No one believed Eugene Parker's prediction that the sun shot out charged particles in the solar wind. Who believed him? Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a scientist, who, some decades earlier, proposed a theory about star collapses that no one believed.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/10/science/eugene-parker-solar-wind-nasa-probe.html …
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Parker, like Chandrasekhar, was right. https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/10/19/16497438/s-chandrasekhar-limit-stars-physicist-google-doodle … (Chandrasekhar's theory explains why some stars form black holes. Black holes, also, are another concept scientists once ridiculed)
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