The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics 156
azatht writes "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2004 "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction" jointly to
David J. Gross,
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA,
H. David Politzer
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USThe 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, and
Frank Wilczek
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA."
Well . . . (Score:4, Funny)
It also filled a critical remaining gap in what physicists refer to as the Standard Model, the theory that governs physics at the microscopic scale. It accounts for the behavior of three out of nature's four fundamental forces - electromagnetism, the strong force and the weak force, which governs radioactive decay. Which brings us a few step forwards towards the answer of 42.
Well... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Where will this take us ? (Score:4, Funny)
-dave
That is the same as my girlfriend (Score:2, Funny)
Re:These guys need to get out more (Score:0, Funny)
So these guys would be classified as uber-geeks, so geeky that other geeks get to make fun of them. Now that's a theory of relativity for you
ah yes, highbrow for a day (Score:3, Funny)
Now back to Linux.
Dr. P. is a Rap Singer Too (Score:3, Funny)
Back when I was at CalTech in the early 80's (studying physics myself), a friend named Scott Lewicki, and his friend Doug Priest got David Politzer to record a rap song called The Simple Harmonic Oscillator Rap.
Google doesn't find me an MP3 of it, but the lyrics are in this PDF document [dickinson.edu]. Search in the text of the document for "Politzer" and you'll find the lyrics.
You can purchase it on a CD called Physics Pholk Songs [harmonpublishing.com] for $15.00.
Here's the first verse:
Enjoy!What we see... (Score:3, Funny)
azatht writes "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2004 "for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction" jointly to David J. Gross, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, H. David Politzer California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, USThe 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Frank Wilczek Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA."
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azatht writes "The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics