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NL888 Posted 13 years ago
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What the event might have lacked in glamour (sorry, physicists), it made up for in drama
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IT RESEMBLED the Oscars, only with physicists rather than actors. Three hundred of them were gathered in a ballroom in Arcadia, California; another 100 were connected by video link. All of them were waiting for the opening of an envelope.
What the event might have lacked in glamour (sorry, physicists), it made up for in drama. In contrast to the Hollywood awards, the note inside would either make them all winners, or all losers.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929350.900-gravity-ripples-the-race-to-catch-the-next-wave.html
Context:
IT RESEMBLED the Oscars, only with physicists rather than actors. Three hundred of them were gathered in a ballroom in Arcadia, California; another 100 were connected by video link. All of them were waiting for the opening of an envelope.
What the event might have lacked in glamour (sorry, physicists), it made up for in drama. In contrast to the Hollywood awards, the note inside would either make them all winners, or all losers.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929350.900-gravity-ripples-the-race-to-catch-the-next-wave.html
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