Comments | jarysm: Does DNA have telepathic properties?

jarysm

Does DNA have telepathic properties?

Jan 06, 2009 13:59

Does DNA Have Telepathic Properties?-A Galaxy Insight DNA has been found to have a bizarre ability to put itself together, even at a distance, when according to known science it shouldn't be able to. Explanation: None, at least not yet. Scientists are reporting evidence that contrary to our current beliefs about what is possible, intact double- ( Read more... )

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arisrabkin January 6 2009, 22:36:55 UTC

Before we conclude the effect is "telepathy", perhaps we should give more thought to chemistry. The range of effect is order a nanometer. That's a handful of atomic radii, or a few times the size of a water molecule.

Liquid-state chemistry is complicated, and it's really easy to imagine a chemical effect that the experimenters didn't think of.

jarysm January 6 2009, 22:42:39 UTC

It wasn't concluded telepathy was responsible.
It was pondered.
My question is, when presented with a experiment that shows phenomenea outside our current scientific understanding, why assume the experimenters were negligent?

arisrabkin January 6 2009, 22:48:04 UTC

Because we find phenomena "outside our current scientific understanding" all the time -- and usually it turns out we were just slightly insufficiently imaginative.

Negligence isn't the issue.

jarysm January 6 2009, 22:51:05 UTC

The word "insufficent" in "insufficently imaginative" is what I was saying with "negligent."
Can I ask, insufficently imaginative in doing what task, exactly?

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ramik January 6 2009, 23:27:22 UTC

Is the Journal of Physical Chemistry B peer reviewed? Anyone know?

arisrabkin January 7 2009, 04:11:40 UTC

Pretty sure it is. Of course, the result is a lot less shocking than Jarys is implying. Nanometer-range unexplored interactions in complex chemical systems is interesting, but by no means shattering to the foundations of science.

emerriffic January 7 2009, 01:49:11 UTC

OMG!!! Telepathic DNA!!!!

YAY SCIENCE!!!!

jarysm January 7 2009, 01:51:29 UTC

INO RITE!
^u^

emerriffic January 7 2009, 06:00:31 UTC

Hey dude...I TOTALLY admire your enthusiasm, but I actually was being facetious.

I agree with Ari on this one.

Not to say that the phenomena described by the word "telepathy" cannot exist...just that the word "telepathy" is no more an explanation for the phenomena it describes than the word "telephone" is an explanation for how a telephone actually works.

jarysm January 7 2009, 22:08:26 UTC

:(
No can has?

I wasn't so much disagreeing with Ari as questioning his point.
But I think I understand what he was saying.
Which was my point.
Hope that makes sense.