Particle Physicists Share the Physics Nobel

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.'"

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Even more curious...

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77268

that Obama's henchmen would detain Jerome Corsi without cause, right before he was about to release some information that might be damaging to Obama. Between this, Obama telling his supporters to get in peoples' faces, his Truth Squads threatening prosecution against pretty much anyone criticizing him on the airwaves in Missouri, and homeless people being driven to polling places and being told to vote for Obama in Ohio, it's pretty clear that there's a darker side to Obama that his media chorus doesn't want to get out.

Safe to put the 80's economic framework to bed.

[tjstork]

I've always been bothered that the USA could not be bothered to invest in its own LHC or better fusion system or do more to foster education in the sciences.

I think now that the bailout has put government economic intervention firmly back on the table and for the next generation, Republicans use their support for NASA as a springboard to try and get out in front and ask that government make investments in basic sciences so that American industries can reap the benefits down the road. Democrats are always going to push for federal spending for the disenfranchised over spending for business expansion, so, its only natural that Republicans become the party of building an America that is productive while the Democrats become the party of building an America that is livable.