Time to listen to alternative ideas by Mainstream science and investigate

Science in the present time has come through a long way of ups and downs. It started with simple ideas to complex phenomena, and theories for out space too. But, what we have observed during this course of maturity is – Main stream science has always been brutal to alternative ideas and opinions. New ideas and opinion haven been rejected quickly without even listening them once. Main stream science has shown panic whenever a new idea emerges from a scientist and rush to reject/scrap it completely. History has been repeated many times in the rejection of new ideas. Main stream science has never shown any interest to look into the evidences presented or do some researches to criticize/appreciate new ideas. Sole rejection of new ideas without investigation is the greatest weakness of Main stream science.

Few of ideas which were quickly rejected, but came as true later…….

1. Alfred Wegener – He gave the idea of “continental drift“, which was rejected as main stream science was lacking some imagination to even envision this. He passed away in 1930 during an expedition to Greenland. Scientists kept on rejecting his idea for a long time even after his death. But, in 1960s, theory of continental drift became part of the mainstream science. It is sad that a scientist could not rejoice the acceptance of his proposed idea during his lifetime.

2. Ignaz Semmelweis – Ignaz was a obstetrician in Vienna, Austria. He found that “mortality rate of pregnant women getting service from doctors who wash their hands before was lower than those doctors who do not wash their hands before giving service to pregnant women in the birthing ward of hospital.” He made this conclusion based on data collected about hand washing and mortality among child birth women. But, nobody believed him and rejected his idea, though the science of that time had no idea of germs. But, nobody bother to look into the data and try to find correlation between two things: doctors washing hands before giving service and mortality rate of childbirth women. He died a sad death in a “Insane asylum“.

3. Gregor Mendel – A monk who did his own experiments with pea plants: plant height, pod shape and color, seed shape and color, and flower position and color. He coined the idea of genetic inheritance and laid down a lot of data to prove this theory. He also coined terms like – Dominant and recessive to point out traits. He explained how traits are inherited from one generation to another. Though, his ideas were not quickly accepted when he was alive. They only got accepted after his death. Again, one sad incident of radical idea being dismissed to early.

4. Nicholas Copernicus – Nicholas wrote a book, where he put sun in the Centre of solar system and every plant revolving around the sun. He tried to resurrect the heliocentric solar system theory given by Aristarchus, but to get acceptance by scientists of that period.

5. Johannes Kepler – Kepler also tried to put forward the heliocentric solar system theory, but met with strong rejection from main stream science of that time. He also proposed that orbit of planets in solar system is not complete circular, but somewhat elliptical.

6. Amedeo Avogadro – He proposed that same volume of gases would have equal number of gas molecules. His idea was not accepted during life life time. It got accepted after his death and currently is is known as “Avogadro’s Law“.

7. Galileo Galilei – Galileo was also rejected for agreeing with the idea of earth revolving around the sun. He was even put in prison for proposing idea against what most churches used to believe.

8. Charles Darwin – Charles Darwin is the first scientist to identify and collect evidences related to evolution and theory of natural selection. Theory of natural selection and evolution were rejected in the starting phase because it was widely believed that all the life on the earth is like this from millennia. Church was stronger than main stream science. It really took some time for main stream science to accept the idea given by Charles Darwin.

9. Louis Pasteur – Louis Pasteur proposed the idea that disease are transmitted from one being to another through germs. He is the father of “germ theory of disease” and discredit the doctrine of “spontaneous generation“. He also develop a sterilization technique called “pasteurization“. His idea was completely rejected by science of that time.

10. Barry J. Marshall and J. Robin Warren – These two scientists found that bacteria could be responsible for stomach ulcer in humans. They face strong rejection from science community, it was widely believed that bacteria could not live in acidic environment. Two Scientists were ridiculed for their discovery until in 2005, main stream science accepted that Helicobacter pylori bacteria is responsible for stomach ulcers.

11. Peter Ware Higgs – Peter Higgs proposed “Higgs model” in 1964. His seminal paper on the Higgs model rejected back in 1966. Later, CERN proved his model right and in 2013, Higgs was awarded Nobel prize in Physics.

12. Albert Einstein – Einstein developed “General Theory of Relativity” from 1907 to 1915 and finally published it in 1916. In the initial years, his theory of relativity was very much rejected. “121 authors are identified as opponents to the special relativity theory. Hundred Authors against Einstein contains contributions from twenty-eight authors. 

The notion is rising that Main stream science is losing its generous attitude just because some opinion/ideas sounds impossible in the starting. Science matures with time and digs up new discoveries to strengthen the vessel of knowledge

It does not mean that many theories/idea proposed were later debunked by science. Such as ——>>

a. Luminiferous Aether – It was proposed that a mysterious substance called Aether/Ether might have been the part of the space and helps in transmitting light in the space. This theory was proved to be untrue.

b. Static Universe – Einstein proposed a scenario of static universe because he was not an admirer of change and chaos in the universe. This idea was later debunked by the discovery of Hubble, where he found out that the space is expanding, galaxies are going far from each other and redshift (a redshift is an increase in the wavelength, and corresponding decrease in the frequency and photon energy, of electromagnetic radiation. source – Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift )

c. Phlogiston theory – German scientist proposed a theory where he believed that combustible items contain “phlogiston” and release during combustion. Later it was debunked with the identification of it as the process of oxidation.

