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Good thing for them that in last year’s World Series most New York Yankees hitters had yet to equip themselves with the bat conceived by an MIT physicist turned baseball analytics nerd.

Noted physicist Stephen Hawking, a supporter of the Palestinian cause, participated in an academic boycott of Israel and endowed an astronomy chair at a university in the West Bank.

The physicist and gaming entrepreneur isn’t, of course, abandoning his day job for chocolate.

However, Microsoft’s announcement, claiming a “breakthrough in quantum computing,” was met with skepticism from some physicists in the field.

Sure, Murphy just took home the award for grappling with the shortsighted calculations of nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.