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LOL
How does that old adage go? I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy? Cool!Originally posted by C Elegans:
<STRONG>@Ysh: LOL
Here's the laureates in Physics, 3 guys who have achived the Bose-Einstein condensation in gases
[url="http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/2001/press.html"]http://www.nobel.se/physics/laureates/2001/press.html[/url]</STRONG>
I remember reading about that in...Scientific American, I think it was. Either SciAm, PopSci, or Discover. I can't remember which. Originally posted by Shadow Sandrock:
<STRONG>BTW a twenty is a $20.00 bill, equivalent to twenty dollars, two thousand pennies.
"I'm sorry we can't accept you on this job..."
*pulls a fifty*
"I'm sorry but we really can't..."
*pulls a twenty*
">=) Welcome to the job",</STRONG>
Now you only need some votes...this year, I think some 140 people were nominated, some Norweigan MP nominated Fidel CastroOriginally posted by Kayless:
<STRONG>See? With Aegis putting in a good word for me (and maybe slipping some 20s) I?m a shoe in! (Finally, it's all coming up Kayless! MUWHAHAHAHA!!)
Someone else nominated a football player. Yes, SEK = Swedish KronaOriginally posted by McBane:
<STRONG>The prize amount was listed "SEK 10 million".
Is that swedish currency?</STRONG>
Maybe Knowles can't feed himselfOriginally posted by McBane:
<STRONG>One of the winners is 84 years old.
I hope I have the mental capacity to feed myself at 84!
The pioneer work he is awarded for was first done in the late 1960's. It's often like this, you might not know how important a scientific discovery is when it happens, only later research show what impact it has. Thus, it may take many years before the implications of a discovery is understood. But when you and I are 84, at least we most certainly won't have to fear Alzheimer. Hey CE, $950 000 is actually a lot of money... even if it's divided...Originally posted by C Elegans:
<STRONG>Yes, SEK = Swedish Krona
10 million SEK equals about 950 000 $US.
It's of course a small sum of money in the context, but getting the Nobel prize means a lot not only as acknowledgement, it also means you won't have any more trouble funding your research in the future
Sure it's a lot of money! I meant small in the context of what research of the type that most people get Nobel prizes for costs...Originally posted by Aegis:
<STRONG>Hey CE, $950 000 is actually a lot of money... even if it's divided...</STRONG>
And this is why I must become rich. I plan on doing as much of my research as I can on my own without relying on government grants and such.Originally posted by C Elegans:
<STRONG>Sure it's a lot of money! I meant small in the context of what research of the type that most people get Nobel prizes for costs...
I work in a comparatively small lab, we are about 35 people specialised in different areas. Our old lab cost about $8 millions, and the new equipment we installed during this year, cost about $2.5 million.
Do you remember last years Physics prize winners, the semiconduction guys? Now, a lab where you can perform the kind of research they had done, would need equipment for like $500 millions.
And they you all the running expenses. Research is very expensive
I recently read somewhere that the cost of a linear collsion high energy particle accelerator would be about $6 billion.Originally posted by Sailor Saturn:
<STRONG>And this is why I must become rich. I plan on doing as much of my research as I can on my own without relying on government grants and such.</STRONG>
</STRONG>posted by Aegis:
<STRONG>I want to be rich too, just not have to work for it... in other words, my dad better get working hard!
I dunno... bill Gates... Microsoft... hmm... I think It'd be better if I earned it...Originally posted by C Elegans:
<STRONG>I recently read somewhere that the cost of a linear collsion high energy particle accelerator would be about $6 billion.
I don't know how much the new CERN LHC will be, but it's said to be in a similar region.
Detection of the Higgs boson and other, unknown particles that are believed to occur when matter and antimatter collide, is an expensive business. But it's most probably the only way to go if we want to understand what happened during the Big Bang (or rather, the nanoseconds after) and if we want to unify the 4 forces.
What a pity we can't collide electrons and positrons at home in the kitchen
</STRONG>posted by Aegis:
[qb]I want to be rich too, just not have to work for it... in other words, my dad better get working hard!
I see only one solution to your and SS common problem - marry Bill Gates
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