“Hidden Breakthroughs: 69 Scientific Marvels That Shocked Experts but Were Ignored by the World”
Problem was that once we better understood DNA, we slightly over-corrected and dismissed environmental/metabolic influence in favour of DNA-exclusive thinking, but that has always failed to fully explain a few things. Recentish studies have shown things like heritability in alcoholism, which was poorly explained by DNA but IS explained by DNA methylation and amyloid proteins which can essentially cause certain genes within your DNA to express more strongly, or less strongly, or even switch off entirely.
Basically it turned out the truth was, and always has been, a mix of both. Dismissing the primacy of DNA was foolish for the Lamarckist/Michurinist faction of scientists, but mainstream researchers also made a huge blunder in dismissing the opposing school of thought for so long as well.
The sewing machine.
Yes, there were good looms, but man, if the sewing machine was in the age of social media, it would be the next best thing.
An oldie but a goodie: stellar spectroscopy.
Because of quantum mechanics, when light passes close to an atom, sometimes the electrons in change orbital they either emit or absorb photons. On a galactic scale, if you’ve got lots of atoms that can add up to A LOT of light.
But electron orbitals have a specific energy depending on the element and only photons of *exactly that energy* can be absorbed. And photon energy is determined by wavelength. And we know the elements’ characteristic wavelengths *very well*.
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