Issue4 Savior小组第4次作业

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题目：ISSUE4 - "No field of study can advance significantly unless outsiders bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study."
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I fundamentally agree with the speaker's view that significant advance in study needs experts from other fields to bring their knowledge. There is no field in the world around us has a single development path that does not have any link with others. Unless in the connection of different disciplines, the field will not be well understood by us. Meanwhile history has informed us that we must have knowledge in more than one subject if we aspire after success.
   In modern society, interconnected fields are very common and necessary. If a field is isolated from others, its development will stagnate without any question.  Most researches require expertise from other fields. Considering how the technology of spaceflight advances from the Apollo Project, during the whole journey of the moon craft Apollo XI, NASA call together thousands of scientists from various subjects. Their uniform purpose is to ensure the project success. For example, astronomers measure the distance between the earth and the moon, engineers design and produce moon craft that fit space flight. By analyzing astronauts' physiological parameters, physiologists manage to determine human's life in space. After all, these fields get advancement in the communicated project. Space exploration is a top field, which is not only based on astronomy but also physics, biology, mechanism and so on. This is a common rule in all fields.
   Even for an expert in one field, he should dabble in some other fields if he can.  The study of various fields provides different comprehensions on the problem you are working on.   Other than theories of universal gravitation, Sir Isaac Newton also wrote many treatises on mathematics. As a matter of fact, most of his achievements like universal gravitation and terrestrial mechanics are proved in mathematical way. If he is good at calculus, maybe Sir Newton cannot work out such great acomplishment.History is laden with examples of these "general" experts. Just like Abraham Lincoln, a great politician who is a successful lawyer at the same time, said:" Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
   In sum, there is no field develop in vacuum. Once the science divides into so many different fields, the latent links among them are in action. It is necessary for scientists to relate from others in order to get communicated. After we have known this, we must open the door and bring in knowledge experience from other fields so far as they are useful to our field.