Apart from the politics resulting from the dash-for-the-cash prize, the following is a real eye-opener ..
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The revised article – still less than two sides of A4 paper — was accepted by an American journal, the Physical Review Letters at the end of August.
Higgs boson would become part of the Standard Model, the framework of theoretical physics that for nearly four decades has described how fundamental particles interact.
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Must have been some paper !!
I'd say Hawking wasn't one of the peer-reviewers for that one !
Quantum Physics has always been a problem for Hawking. I guess only because of his quest to glue it together with GR.
I notice in his new book, he's advocating M-Theory as the way forward. (Mind you, there was only a couple of paragraphs about it, right at the end).
From that, I conclude that Sir Ed (Witten) is being handed the reins by Hawking. … Safe bet, that one !!
Cheers