{"id":2096,"date":"2008-10-07T12:31:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T19:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2008-10-07T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T19:31:31","slug":"nobel-prize-in-physics-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/10\/07\/nobel-prize-in-physics-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize in Physics 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the Nobel prize in Physics 2008 goes to&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=alX4Wp3Ks3ac&amp;refer=japa\">Yoichiro Nambu (1\/2), Makoto Kobayashi (1\/4), and Toshihide Maskawa (1\/4)<\/a> &#8220;for discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics&#8221; and &#8220;for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.&#8221;  I&#8217;m buried under work but if I can claw myself out of it I&#8217;ll write a post about their work.  In the meantime, here is the Nobel&#8217;s scientific background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the Nobel prize in Physics 2008 goes to&#8230;Yoichiro Nambu (1\/2), Makoto Kobayashi (1\/4), and Toshihide Maskawa (1\/4) &#8220;for discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics&#8221; and &#8220;for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature.&#8221; I&#8217;m &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/10\/07\/nobel-prize-in-physics-2008\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nobel Prize in Physics 2008&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}