issue4【加州阳光】第四次作业 by lastpearl

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4、"No field of study can advance significantly unless outsiders bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study."


Within the given domain of human knowledge , it is obvious that no significant advance can be achieved without the assistance of  knowledge and experience from outsiders, especially when the study seems to in a marsh, where no intrinsic power is strong enough to pull it out of the dilemma.

As the speaker suggested in various realms of  the whole society, it is definite that even between the most seemingly distinct fields, there ineluctably exists necessary links, which best proves that the world is an integrity  which have various of fields. For example, without the participation of math in physics, there would never be the prominent and far-reaching theories that entirely transform from the thoughts of human beings. Without the assistance of material and mechanical technology, as well as the development of communication, in the history of astronomy, we would not have, at least so far, realized our dream of successfully landing on the moon. Similarly, it appeals indispensable in human progress that knowledge and experience from various field should be conditionally and assuredly combined to further the research of any given field.

Moreover, a study can benefit a lot from even seemingly irrelevant studies. That seems to be absurd; however, the world is a structure that symmetrical universally, We can always find counterparts in two subjects, such as in macrocosm and microcosm, in material areas and spiritual areas, and so on. For example, foreign scientists and medical experts who apply themselves to study the arrangement of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) discovered that the order is inosculate with the musical scale. According to the permutation and combination of the DNA, the scientists are researching the DNA music. If the researchers do not have any knowledge of music, they cannot find the secret of DNA which will render their work more progressive.

Granted, no such knowledge and experience as suggested above are introduced to other fields of study as a reasonable—or, if likely, crucial—supplement to their research; but these field are still developing in their own ways within their limited recognition of a solitary field. However, can significant advances be achieved under such circumstances where exchange is almost unavailable? As we know, even if the simplest principle is generally based upon a accumulating and assembling process. We may therefore reach a conclusion that in the absence of connections and assistances from outsiders no greater accomplishments can be made than the commonly accepted ones and with them the slight movements that bears little influence to the advance of human science and society.

Finally, if we retrospect on the previous progresses in human history and explore the complicated reason that contribute to them, not surprisingly, we may find beside every remarkable achievements as yet the trace of knowledge from quite different—seemingly irrelevant, as we perceive them as—fields.

If all the glorious accomplishments were merely the consequences of accidental miracles, then we might condescend to the progeny arising from isolated research. However, as a matter of fact, it is the absorption of knowledge and experience from other fields that eventually leads to every distinguished moments of great advance in human history and therefore the outsiders should be taken into serious consideration in expectation of significant progress in any field of study.