Edgar Allan Poe, Cosmologist

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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Re:None of these are "discoveries".

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"Proffesor">> "For all we know, the absence of light in these areas may well be merely extremely dense clouds of cosmic dust rather than pinpoints of near-infinite gravitational power." So the fact that the rotational velocity of the Milky Way Galaxy REQUIRES the existance of something as massive as the super massive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, means you are ignorant and not worth while moderating above (-1 TROLL) Mc Hawking - F*ck the Creationists

Re:New concept? Not in philosophy...

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So basically what he is saying is that this article implies that Star Trek should take the credit for the creation of warp drive.... should it ever be created...