4 topic areas that might earn somebody the most famous prize in science:
Quantum computing is a hot topic, maybe the biggest news-making area of physics in the last few years, thanks to big investments from traditional computing giants like Google, IBM, and Microsoft. It would provide a nice news hook, and the Nobel folks aren’t immune to the draw of extra topicality.
There are a couple of different directions you could go with this: one would be to reward the theory side, where there are a wealth of ideas that have proven fruitful ; the other would be to recognize quantum experiments .There are no formal public criteria, but there’s a vague sense that the prizes rotate through different subfields, and don’t repeat too frequently.
This image made available by NASA shows an illustration of the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite . Scheduled for an April 2018 launch, the spacecraft will prowl for planets around the closest, brightest stars. These newfound worldsOver the last 30-ish years, astronomers have found planets around more than 3,000 other stars, by a couple of different methods. One approach uses the Doppler shift to detect the wobble of the star as it’s tugged on by the gravity of an orbiting planet.
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