SCIENCE IN MOTION - Editorial no. 9

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use, we feel very good. Understanding is joyous

-Carl Sagan

Basic notions of quantum physics tell us that the more accurate the measurement of the velocity of a subatomic particle, the less precise the measurement of its position, and vice versa. This is called the uncertainty principle. Such a foundation means that, so far, it is impossible to accurately forecast both values or to have complete knowledge of this reality. Now, without moving away from macroscopic organisms, similar events happen in everyday life. For example, in the early twentieth century, English and American scientists implemented mathematical models and spent hours analyzing thousands of soccer matches to determine predictability in the sport.

Although it is true that it is increasingly predictable due to economic and social factors, according to these scientists, football is one of the most frequent sports in which a team with the worst record beats or surpasses an apparently superior one, thus breaking the rule of any theory and scientific study that seeks accuracy. So, to paraphrase Einstein, the outcome of every football game would be as if God rolled the dice before deciding the score; his unpredictability makes him exciting.

This type of circumstances, far from breaking scientific morality by finding limitations in our ability to measure and predictability of the world, makes scientists the torchbearers in our search for knowledge, being the ones who find the keys to overcoming our being and our environment and thereby reaching common goals.

On this occasion, your journal Clinical Research Insider gathers among its pages various research and opinions of experts in the field to offer you a varied panorama of the relationship between science, sport, and health, who will help us ask questions such as are there insurmountable limits on our ability to perform an activity? or how science and technology can help us develop the maximum physical potential, human chemical and mental? Much of what makes us human is our sense of perfectionality, of wanting to surpass ourselves, continuously, and in reference to others. In this edition, we celebrate together with you, life in motion, scientific inquiry, and universal communication, because sport, as Jean Giraudoux would say, is the Esperanto of races.

Carolina Villanueva, EIC

Editor and content creator with a Degree in Hispanic Literature.