Lee and Yang Or Maskawa and Kobayashi

[patmac]

Who discovered broken symmetry?

Lee and Yang won the Nobel Prizes in 1957 by discover broken symmentry in EM. Then Nobel Prizes is for Maskawa and Kobayashi by the same claim (broken symmetre in the universe)?

[Aaron]

Nobel Prize

Hi Patmac,

I saw a report on that yesterday about the Japanese scientists getting the Nobel Prize relating to asymmetry. Very interesting!

Physics 2008
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2008

"for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry in subatomic physics"
"for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature"

Photo: SCANPIX Photo: Universtity of Chicago Photo: Kyoto University Yoichiro Nambu Makoto Kobayashi Toshihide Maskawa 1/2 of the prize 1/4 of the prize 1/4 of the prize USA Japan Japan Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL, USA High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK)
Tsukuba, Japan Kyoto Sangyo University; Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics (YITP), Kyoto University
Kyoto, Japan b. 1921 b. 1944 b. 1940

[patmac]

Ok. Then medias, news paper confuse me a little:
from Wikipedia:

Broken symmetry is a concept, developed by Lee and Yang, used in mathematics and physics when an object breaks either rotational symmetry or translational symmetry. That is, when one can only rotate an object in certain angles or when one is able to discern if the object has been shifted sideways (unless one shifts by a whole number of lattice units). For example, imagine a jumping bean sitting atop a Mexican hat like the one pictured here. It is in a rotationally symmetric state until it inevitably hops and falls down to a lower equilibrium, breaking the rotational symmetry

In the next link : Spontaneous symmetry breaking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"On October 7, 2008, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics to two Japanese citizens and a Japanese-born American for their work in subatomic physics. American Yoichiro Nambu, 87, of the University of Chicago, won half of the prize for the discovery of the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry..."
Then Lee and Yang developed Broken Symmetry concept, but Yoichiro Nambu Makoto Kobayashi Toshihide Maskawa discovered the mechanism of spontaneous broken symmetry

But Bearden could win a Nobel Prizes too:
http://www.cheniere.org/references/brokensymmetry.htm
Broken Symmetry
For the open-minded reader, let me explain what broken symmetry means, and what the broken symmetry of a dipole means with respect to powering any dipolar EM circuit.
The strong prediction of broken symmetry by Lee and Yang and its experimental proof by Wu et al. in 1957, initiated a great revolution across physics and won a nearly instant Nobel Prize in December 1957 for Lee and Yang.
One of the broken symmetries proven by Wu et al. and published in 1957 is the broken symmetry of opposite charges, as on the ends of a dipole.
That asymmetry is used by charges and dipoles for extracting and pouring out Electromagnetic energy from the vacuum, yet not one current Electrical Engineering or classical electromagnetics textbook mentions the energy implications of dipolar asymmetry. Nor do they mention that every charge and dipole freely pours out real observable EM energy continuously, with no observable energy input...T Bearden