Posted: Jan 11, 2019 7:47 am
TMB wrote:truelgbt wrote:Keep It Real wrote:I seem to remember you saying circa "What's the point of cosmology? I mean, does it really fucking matter?" and yet here you are with your own thread paying substantial attention to just that. Colour you duplicitous, or should that be bi-curious...
No, you miss the point. Cosmology as a science certainly matters, although certainly not nearly as much as say, medical science, or food science, or engineering - all of which affect our daily lives. I need medications, vaccinations, healthier foods, cars and bridges. What cosmology brings to the table is, at best, a thoughtful exercise in origins, but has no effect on my medications, vaccinations, healthier foods, cars or bridges.
Hopefully we will not drown in the semantic bog here, but since cosmology seeks to understand the universe at all levels, including black holes, it includes quantum physics, or at least aspects of. MRI technology now used for medical imaging was discovered by study atomic behavior, serendipity at its best. What a thoughtful exercise, dont you think? Since your bucket list does not include MRI scanning, perhaps you deliberately will decline if you get offered this, as it should have no effect on your daily life.
Your claim that the field of Cosmology somehow remotely contributed to the development of the MRI is pure desperation at best and laughable at worst! Physics a very broad field and biomedical science and cosmology are not even remotely related.
So dishonest in taking credit where it is definitely NOT due. Are you a cosmologist?
The guys who invented and later developed the MRI couldn't have cared one bit about cosmology, lol !
You will find NO CREDIT or any connection whatsoever to cosmology in ANY article on the invention of the MRI.
https://mri-q.com/who-invented-mri.html
Invention of MRI - Questions and Answers in MRI
mri-q.com
"While Lauterbur and Mansfield were basic scientists, Raymond V. Damadian (b. 1936) was a physician, an Associate Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York - Brooklyn (Downstate). He looked at NMR from a different and original perspective — as a phenomenon that might be used to probe the body and diagnose human disease."
"During the first half of the 20th Century Isador Rabi, Felix Bloch, and Edward Purcell described the NMR phenomenon; but it was the next generation of scientists in the 1970's who discovered how to create images from the NMR signal. Primary credit (and the Nobel Prize) for MR imaging was awarded to Sir Peter Mansfield and Paul Lauterbur. However, Raymond Damadian must also be recognized for his innovation and construction of the first full-body human MR scanner."
I stand by what I said: What cosmology brings to the table is, at best, a thoughtful exercise in origins, but has no effect on my medications, vaccinations, healthier foods, cars or bridges, or MRIs.