There many new ideas and old stagnating ideas which were completely rejected or not even investigates by Main Stream science. Such as —-

1.Consciousness – It is one of the idea which has pulled a lot of attention. Very less research has been done in this field. No one clearly could explain what is consciousness and what happens to it when a human dies? These questions have not been answered yet. Yet, many from Main stream science do not consider it a worthy to discuss, rather consider human body merely a machine and our consciousness a response to existing chemicals inside.

This idea needs intensive researches because without consciousness, we would merely be a vessel of organs and blood.

2. Human history based on the discovery of old historical sites – Human history is considered very short because the old researches did not get chance to excavate historical sites, which are recently found. These discoveries has changed the old notion of human history, which says that, “Human history is not older than 10,000 years”. After the discovery of sites like Gobleki tepe, discovery of human bones oldest than what we had found before in sites we did not even thought of finding them. Questions arises —>> Is human history only 10,000 years old? Was there modern human civilization before us and it got wiped out due to some serious natural calamity? If, there were civilizations who were wiped out long before, then what knowledge and skill they had that they were so much advanced? Why we are scared to even consider this possibility when new emerging evidences are coming day by day? etc.

In addition to it, new finding of human fossilized skulls have questioned the old notion of series of evolution… from cave man to modern human.

Gobleki tepe – It is one of the oldest human built structure we have found till date. This structure has raised many question to the chronology of development of modern human in the written books. With the discovery of this structure, we are compelled to think that humans were really advanced long before we had predicted. It means we still have yet a lot to search and investigate about our past.

Big Flood – Every religion and culture has some sort of myths, folk tales, stories, songs about a big flood that had happened in the past. How come all the religion and culture has the same story about a catastrophic event that happened long before— It means it has some truth. In Christianity – Noah’s Ark. In Mesopotamia – An Immortal man named Utnapishtim brought all of his relatives and all species of creatures aboard his ark to save mankind. In Hinduism – Lord Vishnu warn humanity about a possible big flood and asked to build a ship and tie it to a giant fish. In China, in Buddhism, in Greek culture... everywhere they have mentioned about big flood in their own way. This big flood changed the topography of earth, washed away whatever human civilization there exists at that time and kill many species. It is believed that the end of ice age lead to this big flood. the remains of this big flood could be found in the form of ripples it had created. Still scientist are investigating an understanding the earth and its past. All the possible evidences about “THE BIG FLOOD” has been completely rejected by Main Stream Science.

We know more about space then our own earth and its past. So, we need a humble heart with investigative eyes to corroborate those evidences found to back up a theory.

Risen level of water due to BIG FLOOD caused many cities flooded and completely erased from the visible eye sight. Scientists are discovering under water cities, that existed in the past.

Such as —>>>

A 3,400 year old city from bronze era emerged in Iraq, after the water level dropped in a water reservoir…….

In 1967, scientist came across a submerged city named Pavlopetri, which is a 5,000 year old city in southern Greece in the Mediterranean sea……..

Heracleion, an ancient city in Egypt. scientist detected old coins from this city in water. Yet, there is still a lot to explore in this submerged city………

Discovery of a 3,000 year old sunken city of Baia in Italy holds a wonder of roman empire. It is an underwater archeological park…….

A lot is yet to discover about Atlit-Yam off the coast of northern Israel, a submerged village with 7,5000 years to 8,000 years old history……..

The Yanaguni Monument is Japan’s Atlantis. Scientist believed that it is manmade and is 10,000 years old structure. A pyramid shaped structure and staircases shows that a civilization was lost with this sunken structure…..

Discovery of lost city, DWARKA, an ancient Indian city with more than 5,000 years old history in the Gulf of Cambay. Though, Hindu religious books has also mentioned the existence of this city, it was considered a mythological city until it was discovered in 1988 in submerged state…….

These are just few of the explored submerged structures built by humans in the past. there could be many more and it would surely change the timeline of human history and provide new insight to our human journey.

String theory – Nikola Tesla said that, “If you want to understand the universe, think in terms of Energy, Vibration and Frequency.” Quantum mechanics changed the whole way we look at physics and helps us to understand the universe in atomic level. String theory is the next quantum mechanics on the way. It states that every sub atomic particles is further made up of tiny strings, which when vibrates releases energy. This is a wonderful imagination. And, a lot of research is being going on. It might take a while to prove it or search any strong evidence that exists in the universe. But, Main Steam science need to keep an open eyes and ears to let this theory grow and mature.

ADHD – Science is in very rush to categorize things and prescribe medication. ADHD is one of them. Every child is different than other. Every child would learn in his/her way own way, that way parents and teachers have to identify during learning process. It is true that every Kid could not focus in same way and with same intensity. It does not mean that we let medicines and chemicals affect the growth of neurons in child’s brain. Instead of exploring ways to teach and trying to understand the situation of every child, science likes to categories as ADHD and soon prescribe medication. Exploration in new ways have not been done yet.

Science has reached to this stage of maturity with lots of failures and lessons learnt. Science has yet to mature more than this and has to explore more secrets of the universe, the earth and human.

But, Main Stream Science has to be more humble in listening new ideas, new approaches, new evidences, new theories, new fields rather than defying all because that changes the old dogmas. With new evidences and studies everything is supposed to be mire updated and refined….. This is what science does—–>> Brings us closer tot he truth more and more closer with evidences

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