Sunday, January 18, 2009

Nobel Prize - Chemistry

The Nobel Prize of the Chemistry for the anicent times should be award to:

Stone Age Dude for "the discovery of fire"

...Do I really need to explain any further? I don't think I really need to justify this guy for winning this award. He hasn't even graduated from kindergarten, he could hardly speak, and in fact, he wasn't aware of what discoveries are all about. It wasn't for the money, it wasn't for fame or social status. It was all about survival and that's it.

Where did he get this idea from? What was he thinking??? Was he in a bad mood and was looking for methods of destruction? Obviously, we will never quite find out what actually happened on that particular day. I am assuming that it would be this caveman really getting into two big rocks, rubbing them together until sparks appeared. We can never imagine what life would be like if this caveman never rubbed the two big rocks together like this. I mean, cool people will not be able to light up their cigarettes, dodgy shop owners will need to resort to an alternative method to destroy their shop in order to claim insurance, Crown casino will need to design another way to waste their money instead of setting off balls of flames on an hourly basis etc.

On a more sensible note, fire is definitely something we can't live without. The caveman that made this achievement would have never realised how much of an influence he has on our world 750,000 years later . So next time you are spending time admiring the intelligence of Einstein, Newton or Pythagoras, spend a few seconds admiring this Stone Age guy as well. Put it this way, would Einstein be able to make this discovery? Or would Newton be able to make similar discoveries via rubbing two apples together viciously? This Stone Age guy might be primitive, but his intelligence should not be underestimated.

Once again, congratuations to the Stone Age guy for :the discovery of fire".


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Monday, January 12, 2009

Nobel Prizes for Cavemen

Everyone (well, most people) knows that the Nobel prizes are awarded annually to the super high achievers for the past year, categorised in the areas of Chemistry, Physics, Medicine, Economics, Literature and Peace. This sounds relativity straight-forward, until you look into the finer details on why the people won the awards.

Take a look at the 2008 winner of the Physics Nobel Prize. Three Japanese, Yoichiro Nambu, Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa were awarded "for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics" and "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature". What does it all mean? More importantly, what significance do these things have on us, the normal human beings who don't have a PhD in Physics?

Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to imply that these people don't deserve to win. I am sure they have put in 110% efforts into discovering whatever they have discovered. But have you ever thought, who would be the winners, had the Nobel prizes been around back when the cavemen were still around? There are just so many things that I can't imagine what we can do without. Therefore, I am going to award (on behalf of the human race) to the major achievers who were never recognised.

Over the next few blogs, I will be suggesting who the awards should go to.

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