Autor: Krishnagopal Dharani

KG Dharani has graduated in Medicine from Kurnool Medical College, Kurnool, and MS in general surgery from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. He has taken his training in vascular surgery at the Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Hyderabad. He has been practicing surgery at Adoni, India for nearly three decades. However, the specialty of medicine being a largely applied field of science, it could not quench his thirst to study a more subtle and sublime branch of science, the field of fundamental science! Fundamental science or basic science, as it is also called, is a search for the most basic mechanism that is operative at the fundamental level in any branch of science. Thus, all branches of natural science such as physics, chemistry and biology, at their core, deal with discovering the governing principles that are operative at the most fundamental level – and one should realize that at this fundamental level the boundaries between all the branches of science tend to become smudgy with similar forces operating in the background. But then, many academic specialists feel uncomfortable to go into these intricate depths in their respective fields (perhaps justifiably, for this being a practically impractical affair), and thus these aspects are generally left untouched for a long time in the history of science! But fortunately, nowadays, we have many specialists and thinkers who would try and venture out into these unknown fields with an unbridled mind of a wooly non-specialist who can come out of the lock-stepped approach of a specialist to reach for higher goals – and, hopefully, the reader may find the author belonging to this class of scientists!