Photo: #Scientists look at computer screens showing traces on the Atlas experiment of the first protons injected in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) during its switch-on operation at the Cern's press center on Sept. 10, 2008 near Geneva. Physicists fired up the world's biggest atom-smasher in a mission to answer some of the most perplexing questions about the nature of the universe.
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Scientists look at computer screens showing traces on the Atlas experiment of the first protons injected in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) during its switch-on operation at the Cern's press center on Sept. 10, 2008 near Geneva. Physicists fired up the world's biggest atom-smasher in a mission to answer some of the most perplexing questions about the nature of the universe. (FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)

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Theory of a "symmetrical universe" wins a Nobel

Broadcast: Midmorning, 10/10/2008, 10:50 a.m.

The work that won the Nobel Prize in physics unravels one of the mysteries of our origins. Noted physicist Michio Kaku explains how this award-winning work of three scientists from Japan and the U.S. sheds light on the big bang theory.

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  • Michio Kaku: Theoretical physicist and host of Sci Q on the Science Channel. His latest book is "Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel" and will be released in paperback in spring 2009.

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