances of 18 elements found in the spectra of many different stars.

利她在原子理学方面的知识，她确定了在许多不同恒星光谱中发现的18种元素的丰度。

Catherine Klauss, an atomic physicist and science writer, compares that process to cleaning up a messy desk.

凯瑟琳·克拉乌斯， 一位原子理学家和科学家，将这个过程比整理杂乱的书桌。

Well, atomic physicist Julian Krauth with the Max Planck Institute says these sorts of measurements can help refine our most basic ideas about how atoms work—like the theory of quantum electrodynamics.

好吧，马克斯·普朗克研究所的原子理学家朱利安·克拉特说， 这类测量可以帮助完善我们关于原子工原理的基本概念， 比如量子电动力学理论。

And that is how Storm Cloud, atomic physicist, became the most narrowly specialized specialist in all the annals of science.

于是，原子理学家斯托姆·克劳德便成为了科学史上专攻领域最为狭窄的专家。

The reason is that atomic and nuclear physics is one of the great achievements of our age.

原因是原子和核理学是我们这个时代的伟大成就之一。

And now, Neil Cloud, atomic physicist, sat at his desk in a strained, dull apathy.

此刻，原子理学家尼尔·克劳德坐在桌前，陷入了紧张而麻木的漠然之中。

And to Neil Cloud, atomic physicist sitting there at his desk in torn, despairing abstraction with black maggots of thought gnawing holes in his brain, the catastrophe was doubly galling because of its cruel irony.

对于尼尔·克劳德这位原子理学家而言， 这场灾难因其残酷的讽刺而倍感苦涩。 他正坐在破旧的书桌前，陷入绝望的沉思， 脑海中如黑色蛆虫般的思绪不断啃噬着他的理智。 而更令他痛苦的是，他竟是原子研究实验室中仅次于顶层的人。

How he became Storm Cloud, Vortex Blaster, the galaxy's only Vortex Blaster.

这便是斯托姆·克劳德，原子理学家，如何成为科学史上最为专精的专家。他如何蜕变为斯托姆·克劳德，旋涡破坏者，银河系中独一无二的旋涡破坏者。