Wind blowing across the ocean accelerates water particles near the surface, leading to the growth of ripples that become waves.

风吹拂海面，加速了海面附近的水粒子，导致波纹的扩大，形成海浪。

High-energy physicists accelerate sub-nuclear particles to near the speed of light.

高能物理学家将亚核粒子加速到接近光速。

By accelerating particles to extremely high speeds and smashing them into each other, we can break them into their constituent parts ever so briefly.

通过将粒子加速到极高的速度并将它们相互撞击，我们可以非常短暂地将它们分解成它们的组成部分。

At the Large Hadron Collider, we accelerate particles to speeds very close to the speed of light such that they smash into each other and release enormous amounts of energy.

在大型强子对撞机中，我们将粒子加速到非常接近光速的速度，这样它们就会相互碰撞并释放出巨大的能量。

But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System—and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.

但是一台强大到足以将粒子加速到大统一能量的机器必须和太阳系一样大——而且在目前的经济环境下不太可能得到资助。