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The 2012 Nobel Prize for Physics will honor the groundbreaking discovery of the Higgs hypothesis, but physicists are not surprised when that prediction has yet to materialize.

The Higgs particle helps humans explain why mass particles (such as quarks, leptons, bosons) have mass - a characteristic that allows them to bind together by gravity to make stars, planets, and water. , stone, gas. If particles do not have mass, they will move chaotic in the universe at the speed of light and do not create any form of matter. In that case the universe would be a chaotic mass like a soup bowl.

Some physicists predict the existence of the Higgs in the 1960s. Peter Higgs, a professor of physics at Edinburgh University in England, is one of them. He published the hypothesis about the Higgs particle in 1964.

About 5,000 scientists have been searching for seeds
Higgs for 45 years. (Photo: thebrowser.com)

Last summer, physicists from the European Atomic Research Organization (CERN) announced that they found subatomic particles with properties similar to the Higgs in the Large Hadron Collider - the largest particle accelerator. world. This is a great achievement in the search for the " Lord's seed" for nearly 50 years. So some people guess Peter Higgs, 83, will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics. Others argue that the Nobel Council should honor physicists involved in CERN's attempt to find the Higgs.

But on October 9, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences decided to award the Nobel Prize for physics this year to two scientists to find ways to observe in the quantum world.

Why did the Korean Academy of Royal Science of Sweden not choose CERN's discovery to honor?

'Now is not the right time for the Nobel Council to choose the theory of the Higgs' , Livescience quoted George Smoot, a physicist at the University of California in the US and the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.

The Nobel committee often awards prizes for scientific discoveries that have been going on for a long time. Last year Saul Perlmutter, Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess won the Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the increasing speed of the universe. Three people discovered this rule from the 90s.

Analysts say physicists need another year to prove the new particle exposed in the Large Hadron Collider is the Higgs particle.

'It is possible that the new particle is the Higgs particle, but it is not currently confirmed,' Smoot said.

In addition, CERN's findings are published in the summer, too late for the deadline for this year's Nobel prizes.

'The announcement came too late. The process of Nobel Prize nomination officially ended on February 1. There are many ways to flexibly apply rules, but it is clear that decision makers in the Nobel Council feel they have no suitable reason to do so in the case of the Higgs' , Frank Wilczek, co. owner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics, explained.

Wilczek admitted he did not know any information about the decision-making process of the Nobel Council.'But I think the theory of the Higgs particle could be honored next year , ' he said.