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Yeah, but it's a kind that I like a lot more.

To add on to this answer, not even just EM radiation! IIRC about 99% of the energy released in a typical supernova is in the form of neutrinos. Because the neutrinos only interact weakly, they can actually escape the star before the visible light, since the photons get bogged down scattering off charged particles. There are many neutrino detectors around the world which have a secondary purpose of serving as a supernova early warning system.

Thank you for that link. I was trying to find such information from any of the Harvard/MIT/Princeton/Berkeley/UCLA/Chicago tier.

I find the insinuation that every single person who gets a PhD and ends up doing something other than academia only does so because they were "unable to make it" insulting.

Quantum as in quantum mechanics? I'm not sure there's much of a point to trying to teach kids that, except as a way to get them excited to learn science. Quantum mechanics is sort of dangerous in a sense that there's a lot of people who think they understand it but really don't. To actually learn quantum mechanics, you need to know undergraduate linear algebra and partial differential equations. It's doable for a very talented high school student, but not for actual children.

Eh, while the academic job market is tough, if you go to Princeton and work towards the goal of getting a tenure-track job (by publishing research, attending conferences, etc.) then you shouldn't have trouble landing one somewhere (edit: after a postdoc or two of course). The OP also had like 4 papers published by the time she finished her PhD. I think it's safe to say she could have gotten an academic job if she wanted.