3 win Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand cosmos

Congratulations, gentlemen, on recognition for your astounding work. I'm looking forward to your next discoveries. Keep inspiring us!

It's so refreshing to hear about real great people used to work in the shadow.

Keep up guys!

Really? In this day and age an article needs to explain what an exoplanet is?

The discovery of the planet was at the time a stunning piece of work, until then we had assumed there were but had no definitive evidence of the existence of other planets around other stars. Now the assumption that most would mirror our own system has been blown away.

Incidentally, the correct form is Sir Peter Ratcliffe.

Alone the term "to understand Cosmos" shows how naive humans are. What does "understanding" mean? When do you "understand" something? Maybe the author of this article should read "Faust" by Goethe before using vague and abstract terms.

Incidentally, the correct form is Sir Peter Ratcliffe.

His mum may disagree.

Maybe the author of this article should read "Faust" by Goethe before using vague and abstract terms.

What do you mean by "maybe"?

Gaahh! Are those posts a send up?

His work set the stage for a "transformation" of cosmology

If Peebles can figure out how to get Scorpio and Aquarius to get along he could win the Peace Prize as well.

Really? In this day and age an article needs to explain what an exoplanet is?

Evidently you having to even ask this question, in this day and age, explains a lot as well!

Really? In this day and age an article needs to explain what an exoplanet is?

Well yeah. This is a news article - they are written for the layman. Why would people whose area of expertise lies entirely outside of anything space related have knowledge of what an exoplanet is.

For example, I, a reader of this article, didn't know what it was. If provided the word and a list of definitions, I could probably guess which one, based on the exo prefix, meaning 'outer'. But with no definitions, I could guess it being a planet outside our solar system, but I could also guess it as a planet with a hardened exterior - ie. not a gas giant.

The idea that everyone is going to have knowledge in every field to the degree that some easier things those knowledgeable of the field know by default , is mistaken. It's expecting the rest of the world to share the same knowledge the speaker does, and everyone in the world has their own range of knowledge.

Good for science-based facts