"The fact that they've succeeded in making a mirror is a fantastic achievement," says physicist Gian-Luca Lippi of the Nonlinear Institute of Nice in France, who was not involved in the work.
"I think this is fantastic," says David Grier, a physicist at New York University who works on holographic optical trapping.
It may seem fantastic, but a theoretical physicist claims that such a scenario could help answer some of the most perplexing questions in cosmology.
Liger-Belair said: "Bubbles in a glass of champagne may seem like the acme of frivolity to most people, but in fact they may be considered a fantastic playground for any fluid physicist".
"It's fantastic," says Jonathan Ellis, a theoretical physicist at CERN. "It's amazing that this device, which is so complicated, basically worked on the first try".
At the time I started in this field, there were fantastic employment opportunities in bioinformatics for physicists with good computing skills.
There are some fantastic communicators in the film – particularly a physicist called Monica Dunford.
"Now we're at 500 nanokelvins, which is already fantastic, we love it," Dr. Martin Zwierlein, one of the physicists, said in a written statement.
"It's fantastic to see" this new tool being adopted, agrees physicist Uwe Bergmann of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California, who has also used x-rays from a synchrotron there to study fossils.
"These particles and forces are important to understand how the world works, and it wouldn't be fitting if physicists said that we do all this fantastic research – but the rest of you can't possibly understand it".
