Astrophysics: A telescope at the South Pole has made the biggest cosmological discovery so far this century
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Astrophysics: A telescope at the South Pole has made the biggest cosmological discovery so far this century
Mar 22nd 2014 | From the print edition
ONE useful feature of a scientific theory is that it makes testable predictions. Such predictions, though, do not have to be testable straight away. Physics is replete with prophecies that could be confirmed or denied only decades later, once the technology to examine them had caught up. The Higgs boson, for example, was 50 years in the confirming. Read more of this post