issue 131-outline

tesolchina_RAUID：3675555

Claim: Researchers should not limit their investigations to only those areas in which they expect to discover something that has an immediate, practical application.
Reason: It is impossible to predict the outcome of a line of research with any certainty.

Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim and the reason on which that claim is based.

这道题和36、72有相通之处

https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1781246-1-1.html


TS: I agree that researchers should not limit their studies to areas where immediate and practical application could be expected not because of the difficulty to predict the research outcome.  In fact, I would first argue that most researchers can somehow anticipate the research results with some measure of certainty.  There are two reasons why researchers should not be practically oriented: first, certain research in pure math and theoretical physics may never have any practical application but are intrinsically and historically valuable;  second, some research may lead to more practical applications a few decades later.  

ts1: most researchers can predict the outcome of their research; otherwise, they may not be able to get financial support (reject the reason)
- researchers have to convince the reviewers that their research proposals are feasible and promising
- they need to justify the research goals by reviewing the literature
- they have to design the methodolgoy and discuss the anticipated results in their proposals
- most research projects with financial support will lead to some expected outcome (but the outcome may be purely theoretical; nothing practical)

ts2:  researchers should devote themselves to projects with no immediate and practical applications as the research may be intrinsically and historically valuable
- Tao’s work on prime numbers
- no practical application
- but prime numbers have been studied for thousands of years  
- fascinating in its own right

ts3: researchers should also work on research projects that may lead to useful applications in future
- Einstein’s theory of relativity was developed without any expectations for practical applications
- the insights from his theory were later used to harness nuclear power



issue范文与提纲目录(tesolchina)
https://bbs.gter.net/forum.php?mo ... amp;fromuid=3675555