Sunday, October 14, 2012

Creativity in science

 
The English philosopher Francis Bacon believed that science is as beautiful as a woman, is multifaceted, covers many aspects of life and a way to understand the mysteries of the universe.

Tegucigalpa

Honduras

Legend has it that the Sphinx was a monster with the face and voice of a woman with wings of an eagle, the body of a bull and a lion's claws. He lived on the crest of a mountain near the city of Thebes and the long road to ambush travelers passing by. Sphinx surprised them and raised the obscure and complicated puzzles, if they were not able to respond were devoured without mercy.

In this situation, the people of Thebes decided to offer the sovereignty of the city to the man who managed to discover the secret of the Sphinx.

Thus, Oedipus, a man wise and intelligent, although crippled by injuries in his youth, has decided to meet the challenge.
He appeared before the Sphinx full of confidence and determination. The Sphinx, then he raised one of his enigmas: What animal birth walks on four legs, then two and finally walk with walk with three? What I said quickly Oedipus: Man. Solve the riddle and the Sphinx while killing all people acclaiming him as the new king.

REALITY. Francis Bacon, English philosopher and politician, said that the ancient Greek myth of Egyptian origin helps explain what science is because it is beautiful as a woman, is multifaceted and covers many aspects of life as the Sphinx, as it inhabits the mountain ridges where the landscape is vast.

We also always asking riddles for things that are often not able to meet and become an obstacle in our lives. Here, in play Oedipus, the scientist who limps because the Sphinx faces with caution. Finally, do not forget the myth that one who is able to unravel the mysteries of life becomes master of nature, defeating the Sphinx.

This small studio is dedicated to all those who, like Francis Bacon in science have a way to understand the mysteries of the universe, who were fascinated by the night sky, the world of high- speed and large, the subatomic world and the wonders of biology. The tool that you use when you work in science is called the scientific method. The first step of this method is to have a great sense of wonder at natural phenomena.

Second, the scientist once surprised by nature, we must imagine their behavior, ie launch a hypothesis, it is a mental image that aims to replicate the law governing the phenomenon under study. Third Scientific will check the validity of his hypothesis. If the hypothesis is valid imagine modeling a law of nature, otherwise must imagine a new hypothesis that the previous one.

Here, we draw attention to the fact that if there is a science because nature is orderly and harmonious. If nature was arbitrary, we have never been able to predict its behavior mathematically.

Einstein said that when he began to take courses at the university, said he was "horrified" notes systematic and taking notes and not think, said that merely copying what the teacher writes Table had no meaning. Reason for class time amended by the direct study of works of great scholars like Kirchoff, Newton or Maxwell. Einstein was able to discover and break the prejudices of the century physicists earlier because I had a fresh mind and especially also had time to think. In fact, he said he did not understand how the mainstream education system was not completely finished at the creativity, the need to create a freedom of thought difficult to achieve with programs such tight.

It's funny, but there is a paradox, for Einstein, the scientist most admired in the world of physics, did not like the orthodox teaching. He said that there were two types of science: laboratory scientist who developed mechanical ideas developed by others, and the artist-empirical or scientific logic was able to imagine the laws of nature.

THE LIMITS OF CREATIVITY. The psychologist Desmond Morris has studied with infants and found that creativity is innate in man, a young child is given a sheet of paper and pencils and naturally develop they're creative abilities. But if on the other hand, these same children are subjected to a system of reward and stop creating because all the designs are made please. If we go a little further to say that there is a problem that affects science in itself and also in all fields of human knowledge: the specialization and, consequently, the fragmentation of life general and science in particular.

The fragmentation process of science is that the biggest threat to development as a form of human knowledge. Specialization is necessary to a certain extent because to delve into a particular aspect of nature must simplify and isolate the problem. The problem comes when after fragmentation forget new synthesis unifying find the challenge of human knowledge.

With advances in science, scientists are increasingly in the areas of reality incapacitate smaller than other sectors to understand the reality. Science benefits certainly fragmentation or simplification of reality in order to advance, but it needs time to unify efforts to control their growth. Fragmentation, the result of Cartesian rationalism that threatens the roots of science, threatens all walks of life.

May begin to consider how science or true creativity, currently reside in arriving to bind all these different aspects of human knowledge and give them an idea of ​​the whole. Only a humanism backbone can answer in-depth the problem of creativity.

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