You posted: How can that be? The science was settled. There was consensus.
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Well said. And how would someone who challenged the prior neutron properties vision have been viewed about two weeks before these new findings were made? I suggest that he or she would have been treated much like global warming skeptics and evolution skeptics are today. Perhaps all of us should be prepared for the possibility that our assumptions may not be entirely correct, and may be completely wrong.
Well written.
There can be no real assumptions in scientific methodology, just postulates.