I would be very much in favor of changing the rules so that big collaborations can win the prize. The other thing to do is to give it to people who built the LHC, right? That's an enormous technological achievement. And I think that Lynn Evans, for example, whose story I talk about in my book, The Particle at the End of the UniverseWould be a wonderful choice of Nobel Prize winner.
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