Higgs & Englert win Nobel prize for physics for their work on the Higgs boson

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Two scientists have won the Nobel prize in physics for their work on the theory of the Higgs boson.

Peter Higgs, from the UK, and Francois Englert from Belgium, shared the prize.

In the 1960s they were among several physicists who proposed a mechanism to explain why the most basic building blocks of the Universe have mass.

The mechanism predicts a particle - the Higgs boson - which was finally discovered in 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider at Cern, in Switzerland.

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"This year's prize is about something small that makes all the difference," said Staffan Normark, permanent secretary of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

More over at bbc.co.uk

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Yeah didn't see that one coming

Congrats anyway they deserved it.

[1of6Billion]

Made me wonder....(at least for a KSP add on)

Construct a Higgs Field Manipulator. A device that, obviously, requires *huge* amounts of power and interferes with the omnipresent Higgs-field. Effectively reducing the mass of the craft to nearly zero.

Or does the Higgs field not work that way?