据《观察家》杂志报道,欧洲的科学家将获得观察生命分子活动的有力武器,那就是在法国Grenoble刚建成的世界最大的粒子加速器。有了它,科学家们可以连续拍摄分子活动的照片,拍照速度能达每微秒一次,可将酶在活细胞中引起化学反应的过程完全拍摄下来。生物学家便可借此深入研究人体免疫系统,从而研究出防治艾滋病的新方法。 这台粒子加速器叫欧洲同步加速射线装置(ESRF),有体育馆那样大,它产生类似激光的极细的高强度光束,光速的压力可达200万个大气压,这样的高压操作是世界上任何其它的加速器都达不到的。不同于激光之处在于:它可以发 According to Observer magazine, scientists in Europe will get a powerful weapon to observe the activities of life-stuffs, the largest particle accelerator just built in Grenoble, France. With it, scientists can take pictures of molecular activities in a row, taking pictures at speeds of up to once every microsecond, capturing the entire spectrum of enzymes that cause chemical reactions in living cells. Biologists can take this in-depth study of the human immune system, in order to study a new way to combat AIDS. This particle accelerator, called the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), is as large as a gymnasium and produces extremely laser-like, intense high-intensity light at pressures up to 2 million atmospheres of light. Such high-pressure operation is the result of any other The accelerator can not reach. Different from the laser is that it can be made