Essay talk:Scientific Foreknowledge in Gilbert and Sullivan

It's not just unique to predictions of quantum mechanics. A friend of mine was doing a PhD where the central thesis was that some of W.S. Gilbert's writings pre-dated and predicted a lot of the late-19th and early-20th Century feminist attitudes (despite being a complete misogynist even by Victorian standards). Notably Princess Ida (1884) contains a lot of thought and references to the "New Woman" idea that wasn't firmly established until the mid-1890s - this is like discovering a Metallica like band in the 1960s. 16:10, 28 October 2010 (UTC)