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Question 1

Name a historical example of good or great science synthesis. What was it about this example that made the synthesis a real process of discovery and scientific advancement?

Lil Na'ia Alessa
Wanted to come back to this after giving it some thought. The GUT (Grand Unification Theory) took very different observed phenomena and found they shared fundamentally identical processes.

Lilian Na'ia Alessa
Hmmm...let me think on that. Doing this at lightspeed. More later.

Matthew Sturm
Charles Darwin and the Origin of the Species: Darwin collected his own data, read widely and eclectically, and then was able to see a structure and organizing principle that no one else saw, and to then return to his data and readings to further "prove" to himself that his synthesis was on target.