> From: zeropoint > "I thought the Nobel was for things that had a large (positive) impact on > human society; "
But it does! Though I think your definitions of "impact" and "human society"
differ from the Nobel committee's.
Short and sweet: The existence of the Higgs particle cements into fact, even
more, the "correctness" of the theory that predicted it! And it happens to be
a rather important theory..
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