Science without limits

Author: Zhou Jian
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Modern scientific views have undergone profound changes with the continuous deepening of human understanding. The traditional notion that science is objective truth has long been proven to be merely based on people's everyday naive senses and experiences. This book, combining the development of physics, introduces the transformation between old and new scientific views and the basic content of modern scientific views in plain language. According to the modern scientific view, since experiments cannot absolutely verify theories, science is not just about calculating experiences, and therefore, science is not about discovery but construction, which necessarily involves the factors of the subject of cognition. From this, the author proposes a two-dimensional scientific view, arguing that science is the interaction between humans and nature. According to the two-dimensional scientific view, new theories can replace old ones not because the former is more correct than the latter, but because the new theories have higher cognitive efficiency. Additionally, the two-dimensional scientific view further holds that scientific theories are not passively and simply reflections of the objective world but are isomorphic systems of nature, possessing a certain subjective initiative. This is also the fundamental reason why even theories once experimentally verified are inevitably replaced by new theories. This book combines knowledge and thought. On one hand, it can increase readers' knowledge in fields such as physics, logic, psychology, philosophy, and history; on the other hand, since it introduces and proposes some new concepts, it can inspire and cultivate readers' innovative awareness and systematic thinking ability while broadening their horizons. In short, this is a comprehensive popular science book that lifts the mysterious and authoritative veil once shrouded over science, allowing science and its methods to re-integrate into daily life. The author believes that anyone who enjoys thinking and solving problems will benefit from reading this book from their own unique perspectives.