“Schrodinger’s Bacterium.”

in #science6 years ago

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When some 'Credible Hulk' articles come onto my social media feed - and acolytes of the science model, bay for blood of anyone who dares to imagine that there is more than the provable realm at work in our world. I recall articles such as these.

https://thenextweb.com/science/2018/10/29/physicists-might-have-created-quantum-entanglement-in-bacteria/

Science - as I endlessly repeat is not a set of truths, but a methodology. I personally find it a very useful one, but it is NOT the 'be all and end all'. Like the best of us, it continually evolves, admits its mistakes and grows to encompass ideas it may have once rejected.

Hence I find it dumb arrogance to dismiss out of hand ideas that cite anecdotal evidence or even 'gut feelings'. Those that blindly toe the 'present certainties' line with supercilious authority I place in the same class as fundamentalist zealots - and strive to avoid.

Sure, there is burden of proof to overcome before any such 'left-field' ideas are integrated into humanity's truisms - which may well be beyond us until we develop ways of seeing or measuring phenomena - and then further - until we can reproduce such, to satisfy the method (or perhaps evolve the method to accommodate these margins).

Here's another article: https://arstechnica.com/…/more-evidence-found-for-quantum-…/ again exemplifying that there is so much more to know - and that as a species, humility is severely under-represented.

Peace.

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