Big bang theorists scoop Nobel prize for physics

[Mr. McD]

Smoot's announcement in 1992 that his team had observed the long-sought variations in the CMB -- and therefore, in the early universe --shook the scientific community.

Called "the discovery of the century, if not of all time", by Stephen Hawking, the discovery of these ripples and wrinkles in the very fabric of space-time are believed to be the primordial seeds of modern-day structures in our universe such as galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and so on.

http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn10216-big-bang-theorists-scoop-nobel-prize-for-physics.html

[Taxloss]

1. That will irritate the Creationists.

Good for them. (The scientists, I mean, not the Creationists.)

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Nah, it's still Intelligent Design no matter how you explain it . . . n/t

[LiberalEsto]

3. Don't forget John Mather, the co-winner

I know his parents. His mother was my daughter's religious education teacher.

[Duppers]

4. yes, some physicists

some have religious relatives, but ask the men themselves.

Congrats to them both.

[YankeyMCC]

5. As Colbert said it...

"These guys are so good they got a prize from something that didn't even happen!"

(or something like that)

LoL!