TOPIC: ISSUE4 - "No field of study canadvance significantly unless outsiders bring their knowledge and experience tothat field of study."
WORDS: 611 TIME: 00:45:00 +30:00 DATE: 2007-7-15 16:16:57
In this issue, the author states that the knowledge of outsiders is indispensable for significant advances in any fields of study. I only agree with the author partially. In my observation, milestones were built due to various forces, which can be the combinations of different disciplines or the efforts of one single person depending on different times and environments.
To begin with, our history is filled with examples that one person can be the forces advancing significant progresses in a field of study.
On the one hand, all disciplines are relatively isolated from each other and the cooperation between people from differentfields are quite rare in the past hundreds of years , meanwhile, ordinary folks did not view highly the value of science, the number of people who devoted to science are thus extremely limited, which hindering exchanging expertise among different fields. However, the momentary progresses never stopped occurring.The discovery of the law of Newtoncan furnish a cogent example. Back to 19th century when Newton discovered the significant law, nobody was around to give any critical perspectives to him or bring their knowledgeinto his study. It was eventually Newton's contemplations and devotions to physics that contributed to the establishment of the milestone in modern physics.
On the other hand, some specific studies are seriously recondite itself, which makes only a very small portion of peoplecan understand. Therefore it is impossible for outsiders to bring any knowledge to such studies without knowing anything about them. The theory of relatives can aptly illustrate this point. We can hardly deny this another milestone in modern physics has anything to do with others but Einstein since when thistheory was published at that time only 5 people at most can understand it, letting alone imaging some people from other fields of study can offer any knowledge to build parts of the theory.
Nevertheless, co-operations between different disciplines are becoming increasingly important for any fields ofstudy to advance momentously nowadays.
To support this point of view, we need tolook no further than the necessities of our daily lives. For instances, the appearance of the very persuasively wear clothes which are made of Nylon involves at least the combinations of three disciplines. Firstly, the chemists need to find outthe monomers for the original polymer materials and then ascertain the appropriate temperature and pressure for the polymerization. Secondly, it calls for the engineers to industrialize the synthesis of Nylon and manufacture the adequate equipments to produce Nylon fibers in mass. Thirdly, experts in textile fabricate the fibers into clothes. Clearly, to achieve some of the significant advances in a field requires the knowledge from more than one.
What’s more, more conjunctions between disciplines are expected in the future in order to heading forwardsignificantly in any fields. It is an inevitable trend which can be easily foreseen at present. For example, archaeologists use mathematic module to determine the age of an ancient bones or fossils; artists use computers to develop paintings;chemists use biological technologies such as protein analysis to attain accurate information. At the same time, more new disciplines like physics-chemistry resulting from the interactions of different ones emerges in the recent years as the sign of the trend abovementioned.
In conclusion, any fields can advancesignificantly without knowledge brought by outsiders. It is especially frequentin the past. However, the monumental improvements today or in future oblige the cooperation of people in different fields to a large extent.
In this issue, the author states that the knowledge of outsiders is indispensable for significant advances in any fields of study. I only agree with the author partially. In my observation, milestones were built due to various forces, which can be the combinations of different disciplines or the efforts of one single person depending on different times and environments.
To begin with, our history is filled with examples that one person can be the forces advancing significant progresses in a field of study.
On the one hand, all disciplines are relatively isolated from each other and the cooperation between people from different fields are quite rare in the past hundreds of years , meanwhile, ordinary folks did not view highly the value of science, the number of people who devoted to science are thus extremely limited, which hindering exchanging expertise among different fields. However, the momentary progresses never stopped occurring.The discovery of the law of Newtoncan furnish a cogent example. Back to 19th century when Newton discovered the significant law, nobody was around to give any critical perspectives to him or bring their knowledge into his study. It was eventually Newton's contemplations and devotions to physics that contributed to the establishment of the milestone in modern physics.
On the other hand, some specific studies are seriously recondite itself, which makes[删makes?] only a very small portion of people can understand. Therefore it is impossible for outsiders to bring any knowledge to such studies without knowing anything about them. The theory of relatives[relativity] can aptly illustrate this point. We can hardly deny this another milestone in modern physics has anything to do with others but Einstein since when this theory was published at that time only 5 people at most can understand it, letting alone imaging some people from other fields of study can offer any knowledge to build parts of the theory.
Nevertheless, co-operations between different disciplines are becoming increasingly important for any fields of study to advance momentously nowadays.
To support this point of view, we need to look no further than the necessities of our daily lives. For instances, the appearance of the very persuasively wear clothes which are made of Nylon involves at least the combinations of three disciplines. Firstly, the chemists need to find out the monomers for the original polymer materials and then ascertain the appropriate temperature and pressure for the polymerization. Secondly, it calls for the engineers to industrialize the synthesis of Nylon and manufacture the adequate equipments to produce Nylon fibers in mass. Thirdly, experts in textile fabricate the fibers into clothes. Clearly, to achieve some of the significant advances in a field requires the knowledge from more than one.
What’s more, more conjunctions between disciplines are expected in the future in order to heading forward significantly in any fields. It is an inevitable trend which can be easily foreseen at present. For example, archaeologists use mathematic module to determine the age of an ancient bones or fossils; artists use computers to develop paintings;chemists use biological technologies such as protein analysis to attain accurate information. At the same time, more new disciplines like physics-chemistry resulting from the interactions of different ones emerges in the recent years as the sign of the trend above mentioned.
In conclusion, any fields can advance significantly without knowledge brought by outsiders. It is especially frequent in the past. However, the monumental improvements today or in future oblige the cooperation of people in different fields to a large extent.