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What's the mechanism?

• superkuh 4y ago
  Cherry picking data and bias in setting up an unrealistic, unphysical experiment. There is no mechanism.
  • lizardactivist 4y ago
    I'm betting you wrote that without even reading the paper.
    • hatware 4y ago
      At least they used a few big words
  • jacquesm 4y ago
    It's pretty easy to establish a potential mechanism for this so I'm not sure why you would throw this result out without further investigation. Plenty of animals have a sense for the earth's magnetism and this is well documented: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoreception https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetoreception Putting cables carrying strong electric currents which in turn generate magnetic fields around those cables would be almost sure to have some effect, the question then becomes how much of an effect rather than whether or not such an effect is possible.
• aeternum 4y ago
  The mechanism could be epigenetic signaling. Recently scientists have been able to control and influence cell-differentiation via long-lifetime electric fields. (Although the electric potential was created chemically via ion pumps rather than externally). Still they showed pretty crazy results like being able to create a worm with heads on both ends. It's looks like this kind of electrical signaling is likely the primary mechanism by which your cells know what to become and in which direction to grow. A super interesting paper that I'm surprised isn't more famous: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170523124219.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170523124219.h...