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Re:Physicists Create a Bizarre ‘Wigner Crystal’ Made Purely ... by _Microft on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:51PM (#28159317)
There are quite a number of similar coincidences in the history of science. It seems to me that at some point the necessary knowledge or techniques are just there to make some discoveries almost inevitable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries

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Re:Physicists Create a Bizarre ‘Wigner Crystal’ Made Purely ... by dgs_sgd on Thursday August 12, 2021 @01:53PM (#28159330)
Yes, they probably relied on the same scientific breakthrough where it basically became a race for who could do it first.
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