Chapter 162: The Scientific Revolution
Dai Yan proposed a "democratic" system, not only for this reason, but also implicit expectations for the future. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Because today's school of science, the way of being controlled by authority, not only has the school lost its spirit of skepticism, it will not be able to produce talents in the future, but the development of science itself has also been seriously hindered!
Dai Yan was particularly annoyed by the development of the school in physics, who believed that everything has a center, everything has its own way, all things are determined, and the position of things is also determined!
For example, after Dai Yan came to the conclusion that the earth revolves around the sun, the school naturally believed that the sun was the center of the universe! Even though Dai Yan refuted this point of view and inspired everyone, it still couldn't change everyone's mindset! This kind of science, which clearly bears the characteristics of the classical era, is not the science that Dai Yan wants.
Dai Yan has the insight of later generations, and when he came to this era, he debated with the sages in the Jixia School Palace one after another, and he was greatly inspired, and now he can be regarded as half a philosopher.
He only thought about it for a moment, and then he understood the root of the matter. The school of science must be supported by a realistic foundation. Without the support of the foundation of reality, it is a kind of water without a source and a tree without roots!
The most important practical support is the internal management of the school and the inspiration given by the realpolitik system. All sciences based on authoritative figures have no future for development, and Dai Yan clearly recognized this. If we want to change this situation, we must increase the voice of ordinary scholars within the university school. And the definition of truth cannot be defined by a single authoritative scholar, but must be discussed by the whole school of thought to reach a consensus!
And this kind of academic research method that believes in the same idea, each puts forward those incomplete proofs, and then argues with each other to discuss them, and finally reaches a consensus, is actually democracy! Today's school of science is completely governed by the three centers (Dai Yan, Tian Jiu, and Xu Xing) as the authoritative management method, and without democratic ideas in it, how can real science be produced?
If we look carefully at the history of the development of science, we can find that the development of science is clearly divided into three stages. Founded by Aristotle in ancient Greece and continuing until the classical scientific stage of the Middle Ages; Founded by Newton and continuing until the modern scientific stage of the Second Industrial Revolution; and the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, which are still developing after they were proposed.
These three sciences, if evaluated by Dai Yan, the first one is completely worthless and should definitely be abandoned; The second can be used as a transitional stage and is of great value; Although the third type is correct, it does not have much effect in today's Warring States period.
Scientific research is the truth, and if there is any one of the three sciences that is closest to the truth, it is obviously the third!
That is to say, the conclusions of Newtonian mechanics, heat, electricity, etc., which Dai Yan learned from textbooks before university, as well as their research methods, are all wrong in the context of modern science and quantum mechanics!
In Newtonian mechanics, although it breaks through the trap of Adam's science and shows that the position of things is not fixed, but relative, but in its understanding, things must have a position relative to other things, and this relative position is absolute!
And in quantum mechanics, in the universe, nothing is fixed and absolute! The universe is only a network of connections, and space is only one aspect, so it makes no sense to say the absolute position of something. And the existence of things is only relative, and this network is still developing, which we call the connected universe, and the inherent properties of all things are in the middle of this connected network.
The fact that quantum mechanics can have such a breakthrough is obviously inseparable from the continuous development of electromagnetism and the rapid development of the Internet. From this point of view, it is not an exaggeration to say that science truly reflects reality!
Now the scientific school created by Dai Yan obviously has such a problem: it is too reflective of reality, and it is even impossible to break through!
Dai Yan knew that even if he made all the scientific achievements of the second stage public now, the whole school would accept these theories because of his prestige, but the path of the whole science to really slide into the first type of science, classical science, could never be changed!
Because at that time, he will become the absolute center of the entire school! As with all political systems in the whole world today, the world has the Son of Heaven as the center, and the countries have the king as the center.
And in the Hereafter, he will also become a true "Aristotle"!
And if science is to reach the stage of modern science, he knows that there must be a "scientific revolution".
Although the modern scientific system is placed within the scope of the universe, it is also completely wrong. However, on the earth, in the environment in which people live today, it is an absolute truth. Moreover, if we want to develop productive forces in this era, we cannot do without it.
And the most classic part of the development of the second science is Newton's gravitational attraction. In later generations, Dai Yan may not be able to understand why Newton was able to complete a breakthrough and achieve such results. However, now, Dai Yan understands: Newton was definitely influenced by the real world on him!
Indeed, Newton's ability to create a system of classical mechanics and to articulate the basic principles of natural philosophy was largely influenced by his contemporary, the philosopher Locke.
Locke and Newton lived during the bourgeois revolution in England. At that time, England was the first modern country to put royal power in a cage and achieved "democracy" (aristocratic democracy).
The realization of this democracy not only made the academic atmosphere in Britain relaxed, but more importantly, its changes gave philosophers great inspiration. The inspiration that Locke received influenced Newton, so that science completed a breakthrough from Newton's hands and entered the stage of modern science.
After completing this breakthrough, Britain's outstanding scientists have emerged from this talent in large numbers, and it is definitely not for nothing that Dalton, Darwin, Maxwell, and other geniuses who have made outstanding contributions in various scientific fields have appeared in Britain!
That is to say, "Mr. De" (democracy) and "Mr. Sai" (science) are originally brothers, and the two sides are interdependent and symbiotic!
Nowadays, there is no "Mr. De", and it is meaningless to simply invite "Mr. Sai"! In the context of such an era, Dai Yan also had to invite "Mr. De" out!
Now that the idea of "democracy" has been inspired, it is much easier for the school of science to accept some of the ideas of modern science. In this way, this school of thought can develop healthily.
When the idea of democracy is put forward, first of all, there will definitely be a shock within the school, and Dai Yanda can take the opportunity to introduce this system into the school. With such an idea, it would be very easy to split the Mo family and the peasant family, so that these two schools would lose their authority, and thus the vitality of the entire school would be guaranteed!
This "scientific revolution" came very suddenly, and its significance to this era is definitely no less than the system of logical proof that Dai Yan first proposed. However, it will take much longer to see the changes brought about by the "scientific revolution".
On the contrary, Dai Yan's idea of "democracy" was put forward, which immediately had an extremely serious impact on the situation in the Jixia Academy!
The scientific school has always believed in the truth, and although it did not explicitly oppose the Zen system, under its rigorous arguments, the prestige of the Confucian faction that forged Shangshu and engaged in academic fraud immediately plummeted! After such a thing happened, these factions did not have the face to stay in the Qi country, and they left the country one after another to go to various countries, and began to lobby the kings of various countries to implement the doctrine of Zen concessions!