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Originally Posted by regenfreak
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No doubt that he was a genius, but predicting something on a piece of paper before its existence is proven is an established quirk of the human imagination. Of course, we've rather moved away from the model of one particularly gifted being illuminating things for the masses, probably about 100 years ago. Collaboration is the only path to progress.
And particle physics wouldn't be the well-funded thing that it is if proof had to follow theory within a given period of time.