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no_step t1_jeepwz0 wrote

There's a false premise in your question. We certainly know in theory that shorter wavelengths of light allow for smaller features, but the technology to generate extreme UV did not exist and needed to be developed. Right now there's only one company in the world that knows how to do it

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no_step t1_ja7guc1 wrote

Scopes' involvement in the so-called Scopes Monkey Trial came about after the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) announced that it would finance a test case challenging the constitutionality of the Butler Act if it could find a Tennessee teacher who was willing to act as a defendant.

A band of businessmen in Dayton, Tennessee, led by engineer and geologist George Rappleyea, saw this as an opportunity to get publicity for their town, and they approached Scopes.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Scopes

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no_step t1_iy64ugn wrote

There is a story, possibly apocryphal, of the distinguished British biologist, J.B.S. Haldane, who found himself in the company of a group of theologians. On being asked what one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator from a study of his creation, Haldane is said to have answered, “An inordinate fondness for beetles.”

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