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Nobel Prize in Physics: Seeing the Light

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the for-people-smarter-than-me dept.

lidden writes "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2005 has been awarded Roy J. Glauber "for his contribution to the quantum theory of optical coherence". And John L. Hall and Theodor W. Hänsch "for their contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique"."

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  1. Subject by GET+THE+FACTS! · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. A bit slow on the uptake here... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's pretty sad when Slashdot is scooped on announcing the Nobel Prize in Physics by news.com, sci.physics, and any number of mainstream news outlets aggregated in Google news...

  3. we need to hear this but we don't need to hear it by Philip+K+Dickhead · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    And in the "we need to hear this but we don't need to hear it from you" department, Barbra Streisand told Diane Sawyer, "We are in a global warming emergency state, and these storms are going to become more frequent, more intense." She was promoting a record with Barry Gibb.


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  4. /. translation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    More pr0n in less time!

    I think we all can agree, these guys really deserved the price.

  5. Yeah?! So what! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I bet I get more chicks on a bad weekend than this guy has ever gotten in his whole life!

  6. This is old news - laser spectroscopy proves it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is really old news. Djorksky theorized in 1994 that a quantum shift of hydrogen plasma generated infrared light. The comb technique itself is useless for laser-based precision spectroscopy, as the dynamic shift of light frequencies exceeds the tolerance of the resultant vectoring.

    To think that the ambiguity of light frequencies can be overcome with this method is ludicrous! I have been analyzing light spectroscopy data for years and it just does not work. Of course, variable-emission light sources *appear* symmetrical, but we all know that is nonsense. Of course, bandwidth can be increased with this method under the Plausen principle.

    Nothing new in this article. Move on.

  7. Ze blinkenlights!!!! by Mastadex · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    nuf said.

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  9. Go JILA! by TheMatt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    As a grad student currently at JILA I'd like to say "Congratulations" to Jan Hall for his work on the frequency comb. It's been a good ride for JILA during my * ahem * years of graduate work here. Three Nobels (among many other awards) for Hall, Wieman, and Cornell, and even more accolades for Debbie Jin, Kapteyn and Murnane... It's been an honor to be able to talk, heck, be in the same building with these people.

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