“Thanks for the boson “. The young man who displayed the banner to the discoverers of the elusive particle was only one of hundreds who have gathered at noon in the Faculty of Science of Oviedo to listen to the two Nobel Prize in Physics and Prince of Asturias Scientific Research, Peter Higgs-boson that gave name to, ‘and François Englert. Students have responded overwhelmingly to the call of the keynote address of the winners, which took place in one of the classrooms on the ground floor, and the vast majority have followed huddled with the windows open or on screens arranged in a tent in the courtyard. Understanding what the scholars has been poured variable. A student with an air of character The Big Bang Theory and a shirt that chemical formulas detailed in the organic composition of user confessed to have been unaware of anything, while a young girl she said “so-so” and that had not yet addressed in class. After the talk, Higgs, whose friendly appearance makes it irresistible hobbit Bilbo nickname him Boson- and Englert have signed the board behind him, on which was written the formula for find-here is not made the mistake of deleting as happened in Barcelona on a visit to Einstein, and has been for the anecdote that Englert Corrected a typo on placing a sign hairline psi. No one had noticed the error.
end overflowed public enthusiasm as scientists turned into stars toasted with beer Ale Higgs Boson, conceived and developed to recognize the career of Peter Higgs, that science itself is promoting, what the hell! The event took on a tone of Douglas Adams novel-the author of The Hitchhiker – with Nobel raising glasses and singing a song to the boson, science and what it took. It was very emotional recognition that the future of science is in the students who waited patiently to applaud, cheer them, portraying them and to ask for autographs. This reporter slipped with the authorities and in a display of scientific empiricism could try the above beer, which, beyond their scientific value, was chilly.
Other news of the day was the arrival of Annie Leibovitz Award for Communication and Humanities, which, contrary to its reputation for bad temper, has been portrayed detail with press photographers and has even kissed anyone.
morning, awarded in the category of Social Sciences, sociologist Saskia Sassen, Professor of the subject at the University of Columbia (USA) announced that it will donate the prize of EUR 50,000 to a number of organizations helping the disadvantaged, especially in Asturias. Asturian collective Twenty Tide grouped Sassen Citizen had asked him to quit the award, given the interest of the scholar in excluded groups and minorities fighting the system. The sociologist explained that respects and accepts the prize, but his decision to donate joins those calling for more resources for the “disadvantaged” and “violently impoverished” in a crisis that has quantified, leaving more than 9 million homes lost.
Argentine Castilian accent, the scholar, born in 1949 in The Hague and is considered one of the leading social scientists of the world, has spoken of his concept of nomadism (“raise my shop wherever you are, when I’m in a Instead I’m in a place “) and has said his communist era did not last long and is a believer in markets. He explained that the problem with these is that they have “distorted” and 60% is international trade between different subsidiaries of the same companies. He has blamed the crisis of the welfare state to the impoverishment of the States and stressed that citizens have to move. “We must make citizenship, citizenship is not consumed, it is,” said a sociological version of the famous “ask not what your country can do for you” and so on. He warned against mass expulsion of the entire population out of economic sites and exclusion to which he complained, are forced more and more members of the middle class, whose impoverishment seems a particularly serious crisis Current. Sassen has imagined a future “development of international geopolitics”, in which cities create a parallel network to the States.
press conference by Saskia Sassen has been full of complex sociological concepts, the Higgs, Englery and Rolf Heuer, director general of CERN awarded also (European Organization for Nuclear Research) also demanded its own, without breakfast. It has begun asking God Higgs, which is a way of getting around the difficulty of elementary particles. “I’m not religious, but I have nothing against different opinions exist as individual beliefs,” said the scientist. “The problems have come when transferred and invade the territories of the other”. Higgs has held that it is “perfectly possible” to hold religious beliefs and still be scientific. The winner admitted it was “unfortunate” that the recognition by the confirmation of the existence of the Higgs does not fall at all “several people” who contributed to the discovery but Englert and he, and specifically cited the late Robert Brout. The scientific jury praised the Prince of Asturias has included at CERN on the prize, to extend recognition. Englery has clarified then that the Nobel committee has rules and if decided to reward the theoretical background and the experimental part “was his decision.”
the thorny question of what interest can have the new particle to the ordinary citizen, Heuer has recognized that it is able to point to an immediate application but basic science seeks knowledge and some findings are not seen the use until after 50 or 60 years. “At some point there will be applications but do not know when or where.” However scientists have stressed that the discovery reveals “why we exist”, you have to agree it is no trifle. “We need the Higgs mechanism to give mass to fundamental particles. So that gives us the reason why we exist. “
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