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 wow ooops like two months have passed already. i have been trying to read and learn things but it's been a bit difficult to juggle everything going on in my life T_T so the nobel prize winners are being announced recently which is very cool! for physics  John Clarke, Michel Devoret, and John Martinis won for their experiments in quantum computing (which were apparently conducted in 1984 and 1985 which is a while back~). they showed that the phenomenon of quantum tunneling (passing through an energy barrier that wouldn't have been possible by classical mechanics, has applications in nuclear fusion and radioactive decay) can be observed on a macroscopic scale by building a circuit with superconductors which have electrons joined together in pairs called Cooper pairs. in physiology and medicine,  Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi won the prize for their research about peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body (?), di...