Sounds like a winner, especially if dipped in a good quality chocolate.
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Nice perspective on this
https://twitter.com/russelljkaplan/status/1684042014495592448?t=P1C-xiyq8EPU3-_atifMjw&s=19
The Committees decide who get the prizes though. Their decisions have been controversial sometimes, but they don’t seem bothered by that. They won’t be pushed around by people manipulating the authorship(s) of papers.
There’s a great line about Nobel in the Oppenheimer film
The 3-recipient limit seems bizarre in this age of multi-authored papers - any notion why they stick at that?
A fresh vista of cable foo awaits. Long live cable foo.
I want room temperature superconductor levitating cable lifters.
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£1 million pounds per winner?
Lack of premium parking spots at scientific institutions.
If it’s a condition specified in his will (I don’t know if it is) then it might be difficult to change. There is a set of 13 almshouses in the village of Ewelme near here, set up in the 1430’s by the de la Pole family. Quite recently the original structure was remodelled to include a bit more space in each almshouse so they could have bathrooms. This reduced the number of dwellings to 8. But the terms of the original funding charter specified that there would be 13. So they had to buy property in the village to provide another 5. A friend of mine who knows about these things said that changing the number might well have required the approval of the Privy Council and that they were very reluctant to grant such approval. Maybe things are as Byzantine in Sweden too ?
I think the Nobel prizes (the science ones, at least) are awarded for achievement rather than for publication. So they might cover everything from realising the importance of the problem, raising the funding for the work, forming any collaboration(s) necessary and managing the research teams, although actually doing the experiments and/or making the observations and/or having the insight to interpret the results (your own or other people’s) probably carry the most weight.
In areas like particle physics and astronomy and gravity waves the research these days is inherently large-scale, so deciding who should get the prize can be tough. Ask Jocelyn Bell Burnell. It is still possible for researchers in other areas to make huge individual contributions though. As I understand it Nakamura, who shared the 2014 physics prize for the blue LED, essentially completed the whole project at Nichia, working out of hours against the direct instruction of his bosses towards the end.
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Transformers and moving coils too, ohh and lossless electricity and a new antennae for my schumann hat.
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This whole room temperature superconductor thing is just hilarious.
https://twitter.com/8teAPi/status/1685960703658860544?t=XeUH0hBKwAdBBqYqLvrssw&s=19
Seems really similar to the palladium cold fusion thing. We shall see.
Could it be real?
https://twitter.com/lere0_0/status/1687728296727920640?t=QYQjXFt7V4-eQ-410GSNKQ&s=19
Unverified video from China, lots of westerners bleating that it’s all in Chinese, clearly going to be fake then 
- A whole new world
- Cold fusion
- Who cares?
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O Not cold fusion, because that was just wrong, but still the stuff’s physical properties (particularly the critical current density) make it all but useless
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It’s kinda good that it’s still too early to say, although that’s obviously a very boring choice!