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[Randdalf]

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2013 to

François Englert
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

and

Peter W. Higgs
University of Edinburgh, UK

“for the theoretical discovery of a mechanism that contributes to our understanding of the origin of mass of subatomic particles, and which recently was confirmed through the discovery of the predicted fundamental particle, by the ATLAS and CMS experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider”

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/press.html

 

[sensi97]

Sadly, the third one, Robert Brout died in 2011 before the ATLAS and CMS experiments. Congrats to Higgs and Englert anyway.

 

[Beaniedude]

Good on them.

I think we can all agree that the discovery of the Highs was well worth the weight.

 

[iamblades]

Good on them.

I think we can all agree that the discovery of the Highs was well worth the weight.

I see what you did there, but something something mass vs weight, grumble grumble...

 

[GavinGT]

Good on them.

I think we can all agree that the discovery of the Highs was well worth the weight.

I'm detecting a joke at somewhere between 125 and 127 gigglelectron Volts.

 

[sinxtanx]

Good on them.

I think we can all agree that the discovery of the Highs was well worth the weight.

I'm detecting a joke at somewhere between 125 and 127 gigglelectron Volts.

I predict that this is just going to go in circles until it all collides and gets this thread locked

 

[TCRS]

The Higgs boson guy. I thought he's dead.

 

[Dash27]

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2013/press.html

Thanks, god particle. I mean, good article.

 

[schroddycat]

From the press release

The entire Standard Model also rests on the existence of a special kind of particle: the Higgs particle. This particle originates from an invisible field that fills up all space. Even when the universe seems empty this field is there. Without it, we would not exist, because it is from contact with the field that particles acquire mass. The theory proposed by Englert and Higgs describes this process.

Errr... somebody cares to explain? What is this invisible field? Another dimension? Energy field? wut?

 

[Derwind]

From the press release

Errr... somebody cares to explain? What is this invisible field? Another dimension? Energy field? wut?

This video explains a lot and its enjoyable.

 

[AstroZombie]

The Higgs boson guy. I thought he's dead.

They do not award Nobels posthumously.

 

[MiKeD]

Higgs actually published his findings 14 days later than Englert/Brout, yet it was named after him.

 

[The Technomancer]

From the press release



Errr... somebody cares to explain? What is this invisible field? Another dimension? Energy field? wut?

There's no such thing as empty space basically. The universe is whack yo. Virtual particles all up in this

 

[thuGG_pl]

Great news!
Almost 50 years of waiting but it was worth it.

Now let's detect this graviton.

 

[sinxtanx]

This video explains a lot and its enjoyable.

Seconded.
Anyone confused about particle physics and why the Higgs is a great discovery, please watch that video.

 

[Metrotab]

Our newspapers are pretty much headlining this.