Spirits do not follow our physical laws.

灵魂既不遵循我们的自然法则。

It does so because the physical laws are different for different sized animals.

原因是，物理定律对不同大小的动物有不同的表现。

At different scales, the physical laws of the universe have different consequences for its inhabitants.

在不同的尺度上，宇宙的物理定律对其居民产生不同的影响。

Sensitivity to physical laws is thus an important consideration for the maker of applied-art objects.

实用工艺品的生产者会着重考虑这件工艺品对自然规律的敏感性。

Unchanging physical laws have limited the size and strength of buildings that can be made with materials discovered long ago.

因物理定律恒定不变，许多早已被发现的建筑材料限制了建筑的大小和有点。

Unlike building materials, the methods of support used in architecture have not changed over time because they are based on physical laws.

不像其它建筑材料，因利用物理定律为基础，此类支撑方法经久不衰。

Perhaps the most important breakthrough in understanding clouds was realizing that they are subject to the same physical laws as everything else on Earth.

人类在对云的认识上所取得的最大突破，应该是意识到云也遵循同一套物理定律，与其他在地球上的一切事物一样。

The law of gravitation, for example, is a physical law, while the law of association is a psychological law.

例如，万有引力定律是物理定律， 而联想定律是心理定律。

And because of a physical law called the Heisenberg Principle, these fields never stop oscillating, even without any particles to set off the ripples.

并且由于称为海森堡原理的物理定律，这些场永远不会停止振荡，即使没有任何粒子来引发涟漪。

But entities subject only to physical laws, or only to psychological laws, are not neutral, and may be called respectively purely material and purely mental.

。 但仅服从物理法则或仅服从心理法则的实体不是中性的， 可以分别称为纯物质的和纯精神的。

They make up a single, giant edifice obeying the same physical laws and all made from the same types of atoms, electrons, protons, quarks, neutrinos, that make up you and me.

它们组成了一个巨大的宏伟建筑物，所有的建筑物里的物质都遵循相同的物理定律，由相同的微粒组成，原子，电子，质子，夸克，中微子——那些形成了我们的微粒。

Now it was changed. It had ceased to be my childhood playground and had become its own reality, one whose physical laws were mysterious, hostile.

现在它变了，不再是我儿时的那个游乐场，而是回归现实，有着神秘莫测、充满敌意的物理定律。

So the same little physical law we can play with in the kitchen and use, also explains what makes possible some of the most advanced technology

因此， 我们可以在厨房里玩弄和使用同样的小物理定律，也解释了是什么使一些最先进的技术成为可能。

Pretty much just three things: spacetime, particles, and the physical laws that describe how spacetime and those particles interact to give rise to gravity and matter and forces and everything else.

空间、粒子以及描述空间和那些粒子如何相互作用，产生重力、物质、力和其他一切的物理定律。

But physicists want to be able to predict them through physical laws and equations as well as we can model the orbits of planets or electromagnetic fields.

但是物理学家希望能够通过物理定律和方程式来预测它们，就像我们可以模拟行星的轨道或电磁场一样。

You cannot understand the psychic reality that is the true impetus for your physical existence unless you first realize your own psychic reality, and independence from physical laws.

除非你首先意识到你自己的心理现实，并独立于物理法则，否则你无法理解作为你身体存在的真正动力的心理现实。

This theory of the phenomena we had witnessed seemed satisfactory to me; for however great and stupendous the phenomena of nature, fixed physical laws will or may always explain them.

我对我们所目睹的现象的这种理论似乎感到满意。因为无论自然现象多么伟大和惊人，固定的物理定律将或可能总是能够解释它们。

Any time traveler to the past who tried to change the past would be prevented by a physical law from making that change which means that in effect the time traveler would not have free will.

任何回到过去的时间旅行者如果想改变过去，都会被物理定律阻止，无法做出改变，这意味着时间旅行者实际上没有自由意志。

So, you might not want evolution to be true about the mind because you might believe that the mind is not subject to the same physical laws as the rest of the physical world.

因此，你可能不希望心灵的进化是正确的，因为你可能相信心灵并不像物理世界的其他部分那样受到相同的物理定律的约束。

For example, when you taught, you changed the names of many physical laws and constants: Ohm's law you called resistance law, Maxwell's equations you called electromagnetic equations, Planck's constant you called the quantum constant.

比如，你在教学的时候，把很多物理定律和常数改了名字：欧姆定律你叫电阻定律，麦克斯韦方程组你叫电磁方程，普朗克常数你叫量子常数。