A paper in Physical Review Letters, however, reports a more prosaic application.
然而,一篇发表在物理评论快报上的文章,讲述了狭义相对论更为一般的应用。
According to the calculations of PekkaPyykko of the University of Helsinki and his colleagues, the familiar lead-acid battery that sitsunder a car s bonnet and provides the oomph to get the engine turning owes its ability to doso to special relativity.
根据赫尔辛基大学的Pekka Pyykko和他同事们的计算,我们所熟悉的在汽车发动机罩下,给汽车引擎发动提供能量的铅酸电池,它之所以有这样的能力都归功于狭义相对论。
Relative values
相对的价值
The lead-acid battery is one of the triumphs of 19th-century technology.
铅酸电池是19世纪技术发展的产物之一。
It was invented in 1860 and is still going strong.
它于1860年发明,迄今为止仍然具有很强的实用性。
Superficially, its mechanism is well understood. Indeed, it is the stuff of high-schoolchemistry books.
表面上,其机制为人熟知这些都是高中化学课本上的东西
But Dr Pyykko realised that there was a problem.
但Pyykko博士发觉了哪里不对劲。
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