It is premature to offer a Nobel Prize in this case. No one can be sure that the particle discovered has anything to do with mass, and there may be an infinite series of ever larger particles waiting to be found.
Is it asking too much for the committee to wait until more concrete proof is available? Dave -----Original Message----- From: Sunil Shah <[email protected]> To: vortex-l <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Oct 9, 2013 3:02 am Subject: RE: [Vo]:Higgs Wins Nobel > 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.. .s
