I thought the Nobel was for things that had a large (positive) impact on human society; how one can even begin to make that argument for some like this is beyond me. Or is it just one more sign that even the Nobel organization has succumbed to mainstream scientific groupthink...
-mark iverson -----Original Message----- From: Terry Blanton [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 9:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Vo]:Higgs Wins Nobel http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/10/08/englert-and-higgs-win-nobel-physic s-prize/ Francois Englert of Belgium and Peter Higgs of Britain won the 2013 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for their theoretical discoveries on how subatomic particles acquire mass. Their theories are key to explaining the building blocks of matter and the origins of the universe. They were confirmed last year by the discovery of the so-called Higgs particle, also known as the Higgs boson, at CERN, the Geneva-based European Organization for Nuclear Research, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said. <more>
