About the Book
The most important scientific discovery of all time happens to be going on right now within, between, and among some apparently unrelated areas of science, and that’s what this book is about. Most scientists are unaware of it because they tend to specialize. Ed McGrath, the author of this book was specializing twenty five years ago, completing a Ph.D. in Human Psychology, when he was dismissed for agreeing with Nobel-prize winning physicist Richard Feynman that Psychology does not qualify as a modern science. He then began looking into other sciences that might improve Psychology and made his most important discovery, namely, instances in which two apparently unrelated discoveries may together be far more important than each separately.
Using discoveries by DNA geneticists Spencer Wells and Richard Lewontin who had used a new, high speed computerized DNA technology for less important discoveries, McGrath discovered a resolution to the conflicting evolutionary theories of Darwin, Gould, Eldredge, Dawkins, and Wilson; and why humans have always fought such self-destructive wars. From neurologist Damasio, using the new scanning technology, McGrath learned that humans (including scientists) scoring high on I. Q. and academic tests are not necessarily rational when choosing priorities.
Ed McGrath read that Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, and J. Robert Oppenheimer all believed after 1945 that our human species would cause its self-extinction in a near-future nuclear war. Ed noticed that all of these brilliant scientists were physicists and wondered why they did not realize that that human nature, not physics, would be the primary cause of a nuclear war of human self-extinction. Ed also realized that we humans cannot be as smart as we think we are, because we would have used nuclear energy to benefit ourselves if we were, instead of threatening nuclear war.
This book also suggests other ways to understand and use Science practically, individually and socially.
About the Author
Ed McGrath is a retired teacher and theoretical scientist who was born in Brooklyn, New York and now lives near Pasadena, California.