Let me give you a sense of the timescale at work here.

让我来对所涉及的 时间标度做一下说明。

You know, I became really fascinated with temperature scale after I saw the original Celsius thermometer.

你知道，我变得迷上了温度标度在我看到原本的 摄氏温度计。

Weak bases, like sodium bicarbonate (baking soda), consume much less, and generally have pHs in the 8-11 range.

是中性的，所以7就在pH标度的中间。

Biologists call this the quarter-power scaling principle, for different sized animals, measures of metabolism scale in multiples of one-fourth.

生物学家称之为四分之一幂标度原，对于不同大小的动物，用四分之一的倍数来衡量代谢标度。

And - 4. breakthrough progress eventually arrives by an opposing approach based on scaling computation by search and learning.

还有——4. 最终的突来自于相反的基于探索和学习的标度计算方法。

And then in blue, it gives us the Pauling scale for electronegativity.

然后用蓝色给出了电负性的鲍林标度。

Now, I should point out that we're using the Pauling scale for electronegativity here.

现在，我应该指出我们这里使用的是鲍林标度来衡量电负性。

And there are several different scales for electronegativity.

而且有几种不同的电负性标度。

That might not sound like a lot, but decibels are on a logarithmic scale, like the Richter scale for earthquakes.

这听起来可能不是很多， 但分贝是对数标度，就像地震的里氏标度一样。

Strong bases meanwhile, like sodium hydroxide, consume large amounts of hydrogen ions leaving the concentration very low, so they 10d to have very high pHs.

那么pH，简单地表示为负的该浓度以10为底的对数，也就是7我的这个小伙伴，成为了pH标度的基础。

And this is usually represented by the nonlinear decibel scale, where a normal conversation is around 60 decibels and a rock concert is around 120 decibels.

这通常由非线性分贝标度表示，其中正常的对话约为 60 分贝，摇滚音乐会约为 120 分贝。

Around age 28, I became very interested in networks, and a few years later, we managed to publish a few key papers that reported the discovery of scale-free networks and really gave birth to a new discipline that we call network science today.

大约28岁的时候，我对网络很感兴趣，几年后，我们成功地发表了几重要论文，发表了无标度网络的发现，并真正催生了一门新学科，我们今天称之为网络科学。