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Our everyday world is no longer bordered by sunrises and sunsets. It is no longer shrouded in the darkness of the night lit only by the Moon and Milky Way. It is yearning for a deep breath of crystal clear air filled with sounds of the wind and bird songs. Today, our everyday life is limited by walls with anonymous windows staring at one another and the night turns into a day with millions of ember-like light bulbs. The dream comes in HD version, with Dolby Surround sound, printed in 3D, with ubiquitous bits of information. It is the progress in a nutshell. Next generations will say how much it was true. When the ancient were pondering over the structure of matter and Democritus wrote about an atom, when 2400 years later Niels Bohr was creating a model of atom, a real cornerstone of purely theoretical quantum physics, little did they all dream that their work would bring in electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). For nearly one hundred years after Friedrich Miescher discovered the DNA inside a cell in 1869, it remained unnecessary organic burden of the cell. Only thanks to contribution of countless unknown researchers and the X-ray crystallography images analysed by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins; in 1953, James Watson and Francis Crick proposed a theoretical, and useless for ordinary people, model of the DNA double helix. Today results of DNA profiling are a crown evidence whether a defendant is guilty or not, and microchips based on nucleic acids will soon replace the ones based on silicon. These are just two of million other examples, when the scientists' unpredictable, inestimable and not always cheap ideas to delve and describe mysteries of the world around us do surprise us with their applications. That is how the laser, once useless and now ubiquitous in every DVD player, and the optical fibre, an effect of an innocent play with light which now allows us surfing the Internet, were created. What applications may scientists' today's and tomorrow's ideas have? It is the mystery of science and its most beautiful quality. It questions authorities and dogmas. It does not judge the ideas by their cover. Through hypotheses, experiments and theories it shapes our everyday life, not only in HD and Dolby Surround. Hence, the slogan of the 5th 'Science on camera' Photography Biennial is 'Science - idea in practice'. May the slogan become an impulse for action for all those enchanted by the photos documenting scientists' struggles. As innovativeness of science and its practical application depend on the one moment when theoretical knowledge meets a practical need.
Agnieszka Babczyńska | |||