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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.

posted by Estnivek @ 6:50 PM