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Edgar Allan Poe, Cosmologist

Posted by timothy on from the sure-beats-nostrodamus dept.

David Mazzotta writes "Bet you didn't know Edgar Allen Poe pre-discovered the Big Bang and Black Holes. This article at the NYT discusses the concept of pre-discovery, or theorhetical anticipation of eventual scientific discoveries. Most of these come from forward thinking physicists, but occasionally they come from a morbid, alcoholic, poet."

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  1. Not true. by Billly+Gates · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    MC Steven Hawkings discovered black holes. Its all based on relativity.

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  2. Re:None of these are "discoveries". by Lars+T. · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Not if the posting replied to proves the idiocy.

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