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All scientific break-troughs are obvious in retrospect.

Special relativity which Einstein got a Nobel for is now taught in high-school.

"Of course if you move a magnet in a piece of copper you will generate a current, it's extremely obvious it should be so"

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That's true. I'm not saying the work is trivial, I'm calling out the difference between "deduction from known data" and "distilling known data"
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