Dr. Cooper. Of course the answer is 130 attoseconds. That is correct. I knew that, too.

库泊博士。当然答案是130渺秒。正确。我也知道。

And of course the answer is 130 attoseconds.

毫无疑问 答案是130百亿亿分之一秒。

Yes, I'm trying to figure out the nanometer and the attosecond, precisely where and when an event of awareness takes place.

是的，我正在试着精确地找出意识发生的那一纳米那一原秒，1原秒为10^18秒，或1/1000飞秒。

Electrons, for instance, orbit their parent atoms fast enough that they change position on attosecond timescales.

例如，电子绕其母原子运行的速度足够快，以至于它们可以在阿秒时间尺度上改变位置。

Nowadays scientists have managed to shorten the pulses of light even further, down to dozens of attoseconds.

如今， 科学家们已经成功地进一步缩短光脉冲，低至几十阿秒。

But actually, with attosecond science, we have now a tool which basically allows to develop models that simplify the description of these complex systems.

但实际上，有了阿秒科学，我们现在有了一个工具，基本上可以开发模型来简化这些复杂系统的描述。

Just very briefly, these attosecond pulses allow us to visualise chemistry in action, they allow us to see things at the timescale of the electron.

简单地说，这些阿秒脉冲让我们看到化学的作用，它们让我们看到电子时间尺度上的东西。

It was awarded for the development of ultra-fast lasers that can switch on and off in mere attoseconds, or quintillionths of a second.

该奖项因开发了超快激光器而获奖，该激光器可以在短短阿秒（或十亿分之一秒）内打开和关闭。

At around the same time, Dr Krausz, working independently in Vienna, managed to produce a series of pulses lasting for 650 attoseconds each.

大约在同一时间， 克劳斯博士在维也纳独立工作，成功地产生了一系列脉冲， 每个脉冲持续 650 阿秒。

All the experiments showed that it would be possible one day to observe an image captured in an extremely small fraction of a second, known as an attosecond.

所有的实验都表明，总有一天，我们有可能捕捉到电子在几分之一秒（即阿秒）内的运动图像。

And sometimes, if the light waves interacted in just the right way, they produced pulses of ultraviolet light that lasted for just a few hundred attoseconds.

有时， 如果光波以正确的方式相互作用，它们就会产生持续几百阿秒的紫外线脉冲。

That is a unit of time so short that there are as many attoseconds in a second as there have been seconds since the Big Bang, 13.8bn years ago.

这是一个非常短的时间单位，一秒内的阿秒数与 138 亿年前大爆炸以来的秒数一样多。

Before attosecond light was available, scientists could only talk about the probability that an electron might be in a particular place at a particular time.

在阿秒光出现之前，科学家只能谈论电子在特定时间处于特定位置的概率。

Attosecond pulses of light might one day help to create ultra-fast electronics, in which a semiconductor is prodded to switch between its insulating and conducting states far faster than it can today.

阿秒光脉冲有一天可能有助于创造超高速电子产品，其中半导体被促使在绝缘状态和导电状态之间切换的速度比今天快得多。

In 2001 Dr Agostini, also working in France, built Dr L'Huillier's observation into a workable piece of technology, designing a way to produce a series of pulses of light that lasted for 250 attoseconds each.

2001 年，同样在法国工作的 Agostini 博士将 L'Huillier 博士的观察结果转化为一项可行的技术，设计了一种产生一系列光脉冲的方法，每个脉冲持续 250 阿秒。