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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 VHRanger »

seabass-labrax wrote: post #70
ovi256 wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Chinese_Novels They're about court life and conflict, so of course they're full of court politics and intrigue

I'm really intrigued, but I can't read Chinese (yet!) - would you be able to tell me in which person these are written?

As an anglophone, I really enjoyed the Water Margin podcast [1] which is a tranlastion of one of the great classics in full length, and with appropriate explanations for contemporarty cultural context.

1. http://www.outlawsofthemarsh.com/

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

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Post by leemailll »

SiempreViernes wrote: post #53
tpmx wrote: post #42

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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!!

I like how lantisfjantis then goes on to report he's astounded that she turned off her phone for the remaining half of the lecture. Like no shit, you try to carry on a lecture while like 20 different journalists try to call you! The youth of today! ;)

maybe she turn on her phone just for the call to come, then back to normal

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

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Post by xxs »

act_of_dog wrote: post #79
seanhunter wrote: post #54

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> 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

posting a mobile link? the original one is fine too, aside using 1-based indexing

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

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Post by xxs »

sidcool wrote: post #52
daoboy wrote: post #38

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

How the hell do they do it! I can't even reduce 100 ms latency from my API calls.

I know it's said in a jest. 100ms overall is extra high (not just reduce).

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

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by spacemadness »

sidcool wrote: post #52
daoboy wrote: post #38

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

How the hell do they do it! I can't even reduce 100 ms latency from my API calls.

Superimposing light waves at various frequencies—-similar to how some sound canceling headphones work with sound waves, where sounds cancel if of different phases—where the top of one wave starts at the same time the bottom of the second wave does. It does this by creating overtones when the light hits a gas. It’s not just turning on light and turning it off again like a switch. Maybe try superimposing your API calls.

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

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Post by SiempreViernes »

leemailll wrote: post #92
SiempreViernes wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like how lantisfjantis then goes on to report he's astounded that she turned off her phone for the remaining half of the lecture. Like no shit, you try to carry on a lecture while like 20 different journalists try to call you! The youth of today! ;)

maybe she turn on her phone just for the call to come, then back to normal

Yeah, she had it "off" for the lecture and turned it on during the break, which is when they reached her (in Sweden course lectures are almost always divided into several 45 min blocks, with a break in between each block).

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

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Post by SiempreViernes »

mingusrude wrote: post #55
tpmx wrote: post #42

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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!!

My son was also in this class and there is a video of when they applaud her and she tries to continue with the lesson.

Is it up in public anywhere decent, or are the kids just putting it on tiktok, snapchat et al?

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

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Post by jacquesm »

pas wrote: post #82
onychomys wrote: post #78

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

They tried, but the dot was only visible for a fraction of a second ...

Hehe, ok, just this once then :)
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