[est]

If LK-99 is true, Nobel Prize should make an exception for all the authors.

[psychphysic]

Arbitrary punishing rules of the Nobel prize is part of the fun of science. As far as I can tell either wise they'd have dropped all these insane rules ages ago.

[Sharlin]

Would be interesting if the rule were dropped given that in some fields like particle physics a paper may have dozens of authors…

[elashri]

The Higgs discovery was by ATLAS and CMS experiments (thousands of people) but the Nobel prize went to the theorists.

[astrange]

Particle physics would have to discover something we didn't already know for that to be an issue.

[jeffwass]

Why does this particular discovery merit an exception, but every other Nobel does not?

[r2_pilot]

Perhaps with all the lower-hanging scientific fruit now getting more scarce, it makes sense to start allowing for a larger number of contributors to be recognized, even if they don't necessarily share in the prize money. Why not start such a new tradition when such a practical and wide-ranging technology comes into play? (assuming this is eventually validated)

[calderknight]

would then make sense to award the prize less frequently

[rapsey]

Because if true it will be the most important discovery of this century?

[calderknight]

I'm not sure about that. This is going to be a crazy century.

[concordDance]

The most important discovery of the century will probably be whatever finally lets us make human level AI.

[curiousObject]

That may be the last science Nobel awarded to a human