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Dame Jocelyn discovered pulsars by spotting a tiny bit of ‘scruff’ in the 30 metres of chart recordings made by the telescope each day.
“It was troubling me because it didn’t fit into any previously known category, so I was a bit puzzled by what it actually was. I started calling it ‘LGM’, which stood for Little Green Men, although I didn’t seriously believe it was little green men,” Dame Jocelyn said.
It reminds me of the old quote:
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …”
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[–] Ardeet [S] ago
It reminds me of the old quote: