My own PhD leaves me inclined to share your rage against the machine but do you care to expound on why this applies to this award?
Because, knowing little about physics, this strikes me as reasonably interesting work compared to the slop in my own field.
Did you read what I wrote? Waste, fraud, and abuse! They do virtually ZERO theoretical physics and then expend gazillions of resources on contraptions to study elusive stuff they could've derived theoretically first and in very elegant fashion. It's just making themselves indispensable at any cost. And they are clever, which is why they are successful in that enterprise so far, but it's not the enterprise that has anyone's interests in mind, except them being in control.