Nobel Prize in Physics goes to…

Yoichiro Nambu at Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, US, and Makoto Kobayashi at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization, Tsukuba, Japan, and Toshihide Masukawa at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University, Japan have discovered facts about “symmetry breaking” and quarks, lead to a deeper understanding of our universe.

Symmetry breaking could be explained by giving an example such as the snowflake:
“Both the hydrogen and oxygen molecules are quite symmetric when they are isolated. The electric force which governs their actions as atoms is also a symmetrically acting force. But when their temperature is lowered and they form a water molecule, the symmetry of the individual atoms is broken as they form a molecule with 105 degrees between the hydrogen-oxygen bonds. When they freeze to form a snowflake, they form another type of symmetry, but the symmetry of the original atoms has been lost. Since this loss of symmetry occurs without any external intervention, we say that it has undergone spontaneous symmetry breaking”
(James Trefil)
Well done guys !!

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