Coincidence?
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
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, tedium of technical or laboratory protocol which we extract our precious plasmids from bacterial cultures (E. coli , of \u200b\u200bcourse), y. .. again, the exact number of eppendorfs coming out of the pot, or 15, or 17. I do not know how many times in 7 years that I have finished the box of tips just in the last pipetting, either before or after. We all have gone something like this in the laboratory or on the street, at home or taking Cubalibre. Who thought of someone not at some time in a specific person, and just 15 or 30 seconds later your phone rings y. .. oh surprise is that person, that and only that between the 200 numbers in your phone memory ... 
Avatar, destination, mental powers ... nonsense, that's called a coincidence ... One thing that sometimes happens by pure chance ... chance coincidence that acquires aura, because we never : the times we get the wrong number of eppendorfs, that curse when we ran out of leads in the middle of a trial B-galactosidase, which we think of someone and not called us the next minute. Coincidences 
There are many types of course here we have interested those who have to do with science, also called Serendipity (how cool me the word) , a term that does not exist in the dictionary of the RAE, and refers to those findings or made timely, accurate and hopefully, they have given "crap " , accident, coincidence or chance (perhaps the best known is penicillin, followed by the dynamite or Teflon). Obviously, behind each of these findings fortunate and fortuitous, there is a mind, instead of (or addition) to shit on "to" analyzes the accident and take advantage of it ... (not be confused with insurance companies .) Nothing as strange, supernatural or cosmological alignment of the chakras in these scientific serendipity that you can find well described and cascoporro by searching on the net. But the other day, I met "by chance" (in the blog Front Desk), other types of serendipity, you never knew existed, the literary serendipity . Echoing what the blog said, and on other sites I read, we can say that these are nothing more serendipity than novels or stories, that writing non visionary or speculative, relate facts, years or centuries to occur later with a startling resemblance to reality (to my left me the willies at first.) Do not think Jules Verne , and its various travel accounts, which once were hard to imagine. Do not think even in HG Wells. Them, the fathers of science fiction, and the others followed as Ray Bradbury were visionaries, insight, knowledge of the world and their imagination led ahead of his time, then the progress of science and technology did the rest. 
There are many pages in cyberspace to talk about these literary serendipity (SL onwards, the word cool to say it tires stop writing), and rivers of ink have run appealing to the esoteric and the paranormal ... even at the risk of tick me of magufo, or expel me from this serious, thorough and decent blog, today I'm going to get into the mess. The easy thing would be led by the paranormal, if this were a blog esoteric etc. Being a scientific blog, we might lose in the myriad theories that for hundreds of years (from ancient to present any physical string) have tried to explain the existence of "coincidences." But I mean neither one (I will not be magufo), or the other (physics beyond classical mechanics mogollón escapes me). What I propose is an analysis of some of these literary serendipity that I found from the point of view mivicisopro (My-vision-scientific-social-probabilistic). Let's start
Avatar, destination, mental powers ... nonsense, that's called a coincidence ... One thing that sometimes happens by pure chance ... chance coincidence that acquires aura, because we never : the times we get the wrong number of eppendorfs, that curse when we ran out of leads in the middle of a trial B-galactosidase, which we think of someone and not called us the next minute. Coincidences 
There are many types of course here we have interested those who have to do with science, also called Serendipity (how cool me the word) , a term that does not exist in the dictionary of the RAE, and refers to those findings or made timely, accurate and hopefully, they have given "crap " , accident, coincidence or chance (perhaps the best known is penicillin, followed by the dynamite or Teflon). Obviously, behind each of these findings fortunate and fortuitous, there is a mind, instead of (or addition) to shit on "to" analyzes the accident and take advantage of it ... (not be confused with insurance companies .) Nothing as strange, supernatural or cosmological alignment of the chakras in these scientific serendipity that you can find well described and cascoporro by searching on the net. But the other day, I met "by chance" (in the blog Front Desk), other types of serendipity, you never knew existed, the literary serendipity . Echoing what the blog said, and on other sites I read, we can say that these are nothing more serendipity than novels or stories, that writing non visionary or speculative, relate facts, years or centuries to occur later with a startling resemblance to reality (to my left me the willies at first.) Do not think Jules Verne , and its various travel accounts, which once were hard to imagine. Do not think even in HG Wells. Them, the fathers of science fiction, and the others followed as Ray Bradbury were visionaries, insight, knowledge of the world and their imagination led ahead of his time, then the progress of science and technology did the rest. 
