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It usually takes about fifty years for a fruitful idea to penetrate a scientific discipline. The magnetic moment of hydrogen was discovered in 1941; half a century later hundreds of scientists were using fMRI scanners, which rely on this fact, to measure the brain.
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| Date: | February 23rd, 2007 - 12:35 am |
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I guess the guy does not consider physics a scientific discipline :(
Magnetic moment has penetrated it the moment it was discovered
J.K. is not trying to generalize here. He talks about a discovery in one scientific discipline ( physics) that, after being embodied in a practical tool, penetrates another scientific discipline (experimental psychology). This interpepretation is fairly clear in the book's context. | |
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