Stock trading in the Nobel Prizes

[Martin]

The Nobel Prizes in physics are due to be announced Tuesday in about 5 days from now.

 

there is stock trading at this address

http://www.nobelpreisboerse.de/stocks.aspx?stc=1

 

it is a kind of betting where you can shift your bets up to the last day

they have a stock market in the winners of the 6 different prizes, physics chemistry, medicine, literature, peace, economics.

 

everybody who registers to play gets given $10,000 in play money

 

you buy the stock of somebody you think might win the prize

and if more people start thinking he might win, then his stock gets bid up

and you can, if you want, sell at a higher prlce

and buy some stock in an even smarter pick, if you can

 

in the end people with high portfolio value (the good guessers) get awarded a prize. IBM has donated a laptop computer to be a prize, I dont know if there are other interesting prizes, maybe just several laptops.

 

right now the physicist Frank Wilczek's stock has climbed quite a bit

and also a couple of other people whose names I dont recall, oh, there is

Peter Higgs of the Higgs boson, his stock is way up there

 

click on the name and you get a picture and a thumbnail account of what they did, and a record of the stock price over the past week or two

[Martin]

for the physics prize, Anton Zeilinger is now way out ahead

 

his stock has climbed from 10 to 55 dollars a share

 

a distant second is Peter Higgs of the Higgs boson, whose stock

has gone from 10 to 35.

 

Anybody know of Zeilinger's work? Why his stock should be so high?

 

EXAMPLES OF SOME BIG GAINERS

 

Anton Zeilinger

Physik

$55.31

$10.00

453.10 %

 

Peter Higgs

Physik

$37.48

$10.00

274.80 %

 

David Wineland

Physik

$26.09

$10.00

160.90 %

 

Theodor W. Hänsch

Physik

$21.77

$10.00

117.70 %

 

Ignacio Cirac

Physik

$20.42

$10.00

104.20 %

 

Frank Wilczek

Physik

$19.52

$10.00

95.20 %

 

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FOR COMPARISON, an example of a mediocre gain:

Alan Guth

Physik

$12.53

$10.00

25.30 %

 

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And an example of a decline:

 

Alain Aspect

Physik

$6.77

$10.00

-32.30 %