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The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics 🏅 The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to three scientists who developed experimental methods to generate extremely short pulses of light that can be used to study the dynamics of electrons in matter. These pulses are measured in attoseconds, which are one billionth of a billionth of a second. By using these pulses, the scientists were able to observe and manipulate the movements and interactions of electrons inside atoms and molecules, which are the building blocks of matter. The three laureates are: Pierre Agostini, a French physicist who works at The Ohio State University in the USA. He was the first to produce and investigate a series of consecutive light pulses, each lasting 250 attoseconds, in 2001. He used a technique called high-order harmonic generation, which involves shining intense laser light on a gas and creating overtones of light with higher frequencies and shorter wavelengths. Ferenc Krausz, a German physicist who works at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. He was also working on high-order harmonic generation, but he managed to isolate a single light pulse that lasted 650 attoseconds, in 2001. He used a technique called carrier-envelope phase stabilization, which involves controlling the phase difference between the electric field and the envelope of a laser pulse. Anne L’Huillier, a French physicist who works at Lund University in Sweden. She discovered the phenomenon of high-order harmonic generation in 1987, when she transmitted infrared laser light through a noble gas and observed many different overtones of light. She has continued to explore this phenomenon and laid the groundwork for the subsequent breakthroughs by Agostini and Krausz. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 recognizes the contributions of these three scientists to the field of attosecond physics, which has opened up new possibilities for understanding and controlling the world of electrons. This could have applications in many areas, such as electronics, chemistry, biology, and medicine. For example, attosecond pulses could be used to identify different molecules, monitor chemical reactions, create new materials, or improve medical diagnostics. Source: NobelPrize.org 📷Courtesy of Ohio State University, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, and BBVA Foundation respectively

No sugar coating this, it's been a challenging few months. The Truffle Suite will be sunsetting over the next 90 days. To all the developers who've supported us, thank you! It's been an absolute joy to strive with you & the Ethereum ecosystem for the past 6 years. 🧵

If you carefully think about it, the underlying reason why Ethereum isn't currently quantum secure is that after sending a transaction, an account's public key is exposed, so an attacker can efficiently take the discrete log with a quantum computer and get someone's secret key.