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    I hate to break it to you, but there's next to 0 interview fame cache for a Nobel Prize in physics.
    Can you name any Nobel Prize in Physics winners w/o using google?
    If so, are they names from a hundred years ago?*

    I mean, you may get a couple of paid interviews on the day, but it's not gong to be something you can milk for year after year. I doubt you'd get hundreds of thousands of monies for interviews, which will probably pay little if at all after the first week. You'd have some decent time over the year at touring to universities and giving a presentation about your solutions and how you came to them or their significance. A decent part of my job is familiarizing a visiting speaker with the AV controls in the lecture hall. I presume they are paid for their time, but IDK how much.

    If you did this, you'd get your name on a short list with Jean Paul Sartre, who declined a Nobel Prize in Literature, and Le Duc Tho, who declined a Nobel Peace Prize. Sartre said he wouldn't have as much impact as a writer if he accepted the prize. Tho said there was no peace in Vietnam.


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    (If you guessed Feynmann, then you get a point)
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey View Post
    You'd have some decent time over the year at touring to universities and giving a presentation about your solutions and how you came to them or their significance.
    Tbf I'd pay to see ong do this.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Savy View Post
    Tbf I'd pay to see ong do this.
    I wouldn't miss it for anything.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Savy View Post
    Tbf I'd pay to see ong do this.
    OTOH, you can listen to him talk shit for free on this forum.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Poopadoop View Post
    OTOH, you can listen to him talk shit for free on this forum.
    It's not the same as sitting in a room full of physicists who got outsmarted at their own game by some random non-college-educated stoner.

    It gets even better if his presentation is full of hubris and bravado, but not nonsense. I mean... he'd have to actually come up with the revolutionary ideas which earned him the prize, which means that on some level he understands the physics at play. It'd be brilliant to have him explain to the room that they were all just failing try-hards w/o the requisite creativity to see past their own false presumptions, but not coming out and saying it directly.

    Entertainment value off the charts.

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