Nobel Prize week day 2: Physics

[marywebgirl]

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The 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Alain Aspect, John Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger. Their affiliations are Université Paris-Saclay and École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France; J.F. Clauser & Assoc., Walnut Creek, CA, USA; and the University of Vienna, Austria

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[fauxkaren]

Congrats! (she says, as if she understands what any of this means)

[squirrels_oh_no]

I wish i could poat gifs on my phone easier because i really want to post the Goodburger gif of the "mhm...oh yeah... i understand some of these words."

Congrats to them.

[tanglespiders]

Good Burger GIFfrom Good GIFs

dammit! no one's giving me a nobel prize this week

(because of nepotism, of course)

[squirrels_oh_no]

Here's a Nobel for gif finding lol.

[angebleu]

I will never have a Nobel Prize of course, but my colleague and a professor from my school during grad school were 2 in 1000+ people that were part of the gravitational waves study (using LIGO) that Dr. Kip Thorne won the Nobel Prize for! So even if they call 3 people on stage, this is the work of thousands of people!

[slinkydinks]

Yeah, it's crazy to me how the Nobel hasn't shifted to awarding teams. Like, science just isn't done that way by one ~genius,~ not anymore and not for a long time.

[aleksie]

Yeah, that's part of what is frustrating about these things. Lots of people contributed and are so important.

[beysactingcoach]

Omg how cool! I love reading about quantum mechanics when I had to do a philosophy paper on it (hated the professor, loved the work lol). I’m just like in awe of physicists, I got to briefly work at Fermilab when dinosaurs roamed the earth lol but meeting some of them were amazing just so nice and very very very fucking smart so I got to hear about their preliminary work on the Higgs Boson.

Let me see if I can find a paper about their work, definitely want to read more

[angebleu]

I love Quantum Physics too! I made the switch from Aero Engineering to Physics for grad school and I loved it all. I should have been a Physics major (or Math major) since the beginning.

[januarysix]

The whole concept of entangled quantum states is so spooky

[fauxkaren]

lmao my understanding of quantum entanglement is limited to the probably totally fictional way that it is used in the Mass Effect video games.

[asnindie]

I read about if it's possible to quantum entangle two people and it would be fanfic heaven haha

[januarysix]

like the Reylo force bond, the Spirk mind link, lol yeah fanfic writers would love it.