The power of proposing a your ideas. While listening to the explanation of DNA, ribosome, and MRNA I realized that much of what the scientist discovered was simply because they questioned each others explanations. George Gamow was the most intriguing to me because when he purposed the idea that they all connect like on a peg board. He was not in that field of study, and was the developer of the Big Bang Theory. To many of the scientist he was stepping out of his ‘zone’ and into a subject that he did not understand. He probably was stepping out of his comfort zone because from what I could gather during the lecture what George Gamow purposed was very wrong. In fact it seemed so wrong to many scientists that his proposition is what triggered intensive study into how DNA connects.
Another example was when the scientists thought that they were on the break through for how DNA looked, but they were terribly wrong. When the other scientist read their article they were so excited because they still had time to figure out how DNA looked, and then they started to intensify their study. After a short while they collaborated together and purposed what they believed DNA looked like. They were right, and it was the form of DNA that I recognize today.
All together this intrigued me because the scientist that purposed the wrong theories seemed to give motivation to the others. I was wondering about propositions, and when my professor asks a question and I sit in fear knowing that what I have to say is not completely accurate, but just an idea. I realized that George Gamow and the other scientist were not really injured because they purposed the wrong idea. In reality humanity was changed because they simply suggested something wrong or right the simple action of developing a thesis can help others (smatter than myself) to study out the question more and create a logical response.
