The Photo 51
Believe it or not, this old abstract looking image, known just as Photo 51, is one of the most iconic images taken by humanity in its path to conquest of knowledge. Let me explain. One way science differs from religion is that when some scientist on his/her path to glory claims discovery of some wonder of the universe, hundreds of brilliant scientists around the world respectfully get busy, for their own glory, to prove it wrong. Scientific discovery is hard. We humans, along with other animals, plants, bacterias, viruses, planktons, diatoms - all are made of something called Cell. The building block of life. But there is more to it. By the early 1950s it was known to the scientists that within those slimy cell walls, inside its heart called the Nucleus - there is a very fundamental element that makes me ‘me’. And you ‘you’. And ‘me’ different from ‘you’, and every other lifeform in the world. They called it ‘gene’. ...