Stephan “Jay” Olson, a quantum physicist from Nampa, is making waves with his new theory about time and space | Local News | Idaho Statesman
Stephan “Jay” Olson says he’d probably be thinking obsessively about how the universe works, even if he wasn’t paid to do it.
In fact, one of his most memorable scientific epiphanies came while he was playing a hand of poker at a New Orleans casino.
“I hadn’t had a good hand in like 30 minutes, and my mind wandered,” said Olson, 34, who at the time was a graduate student in physics at Louisiana State University. “Then I made the key realization for my Ph.D. thesis to work out.”
The theoretical physicist, who grew up in Nampa and recently returned home for a visit after finishing his post-doctoral work at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, has become something of a geek media darling in recent weeks.
“Great Scott! Scientists Claim Time Travel Is Possible,” screams the headline on a Jan. 18 article posted to PCWorld.com about a paper that Olson co-authored with colleague Timothy C. Ralph.
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