Biomedical Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 3
Galen, a brilliant surgeon of the AD 2nd century, studied his craft by
treating sports injuries in his hometown of Pergamon in the Roman
empire. He learned many eclectic fields of knowledge, including
astronomyatPergamonlibrary,secondonlytotheoneatAlexandria.
Moving to Rome he treated gladiators at the Coliseum before
becoming physician to the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Anatomy has
long been a basis for medicine, but we have recently begun to
learn how the body and perhaps the mind are constructed from
astronomical and cosmological forces. Biological species evolved
forming a phylogenetic 'tree of life' in a specific temporal order
ranging from single-celled organisms to microbes, to algal mats, to
dinosaursandtoman,includingfractalandsynergisticrelationships
between life forms. Obtained via self-field theory (SFT), a new
mathematical theory of the gravitational structure for our galaxy
may help explain a recently discovered biodiversity cycle of 62
million years (Ma). Rather than survival of the fittest, the 'small
picture' seen at the terrestrial level, the 'big picture' of biodiversity
shows dependence on blackbody radiation of EM fields within the
solar system and acoustic (A) fields within the galaxy. SFT suggests
the gravitational structure within the cosmos and cosmological
evolution are related to the evolution of physiological structures
