"为我所用"小组第十四次作业issue183

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TOPIC: ISSUE183 - "As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more complex and more mysterious."

WORDS: 535          TIME: 00:45:00          DATE: 2008-4-8 17:36:44



    Whether knowledge can turn the world into comprehensible or abtruse for humankind is not an easy issue for us to discuss. As we have gained much from the development of sciences, knowledge has definitely made us know much more about the world then ever before. But some subjects do have brought complexity and mysteriousness to us.
    We gain knowledge from our experiences, from books or from other person's studies. Scientists in all the scientific fields include natural science and social science collect those experiences from normal people, summary them, make hypothesis and theories and then construct a system including almost all the knowledge in the field. With this scientific system of knowledge of one field, normal individuals of people can understand the world.  With these knowledge, people can reconstruct the physical world around them or even themselves. There are so much examples in which knowledge make the world become more comprehensible. In ancient time, people did not know the phenonmena of nature around them and are afraid of them. Scientists made these phenonmena clear through precise experiments and calculating. They told us the answers of those questions from why the stars shine to what function is the hearts of man. Issac Newton gave us the principle of movement and explained why do objects fall onto the ground rather than fly into the sky. Biological scientists explained where was humanbeing from and where we would go through anatomy and revolution theory. Pathologists explained the cause of our disease. Sociolists described the process of the movement of our societies. All these scientists gave us most of our knowledge to make better understanding of our world.
    With the development of science, some field has led scientists and normal people into a new world full of unfamiliarities, uncomprehensibility and unpredictability. For example, physical scientists have been working to understand the structure of substance for a long time. In this process, more and more units of substance have been found. Molecules, atoms, electrons, protrons, neutrons and so on. But as the axiom tells us that substance can infinitly be divided into smaller units, more and more elementary particles are found by scientists, which made the exploration of the structure of matter far more complex for normal people to comprehend. With the found of quantum theory which is supposed to explain the principle of micro-world, physics become a scientific subject that is far more uncomprehensible to not only the normal people but also those erudite scientists. Quantum theory is a mysterious world full of wonders just as has been described by Schr dinger through the story of his cats. Thus, deeply developed scientific fields will definitely bring more knowledge and theories to us which lead the world to become more complex and mysterious.
    As long as humankind is still standing on the planet, the exploration of the physical world and ourselves will never stop. We can avoid the complexity which has brought to us by knowledge itself which is still increasing. We must develop new thoeris and scientific methods to deal with this complex.
    As has been discussed above, the statement is false because knowledge brings us not only complexity and mysteriousness but also better understanding of the world and ourselves.