This is a crosspost from my Social Software weblog. And is most definitely salient to the continual pursuit of all things knowledge!
This morning I am on the edge of my seat with excitement for my friend Betsy Devine (of Funny Ha-Ha or Funny Peculiar? fame) as her husband, Dr. Frank Wilczek, has just been awarded the Nobel Prize 'for the discovery of asymptotic freedom in the theory of the strong interaction"!
Absolutely Awesome!
There is an article, by Dennis Overbye, in the New York Times--Three Americans Win Nobel for Particle Physics Work--that you can read to learn more about the wonder of this honor for these three brilliant men.
And, I am totally amused that this announcement is also salient to this 'Social' blog of mine as "...quarks, the theoretical constituents of the neutrons and protons that make up the nucleus, could never be seen apart from one another..." making them the ultimate 'social networkers'... (-:=
K-Collector Topics: Social Software WeblogsActually science is incredibly social and large science (experimental particle physics) has been at the leading edge of creating social tools - things like the web, arXiv etc
Posted by: steve at October 7, 2004 08:08 AM