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Lionessa

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2. Really cool article and well written for my layman scientific comprehension level.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Mon Feb 6, 2012, 09:49 PM

Feb 2012

Sometimes I find the concepts really interesting but reading the article just gets too technical for me to follow well. This one, not so. I totally get it, and WOW!

I can understand why this is both so counter-intuitive, and how in spite of that it is the future.

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The Nobel Prize-Winning Discovery that Got a Scientist Kicked Out of His Own Lab [View all] n2doc Feb 2012 OP

So if Shechtman's conclusions about nature were eventually proven correct, might not those mystics jody Feb 2012 #1

Just because one person turned out to be right, doesn't mean everyone else will. (nt) jeff47 Feb 2012 #3

I don't understand your point. Intelligent people understand that a single case does not prove jody Feb 2012 #4

I don't think so. mysuzuki2 Feb 2012 #6

One difference between quasicrystals and an afterlife mindwalker_i Feb 2012 #7

Your post seems to be claiming other people are right because he was. (nt) jeff47 Feb 2012 #8

Sorry I claimed nothing. nt jody Feb 2012 #9

Schectman did pretty much exactly the opposite of mystics caraher Feb 2012 #10

Well done, thank. Scuba Feb 2012 #12

In the same way that people who thought the Earth was flat might be Motown_Johnny Feb 2012 #11

Not without supporting data, a falsifiable hypothesis, and peer-reviewed, reproducible results. Orsino Feb 2012 #13

Really cool article and well written for my layman scientific comprehension level. Lionessa Feb 2012 #2

And Struggling Culinary Enthusiasts Have Never Looked Back Thaddeus Kosciuszko Feb 2012 #5

Scientists and "Skeptics" can be just as fundamentalist and hidebound as any Creationist or Jihadist TalkingDog Feb 2012 #14