Too strange to be true

Check out the Nature paper on Shechtman’s nobel prize for his work on quasicrystals. I dig the idea in the commentaries:

we should have a separate section in journals for “too strange to be true” or something like that. That way, those who are experts and interested can evaluate it for themselves.

 

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