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Related: About this forumHawking says he lost $100 bet over Higgs discovery
World-renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was interviewed on the importance of the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Hawking wants the Nobel Prize in Physics to be given to Peter Higgs, who gave his name to the proposed particle.
"But it is a pity in a way because the great advances in physics have come from experiments that gave results we didn't expect.
"For this reason I had a bet with Gordon Kane of Michigan University that the Higgs particle wouldn't be found. It seems I have just lost $100."
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longship
(40,416 posts)But that's what science is all about. The ot authority in science is nature herself. Hawking has recognized this for decades. But that hasn't stopped him from keeping-on keeping-on looking for more answers to these knotty questions.
He does all this while being probably the most long lived person with motor neuron disease (aka Lou Gehrig's disease). He does what he does in the face of adversity and with a great sense of humor.
Oh! And he has a history of making these frivolous bets. Just for fun.
Wonderful!
eppur_se_muova
(36,309 posts)knitter4democracy
(14,350 posts)Otherwise, it looks like Michigan State University (which has the better subatomic physicists by a long margin--just sayin').