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    Chuck Yeager, first man to break the sound barrier.
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    Albert Einstein
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Jocelyn Bell

Seek understanding not the truth

Seek understanding not the truth

By Mark Palmer on October 10, 2017

In 1967 a graduate intern from Cambridge working towards her PHD helped discover one of the major break throughs in our understanding of science and the universe. Her name was Jocelyn Bell and what she helped discover was something we now call Pulsars.  Pulsars are highly magnetized, rotating neutron stars that emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation. Neutron [...]

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