A physicist at the University of Cincinnati was able to crack a problem that was presented as unsolvable in the famous sitcom, ‘The Big Bang Theory’.
Professor Jure Zupan and colleagues figured out how to, theoretically, produce subatomic particles called axions in fusion reactors.
Fictional particle physicists Sheldon Cooper and Leonard Hofstadter worked on the problem in three episodes of the show’s fifth season, but were unable to solve it. “The general idea from our paper was discussed in ‘The Big Bang Theory’ years ago, but Sheldon and Leonard couldn’t make it work,” Zupan said in a press statement.
UC physics Professor Jure Zupan worked with a team of theoretical physicists at the Fermi National Laboratory, MIT, and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to find a solution to the problem. The team published their findings in a new study in the Journal of High Energy Physics.
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