In 1800, based on the physiological galvanic response, Alessandro Volta invented the electric battery. The running electric current brought a considerable contribution to the industrial revolution. J.J. Thomson discovered the electron in 1897, and later electron microscope revolutionized biology. What are the leaders of our future Biology or Physics?
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Dear Sebastian,
Thank you for your thorough answer and analysis. However, I feel that you think that Biology just ask questions, and Physics find new means to respond. As you know, there are some biological phenomena in cells and molecular communications, organism development, telepathy, distant vision, and many others that may include yet unknown physical properties and might spark a new research in Physics. Alternatively, some new material phenomena may generate new directions in Biology.
Vitaly
Hi Sebastian,
There are some examples of Biology generated ideas for Physics. In my original question, I mentioned about Volta electrical battery that was based on the Galvani physiological experiments. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1963 was awarded jointly to Sir John Carew Eccles, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Fielding Huxley for their discoveries concerning the ionic mechanisms involved in functional neurons. It became clear that neuron converts an analog signal to digital electric pulses that used by our brain to perceive and recognize information. These discoveries generated a new scientific branch in electrical engineering and mathematics, named “The Neural Network” where the virtual and solid state neuronal can “learn” and “recognize” images and solve other complicated problems. Bats poses an intricate system of sound wave reflection and individual brain neurons that allow animals to navigate with high precision in 3-D dark spaces. The bat’s navigation method was replicated in many technologies including a RADAR system, submarine navigation, underground imaging, and many others. It is well known that some animal can navigate using the magnetic field of Earth and stars. I hope that discoveries similar to Gurvich mitogenic light and morphogenic fields, may generate new physical phenomena, or findings in quantum mechanics or elementary particles can bring further studies in biology.
My best regards,
Vitaly
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