Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by JesperRavn 3898 days ago
Unqualified as I am, I feel compelled to give some commentary. This is the real deal. As the article describes, the Nobel Prize was awarded for a discovery of facts that are inconsistent with the (poorly named) Standard Model of particle physics. That is, facts that are inconsistent with the equations that so far have been assumed to describe all of physics except for gravity.

Neutrinos, which according to the Standard Model have zero mass, have been shown to have non-zero mass. That's the limit of my knowledge.