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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. Google Mirror by HoneyBunchesOfGoats · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why has noone yet posted the Google mirror of this story?

    People who post NYTimes stories should include this to start with.