Monday, September 30, 2013

Sorry for wrong info


A particle has NOT been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics. But imagine if it did! Yesterday Ashutosh Jogalekar announced in a satirical blog for Scientific American magazinethat the Higgs Boson had won the Nobel Prize a week early, without any scientists, in an attempt to put an end to researchers fighting over credit. Although it's not true, it's caused a lot of confusion (sorry!).

As Jogalekar said: "The real point of this post was to stress the fact - through satire – that what really matters are the discoveries themselves. As Richard Feynman put it, the real prize is the pleasure of finding things out."

The REAL winners will be announced in the coming week. Who do you think will win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Physics and Medicine this year?

Read more: http://bit.ly/15Fr6NB via Scientific American

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