After dust stymies a quest to confirm cosmic inflation, a physicist questions science's most prestigious award Losing the Nobel Prize, by astrophysicist Brian Keating, offers a riveting account of the rise and fall of the seeming confirmation of the cosmological theory of inflation. Occluding Keating's account, however, are his personal beefs about "losing" the Nobel Prize. Such gripes taint Keating's otherwise thoughtful analysis of ways the Nobel committee's selection process could be improved.

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重新考虑诺贝尔奖

在尘埃阻碍了确认宇宙暴胀的探索之后，一位物理学家质疑科学界最负盛名的奖项 失去诺贝尔奖，天体物理学家布赖恩·基廷 (Brian Keating) 提供了一个引人入胜的叙述，说明了宇宙暴胀理论的表面确认的兴衰。然而，排除基廷的说法，是他个人对“失去”诺贝尔奖的不满。这种抱怨玷污了基廷对诺贝尔委员会遴选程序的改进方式的深思熟虑的分析。