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Both papers published simultaneously... How does that happen? But the probability of that happening seems to be more since the last 100 years ;)

And no, I don't have any research papers or statistics to back up my statements. Just saying from observing this pattern on reading upon many of the stories about inventions/discoveries etc.

BTW, what is the probability of others feeling the same about this "observation"?

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Its because new ideas are built from old ideas. And old ideas travel around the world from mind to mind. When it is time for a new idea to be born, the ideas from which it is constructed are readily available. That is to say: When the last piece of a new idea is distributed rapidly, lots of minds can simultaniously arrive at the same insight. The same new idea. That is why in the modern age, as information travels faster and further, people are having the same idea at the same time, more often.

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