THE gods of physics were completely out of their wits. So admirable was the paper entered via e-mail on the last day of the First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics contest. Even before the completion of the evaluation of the hundreds of papers entered from 73 countries, it was a foregone conclusion on Saturday two weeks ago that the results of Septinus George Saas research would gain the gold medal. Quite an achievement!

It took the professors of phy