What makes One Great

[GIThruster]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/ ... cal-islam/

Amazing--not that such a small girl could survive the attack on her, nor even that she could speak out against oppression both before and afterward; but because this small girl is willing to be the primary target of radical Islam just so she can bring a brighter future to all Islam.

God bless that any soul on the planet is willing to stand up to the forces of evil the way this little girl is willing. I shudder that Malala has not been named as a Nobel Laureate. It just puts the whole lie to what nobility and sacrifice is worth in the eyes of the Nobel Committee and explains why they awarded OBama a prize he had no qualifications for.

BE ASHAMED, NOBEL COMMITTEE! BE ASHAMED!!!

[Schneibster]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/ ... cal-islam/

Amazing--not that such a small girl could survive the attack on her, nor even that she could speak out against oppression both before and afterward; but because this small girl is willing to be the primary target of radical Islam just so she can bring a brighter future to all Islam.

God bless that any soul on the planet is willing to stand up to the forces of evil the way this little girl is willing. I shudder that Malala has not been named as a Nobel Laureate. It just puts the whole lie to what nobility and sacrifice is worth in the eyes of the Nobel Committee and explains why they awarded OBama a prize he had no qualifications for.

BE ASHAMED, NOBEL COMMITTEE! BE ASHAMED!!!

Remember Malala. Her survival is her own best monument.

She got some other prize not long ago, IIRC.

I kind of thought they jumped the gun awarding Obama one, so I'm not all that concerned with what they do or don't do. They seem to do a much better prize for science and literature than for politics. I don't often mention Obama's Nobel Prize to his critics.

On the other hand that doesn't affect the scientific prizes; a Nobel Prize in Physics, these days, generally comes a generation after the work that earns it was done, or more, when its impact can be gauged. And the committees for each prize are pretty much totally separate.

ETA: Hahaha, I went and looked it up and she's got a whole pageful of prizes! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malala#Awards_and_honours

That did my soul good to see. The Peace Prize committee has gotten too political.

And one last thing: she lives in Birmingham. She can never go back to Pakistan, you know. Just keep that in mind.

[Diogenes]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/ ... cal-islam/

Amazing--not that such a small girl could survive the attack on her, nor even that she could speak out against oppression both before and afterward; but because this small girl is willing to be the primary target of radical Islam just so she can bring a brighter future to all Islam.

God bless that any soul on the planet is willing to stand up to the forces of evil the way this little girl is willing. I shudder that Malala has not been named as a Nobel Laureate. It just puts the whole lie to what nobility and sacrifice is worth in the eyes of the Nobel Committee and explains why they awarded OBama a prize he had no qualifications for.

BE ASHAMED, NOBEL COMMITTEE! BE ASHAMED!!!

The Nobel Committee jumped the shark years ago. Nowadays you can determine who was most deserving simply by seeing who didn't win.

[Schneibster]

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/10/ ... cal-islam/

Amazing--not that such a small girl could survive the attack on her, nor even that she could speak out against oppression both before and afterward; but because this small girl is willing to be the primary target of radical Islam just so she can bring a brighter future to all Islam.

God bless that any soul on the planet is willing to stand up to the forces of evil the way this little girl is willing. I shudder that Malala has not been named as a Nobel Laureate. It just puts the whole lie to what nobility and sacrifice is worth in the eyes of the Nobel Committee and explains why they awarded OBama a prize he had no qualifications for.

BE ASHAMED, NOBEL COMMITTEE! BE ASHAMED!!!

The Nobel Committee jumped the shark years ago. Nowadays you can determine who was most deserving simply by seeing who didn't win.

See, this is ignorant. There are many Nobel Committees. Which one? Because, you know, Einstein still hasn't been awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics for Relativity. But he probably will be before the end of this century. When they're sure it's not just right, but Natural Law.

They're extremely-- I say extremely-- conservative.

Amusingly Einstein has a Nobel Prize for the photoelectric effect, which proved energy is absorbed, as well as emitted, as quanta, proving Max Planck's quantum theory; and almost got one for explaining Brownian motion. He had a really good year in which he wrote the three papers on Special Relativity, Brownian motion, and the photoelectric effect; later he called it his "miracle year." It took him decades more to write his General Relativity papers. He may not win his Nobel Prize for Relativity until we send a probe into a black hole, a thousand years from now.

[Stubby]

Einstein is no longer eligible for a Nobel prize for relativity.

Giving Obama the prize was really stupid. I thought they had opened the bottom of the barrel first and grabbed the first name.

[Schneibster]

Einstein is no longer eligible for a Nobel prize for relativity.

Really? Bummer. Before we're done relativity is going to open the universe up for us. All of the promising ways forward from the SM require gnarly relativity tensor math and far more esoteric stuff than that, before long. Both string theory and loop quantum gravity are descendents of relativity, and incredibly complex multidimensional mathematics are features of them all.

People have the impression from somewhere we "have" relativity. In fact, we've only mathematically explored small portions of it in areas that seemed likely to solve outstanding puzzles, and done a double-handful of experiments to test it. They were good experiments, and they showed crucial portions are true, but there still are areas where we don't even know the implications, which of course means we can't test them.

OTOH relativity has given us a complete cosmology, and it turns out that Einstein's "mistake" (lambda) was in fact perhaps his greatest work of genius.

Giving Obama the prize was really stupid. I thought they had opened the bottom of the barrel first and grabbed the first name.

Oh, I see why they did it, and he's lived up to it, mostly. But it hurt their cred unnecessarily. I think they were being pugnacious.