There are many pages in cyberspace to talk about these literary serendipity (SL onwards, the word cool to say it tires stop writing), and rivers of ink have run appealing to the esoteric and the paranormal ... even at the risk of tick me of magufo, or expel me from this serious, thorough and decent blog, today I'm going to get into the mess. The easy thing would be led by the paranormal, if this were a blog esoteric etc. Being a scientific blog, we might lose in the myriad theories that for hundreds of years (from ancient to present any physical string) have tried to explain the existence of "coincidences." But I mean neither one (I will not be magufo), or the other (physics beyond classical mechanics mogollón escapes me). What I propose is an analysis of some of these literary serendipity that I found from the point of view mivicisopro (My-vision-scientific-social-probabilistic). Let's start .
SL: 1726, Jonathan Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels and it assigns two moons of Mars, which named as Phobos and Deimos. Discovering In 1877 only two moons of Mars, which obviously called Phobos and Deimos. Analysis: In 1726 there were optical that could see the moons of Mars, so Swift was invented a number and it turns out was right (although it is likely reaching their ears that J. Kepler anstronomo early century 2 moons had been assigned to Mars, on the other hand, reasoning a bit trivial.) And the call to say the moons, Phobos and Deimos is 22 km 12 km diameter asteroid could well be considered. Seen in this way does not seem a coincidence paranormal
SL: Lester del Rey, a writer of science fiction American, published in 1956, Mission to the Moon. Commander Armstrong it lands on the lunar surface aboard the ship Apollon. On July 21, 1969 (not enter if this is true or not) the commanding Neil Armstrong descended the Apollo 11, with his legendary phrase. Analysis: Coincidence? "Serendipity? "Futuristic premonitions? What likely is it that this man write 13 years before Armstrong's name in a book from a trip to the moon in a ship with a name so similar to the real. The author never gave an explanation of it. The NASA's Apollo program began at 60 and Neil Armstrong was selected as an astronaut in the 57, but then it was a renowned fighter pilot in the war in Korea 1951, and rubbing elbows with the legendary Chuck Yaguar , as a test pilot. So it is unlikely that Del Rey semi-could copy the name of ship, though, certain that in the patriotic news of the day, the name of Neil Armstrong rang more than once ... I would be very inspiring to me ... Commander Armstrong ... but could be sheer coincidence if senyor ...
SL : Edgar Allan Poe account in his novel The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), how after a wreck of a brig in the Maldives, the four survivors adrift on a boat, cast a lots, on the initiative of one of them (Richard Parker), who among them will be eaten by the others when they can withstand more without food. Parker himself is the loser. In the real version, the Mignonette, a British yacht capsizes in 1884 by a storm. Its four crew (Captain Tom Dudler, Edwin Stephens, Edmund Brooks and a 17 year old boy named Richard Parker) survived on a boat for more than three weeks, feeding on a turtle and drinking their own urine, at the end Parker ill. Exhausted turtle, Stephens, considering that Parker would die soon decided to kill him to feed on his corpse. The German ship Moctezuma spotted the boat and rescued the three survivors and the remains of Parker's body. Once back in Britain, the boy's death but had mediated lottery law of the sea, was tried by a military court as murder, creating case law. The defendants were convicted and sentenced to death but asked for mercy and sentence was commuted to a stay of 6 months in prison. Analysis: Alan Poe described a number of survivors, a fact (cannibalism) and a name 500 years before it happened, yes but: cannibalism was collected and allowed by the law of the sea , provided that they lie down to luck, therefore it was not the first nor the last time would be given. The name of the man who served dinner, is exactly the same is a staggering coincidence. But Richard Parker, and had there are hundreds, including British Marineo the same name, between May and June 1797 (40 years before Poe wrote his novel), directed the largest naval mutiny History Royal Navy British . Me seems more plausible, that Poe chose the name in honor of the sailor got a revolutionary, not futuristic visions or paranormal influences, then the thousands of R. Parker did the rest, one main course he had to be ... unless a Richard Parker has a son named Peter who accidentally becomes a climber and acrobat with exceptional strength ... I will not see as a revelation this serendipity.
