stackyFACTSYou can radically change humanity's understanding of the universe and still get tripped up by bureaucratic nonsense. Hubble proved that the universe was actively expanding, but the Nobel committee arrogantly refused to give him a prize simply because they hadn't yet classified astronomy as a valid branch of physics.
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