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FromFirstPrinciples podcast a new interesting YouTube channel about science news predicts : Michael Berry and Yakir Aharonov for Aharonov-Bohm effect and geometric phases Binning and Gerber for atomic force miscroscope (To be edited later)

QuantumFracture a Spanish popular physics channel predicts: Allan McDonalds, Pablo Jarrillo-Herrero, Rafi Bistritzer for graphene magic angle Ignacio Cirac, Peter Zoller, David Deutsch for quantum computing stuff

Wolf Prize 2026 I was not expecting this that soon but Wolf Prize was just announced. The winners are * Immanuel F. Bloch and Jun Ye for ultracold atom lattices and optical lattice clocks

Science recently published an article on 5 achievement that should have won a Nobel prize. They predict that the following could still win an award: * Claudio Pellegrini for the free electron laser. * John Ellis and Sau Lan Wu for the discovery of gluons Article here...

Physics World predictions 2026 As usual Physics World editor Hamish Johnston provided his predictions for this year: Jeffrey Hangst and other physicists from CERN collaborations on anti-hydrogen experiments Some researchers involved in quark-gluon plasma Federico Capasso and John Pendry for...

According to this survey by The Scientist, a researcher from Imperial College London believes Pendry should win the Nobel Prize in physics. For other categories, see article: https://www.the-scientist.com/who-will-win-the-2026-nobel-prize-scientists-make-their-predictions-75076

Nature’s piece on if AI could win a Nobel Prize some day: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03223-0?utm_source=x&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nature&linkId=63887881

It is going to be interesting if Spaldin will make it, she cites Dzyaloshinskii for multiferroics early history, he is alive and known for Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction, so he is clearly worth the prize too. But I wonder if the Academy wants to still give Nobel Prize to Russians.

Clarivate Citation laureates in Physics 2026 Clarivate Citation laureates list for possible Nobel laureates from this year is already out, check it out here: https://clarivate.com/citation-laureates/physics/ The laureates are: Chihaya Adachi, Stephen R. Forrest and Mark E. Thompson "for...

Jacqueline Bloch just won the CNRS Gold Medal (French highest award in science) for her work on polariton condensates. She might also be a candidate, though I don't know what did she do or if they are other people that have priority over this, specifically. Article here: Jacqueline Bloch...

Nobel statements usually are ambiguous, don't worry.

MDPI just launched a contest for people to predict the Nobel Prize 2026: Prediction of the 2026 Nobel Laureates and win 100 CHF voucher for the MDPI Video Service. Note that MDPI is noted for its lack of rigor and predatory practices (according to Wikipedia).

What about energy

This is not surprising. You must know at least that in general relativity, gravitational potentials change the passage of time, so a light ray changing frequency and thus energy is kind of normal. Also gravitational potentials can make light curve. None of this suggests anything related to light...

Aharonov has been a favorite since at least 2009, now he is 94