Shawn Ryan

When I do this idealization where I pretend I'm in flat space, that's my world, and I want all of these solution sciences equations that obey these boundary conditions, then I see that things at the boundary are going to move.

So what you're saying is I have these two detectors are sitting there.

They're not just going to stay there.

They're going to move, but they're going to move by a certain amount that's maybe a certain controlled parameter as compared to where they are if I just push them out to infinity.

And so...

because you have this kind of whole symmetry framework that you're importing from other instances where it's been useful in physics, you can now apply it here and you realize, oh, look, that tells me something about soft limits and scattering, tells me something I can observe.

Yeah.

So early in my PhD, they had this connection between soft physics and a

um, asymptotic symmetry word identity.

And then my first paper was on like the subleading soft version of that, which was new and some people had speculated that there might be a enhancement of the angular momentum, um, like the rotation symmetry of the, of the world in some sense.

And then when you keep pushing that further, then you can tie it to this experimental version because someone else understood that there is a, um,

physical, like the space-time physical thing you're measuring is related to the waveform that otherwise computing with this quantum field theory computation.

And yeah.

So anyway, basically long story short is you were just taking some mathematical framework

and then trying to copy paste it to a new application.

Once you have like one iteration, you're trying to see what's modular about like some computation.

And then you get to import that and find something new because you pulled it out.

Wow.

Yeah.

Wow.