alt Hacker NewsAll scientific break-troughs are obvious in retrospect.
Special relativity which Einstein got a Nobel for is now taught in high-school.
"Of course if you move a magnet in a piece of copper you will generate a current, it's extremely obvious it should be so"
That's true. I'm not saying the work is trivial, I'm calling out the difference between "deduction from known data" and "distilling known data"