"为我所用"小组第十六次作业issue4

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TOPIC: ISSUE4 - "No field of study can advance significantly unless outsiders bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study."

WORDS: 586          TIME: 00:45:00          DATE: 2008-4-10 14:54:46



    The statement says that all the fields of study can not gain advance without extra-knowledge which is given by other fields. It tells us a true that all the fields of our science can provide knowledge to help the development of other fields, but the statement is too absolute that, In my point of view, some fields could can develop themselves without the help of other fields, no matter in the past or now. Then I can discuss the positive view of this statement and the negative one respectively.
    To begin with, some fields of science do need the help of knowledge from other fields. Because the world is a harmonious integrated thing, every parts of it interferes with others. Given this notion, there is no doubt that every field of study can provide knowledge to other fields. With the high speed of pace of the development of science, more and more terms which need the knowledge from many fields of science have been found by us. Simply, computer science is one of the examples. The origin of computer science dues to some great mathematicians. These great men are described by normal as some specialists who are always seen working in their labotories in front of many papers and pencils, calculating. But these weird talents have changed the world deeply with their papers and pencils. Computer is one of the inventions of them. As the high speed of pace of the development of this field, now computer scientists must be sophisticated in my fields of study to do their research besides mathematics. Computer graphics specialists must learn the principles of light in physics. Those hardware engineers must learn the science of circuits. Virtual reality scientists should learn the physical structure of humankind to improve the immense feeling. Without all these knowledge from other fields, the development of computer science even can not be imagined. And, computer science is only one of the large amount of examples that can be presented. Thus, we can see that many fields of science can not be developed with extra-knowledge from other fields.
    Even if the world is a single issue with all parts interfereing with others together, there are some fields of science that can, or have to develop without extra-knowledge from any other fields. Sometimes, this independently developing phenomenon is the result of that those fields, especially elementary ones, has been developed so much that none of other fields can help it. Physics, of course, is obviously the most typical one of this kind. As we all know that physics has helped us understand the structure of substance to a deep extent. Since the found of quantum theory and general relativity theory, some new calculating methods have been used to solve the abstruse problems within them. We can see that it is not the development of mathematics that helped the found the this two brand-new theory, but it is through the work of scientists of physics themselves that solved these problems while they were studying weird phsical phenomena. As physics have been developed to an extreme extent that none of the others fields can help it, scientists in this field must work themselves to research continuously, with the tool of new calculating methods which have been developed by them either. In this case, we can see that some fields of science have developed much that they can not receive help from other fields.
    Given the discuss above, the statement is too absolute and ineffective, even it reveals some truth.

[ 本帖最后由 rienzi 于 2008-4-10 15:17 编辑 ]