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In recent years, a rumor has appeared on the Internet: "Scientist He Zuoxiu used quantum mechanics to evaluate the 'three represents' and found that the 'three represents' did not conform to the spirit of quantum mechanics.
Let's see if China is putting too much emphasis on actual technology. ”
The establishment and development of quantum mechanics.
In fact, there are several errors in this rumor, first, "He Zuoxiu scientist" involves an erroneous cognition, He Zuoxiu is certainly a great scientist, but he is also a philosopher, not a physicist, and second, "criticizing the party's theory is unscientific" is also wrong, and He Zuoxiu's paper is not to criticize the party's theory for being unscientific.
The final decision is to "see if China is putting too much emphasis on actual technology".
This question is actually a kind of thinking that looks at the meaning of the text, and he doesn't mean that, let's take a look at what He Zuoxiu's paper says?
He Zuoxiu's paper is called "The Establishment of Quantum Mechanics and the Evaluation System of Scientific and Technological Innovation", which is divided into five parts, the content is mainly to elaborate on the development of quantum mechanics, and in the second and third parts, three standards for scientific and technological innovation are proposed, and the fourth and fifth parts are further elaborated around the first standard.
So what exactly is the first criterion?
What are the three criteria in this paper?
Obviously, we should first look at what the "three standards" mentioned in He Zuoxiu's paper are.
Scientific work and the national scientific innovation system.
In the second part of the paper, He Zuoxiu mentioned three criteria for scientific evaluation, namely aesthetics, academics, and practice.
Aesthetics mainly refers to whether the results of scientific work are beautiful, and aesthetics here does not refer to whether individual aesthetics are conforming, but whether an academic achievement conforms to the overall aesthetics.
The academic aspect mainly refers to whether the results of scientific work are in line with the scientific level at that time and whether they are truly innovative achievements.
The practical aspect refers to whether the results of scientific work can be further transformed into the results of technical practice.
Aesthetics, scholarship and practice are indispensable in order to be truly scientific.
The "three represents" in the national science innovation system are the most fundamental criteria for evaluating all scientific work and the national science innovation system.
Therefore, He Zuoxiu is not criticizing the "three represents" for not being in line with the spirit of quantum mechanics, but wants to say that our scientific work and the national scientific innovation system should follow the three standards of aesthetics, academics, and practice.
Among them, academics are the most fundamental, aesthetics is to cultivate academics, and practice is to test academics.
At the end of the paper, He Zuoxiu pointed out that basic scientific research is a matter that should be taken very seriously, because the innovative results of basic scientific research are the most valuable to society, so we should increase investment in basic research.
Quantum mechanics is groundbreaking.
And quantum mechanics is a great thing for the whole of mankind, in the era of Newtonian mechanics, people mostly rely on manual labor, even if there are artificial machines, it is only the labor force that transforms human labor into things.
In the era of the electromagnetic equation family, the emergence of steam engines and electric motors, human productivity has been greatly improved, but it can only constitute industry within a certain range.
In the era of quantum mechanics, the productivity of human beings has been greatly improved, and the rise of atomic energy, space exploration, computer information and other industries is inseparable from the development of the theory and technology of quantum mechanics, and has entered the high-tech era.
In the days of Newtonian mechanics, it was only known that the people who knew dynamics were physicists, and this continued until the time of the family of electromagnetic equations, and the number of physicists slowed down until the time of Maxwell and Faraday.
It was not until the time of quantum mechanics that people gradually realized that atoms and molecules, which do not look different from ordinary and common matter, actually have completely different laws, and these laws constitute the behavior of microscopic particles, and these laws are collectively called quantum mechanics.
Arguably, quantum mechanics is the most groundbreaking theory in the history of human science, and it is also the most influential theory.
And it is a very profound impact, and it can even be said that this influence will occupy an extremely important place in the future scientific history of mankind.
In the history of human science, the three major breakthroughs in physics are Newtonian mechanics, electromagnetic equations, and quantum mechanics, and quantum mechanics is the most influential of these three major breakthroughs.
In the era of Newtonian mechanics and electromagnetic equations, it was always believed that human understanding was gradually deepened, and people's understanding of the natural world would be built little by little on the basis of gradual deepening.
However, the introduction of quantum mechanics has broken this view, and people have found that the natural world is not a simple pile at all, and human understanding is not necessarily gradually deepened.
But that's how nature is, that's how human beings know.
The emergence of quantum mechanics is the most profound challenge to human philosophy and epistemology.
In the era of Newtonian mechanics, most people believed in determinism and materialism, believing that the natural world was made up of simple laws, and that these laws were absolutely correct, no matter where in the world, these laws were the same, like a big pendulum, and the laws of oscillation would never change.
In this era, people began to be skeptical of determinism and materialism, because in the classical system, put a precise velocity in a precise position, and the system could be in a different state.
We can say that the future of this system is uncertain, but if we know the current state of this system, then we can know which state the system must be in, which is determinism and materialism.
But in a quantum system, if we know the state of a system, then we can know which state the system will be in, just like a classical system, but if we know the current state of the system, we can't know which state the system will be in, which is uncertainty.
Determinism and materialism had been denied at this time, and people began to doubt determinism and materialism, and the uncertainty principle and wave function collapse in quantum mechanics are the best examples.
He Zuoxiu's thesis.
We can see from He Zuoxiu's thesis that he did not criticize the party's theory, and his thesis did not have anything to do with the "three represents," but mentioned in his thesis the three standards in our country's scientific innovation system, namely, aesthetics, academics, and practice.
And "aesthetics, academics, and practice" are only three criteria, we can think of it as an abbreviation, and we can also think of it as three specific requirements.
It can be said that He Zuoxiu's paper is to illustrate the comprehensiveness of scientific research, and it is precisely because of a great scientist like He Zuoxiu that our country's scientific and technological innovation can be at the forefront of the world.
Nowadays, with the continuous development of science and technology, more and more science and technology are applied in our lives, but we should not forget that without basic scientific research, there will be no today's technological innovation and economic development.
It is precisely because of Newton that we have inertia, and without Newton, our mobile phones, cars, airplanes and other technologies would not exist, so we cannot ignore the importance of Newtonian mechanics just because it was something hundreds of years ago.
On the contrary, it is precisely because Newtonian mechanics was a thing of hundreds of years ago, but it is still widely used today, that we should pay more attention to the research of basic science.
It is the research of basic science that will become the foundation of technological innovation and social development.
epilogue
With the development of quantum mechanics, our society will also develop, our science and technology will also develop, and our living standards will also develop, so we should not ignore the importance of quantum mechanics because it is a basic theory, on the contrary, it is precisely because quantum mechanics is a basic theory that we should pay more attention to its research.