Japanese duo, US scientist win Nobel for particle physics

October 7, 2008 Toshihide Maskawa is a professor emeritus at the Yukawa institute for Theoretical Physics at Kyoto University

The Nobel Assembly announces the winners of the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize for Physics in Stockholm. Japan's Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa, and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States have won the prize for groundbreaking theoretical work in fundamental particles.

Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa of Japan and Yoichiro Nambu of the United States won the 2008 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for groundbreaking theoretical work in fundamental particles.



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  • holoman - Oct 07, 2008
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    World's First Antimatter Propulsion on website but no information is given ?

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    "deadly opposite"

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  • WorldSci - Oct 08, 2008
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    Congratulations to the winners!

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    And a hearty "screw you" from the Swedish Academy to Jeffrey Goldstone and Nicola Cabibbo!
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    This was a politically motivated exchange, probably...

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  • HenisDov - Oct 17, 2008
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    Broken Symmetry, Evolution, And Unified Theory


    "Broken Symmetry" Is Physics' Term For Biology's "Evolution"


    A. Nobel Prize in physics shared for work that unifies forces of nature

    http://www.scienc...f_nature

    - "Understanding of broken symmetry has been crucial to the standard model of particle physics."

    - "The basic laws of physics seem to be incredibly symmetric".

    - "The cosmos began as a hot uniform sea of particles in which all the laws of physics had melded into one, but transformed and cooled into a rich tapestry."

    - "Nambu discovered a mechanism embedded in the laws of physics that allowed the character of symmetries to 'change as the universe evolved'."


    B. My primitive commonsensical understanding of the concept of "broken symmetry" is simply and plainly "evolution".

    My understanding is that:

    - "Symmetry" is a "uniformly steady state matrix".

    - "Laws of physics" cannot and do not "seem to be" anything. The laws of nature, like rules of grammar for language, are products of cosmic evolution, the evolution of energy. They represent the most often observed repeats of processes. They are not vague mystic directors of the courses of processes, but a summary of their observed repeats.

    - "The laws of physics had melded into one" as "the cosmos began as a hot uniform sea of particles"? NO. At singularity there were no "laws of physics".

    - "Discovered a mechanism embedded in the laws of physics that allowed the character of symmetries to 'change as the universe evolved'? NO. This is harnessing the horses at the rear of the carriage. As the universe evolved the character of symmetries continuously changed and "laws of physics" have thus evolved.


    C. "Broken Symmetry" Is Physics' Term For Biology's "Evolution"

    This is another Glimpse Of Forces-Matter-Life Unified Theory...


    Dov Henis

    http://blog.360.y...Q--?cq=1]http://blog.360.y...Q--?cq=1[/url]]http://blog.360.y...Q--?cq=1[/url]

    ==============================================

    A Glimpse Of Forces-Matter-Life Unified Theory
    Of Physics' "Broken Symmetry" And Biology's "Evolution"


    A. Expounding verbally, not mathematically, on the essence of an eventual unified theory,

    I imagine that it would continuously be approaching further comprehension of universal evolution.


    B. Design And Randomness In Cosmic And Life Evolution,
    Comprehension Of Evolution

    http://blog.360.y...Q--?cq=1]http://blog.360.y...Q--?cq=1[/url]]http://blog.360.y...Q--?cq=1[/url]&p=404

    http://www.physfo...ic=14988&st=180&#entry327257

    This is not another attempt to DEFINE evolution.

    This is an attempt to COMPREHEND evolution. An attempt to comprehend evolution with, again, my favorite scientific approach, with common sense.

    Common sense leads me to start my this attempt with the presently conjectured start-state of the evolution of all evolutions, with singularity, and to then ask what is next. Should we now seek Evolution's Potential? Do we next need a conjectured end-state?

    Is evolution a process that arrives at an end-state? How will cosmic expansion end?

    We cannot even conjecture...

    Will it end with a stable steady state, a balance between the ever self-diluting force that accelerates the motion of galaxies clusters and the since-singularity tensioned space-distance cosmos matrix? Or will it end with a collapse, with a return impansion towards singularity, that will then again ...? And how may it evolve towards its end state?...

    Is this unknowability what constitutes the stochastic nature of evolution?

    Yet it is observable that every temporary phase of evolution is a start-state of further evolution.

    And it is observable that all objects and processes and natural laws in the universe, are - since singularity - products of evolution and are themselves continuously further evolving. Everything in the cosmos is fractal, rehappens on many scales, and is continuously evolving. Each and every system in the universe continuously evolves within the total universal evolution and all the systems' evolutions are intertwined.

    And it is also observable that all evolutions are fueled by culture, culture being the totality of ways of the system's dealing (reaction to, manipulation of, exploitation of) with its environment.

    Suggesting,
    DH

    PS: Present state (March 2008) of the stock market appears to point at the relationship between stocks and stochastic... DH


    C. Updated PS

    PS: Present state (October 2008) of the stock market appears to point at the relationship between stocks and stochastic... DH


    Dov Henis

    http://blog.360.y...Q--?cq=1]http://blog.360.y...Q--?cq=1[/url]]http://blog.360.y...Q--?cq=1[/url]

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