JCC So I just won a Nobel

Along with other 500 million people.

Well, now that that's away from the to-do-list, I think I'll take it easy for the rest of the day.

 

Now instead of invading weaker countries, France and Germany just impose their wills through financial means. [face_eu_flag]

 

The EU should make commemorative replica Nobel Prizes for all its citizens.....except it is in the middle of financial crisis.

 

This one is even better than Obama's!

 

Yes, we as a continent have managed to go more than half a century without trying to kill each other (well, except for the Balkans, but who's counting). Where's my share of the prize money.

 

It's less than one eurocent per person. Bah.

 

You should use the prize money to pay down Greece's debt. 1 million down, only a few billion left to go!

 

The Nobel Peace Prize committee continues to do its utmost to be taken seriously by exactly no one, I see.

 

Next year they will give it to themselves for promoting peace with the means of the Prize.

 

Ahem

 

Hey now, the 2009 Peace Prize winner hasn't systematically killed people by the hundreds with sky robots since he won the award, so I think it's a pretty prestigious honor.

Er...wait a second...

In all seriousness, why is the Nobel Prize so prestigious in the first place? What makes the Nobel Prize committee the supreme arbiters of justice and truth? Einstein didn't win a Nobel Prize for General or Special Relativity; does that make the theories any less seminal or revolutionary?

 

The physics prizes are still given to big deals, even if they miss some. I mean, Einstein's Nobel for the photoelectric effect is still a huge thing.

 

Right, but the photoelectric effect is a big deal because it's a seminal, fundamental physical effect, not because it won the Nobel Prize.

 

The prize was given because it was a big deal, not the other way around.

 

The thing about the physics prize is it tends to favor experimentally verifiable results - hence photoelectric effect and not GR, and why it seems so "biased" in favor of QM.

In other words, it's exactly the opposite of the Peace Prize.