The history of discovery is replete with accounts of "the bolt from the blue". In 1896, Henri Bequerel put some photographic plates in a drawer next to some uranium salts. When he retrieved them later he found that the plates had been acted upon as though by some kind of radiation. He had discovered radioactivity.

Another bolt from the blue involved the famed Michelson-Morley experiment, in which the two men measured with great accuracy the speed of light. Up to that time, all velocities were considered to be cumulative. For example, if you were on a train traveling over the earth at 30 miles per hour, and you threw a ball towards the front of the train, the ball would then be traveling over the earth at 60 miles per hour. It was only common sense.

But not so for light. The Michelson-Morley experiment demonstrated that the speed of light is not cumulative, it is constant. If you were to shine a beam of light in the direction of travel, on a train that was moving at 30 miles per hour, the speed of the light beam would not be increased by that 30 miles per hour. The speed of light, regardless of the speed of its source, is always 186,000 miles per second. It is constant. Albert Einstein took this one piece of strange information and from that, produced the revolutionary Special Theory of Relativity. The history of discovery has a number of such stories.

We are certain that the future will bring amazing discoveries in the field of anti-aging, many from the areas we have just looked at. But we are just as certain that there will be discoveries that turn up from extremely unlikely sources, that some of these discoveries will be quite like a bolt from the blue. Because somehow, the pages of history always seem to include them. And these bolts from the blue, along with the expected discoveries, will be there to help you further along the road to longevity.