Particle Physicists Share the Physics Nobel 67
somegeekynick writes "The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics has been jointly awarded to Yoichiro Nambu of the University of Chicago 'for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics,' and Makoto Kobayashi of the KEK lab and Toshihide Maskawa of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, both in Japan, 'for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.'"
w00t (Score:3, Funny)
Re:w00t (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Am I the only one that thinks (Score:5, Funny)
[Am I the only one that thinks] sharing prizes on subatomic particles studies is ironic???
Maybe you are, maybe you are not. We won't know until someone observes your post, thus collapsing the waveform...
Re:Speaking of broken symmetry... (Score:1, Funny)
Did you forget particle beam?
Re:What's with the shared prizes? (Score:1, Funny)
There is no prize in biology.
Yeah, but if the LHC kills us all... (Score:2, Funny)
IMO, the prizes should almost always be shared. Nobody works in a vacuum* --they are all building on the work of the rest of the community. Seriously, the number of scientists who understand this stuff is vanishingly small*!
* Wow, the comedy just writes itself...
Re:w00t (Score:1, Funny)
How do you know they are "boys"
Because they're physicists.
Re:Yeah, but if the LHC kills us all... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bose anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
I go around giving people preemptive Darwin Awards for just this reason...
Re:w00t (Score:2, Funny)
World-class physicists.
Re:Bose anyone? (Score:2, Funny)