And he knew every inch of it.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

If you took a 15 inch artillery shell moving at the velocity it typically goes at, and take that amount of kinetic energy versus the resistive capacity of a sheet of tissue paper, that's the scale that we're looking at here.

如果你有1个15英寸的炮弹,按照经典的速度移动，会消耗大量的动能,抵抗来自于一张薄纸的阻力，这就是我们在这儿看到的尺度。

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And he gave a very good analogy in saying, "It was almost as incredible as if you'd fired a 15 inch shell at a piece of tissue paper, and it came back and hit you."

他还打过一个很好的比方：,“这就像是,你用个15英寸果壳,打到面巾纸上被弹回来打到你，一样不可思议，“

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"What we were able to find was that within a centimeter, around less than an inch,certainly, and probably half an inch, there were different regions perhaps they overlap some but they were doing, at different times, different processes, all within this small area,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

They are a function of the instant atomic arrangement, how we arrange the atoms: same composition, simple example, one inch thick pine board, one inch thick plywood.

那是即时的原子排序,的功能，我们如何排序原子，同样的成分，简单的例子，一英寸厚的松木板，一英寸厚的胶合板。

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Both made of pine; both one inch thick.

都是由松木做成的，都是一英寸厚。

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