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Article: Freedom for quarks spells Nobel for physicists.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2004
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Byline: Tom Siegfried
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Finally, the Nobel committee decided to let freedom ring.
Last week's prize for physics celebrated a three-decades-old discovery that provided the foundation for the modern understanding of matter. For years physicists have wondered when the patient recipients would be honored with the appropriate laurels.
Apparently, it just took the Nobel people a while to learn how to spell "asymptotic." For the most concise way to label the award-winning idea requires the phrase "asymptotic freedom."
Obviously, asymptotic freedom is not the catchiest of phrases - it can't compete with "black hole," the ...