Scientists in many fields have been getting little attention over the last two years or so...
https://theweek.com/health-and-science/1019386/recent-scientific-breakthroughs
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Can you feel it!? The odds of the NIF Nobel prize are looking good. I keep seeing NIF fusion all over the place.
I give it a good chance we are going to see a NIF Nobel this years. The buzz is there. What I am not sure who exactly would get it for NIF or laser fusion?
I think John Hopkin Nuckolls is still alive, so he would be good. Brunton, Ed Moses, Miller?
By the way I am serious that this could be a prize. Another prediction is it could be just one person for laser ignition in general, one for tokamaks, one for some laser plasma. Plasma is underrepresented in the prize. The Nobel committee also loves lasers, so it could be another laser years with someone from NIF and some other laser person.
I don't know if the gravitational wave study they mentioned was really a breakthrough either, given that there were already Nobel prizes related to that -- binary pulsars and LIGO as I recall.
Also the original physics describing why nuclei fuse to form heavier elements in stars, was I think, worked out by people like Bethe, Gamow, Hoyle -- I thought Bethe won the Nobel prize for this! Wasn't that the main "fusion breakthrough", in terms of actual science and not technology?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/oct/03/fred-hoyle-nobel-prize
https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200804/physicshistory.cfm
It looks like he added Bethe's name to a paper, meaning his student would get less credit of course, whereas Hoyle irritated the Nobel committee by claiming that someone's student should have received credit in another prize, causing him to miss out himself:
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/03/22/archives/hoyle-disputes-nobel-physics-award.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/oct/03/fred-hoyle-nobel-prize