Italian should have shared Nobel physics prize: colleagues

Top Italian physicists say their colleague Nicola Cabibbo should have shared the Nobel Physics Prize with the American and two Japanese scientists who won the 2008 honour, Italian media said Wednesday.

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• denijane - Oct 09, 2008
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  Hardly a surprise. The Nobel jury tend to prefer US scientists to European ones. And as a physicist, I also think that Nicola Cabibbo should have the prize. I mean even I, hating so much particle physics, remember the matrix of "Cabibbo-Cobayashi-Maskawa". Never heard of Nambu!
  I want to express my sympathy to mr. Cabibbo since this is a great unfairness towards his contribution to the science. And I want to express my disgust toward the Nobel prize jury who once again proved my opinion for them. An absolute mafia.
  
  http://tothefutur...spot.com
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• Alexa - Oct 13, 2008
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  The true is, Cabbibo has fitted his matrix to existing (four) quarks properties, the predicative aspect of his work was somewhat lacking in this point. The prediction of three quark generations on background of CCM-matrix has came later. We can consider Prof. Cabibbo's model a sort of ingenious regression, which turned out so successful, it has served the another generation of scientists for new predictions. We can compare it to role of Lorentz transform as an analogy of special relativity development. The people who are learning these transforms shouldn't forget, they were developed many years before the "electrodynamics of moving bodies" publication, not to say the relativity concepts.
  
  Therefore, my private feeling of the whole cause is similar. Especially the people, who are using Cabbibo's calculus on per-day basis must be very surprised by decision of Nobel jury. The scientific history has placed Mr. Cabibbo firmly aside to Cobayashi and Maskawa's names already.
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• Alexa - Oct 13, 2008
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  In addition, CKM matrix doesn't prohibit the prediction of another quark generations, the number of particle families follows from another evidences, instead. After all, this is why the reasoning of Nobel jury appreciates the prediction "of at least three families of quarks". The existence of three particle generation follows from CKM only at the case, it would remain unitary (i.e. orthogonal) matrix. Just at the case, this orthogonality would be violated by experiments, then we should repeat the extension of original Cabibbo matrix to new higher members, again.
  
  http://nobelprize...dex.html
  
  In addition, even at the case, such matrix would remain unitary, it still doesn't prohibit the presence of higher quark generation, it would just mean, this generation cannot couple to other families, for example. But this is just an wild speculation.
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• Alexa - Oct 13, 2008
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  Currently the only theory, which can predict the number of particle generations explicitelly by illustrative way remains Lisi Garret's unified theory, based on geometry of exceptional Lie group E8.
  
  http://www.youtub...Y7t29M0c
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• Alexa - Oct 13, 2008
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  Let me add the AWT interpretation of CKM matrix for more complete pixture. By AWT the matter inside of atom nuclei behaves like nested density fluctuations inside of condensing supercritical fluid. If such fluid remains suficiently dense, their density fluctiation can act as another fluid and condense again into nested aggregates of boiling fluid.
  
  http://superstrun...cal2.gif
  
  The formation of three generations arises from fact, the most compact packing of hypersphere particles occurs just for 3D hyperspheres (a Kepler's conjecture) and the 3D hyperspheres are packed in tetraedric symmetry with the right angles in it. Therefore the formation of 3D structures is heavily pronounced in it and during nested condensation of particle system we can experience the formation of spherical clusters of three different size levels.
  
  http://superstrun...ovie.gif
  
  We can approximate the vorticity of dense fluid by motion of their particles along surface of nested spirals.
  
  http://superstrun...so31.gif
  
  For example, the picture bellow illustrates the environment motion for electron by using of knot model:
  
  http://superstrun...anim.gif
  
  The point is, every particle can be composed of pieces of spiral loops of 1/3 or 2/3 total length, which are having three different curvature radii at their ends, like from pieces of LEGO.
  
  These pieces cannot exist in their free state apparently and they're representing six quarks of 1/3 or 2/3 charge (the another six antiquarks can formed by spiral pieces of the left-handed helicity). The animation bellow illustrates the composition of proton and neutron pair from six 2/3 up- and down- quarks, for example.
  
  http://superstrun...arky.gif
  
  The quarks triplets can be arranged into table (so called the CKM matrix), which describes the probability, by which quark pieces can be merged mutually with their neighbouring members in complex coordinate space.
  
  http://titan.triu...trix.jpg
  
  This gives up to nine possible combinations, corresponding the number of possible binding particles (i.e. gluon) types. The point is, these probabilities are characteristic for each quark combination and as such they doesn't depend very much on resulting particle type - so that the CKM matrix can be used for effective prediction of particles properties, their stability in particular.
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