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The next post is an hypothetical experiment to understand how plants grow!
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I want to set up an hypothetical development to the understanding of plants and one possible conclusion that could arise from this development by our blind brethren in planet E.
Starting from the first generation of this population, they must have developed a way to eat the right plants for nutrition and energy. So out of curiousity, accidents (most of the characteristics of foods were discovered through accidents), and assumptions that lead to experimentations, they acquired some understanding.
One of them could carry a plant into a sheltered place (a house) and leave it there. After few days, through touch, he will discover that a plant in the house dries up. He will replicate this phenomena and arrive at a conclusion that plants cannot grow inside a house.
Maybe by accident he dropped one of the plants outside the house and he touched it, he realised almost same dryness. So his earlier conclusion becomes challenged...then after replicating the two scenarios he arrives at a conclusion that plants plucked off the ground cannot grow...then the differences in texture of some plants during rainy season compared to the dry reason will lead to an understanding of how water plays part, then maybe out of curiosity, he digs up the earth, put it in a container, then plants it in the house...but still the plants dry up. So concludes that there are some special things outside there that favor plant growth? How can he know those things?
He can place the plants at a place to communicate with the outside (e.g. a window) then after some time he will discover that the plant grows towards out! Will he conclude that there is an outside upward force that also plays a part in pulling the plant up? What else could he conclude and/or eliminate such a thought? What other ways could he set up his experiment to fully comprehend his discovery? He can smell, touch, taste, and hear...how can he use these senses to know?
My conclusion after a long time of imagination was that this experimenter will never be able to set up an experiment to fully explain photosynthesis...even if he can convert light to be understood by one or combination of his senses.
It means therefore that our ability to probe into nature, the interpretations possible from such probes, the logical inferences and deductions from the received data, can only be understood as far as our five senses dictate the limits.