What is the zeptoverse? 什么是 “仄米尺度宇宙”？

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What is the zeptoverse?

什么是 “仄米尺度宇宙”？

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Pallab Ghosh, BBC correspondent
To find out more about this research, we need to shrink ourselves right down to smaller than an ant – past cells, past DNA, down the size of an atom.

帕拉布·戈什 BBC 通讯员
为了进一步了解这项研究，我们需要把自己不断缩小到比蚂蚁还小——越过细胞，越过DNA，一直缩小到一个原子的大小。

But we're not here yet, not even close. We need to be 100 billion times smaller. So let's keep going.

但我们还没到那个尺度，甚至还差得很远。我们还需要再缩小到现在的一千亿分之一，所以我们还要继续缩小。

Past electrons and protons, past even some of the very smallest of all subatomic particles called quarks.

越过电子和质子，甚至越过一些最微小的亚原子粒子，也就是夸克。

We find ourselves in what scientists call the zeptoverse, a billion trillionth of a metre.

我们来到了科学家所说的 “仄米尺度宇宙”，其尺度为一仄米，也就是十万亿亿分之一米。

Now it's here that something really weird happens, that dark matter particles and things we haven't even discovered yet might interact with quarks.

正是在这里，会发生一些很奇特的事情：暗物质粒子以及一些我们尚未发现的物质，可能会与夸克发生相互作用。

And by studying these interactions, physicists hope that they can work out the true nature of these particles and so develop a new, more complete theory of how the Universe works.

通过研究这些相互作用，物理学家们希望弄清这些粒子的真实本质，并据此建立一个全新的且更加完整的理论，来解释宇宙如何运作。