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By: Paul

Here’s a recent article that concludes in similar fashion: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.3924v1.pdf “Indeed, we believe that our results do not solve any problem, but pose important, new ones.”

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By: Allen K.

I think it was in a David Goodstein book that I saw a Kepler quotation “O, sour fate!” followed by “(We don’t usually include such phrases in scientific discourses nowadays.)” And too bad!

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By: Dana Mackenzie

Hi Brian, I ran into this unique relationship between Kepler and Wackher von Wackenfels (note: my source had an “h” in Wackher’s name) when I was writing my first book, “The Big Splat.” In 1610,...

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