“Hidden Breakthroughs: 69 Scientific Marvels That Shocked Experts but Were Ignored by the World”
The knowledge gained from this will change medicine and evolution in ways that we cannot yet comprehend.
As a geologist, the discovery of mantle blobs and the latest theory that they may be debris from whatever early planetary collision that formed moon is f*****g wild.
That in 2022, we achieved net positive fusion energy, or Q=1. More recently we’ve gotten Q=2.3.
We did it on 1970 laser technology. Our modern stuff just needs to be technically proven in this high power setup. Just need to make the cheap industrial high power lasers and array towards a reaction chamber. We could have real fusion power plants in the next five to ten years.
Photons behave differently when they’re being observed by a human or instrument vs. when they’re not being observed.
Still a lot more to do here but we recently discovered a potential explanation for how environmental and metabolic factors influence the expression of certain genes in our DNA: amyloid proteins.
This is remarkable because it partially redeems long-debunked genetic theorists like Lamarck, Lysenko and Ivan Michurin who thought environmental factors were the primary drivers of heritability, and believed DNA was over-sold in this regard.
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*.
So that adds up to a lot of extra or a lot of missing photons that travel ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE UNIVERSE to our telescopes.
So we essentially know what elements are in stars and the intervening media from hundreds of light years away, on the largest scale known to man because of the interaction of the smallest scale known to man.
Dating based around yyyy/mm/dd instead of mm/dd/yyyy
Does anyone have any idea how much of a time save it is when your inputting any data files into a computer? Just one click, and you have a neat, chronological list of all files bunched together with similar topics, but folks in The States get so mad whenever you put the year first instead of the month.
