童老师:
Andrew Sun
Research Institute of Materials Science,
South China University of Technology,
Guangzhou, P. R. China, 510641
andrewx100@gmail.com
+86 13751843697
http://www.andrewsun.net
以上是我给我导师的一封email,那篇文章是Phys. Rev. E 2009, 79, 036117。我信里说仿佛回到了一百年前,是因为对待这篇文章所报道的现象,作者无法利用任何现代仪器技术手段去量化任何东西。他所能做的事情,跟一百年前的科学家差不多。所能想的也和一百年前的科学家差不多,例如文章里有一段话:
Cylinders did not always form, and the conditions favoring formation are considered below. An interesting feature was that always, when several samples were placed next to one another and left overnight, when cylinders were found in one beaker they were found in all; and, when cylinders were absent in one, they were absent consistently. Hence, some feature of the environment appeared to play a role in their formation.
所有这些都引发了我在信中关于因果决定论和混沌的各种想法。
