Posted by Phoeguo on December 13, 19102 at 16:13:27:
In a modern world, there is a large number of fields of knowledge and specialize domains and the number of them is also increasing and been more specified. In these extravagant fields, almost every field has less or more relations with others. From some eyesight, we also can say the knowledge fields are linking as a big mesh, tradition knowledge like tread to connect the different parts of fields and the newly-established knowledge fields like hands to try to reach the unknown knowledge area. So from some meaning, many fields of study can advance significantly when outsiders bring their knowledge and experience to that field of study, therefore, we also can not neglect that some fields advance significantly mostly because of completely new ideas.
To make the field of study advance significantly from bringing new knowledge and experience, a notable example is bioinformatics. Before 20 years, few people can image that biology has so close relation with information technique. But when biology faces millions of DNA pairs, wants to parse them and picks up useful parts to explain some illness even to clarify the secret of life, it puzzled until information engineers bring information knowledge and experience. Just from the word of ¡°bioinformatics¡±, we can feel the deep relations between biology and information technique. They are like good twins, growing up together and bring great benefit to human.
On the other hand, we also can enumerate some cases about the fields of study which advance significantly just because of some breakthroughs from themselves. A simple example is the appearance of computers. Computer theory is meanly based on Turing theory, and the Turing theory like a no-root tree appeared all of a sudden, so even before the born of the first computer ENIAC in 1945, few professionals can understand this theory. As we known, the same process also occurred at the appearance of quantum physics.
Maybe we can find some discipline from the advance about the mesh of these fields of study. It is full of accession, conflation, renewals and so on... It not only extends its legs from its roots, and also distributes new seeds and grows up new primary root. The nutrition from outsiders certainly can achieve good growth, but as rotations from a generation to another generation, the field of study which advance from some complete new breakthroughs often exist and act as a signal of the appearance of new generation and lead our knowledge maybe living to a new times.