SL: 1898, a merchant marine officer put a writer, Morgan Robertson wrote Futility . The story tells the story of a ship, the Titan, whose captain was named after Smith and from the port of Southampton month of April is sinking in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg. On April 14, 1912, the real, true, The Titanic (with dimensions and characteristics similar to Titan's novel), with Captain Edward J. Smith on the bridge, sinks, where and as we all know. Analysis: Robertson, American sailor, probably familiar with the posibiliades of naval engineering of his time, or as little of a guard who told him between drinks which would be the largest ship to be built on, or even the beginning of the project RMS Olimpyc (Titanic Twin) was formally launched in 1907 by Thomas Andrews , and built by shipyards Harland and Wolff with the Titanic in 1909. At that time, moreover, Southampton was the most important seaport in Europe, connecting directly to the port of New York, crossing the North Atlantic, we can imagine that sea crossings beginning in such frigid, stormy latitude is more suitable for spring and summer even at the risk of icebergs which are plentiful at this time of year. Thus, the esoteric match is sinking like the Titanic, and yes, well, that the captains were called with the same surname does not stop being funny, but yesterday and today in day the surname Smith is ranked number one in the ranquin the English and American surnames ... luck with some knowledge of engineering and navigation ... go.
SL: And again Morgan Robertson himself repeated in the list of the few existing SL. In 1914, he also wrote a short story entitled 'beyong the Spectrum' , which described a future war between the U.S. and Japan. Described in some websites that in this story, and I quote, "Robertson It described a future war. One was fought with planes dropping bombs, calls the book" bombs soles "-. They were so powerful that with a bright burst of blinding light, a single bomb could destroy an entire city. When Morgan wrote this, the prototype aircraft were barely living on earth more than in the air and still not regarded as war machines. The atomic bombs were still unimaginable. The Robertson book War began in December (the month in which World War II began for the United States) with a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbour. " Analysis: In the story in English, which is in the link (or a Castilian translation of Andres Escobar Rodrigo Arias), I found nothing of airplanes, airplanes and flying machines, moreover, I have not found any date as December, or any other (the World War II began a September 1, 1939, although the U.S. starting late), and the "sunshine pump" is a very free translation, because the name given by the author is 'searchlight' (reflectors), which filter normal light, ultraviolet projecting through a prism mechanism, its main advantage is that blind the enemy without being detected, little by little ... "This is an atomic bomb? ... c'mon, this is not serendipity, or chance, or anything else, this is just people who are determined to see where there is only crap sausage.
Finally, after the "esoteric I almost went" home, and using only historical information available to us, and a little logic, we can see that what seemed incredible coincidences that could not be simply the result of chance (thus had to be caused by something paranormal abnormal, Mystic ...) can not be anything but a mixture of insight and a little luck (nothing paranormal), or just plain hoaxes (in the case of Futitlity , issues rallied after sinking to resemble more to the Titanic). Already
Albert Einstein said: "The secret of originality lies in knowing how to hide the sources" I would say also: " paranormal secret (esoteric, etc) is knowing how to hide the sources. "
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