• fossilesque@mander.xyzOPM
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      7 days ago

      It should happen every time you do a literature review. It’s part of the process! If you already knew everything, you wouldn’t be doing research. :3

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      Last time this happened to me, more or less, I was trying to find the original source of some commonly (in the field) understood thing. After digging deeper and deeper I came out at Einstein or some similar physicist from the early 19 hundredths. That was wild and unexpected, as it was decades earlier than what I expected. The experiments they did to get us here is amazing.