Congrats To The Nobel Prize For Physics Winners......

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-54420240
It was a long time coming for Sir Roger, physics legend, well deserved.

[Zacs-Master]

Good to see the Eurovision politics doesn't exist in the world of academia. Well done Rog. Got part way thru The Emporer's New Mind and then my brain hurt.

[Lie-in King]

Well-deserved indeed :-)

[Peter Pedant]

eurovision politics - - it does ( exist )

well done Penrose and well done me for getting it right this time after yesterdays gaffe over vaccines
I checked

and why is there no Nobel for Maff ? Mrs Nobel was kissing the local maff fella behind the bike shed.
Pas de Nobel moolah for mathematicians
Yeah and Frau Nobel shrieked when she was found out - zad eez why you are called NoBel coz you haff no b---!
how crude and unEnglish - so unladylike

An Mme Curie - she pushed Pierre under a carriage actually he might have jumped because the local maff man LaGrange was slipping her a Lagrangian (*) every now and then. every day more like

a lagrangian is a matrix useful in advanced mechanics - where er fings move to and fro
too much detail

[Zacs-Master]

And the LaGrange point is summink in Star trek.

[Peter Pedant]

and why readers does each Nobel not get a knighthood from her maj?
about half turn it down
and the Mandarins who dole them out and covet these honours themselves dont like to hear 'no thanks'

Fred Hoyle was repeatedly turned down for a Nobel because he gave them a kicking for not including Jocelyn Bell Burnett in the prise for quasar discovery

and her contribution was - - - she discovered them and her supervisors got the Nobel

because they realised the importance ?
no - she had to tell them
it was because she was a woman

somewhat forgiving scientist who verged on the holy - "I havent had a bad career as the woman who ought to have got a Nobel"

[ToraToraTora]

PP, this is area is for grown ups, go and talk your drive somewhere else.

[ToraToraTora]

* drivel

[Peter Pedant]

is dat the zero gravity point in a collection of planets?

[Zacs-Master]

It is. There are 5 of them tho, so it's 'points'.

[Peter Pedant]

and in the 'drivel' I have managed to name

The founder ( er Nobel that is!) Mme Curie ( first winner before her PhD actually - counts two )
Pierre her husband another nobel

two unnamed thesis supervisors who got a nobel for quasars - Hewish and Ryle

so that is five
and two also rans - Hoyle and Bell

gold plated drivel I say!

oh and TTT - yes you squeezed out - - one

[Zacs-Master]

And not necessarily planets.

[Peter Pedant]

Come on TTT admit it
you hadnt heard of any of three involved in quasars until I named them

[ToraToraTora]

Legrange points are not fictional, they are a well known thing in astronomy.

[Zacs-Master]

I never said they were fictional.

[ToraToraTora]

I never read your tish me old china.

[drmorgans]

Penrose shares the prize with Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, only the fourth woman to win the physics prize.

[ToraToraTora]

ZM; "And the LaGrange point is summink in Star trek. " - Star Trek is sort of fictional isn't it??

[ToraToraTora]

my 15;38 post was to PP, but I expect most of you know that.

[Peter Pedant]

fictional? - none of this is fiction TTT
it is science fact !

in fact lagrange points will exist in any suitable collection of objaaaayz obeying an inverse square law innit?
( electrostatics, electromagnetics)
so it is a fact of life of a field and not of an object or physical phenomenon

Jim - where are you?

[Zacs-Master]

Indeed, Star Trek is fictional. Star Trek being fictional and Lagrange points actually existing aren't mutually exclusive.