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How much would you be willing to pay to stand on the stern of the last oil tanker to leave the Middle East, waving good-bye as you go?" Physicist James Trefil asks this question almost as an aside, more than halfway through his provocative new book, Human Nature.
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The Observer's "Rational Heroes" column asks scientists why so few of them go into politics; physicist Steven Weinberg's triumphant answer was that in science "you can sometimes be sure that what you say is true".
This year's award will go to British physicist Freeman Dyson.
The latest study of Einstein's brain concludes that certain parts of it were indeed very unusual and might explain how he was able to go where no physicist had gone before when he devised the theory of relativity and other groundbreaking insights.
Last year's prize went to physicists who solved a mystery known as the solar neutrino problem.
As time went on physicists recognized ever more clearly that because Planck's constant was not zero but had a small but finite value the microphysical world, the world of atomic dimensions, could not in principle be described by ordinary classical mechanics.
A lot of that sort of annihilation went on, physicists say, and everything we can see in the universe is just the scraps left behind.
That honor went to physicists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a 27-kilometer-long atom smasher at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland.
To get it going, the physicists have to include the starter atom, which gives the carrier a shove whenever the two atoms happen to hop into the same light spot.
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