This reminded me of a funny situation that happened 20 years ago. We had a PhD student, a very nice, purpose-driven, diligent, responsible and fun woman. One of her projects was to use a laser focused on a tiny needle sample, a few dozen atoms wide. Someone with knowledge had told her that laser spot is about 1 micron in size, to which she responded that she would work harder and make it much smaller. It was quite funny, because she did not realize there was fundamental limit based on wavelength of laser light that determined the smallest size of that spot.
Needless to say, she quit graduate school and became an attorney. Her husband is a brilliant mathematician, maybe a genius...
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Date: 2016-04-22 05:57 pm (UTC)Needless to say, she quit graduate school and became an attorney. Her husband is a brilliant mathematician, maybe a genius...