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The universe is full of secrets that challenge our beliefs. about her. In his heading “Beyond Science” an electronic resource EpochTimes Collects Stories About These Strange Puzzles imagination and opening up previously unimaginable opportunities. Truthful are these stories You decide.
Popular Science Magazine Browser ScientificAmerican skeptic Dr. Michael Shermer described a case from of his own life, which amazed him, and which featured transistor receiver of his wife’s deceased grandfather.
Dr. Bernard Bateman is the Founding Father Coincidence Studies. As part of the University of Virginia program, he develops terminology and methodology for the study of coincidences, and in overall makes this fascinating phenomenon, he said, “more science-like. ”
He has heard a great many coincidence stories and shares many of them with EpochTimes in the course of their research. Here some special examples.
1. Fateful find
When journalist Stephen Diamond arrived in San Francisco, he had pocket was only 10 dollars. He could not even afford a notebook for notes, while inspiration was overflowing. is he decided to steal the notebook, but changed his mind. Suddenly he noticed what he so badly needed: a notebook lying face down on a pile of garbage, clothes, shoes, old books. Notepad title read “Stephen Diamond, MD”. What were the odds Diamond find in the trash notebook with a proper name on the cover, yes still in perfect condition, when was he most needed? So in the light came out of the cult novel “WhattheTreesSaid”.
2. Incredible coincidence hits a skeptic
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Dr. Michael Shermer is the founder of Skeptic magazine, Executive Director of Skeptics Social and Monthly ScientificAmerican magazine reviewer. He wrote in his column on September 16 about an event that led him to the conclusion that you should not close your perception, because it can give us amazing discoveries.
His bride’s luggage was transported to the United States from Germany, and among other things there was an old transistor her grandfather’s radio. The girl was very close with her grandfather, who died when she was 16. The radio was silent for decades, and Shermer, no matter how hard he tried, could not force him again make money. It still remained silent deep in the drawer in the bedroom of the spouses. In June of this year, they got married. After Sherman’s wife asked him to speak in private with her. She I felt lonely, missed my family in Germany and regretted that grandfather did not live up to the wedding and could not give her in marriage. Suddenly, young people heard music from the back of the house, it was romantic melody. They searched in vain for the source of music, and suddenly his wife looked at him, startled. ‘It can’t be what I think, really? ’she asked. It was transistor the radio in the box. “My grandfather is here with us,” she said, with tears in his eyes. “I’m not alone.” The radio continued to work all wedding night.
“What is remarkable, the next morning it stopped playing and is silent to this day, ”Shermer writes.
3. At the right time at the right place
Photo from open sources Alexander Fleming, who discovered penicillin. (background: mold petri dish )
Penicillin, an antibiotic that has made a huge breakthrough in the fight against bacterial infections, was discovered after many years thanks to many accidents and coincidences.
Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming had a cold in November 1921 year. From a runny nose, a drop fell directly from his nose into a cup for cultivation full of bacteria. The scientist realized that this drop killed bacteria and left a halo of inhibition around itself. Component the mucus that killed the bacteria was lysozyme, but it couldn’t be mass produce as an antibiotic.
Nearly ten years later, Fleming conducted research in a hospital. St. Mary Laboratory conditions were unsatisfactory – cracks in the ceiling and drafts did not allow to create perfectly controlled environment. The scientist went on vacation and left Petri dishes in the sink. Instead of just washing them as you would many scientists, he first examined them and found foci with dead bacteria like those from a drop of mucus with lysozyme. But now a halo of inhibition has appeared around some fungi that landed on cups – spores got there through cracks in the ceiling from the lower floor, where it was also held experiment.
Disputes fell into Petri dishes at the most opportune moment: in the period, when the temperature was perfect. If bacteria in cups were in a different phase of their development, the fungus would not have them no influence.
Fleming realized that this mold could kill bacteria. However only in the 1940s did another group of scientists carry out various experiments using a fungus on mice. They found out that mold can survive in the body of a mammal, and that penicillin has potential for treating bacterial infections in humans. They are not were going to investigate its use – the discovery became clean by chance.
This is one of the reasons Dr. Bateman wants to continue. work on coincidence research: awareness and susceptibility can help people more often notice wholesome coincidences. If that lab were in the best condition, disputes would never hit Fleming’s sink. If Fleming Wasn’t So meticulous, deciding to study the fungus in the sink before it rinse off, he would not notice a halo of inhibition. If the disputes weren’t landed at the right time, Fleming wouldn’t have done his discoveries.
Thus, many coincidences, coupled with some insight led to the discovery of what saved millions lives.
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