One of my co-workers got his PhD with the lab/advisor that published his paper. He thought they weren't going to be able to synthesize it, so he left to be a quant.

I sent him an email saying 'hey, isn't this what your PhD was on?'. Then, I looked up his thesis and saw that this was his thesis and, but this publication was from his lab, with his advisor as co-author.

Oh man. I hope I didn't cause any existential dread. He didn't just make a decision that cost him a Nobel, right?

What'd he say?

What, like they made a cup out of it already?

"Now that is the cup of a high-pressure physicist."

Wow, drinking from it causes eternal youth?

Yes. Well, except for the holes.

Exciting stuff!! Everything from practical uses to insight into Jupiter's core could come from this.