Chapter 98 Chapter 18 The Magician and the Apprentice: The School of Natural Science

Do you think there is still a place for philosophy in the world today? certainly.However, it can only be based on the current knowledge and achievements of science... Philosophers can no longer isolate themselves and have nothing to do with science.Science has not only greatly expanded and changed our concepts of life and the universe, it has also revolutionized the laws of thinking and action of intellectuals. - Levi Strauss (Claude Levi-Strauss, 1988) The standard content in gas dynamics was completed when the author was a Guggenheim Fellowship.Its form, according to the author himself, is dictated by the needs of the industry.In such a framework, the confirmation of Einstein's general theory of relativity was then seen as an important step, as it would lead to improvements in "ballistic accuracy through the consideration of subtle gravitational effects".The development of post-war physics has increasingly focused on such fields with military applications.

——Margarev Jacob (Margarev Jacob, 1993, pp. 66-67)