I remember reading about quantum entanglement in some random article and thinking it had to be fake news from physicists. Two particles instantly affecting each other across the entire universe, faster than light could even travel between them. Einstein called it "spooky action at a distance" and even he couldn't wrap his head around it completely.
The discovery that RNA can actually catalyze reactions completely shattered my understanding of the chicken and egg problem between DNA and proteins. It's like finding out there was this third player in the game all along that could do both jobs, which made me think about how many other biological "rules" we take for granted are probably just incomplete pictures of something more elegant.
The AlphaFold protein structure predictions still make me question what I thought I knew about the boundaries between different types of problems. Like, we went from "this might take decades to solve experimentally" to "here's the structure" for millions of proteins in what felt like an instant. Does this mean we're systematically underestimating how quickly other seemingly intractable problems might crack open?
when i found out black holes can spin and drag spacetime with them... it's giving prime shaq in the paint fr
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