npub10l88929ze7h5h7g7pu7y0e0077c03zqtp9zk63zpx4gg7m2ypcnq8eath2 (npub10l8…ath2) - I don't really care much who wins Nobel prizes, but yes a lot of my favorite physicists never won Nobels. Heck, Einstein didn't win one for special relativity, and he didn't win one for general relativity - just one for understanding photons, which is fine as far as it goes.
Btw, actually the point of LIGO was not to test our theory of gravitational waves: that would be a lot of money to check something we all believed in. The real point was to revolutionize astronomy by creating a new kind of telescope: we've seen a lot of unexpected things, like lots of black holes of masses 30-60 times the Sun, and we don't know where they came from.
John Carlos Baez /
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2024-10-09 01:06:31
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