The 3-Variable Problem

The title of this post is a pun on THE THREE BODY PROBLEM -- a well-known problem of determining exact measurements applying to gravitationally proximate bodies in astronomy.

Concurrently, the 3-Variable Problem(T M) is a loose allusion to ANY phenomenon wherein there are so many unknowns that no mathematical or logical solutions are even possible...regardless of the intellectual-capacity of the analyst/observer.

Although mankind has become extremely technologically-advanced, there are still SOME problems that are inordinately complex and remain unnervingly out-of-reach...like the cure for my own Multiple Sclerosis.

I personally appreciate the diligence of so many genius-neurologists who are seeking novel-treatments for the disease...but even neurological-geniuses are hampered by the inordinate complexity of human-biology--just the complexities of the set of genes that constitute the Major Histocompatability Complex (MHC) are enough to make the most intelligent people gag.

That is not to say that studying the MHC to find novel-treatments is a futile exercise, just that people should readily-appreciate how complicated the research into such matters ARE, and not expect miracle-insights overnight...even as technologically-advanced as medicine may have become.

--mattergy