Thanks, pointing out these bits is helpful! Making another cup of tea and then will try again...
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Replying to @drossbucket @Meaningness
Maybe something I can actually understand will emerge from nebulosity
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Is it OK if I live-tweet my reading? It’s an interesting text for me; may be less relevant for you!
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Replying to @brewingsense @drossbucket
OK I’m now going to look into the scientific background. Turns out this was the FIRST optical pulsar observation, and it was a big deal
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Replying to @Meaningness @drossbucket
> because it was extremely unclear how pulsars could work, and the hope was optical observation would constrain that. Was a race to find one
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Replying to @Meaningness @drossbucket
The science is actually extremely cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Pulsar … This is the neutron star remnant of the 1054 supernova!
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Replying to @Meaningness @drossbucket
Here is the post hoc version of the discovery: interviews for pop-science audience. https://history.aip.org/history/exhibits/mod/pulsar/pulsar1/01.html … [ten web pages]
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Replying to @Meaningness @drossbucket
This is extremely interesting partly for the science itself, and partly for the details about how they kludged the equipment to behave
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Replying to @Meaningness @drossbucket
As a post hoc account, though, it’s exactly what the ethnos want NOT to use, because of the likelihood of rationalizations
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Here’s the Nature paper, extensively post hocked, although presumably much less so than subsequent textbook versions http://sci-hub.cc/https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v221/n5180/pdf/221525a0.pdf …
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