Oookay, found the physics laureates for LIGO, fan-girled, shook hands, thrilled. /curtains
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Soo fangirling the LIGO team continues! I got to ask Kip Thorne how it felt to have succeeded in something seemingly implausible. He said “I had the great fortune of being attached to a superb team.” Such humility and team work in top scientists is both so real and not uncommon.
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I think I’ll go down in Nobel history as “that LIGO groupie”, which is *totally* fine with me, but just for the record, I swear, I was very polite. :-)
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Leaving Stockholm! I think, maybe, just maybe, I spot another member of the LIGO laureate team on the same plane from the corner of my eye—I won’t bug him, I promise—but this has been so thrilling! I’ve had the biggest fangirl week of my life, I think.
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Replying to @zeynep
Oh, I meant it positively. To be able to measure something that incredible small, much smaller than a proton. That is, like, the coolest thing ever!
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Replying to @zeynep
In my mind a greater achievement than the moon landings.
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Replying to @tsvenson
The whole thing, right? The theory, the twists, the practical issues, raising that kind of funding, and you finally build the new thing, and, suddenly, all of a sudden... Boom.
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Also gravity is so weird. I find it more fascinating, almost weirder, than all the quantum stuff, tbh.
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Replying to @zeynep
It sure is weird, as it has no known opposite force.
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