[tumblewit]

The most fascinating physics nobel prize for me in recent times was for gravitational wave detection using LIGO. I spent days learning and watching videos of the three of them. The ingenuity of the detector is fascinating and the fact that every year they simply got closer but ‘not there yet’ and the fact that it took more than two decades says that the goal was probably secondary but they enjoyed the journey far more. Of course they would have hoped to see the waves be detected in their lifetime but for Kip Thorne it was 50 years from the start. Most of the stories behind Nobel prize winners are mind boggling.