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The Nobel Prize for physics has gone to French and US boffins for their work quantum manipulation. Serge Haroche of Collège de France and David Wineland at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the University of Colorado will share the prize and the £744,000 winnings that go with it for work on single photons …

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  1. emmanuel goldstein
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    Quantum computer Boffin 'had to sit down"

    Is that because his wave function collapsed?

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    1. FartingHippo
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      Re: Quantum computer Boffin 'had to sit down"

      No, he was so surprised he completely forgot where he was. His momentum then dropped to zero.

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  2. Forget It
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    obvious we need a benchmark for Quantum Computing now.

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      Quantum Crysis?

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      1. Anonymous Coward
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        Quantum Cry-SITS shirley?

        ... leaving already

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    2. Yet Another Anonymous coward Silver badge
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      >obvious we need a benchmark for Quantum Computing now.

      As long as you promise not to measure it while I'm working

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  3. stragen001

    Author wont be winning a nobel prize for grammar

    <grammar Nazi>

    First line of the article. Tsk Tsk. Does no one proof read these things?

    "The Nobel Prize for physics has gone to French and US boffins for their work quantum manipulation."

    </grammar Nazi>

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    1. emmanuel goldstein
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      Re: Author wont be winning a nobel prize for grammar

      That'll be "won't"

      Tsk. Tsk.

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      1. John D. Blair
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        Re: Author wont be winning a nobel prize for grammar

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law

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  4. Destroy All Monsters Silver badge
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    The cat is out of the bag.

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    1. Nuno
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      yes, but is it dead or alive?

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      1. Captain Save-a-ho
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        Actually

        We all found out it wasn't even a cat. Though it did run straight to the Ecuadorian Embassy, for some reason.

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        1. Anonymous Coward
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          The problem all can be traced back to Pussy, then ;)

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      2. Christoph
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        It's Bloody Furious.

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  5. jb99

    Why did the call have a swedish country code when the nobel prize is from norway (except the peace prize)

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      I think you'll find it's the other way 'round...

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  6. Esskay
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    He *HAD* to sit down?

    Or was there a 99.999998% chance that he would sit down?

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  7. stragen001

    @emmanuel goldstein - bugger!

    @John D. Blair - indeed!

    @Esskay - I believe he was both sitting down, and standing up, until someone observed him. Probably his wife.

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    1. Esskay
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      Presumably theres another universe out there where he kept standing....

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