Dear David de Hilster
Recently, I have successively received lots of nice letters from you. Thank you for your kindness.
Undoubtedly, I believe it to be a rare and valuable opportulity for me to make some deep, fair and free exchange with other researchers or scholars over the world. But, I think there lack of some necessary subjective and objective conditions for me to accept the seat you have kindly offered me.
Besides, I really think that the difficulty or puzzle confronted by the modern science should be regarded as a systematic problem. From relativity, quantum mechanics, and Riemann's geomery to Clausius's thermodynamics and Maxwell's electromangnetic field theory, all the so-called classical theories are full of paradoxes and conflictions in logic. Of course, all of these improprieties presented in the natural science might originate from the wrong guidance of the whole western philosophy systym created in the Plato's era.
However, my words do not mean any simple repudiation or rough revolution, which would be nothing but some replacement between different subjective wills or ideas. In principle, either Einstein's relativity or Dirac's quantum mechanics is just the expression of such a kind of personal desire. Any pure artificial assumption or dogma, lacking of both the support and constraint of a real object, must involve or imply forms of contradictions and be finally elimilated, though the argument might give us some great comforts. The only thing we need to do is to take the logic critical weapons to make a historical and global arrangment of the whole human's knowledge system, in order to step by step reexaminate and resolve all the problems left over from the past. It is meaningless to make any study that starts from a wrong base. So, I am also afraid that too short a discussion would not be helpful.
My researches deal with a wide field, which involves fundermental mathmatics, mechanics, electromagnetic theory, and thermodynamics. But the work I've finished is not beyond the arrangment mentioned above: find and correct any small mistakes bit by bit. Certainly, it has taken us huge labor and time, which is not what a large portion of the modern people are willing to do.
Also, I am glad to answer every specific and definite enquiry and make some futher discussion.
Ben-Luo Yang 10/8/09 |