Okay, so we saw last time that Lewis wasn't so dumb.

我们知道路易斯并不愚蠢
He knew about Earnshaw's theorem, but he still thought

他知道恩绍定理但他仍认为
there was an octet of electrons around the nucleus.

原子核周围有八个电子
How could he think such a thing?

他为什么会这么想呢
Because if you have inverse-square force laws

因为根据平方反比定律
you can't have static positions of charged things,

你无法得到带电物体的静态位置
unless they're right on top of one another or blown apart.

除非它们正处于极点或者正要分离开
So what did he think?

那么他是怎么想的呢
It's not an inverse-square.

这不是平方反比
That it's not an inverse-square force law,

这不是一个平方反比力
that Coulomb's law breaks down when you get to a very small scale.

在极小的范围内库仑力并不适用
And J.J. Thomson thought the same thing,

汤姆森也是这么想的