Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs Awarded Nobel Prize For Boson Discovery

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 8, 2013 @12:47AM from the now-brew-some-boson-tea dept.

The 2013 Nobel season is underway. Reader rtoz writes "Francois Englert and Peter W. Higgs won the 2013 Nobel Prize For Physics. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences cited the two scientists for the 'theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles.'" Update: 10/08 13:18 GMT by T : More Nobel news: The New York Times reports that "Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for discovering the machinery that regulates how cells transport major molecules in a cargo system that delivers them to the right place at the right time." The three are James E. Rothman, Randy W. Schekman; and Dr. Thomas C. Südhof, of Yale, UC Berkeley, and Stanford, respectively.

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The Goddamn Particle... by laejoh · 2013-10-08 00:52 · Score: 5, Funny

The Goddamn Particle can now safely be renamed into The Belgium Particle :)
1. Re:The Goddamn Particle... by Ken_g6 · 2013-10-08 01:11 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  At which point it will promptly be nicknamed the "bulgin' particle", because it makes all other particles more massive.
  
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  (T>t && O(n)--) == sqrt(666)
Re:Huh, earlier than expected by Anonymous Coward · 2013-10-08 04:31 · Score: 3, Funny

You do know that the reason it is called the 'God Particle' is that the publisher wouldn't print 'God-damned Particle' which is what they were calling it because of how hard it was to find.