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Let us look back about a 100 years and imagine that we live at the beginning of the twentieth century. This is the starting point of a scientific and technological revolution that will not only transform the world and the material life of European civilization but also transform science itself.
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Rubtsov, V. (2009). The Big Bang of More than Regional Significance. In: The Tunguska Mystery. Astronomers' Universe. Copernicus, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76574-7_2
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