"I think I put my money on the Law of Conservation of Energy.

"我赌能量守恒定律是对的
I would postulate that

我假设
some other tiny particles that you guys cannot see,

有某种肉眼看不到的小质点
that's carrying away all the missing energy."

是它们带走了所有损失的能量"
That was a very radical thing to do in those days

这在当时是个非常激进的观点
when people did not lightly postulate new particles.

那时人们不轻易假设新粒子的存在
Nowadays, if you don't postulate a particle

若放在当今你不假设存在新的粒子
you don't get your PhD in particle physics .

你就拿不到粒子物理的博士学位
In those days it was very radical,

但在那时这是很激进的
and the particle was not seen for many, many years.

泡利说的这种粒子很多年都没有被发现
It was called a neutrino.

人们称它为中微子
Nowadays, neutrinos are one of the most exciting things one could study.

当今社会中微子是最热门的研究之一