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1、第一类题材StudyIssue183"Asweacquiremoreknowledge,thingsdonotbecomemorecomprehensible,butmorecomplexandmoremysterious."Doesknowledgerenderthingsmorecomprehensible,ormorecomplexandmysterious?Inmyviewtheacquisitionofknowledgebringsaboutallthreeatthesametime.Thisparadoxicalresultisaptlyexplai
2、nedandillustratedbyanumberofadvancesinourscientificknowledge.Consider,forexample,thesonarsystemonwhichblindbatsrelytonavigateandespeciallytoseekprey.Researchershavelearnedthatthissystemisstartlinglysophisticated.Byemittingaudiblesounds,thenprocessingthereturningechoes,abatcandetermin
3、einananosecondnotonlyhowfarawayitsmovingpreyisbutalsotheprey'sspeed,direction,sizeandevenspecie!Thisknowledgeacquiredhelpsexplain,ofcourse,howbatsnavigateandsurvive.Yetatthesametimethisknowledgepointsouttheincrediblecomplexityoftheauditoryandbrainfunctionsofcertainanimals,evenofmereh
4、umans,andcreatesacertainmysteryandwonderabouthowsuchsystemseverevolvedorganically.Orconsiderourknowledgeoftheuniverse.Advancesintelescopeandspace-explorationtechnologyseemtocorroboratethetheoryofacontinuallyexpandinguniversethatbeganattheverybeginningoftimewitha"bigbang."Ononelevelth
5、isknowledge,assumingitqualifiesassuch,helpsuscomprehendourplaceintheuniverseandourultimatedestiny.Yetontheotherhanditaddsyetanotherchaptertothemysteryaboutwhatexistedbeforetimeandtheuniverse.Orconsidertheareaofatomicphysics.Thenakedhumaneyeperceivesverylittle,ofcourse,ofthecomplexity
6、ofmatter.Toourdistantancestorsthephysicalworldappearedsimple--seeminglycomprehensiblebymeansofsightandtouch.Thenbywayofscientificknowledgewelearnedthatallmatteriscomprisedofatoms,whicharefurthercomprisedofprotons,neutrons,andelectrons.Thenwediscoveredanevenmorebasicunitofmattercalled
7、thequark.Andnowanewso-called"string"theorypositstheexistenceofanevenmorefundamental,anduniversal,unitofmatter.Ontheonehand,thesediscoverieshaverenderedthingsmorecomprehensible,byexplainingandreconcilingempiricalobservationsofhowmatterbehaves.Thestringtheoryalsoreconcilesthediscrepanc
8、ybetweentheq
