Neurons continue to grow throughout human life. For years, scientists and doctors thought that brain and neural tissue couldn’t grow or regenerate. While it doesn’t act in the same manner as tissues in many other parts of the body, neurons can and do grow throughout your life, adding a whole new dimension to the study of the brain and the illnesses that affect it.
How about this question: What is the smallest thing you can name? If you think it’s the atom you have been influenced by the ancient Greeks who came up with this idea. They thought that the atom was the smallest “building block” that combines to make up all things in the universe. However, once again, as years went by, scientists learned that even the tiny atom is made up of even smaller parts.
Following this discovery came the understanding that, running around the outside of the atom are the electrons and the flow of these negative charges is the source of electricity. We do not “make” or “create” electricity. Energy can never be created or destroyed. And what’s more, your body is a field of energy within another field of energy.
What else do doctors and scientists “know” these days that will be proven differently as we come to understand the body (and the universe) better?
