The Cherenkov effect. Completely normal phenomenon.

切伦科夫效应 非常正常的现象。

Cherenkov detectors are big high-tech thingies full of water.

切伦科夫探测器是充满水的大型高科技设备。

Can you believe there was a time when we would have needed an array of giant Cherenkov telescopes to detect cosmic particles? And here we are building our own multi-wire detector like a couple of badasses.

你能相信曾几何时，人类得靠着巨大的切伦科夫望远镜阵列来探测宇宙射线粒子吗？而如今我们自己就可以构建多线探测器，简直霸气到炸啊。