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Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by belinder »

urthor wrote: post #33
noobermin wrote: post #31

There is some nice sweet irony here. Very marginal inside baseball. I know of one of the recipients although indirectly. I felt like their group was kept around their university physics dept because they were known to be good in that field, while generally their colleagues were generally not respected as their physics (which was derisively deemed "AMO" as if it were an epithet) was not seen as "fundamental" enough by…

Academic politics is something else. I thought for awhile those guys got lucky and skip office politics. Then I realize that PhD level IQs + pressure to get into the fancy journals means that the politics is 古典小說 tier.

If academic is all politics and favoritism then wouldn't that also apply to the prizes at the top? The people deciding or at least confirming scientific breakthroughs for stuff like nobel prizes must be scientists too, no? So if it's all politics, why are they immune to it?

Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by dogben »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #60
daniel-s wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Chinese translates to, "classical novels," according to Google.

I'm a native Chinese speaker but I have no idea what OP means by "古典小說 tier".

武侠小说 may be more appropriate.

Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by wiredfool »

mongol wrote: post #19
solarist wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like using flash when photographing, with these ultra short pulses one could see how electrons move inside atoms and molecules.

You will need a really low f-stop if the exposure is one attosecond

No, you just need an intense flash.

Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by huytersd »

sebstefan wrote: post #29
thrownawaysz wrote: post #16

Hungary 2 in 2 so far

I was going to say the same for France Same as you though, does it really matter if we can't fucking keep them working in our universities...

It doesn’t matter. These things help all of humanity.

Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by tialaramex »

throw310822 wrote: post #47
sidkshatriya wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While some teams confirmed superconductity in LK99 other teams got a negative result. The consensus amongst the solid-state community at the moment is the LK99 is NOT superconductive at room temperature. How is that possible ? There are often many effects at play in Physics. Certain phenomena can be explained in other ways. There are often measurement issues, modelling issues and a haste to say "me too" as prestige a…

Sometimes I muse that it's the belief of the experimenters themselves that can briefly coerce the world into behaving in a certain way... something quantum many worlds... something something. :)

This is the idea that Schrödinger was attempting to ridicule in his cat thought experiment. The intent is that this idea is intuitively ludicrous. Unfortunately pop culture got hold of it and now, well, "Ooh quantum stuff, put cats everywhere" ...

On the other hand, Greg Egan did a couple of short stories about what if the underlying mathematics (which necessarily governs our universe) is altered when we "discover" weird things about it and this binds us to other universes sharing that mathematics, so we can't go there, and they can't come here, but if they discover something weird about the relationship between Pi and set theory that becomes true here even though we haven't "discovered" that, and if they can choose to discover something different, that is true instead.

Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by onychomys »

tpmx wrote: post #42
solarist wrote: post #8

L’Huillier, who became the fifth woman to win the physics prize, was teaching when she received the call from the committee, having the advantage of being in the same time zone as the committee. (On a side note, Bing chat already knows now that she won the prize. Color me impressed.)

Photo from that lecture at Lund University, Sweden: https://twitter.com/lantisfjantis/status/1709146065985777767 This year's Nobel laureate in physics lectures us after (!!) being notified of her win!!

Seems like maybe the university could spring for a laser pointer instead of a long stick.

Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by act_of_dog »

seanhunter wrote: post #54
urthor wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Academic politics is something else. I thought for awhile those guys got lucky and skip office politics. Then I realize that PhD level IQs + pressure to get into the fancy journals means that the politics is 古典小說 tier.

> Academic politics is something else. There is a famous formulation of this known as Sayre's law[1], which is often stated via the quote "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake. That is why academic politics are so bitter," which wikipedia attributes to Charles Philip Issawi. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law

Link didn't work because of the apostrophe. Here's a fixed link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law

Re: Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier

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Post by boringg »

daoboy wrote: post #38

An attosecond is to a second what a second is to the age of the universe.

I thought you were being glib but no: "An attosecond is so short that that the number of them in one second is the same as the number of seconds that have elapsed since the universe came into existence, 13.8 billion years ago. On a more relatable scale, we can imagine a fash of light being sent from one end of a room to the opposite wall – this takes ten billion attoseconds."

That's truly amazing that we can measure at that detail. Mind blowing actually.

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