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Not the poster, but I don't understand the downvotes: this is exactly right. Higgs was awarded the Nobel after the mechanism he theorized was experimentally con
by martopix 2y ago
Not the poster, but I don't understand the downvotes: this is exactly right. Higgs was awarded the Nobel after the mechanism he theorized was experimentally confirmed, and that is 100% the reason it took so long.
- meepmorp 2y agoRight! Einstein didn't get the Nobel because the theory of relativity is awesome, he got it after Eddington observed gravitational lensing during an eclipse, confirming a key prediction. Brilliant theorizing can be both brilliant and wrong.
- kragen 2y agoEinstein got the Nobel Prize for his work on quantum physics, not relativity.