John Carlos Baez on Nostr: npub10l889…eath2 - You mean like LIGO's detection of gravitational waves? The ...
npub10l88929ze7h5h7g7pu7y0e0077c03zqtp9zk63zpx4gg7m2ypcnq8eath2 (npub10l8…ath2) - You mean like LIGO's detection of gravitational waves? The physics was worked out long before, and we all knew gravitational waves existed - Hulse and Taylor had already won the Nobel for that - so one could argue that all LIGO did was an (magnificent, awesome) application of physics. But apparently the Nobel committee thought that was fine.
Or how about the 1912 physics prize, to Gustaf Dalén, for "for his invention of automatic valves designed to be used in combination with gas accumulators in lighthouses and buoys"? 😆
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