The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017

Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by physicsnerd on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:04AM (#15391313)

This has great implications for blockchain. The interferometer is basically a blockchain at it's core. The trust circle it generates enables physicist to investigate bigger and bigger beams. Very excited!

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by StavrosK on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:14AM (#15391345)

I am entirely unsure whether you're joking.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by fsck--off on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:28AM (#15391395)

The account is 25 minutes old, so I would assume so

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by BasDirks on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:41AM (#15391450)

And as we all know, after 25 minutes of exposure to HN, one loses any and all sense of humor.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by SimbaOnSteroids on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @08:38AM (#15391961)

Dear lord, do the Germans know we're encroaching on their turf?

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by davrosthedalek on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @09:55AM (#15392408)

As a German, I don't find this funny.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by StavrosK on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:04PM (#15393940)

That joke was so self-referential my brain short-circuited, well done.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by samfriedman on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @08:01AM (#15391786)

Gravitational waves are just the universe trying to get us to buy into its ICO.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by rjromero on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:20AM (#15391363)

Funniest post I’ve ever read on HN. Bursted out laughing.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by pducks32 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:46AM (#15391464)

This is the most 2017 thing to ever be said.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by pducks32 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:49AM (#15391474)

Is there some way this ties into Rick and Morty?

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by Ygg2 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:42AM (#15391700)

Yes. Rick is a poor scientist.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by IncRnd on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:19AM (#15391359)

Surely, You're Joking, Mr. Nerd.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by KGIII on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:34AM (#15391418)

I am convinced they are joking. I know that HN frowns on humorous posts that add nothing to the conversation, but I legitimately laughed.

There's so much hype about blockchains, cryptocurrencies, and ICOs, that it is kind of surprising that the tech (or a person) hasn't been awarded a prestigious award that it's not really qualified for.

I guess there is still the one for economics that isn't really a Nobel prize but has a different name.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by IncRnd on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @01:25AM (#15398454)

I think that moving forward we need to preserve all Nobel prizes for posterity, otherwise they are in danger of reductive values subject to fiat currencies of the dollar values of awards. The best place for this type of currency storage is always by converting to smart contracts.

Smart contracts provide the necessary certainty that comes with binding and unchangeable code, even if it hasn't had the opportunity to be audited for correctness. If some unfortunate Nobel prize winners don't see the full value of their smart contracts, due to ethereum gas, any issues will always be fixed in the smart contracts for subsequent winners. Open Source Blockchains have been shown to be double blind statistical anomalies that always get fixed sooner or later.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by smokedmomsstash on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:27AM (#15391390)

What on earth are you on about?

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 by physicsnerd on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @09:45AM (#15392351)

I am writing a blockchain implementation using go, rust and quantum: livir-go[1]. I started when the news broke out and half finished already.

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