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timthorn
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Physicists Pin Down Nuclear Reaction from Moments ...
The term itself was coined in order to disparage the idea by Fred Hoyle, who was a proponent of the Steady State Theory. He never accepted that the Big Bang happened.
mr_mitm
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A prime example of the adage "Science progresses one funeral at a time"
timthorn
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But it is also true that Hoyle made many important contributions himself. For instance, he posited the idea of stellar nucleosynthesis.
We're all complex beings.
foobar1962
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The square root of minus one obtained its name for a similar reason.
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