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I am a simple Wikipedia editor; I am not a physicist or a cardiologist (I practice general medicine). I read a lot about how the heart works and have particularly enjoyed reading work by Drs. Peskin and McQueen to the ability I can understand it, which is not much. I appreciate that they both took MD degrees to broaden their scope in undertaking this endeavor. I believe I understand conceptually how a moving blood mass is herded by a uniquely small and robust muscle mass and the noises it makes going in and out. The work representing the ventricles as a Sail receiving a southerly load in diastole is novel. The work defining the boundaries between viscous blood and semisolid muscle (perfused by blood) is bedrock science in forming a visual snapshot of a single heartbeat.
The ability to tie supercomputing to a single heartbeat gives one pause. Taking a step back, one imagines how they took the steps they did. Their earlier work was apparently guided by a figure I can find very little about on the internet. Her name was Carolyn Thomas and she drew the anatomy of a porcine heart in ways I never imagined. As near as I can gather, she lived in New England in the first half of the 20th century and was probably an anatomist of some sort. Her vision of the structure of the ventricle probably influenced Francisco Torrent-Guasp, Randas Batista, Gerald Buckberg, and other medically minded souls until the physicists got hold of it.
There is a story here that I'd like to move from the talk page to the article but need help.--lbeben 00:18, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
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