Noble prize Definition and 13 Threads

First, I wrote about wanting to become a Noble Prize-winning theoretical physicist, and asked which books are best to achieve this goal. The post was deleted and I received a warning from Evo stating that no crackpot posts are allowed. Okay, fine, I won't write about any of my wild dreams...

Noble prize in QM for 2012 1. Would someone like to summarize the research and results? 2. how can single quantum particles be observed without destroying them? 3. how were they able to show both states at the same time? 4. were the two physicists entangled at 68?...;)

what is your opinion on the noble prize... i've always thought... that the best of the best... the best chemists in the world, the best physicist, the best economist etc... are awarded noble prizes... so in essence.. a noble laureate, is one of the best in that field in the world... but...

what is your opinion on these 2 guys?... why no noble prize for them?

My name is Joe Fiero. Ever since I was a little kid, I loved science, especially science fiction. Sliders, Back to the future, Star Trek. I never had a chance to get a degree in the things I loved the most because I came from a poor family... which has lead me to a path of self education and...

How important is Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov's graphene research? I don't know anything about it so...

Hi, I am a current college student who asks a lot of questions and I recently tried to tackle the mystery of the universe. I did a little research on my own and personally feel that the universe is like a bubble with many many many layers that are created for every possible outcome of an event...

Hawking radiation is almost certainly not going to win him a Nobel prize, because experimental detection is beyond our technology. But how about the singularity theorem which he and Roger Penrose proved? This theorem convinced the physics community that black hole would indeed form in realistic...

i heard it was becuase it was to over the heads of the Committee is this true?

Hi, I'm sorry if this is in the wrong forum. I've been interested in science for while a white, most notably theoretical physics. In the end, I decided to go for a degree in Computer Science, but haven't lost my interest in physics. With the introduction of CERN, I'd be interested if...

"personal fable" and reality there comes a point in life where one begins to think about life in a very serious way... and this is exactly what is happening in my mind. I have always wanted to do something great in my life. Amazed by many concepts and ingenuity in physics... I've decided...

Can some somebody explain the "Defined Chaose" for me?! [FONT=Comic Sans MS]i read from few days a journal for the professor Mohamed el Nasha'i(Eygptian living in England scientist) inwhich he enterd some modifications to the normal chaose theory and named it "the defiend chaose.. I found many...

I had became participant of PF since August 2002. My opinion and offers hereinafter. Say, how it looks from outside. I do not feel " I am inside". A reason is an enigmatic silence after my posts . I do not wonder the reaction of a schoolboy on a new ideas. They wait a "high opinion" and...