The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita And Arthur B. McDonald

Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita And Arthu... by sidcool on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @06:57AM (#10338011)

I would love someone to do an ELI5 of their research.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita And Arthu... by dagw on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @07:42AM (#10338152)

Here's the official ELI5 (or ELI12, which is probably what you really want):

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/201...

edit: and here is the official ELIAPhysicsGradStudent: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/201...

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita And Arthu... by hugh4 on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:56PM (#10340896)

Feynman was asked by a journalist if he could please explain what he got his Nobel for in terms the average person could understand. He said no, if he could so that it wouldn't be worth a Nobel Prize.

In this case, they got it for discovering neutrino oscillations, which prove that neutrinos have mass. Want to understand why neutrino oscillations imply that neutrinos have mass? Bad luck.

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Re:The Nobel Prize in Physics 2015: Takaaki Kajita And Arthu... by pkrumins on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @07:33AM (#10338123)

They do it themselves as part of receiving the Nobel prize. It's called the Nobel Lecture. I just wrote a comment about it in this thread.

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