Another Ignoble Prize Winner

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics went the man the Higgs boson is named after.  Peter Higgs and fellow scientist Francois Engler postulated that the particle existed some 50 years ago.

Now, the octogenarian pair share the Nobel Prize in physics in recognition of a theoretical brilliance that was vindicated by the particle's discovery last year. 

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the prize to them. 

Higgs and Englert's theories behind the elusive Higgs boson explained what gives matter its mass. 

The universe is filled with Higgs bosons. As atoms and parts of atoms zoom around, they interact with and attract Higgs bosons, which cluster around them in varying numbers. 

Certain particles will attract larger clusters of Higgs bosons, and the more of them a particle attracts, the greater its mass will be. 

The explanation helped complete scientists' understanding of the nature of all matter.

Maybe physicists can someday explain why Republicans keep existing.  I can't.  After all, the last guy to win the Nobel in Physics?  He got furloughed this week.

In 2012, David Wineland, a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, won the Nobel Prize for his "ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems." 

But Wineland has been deemed nonessential and is furloughed due to the government shutdown. 

"On the organization charts I'm just another worker, another non-essential," Wineland told the Washington Post.

America.  We lay off freakin' Nobel Prize winners because Republicans will never recognize the Nobel Peace Prize winner in the White House.