There is no such chance of perfect research

The word ‘research’ is truly listed among the words which have always been intriguing for the people. A person, who starts working on anything can’t call it search just because the basic idea has always been there to tempt him/her to start the work. We are definitely part of the world where you can’t name anything fully developed. Why is it so? It’s just because of research which on one hand leading to the betterment of already available stuff and in the mean time resulting is new inventions accidentally. Some people define research as something which we lost in the past. If we consider this true then what’s the proof that we actually had something? Another query that arises in mind is that how can we justify the new inventions which are totally based on research? The answer to all these is that research is something which is never perfect, never complete. It continues like the flow of water that ultimately finds its way no matter what comes in its way.

Let us just consider few examples that would make it clear that research is something which is everlasting and never-ending. Since decades we have been taught that there are total nine (9) planets in the solar system.  This concept no more exists as because of the research, we are now left with eight (8) of them. “The boundary between (major) planet and minor planet has never been defined and the recent discovery of other “Trans-Neptunian Objects” (TNOs), including some larger than Pluto, triggered the IAU to form a Working Group on “Definition of a Planet” from its Division III members” (Ron Ekers, President of the IAU)[1]. Another example of the research that proves that research is never complete is in the world of medical theories. Although there are plenty of them but let’s just take the example of ‘Maternal Impression’ which is among the obsolete theory of inheritance. The idea that a pregnant woman may be so frightened by the sight of some deformity on another person that her baby will be affected by a similar defect is widely believed in most parts of the world today; it was also generally believed in the West until the early years of this century. The skepticism that then developed may have derived from lack of an explanatory principle and not from lack of evidence for a significant correspondence between stimulus and birthmark or birth defect (Ian Stevenson, 1992, p1)[2].