New Scientist: The axe was poised over the British Antarctic Survey’s ozone monitoring programme when it noticed an awfully big hole in the sky THE great Ernest Rutherford once remarked that all science is either physics or stamp collecting. While physicists are seekers of the truth who uncover sweeping laws of nature, the rest are mere collectors, who pigeonhole things into categories. But the story of the hole shows that collecting and categorising can have a huge impact. In the early …