Scientists Are So Blind

Posted: 8/28/2018

Trigger

Just read 3-D Cell Environment Crucial for Divvying Up Chromosomes – Find Could Help Explain Cancer Hallmark. It is very hard to believe that scientists only now realized that cell division (mitosis) does not function well in cells grown in a flat Petri dish as opposed to cells inserted into a living tissue. And this after more than 100 years of intensive research!

Similarities And Synergy

This reminds me that I recently blogged about following, similar discoveries:

1. Cell organelles have contact sites and tether together (here)
2. Human fascial system from head to toe (here)

It almost appears that scientists finally discover that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts or that by drilling down into ever more minute details obscures the view of the bigger picture (not seeing the forest for the trees).

Subatomic Particle Physics

Just today (8/28/2018) I read following news from Brookhaven National Laboratory: LHC Scientists Detect Most Favored Higgs Decay Scientists now know the fate of the vast majority of all Higgs bosons produced in the LHC. Quote: “Today at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider collaborations ATLAS and CMS jointly announced the discovery of the Higgs boson transforming into bottom quarks as it decays. This is predicted to be the most common way for Higgs bosons to decay, yet was a difficult signal to isolate because background processes closely mimic the subtle signal.” (emphasis added)

Yes, there was lots of excitement in 2012, when scientists at the  Large Hadron Collider (LHC) of CERN were able to detect the existence of this crucial particle. However, what are we actually dealing with here:

1. The all so important Higgs boson has a mean lifetime of about 1.6×10−22 s.
2. “Higgs bosons are only produced in roughly one out of a billion LHC collisions and live only a tiny fraction of a second before their energy is converted into a cascade of other particles.”
3. “Since its discovery in 2012, scientists have been able to identify only about thirty percent of all the predicted Higgs boson decays.”

To me, it appears that particle physics is going down a dead end. I have previously written some critical comments on particle physics (see e.g. here, here)

Like the once astonishing recognition of the duality of particle and waves, scientists have yet to make sense of the ever growing and more bizarre zoo of subatomic particles. Are they too missing the forest for the trees?

Like Gravity Or Synergy

Something is important is escaping scientists in their quest to further explain the universe we live in and beyond or life therein!

Guess, we have to wait for the next Galileo, Newton, or Einstein!