{"id":73039,"date":"2012-08-03T00:53:19","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T08:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=17636"},"modified":"2012-08-03T00:53:19","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T08:53:19","slug":"what-big-money-for-physicists-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/03\/what-big-money-for-physicists-means\/","title":{"rendered":"What big money for physicists means"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/07\/31\/science\/9-scientists-win-yuri-milners-fundamental-physics-prize.html?pagewanted=print\">9 Scientists Receive a New Physics Prize<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Several of the winners said they hoped that the new prize, with its large cash award, would help raise recognition of physics and draw more students into the field. \u201cIt\u2019ll be great to have this sort of showcase for what\u2019s going on in the subject every year,\u201d Dr. Arkani-Hamed said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<br \/>\nDr. Guth agreed. \u201cI do think prizes like this help put across to the public that fundamental physics is important, and it\u2019s not just heavyweight boxing that\u2019s worthy of prizes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>But he was going to warn his students not to get the wrong idea. \u201cCertainly, it\u2019s still not a great idea to go into physics for the money,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I doubt anyone will go into physics to get this prize. Rather, the importance here is <b>what this teaches society in terms of what is valuable and worthy of praise in our culture.<\/b> It is a question of values, not incentives and utils. The difference between Athens in the 5th century BC and Constantinople in the 6th century AD is not a matter of material conditions. The empire which Constantinople could mobilize dwarfed the Delian League headed by Athens.  But the Athenians &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/bVJG6fK3HkI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>9 Scientists Receive a New Physics Prize:<br \/>\nSeveral of the winners said they hoped that the new prize, with its large cash award, would help raise recognition of physics and draw more students into the field. \u201cIt\u2019ll be great to have this sort of show&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-iron-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73039"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73114,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73039\/revisions\/73114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}