OT: Electron-illuminating laser pulses honored with 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics

Nitt1300

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pretend for a moment that I don't know anything about metallurgy, engineering, or physics — and just tell me what the hell is going on.
 

LionJim

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pretend for a moment that I don't know anything about metallurgy, engineering, or physics — and just tell me what the hell is going on.
Really small-scale stuff. It’s quite remarkable, the whole thing. (I’m not up to speed by any stretch of the imagination, but there were some cue words.)

These people think differently. One story of Heisenberg is that he’s sitting with Pauli in a park, right outside a public indoor swimming pool. “We see people go in and come out wearing the exact same clothes. Why should we think that they change clothes inside the building?”