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I would love someone to do an ELI5 of their research.
by sidcool 11y ago
I would love someone to do an ELI5 of their research.
- pkrumins 11y agoThey do it themselves as part of receiving the Nobel prize. It's called the Nobel Lecture. I just wrote a comment about it in this thread.
- dagw 11y agoHere's the official ELI5 (or ELI12, which is probably what you really want): http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2015/popular-physicsprize2015.pdf http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/201... edit: and here is the official ELIAPhysicsGradStudent: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2015/advanced-physicsprize2015.pdf http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/201...
- hugh4 11y agoFeynman was asked by a journalist if he could please explain what he got his Nobel for in terms the average person could understand. He said no, if he could so that it wouldn't be worth a Nobel Prize. In this case, they got it for discovering neutrino oscillations, which prove that neutrinos have mass. Want to understand why neutrino oscillations imply that neutrinos have mass? Bad luck.