issue4 FLY AW第三十次作业

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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: 563         TIME:00:50:00          DATE: 2006-7-6

Our modern era has been marked with tremendous achievements owning to the rapid developmet of the science and technology. Most relevant disciplines interplay, interdepend and even mingle to some new interdisciplines. Without this prevailing trend of interaction between diversified disciplines, our scientific and technological breakthrough throughout the recorded history would not be flourished, or even emerge. However, on the other hand, the author overemphasizes the role of outsiders in promoting a particualr discipline.
By virtue of the outsiders, newborn cross subject can be achieved, which would contribute a lot to the original field. When relevant disciplines interact effectively and efficiently, a new field would usually emerge, on which our human race have the opportunity to overlook the universe and explore the unknown more broadly and deeply. Most disciplines nowdays are interdiscilines by nature. As we all know,the econometrics derived from the interaction between the economy and mathmetics. The technics in biology and chemistry are mingled organically in order to form the popular discipline, which we call biochemistry. Also, we can perceive the philosophy thoughts in most  great literary works. Thus, the newborn subject, from which our humanities benefit a lot, should be ascribed to outsiders who bring their treasured knowledge and experience to the field of study.
Also, the ideas from different yet relevant fields of study could be perfectly amalgamated, creating marvelous creation or discovery, which usually serve as the landmark through the development of science. Our recorded history is replete with such examples. Francis Crick, a physicist together with the biologist Watson gives birth to the discovery of DNA through bringing his physics knowledge and approaches, to the field of biology. Still, the X-ray Diffraction which is the most important method used in analyzing the structure of DNA and protein, is firstly invented by a physicist and then developed by many famous and talented chemical scientists. Again, since the inspiration from the core concept from Riemann geometry, combined with ten-years meditation, Albert Einstein developed the special relativity into the general relativity through taking the gravitational force into consideration, ultimately reaching the climax of his study in this field. Through these magical inventions and discoveries by virtue of cooperation and interaction between various subjects, not only can significant breakthroughs be achieved, but the most pressing and immediate social problems could be solved effectively as a result.
On the other hand, however, the author overemphasizes the role of outsiders in promoting a discipline, neglecting the fundamental and determinate role of the experts and given theories in the field. After all, it is the given theories which our prodecessors passed to us, we can absorb it, question it, and utilize it. All the relevant researches we conduct is undoubtedly based on the treasure the precedents have left. Without the essence of the forerunners' intelligence, as well as a set of proficient and creative experts in the field, there would be no fuel to ignite the inspiration, saying nothing of the significant advance in this particular field.
In conclusion, the outsider's knowledge and experience offers a new approach to a particular field of study beyond the confination of the current dogmatism in this field. Thus, the opportunity of  great leap in scientific research is fueled. At the same time, we cannot reach an extreme conclusion that, never can a study progress without the outsider's bonus, for the sake of relative independence of the academic study.