民科大动员，科学向前进！

霁雪

论破解姆潘巴现象之谜的社会意义       


        英国皇家化学会，悬赏1000英镑想全世界征求姆潘巴现象的解答。没有想到，在征集的限期内，有来自全世界130多个国家或地区的22000多份投稿稿件。因此我们可以相信，最终从这些投稿之中必定会有几个被采纳的思路相同的科学解答诞生。

        揭开姆潘巴现象的谜底，从科学的角度上来说。必然地，会揭示出一些目前科学所不了解的原理。这其中，其后的科学意义和价值我们就不去夸张了。

        但是，我们还是应该来反思一下，这个活动的社会意义。
        据说，美国人当年试制穿梭机，屡屡不能成功。后来有一个科学家突然想到，应该在机舱里放一个上帝的像，NASA立即采纳了。于是奇迹就发生了。
        显然，在这次征答活动之前，皇家化学会是有思想准备的。他们准备再一次迎接上帝的降临。这个上帝就是全世界的业余科学爱好者。


        为什么说这是一次向全世界的业余的科学爱好在发出的邀请，而不是向包括专业的科学家在内的邀请呢。
        其理由是十分明显的。首先从这个征答的奖金额度来看，只有区区的1000英镑，皇家化学会的主席理事们知道，即使再多一点的奖金也根本不能引起那些眼高手低的专业科学家的钱趣和利趣。再说，这四十年多来无数的科学家都已经试过了，但是他们没有能解答出来。除了眼高手低之外，思想僵化也是一个重要的因素。皇家化学会对这些也早已看透了。所以就把目光放到了业余的科学爱好者身上。
        其实，在皇家化学会的告示上也明显地表达了这样的一个意思，他们引用爱因斯丹的话说："Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18".引用亚里士多德的话说："All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." 写下这样的句子，可以看出皇家化学会对于这些“正统科学家们”实在是灰心到了极点。作为在过去几十年一直从事科技工作的我来说，真让人从脸一直红到了脖子。太羞人了。

        可以讲，皇家化学会的这一举动，可以说是大长了世界民科的志气，是对于各种自称为“正统科学家”的官科门的一记响亮的耳光。灭尽了所有官科的威风。


        民科大动员，科学向前进！



原文Aristotle wrote about a strange event where hot water froze faster than cold water:

"The fact that water has previously been warmed contributes to its freezing quickly; for so it cools sooner.

Albert Einstein who once said, "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18".

We know that Aristotle said: "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."


Why does hot water sometimes freeze faster than cold water?The Royal Society of Chemistry is offering a ￡1,000 prize to anyone who can crack this age-old ice puzzle
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The problem of why hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold, known as the Mpemba effect, defeated Aristotle. Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images
We know that Aristotle said: "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." We can be pretty sure he said: "One swallow does not make a summer." But we can hazard a guess that at some stage he would also have declared angrily: "This bloody ice thing is doing my head in."

The great Athenian polymath couldn't solve the mystery of why hot water sometimes freezes faster than cold water. He must have been annoyed to be defeated by what appears to be such a simple question.

But here we are, more than two thousand years later and we still don't know the answer to what has become known as the Mpemba effect. The moon has been walked upon, Mars has been explored, hearts transplanted – but that old chestnut of ice and hot water still baffles humankind.

The Royal Society of Chemistry has decided enough is enough. In an attempt to nail the matter once and for all, we're asking the public to come up with a convincing explanation of a phenomenon that defeated Aristotle, Francis Bacon and René Descartes. To win the ￡1,000 prize, you will need to make a convincing case and employ some creative thinking.

The deadline for public entries is 30 July, because hard on the public's heels will be a bunch of the world's acutest postgraduate scientists who, sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry, will be attacking the same problem while locked in a posh hotel in Windsor Great Park during the first week of the Olympic Games.

The 60 brains are part of Hermes 2012, a project to harvest some of the brightest talent from around the globe: a cerebral Olympian gathering, one might say. They will be in Windsor to compete against each other in the project, run with major input from Imperial College.

If those flying in next month are anything like Aeneas Wiener, Jassel Majevadia and the other students at Imperial who are running the show, the rooms at the Cumberland Lodge Hotel will need to be spacious to accommodate their brains. It was these Imperial postgraduates who proposed the Mpemba effect as a perfect example of science in action, and the outcome was the RSC's ￡1K reward.

We are asking anyone who thinks they can crack this age-old ice puzzle to go to the Hermes website, where they can submit their theory.

Brian Emsley is media relations manager at the Royal Society of Chemistry

xiangdan

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回复 2# xiangdan


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lhkcc58

关键是：
Why does hot water sometimes freeze faster than cold water?

里面的sometimes！

霁雪

回复 4# lhkcc58


    到底是大师一言导出问题的关键。sometimes确实是问题的关键。

要解释其实也不难。
假设一：如果是条条道路通罗马，有一个旅客每天随机的选一条路走，那么在通往罗马的某一条大路上，就只能是有的日子能看到这位旅客。有的日子就看不到这位旅客。但是总体来讲还是可以得到一个1/N概率。
假设二：如果这些路其实都是隐形的。地面上并看不到这些路，那么这位旅客就可能在这些道路的上面随机的从这一条跨越到另一条。那么在某段路上看到这位旅客的几率就又要缩小N倍。
这样一来，这个 sometimes 的来历就很明显了。
假设三：如果这些隐形的路有是重复的，立体交叉的。那么这个 sometimes 就更复杂了。

从上面的例子我们可以看到，如果没有隐形的道理，实际上就不会有姆潘巴现象。所有的已有理论，几千几万的科学家都已经试验了，但是得不到结论。所以，要得到姆潘巴问题的解答的关键在于承认隐形道理的存在。

有没有隐形道理，这是肯定的。我所一向在宣传的道尔顿分压定律就是其中的一种。我在“科学理论强奸案”一帖里，就指出了。现在的道尔顿定律其实不是道尔顿的愿意，而是盖吕萨克的。
半年前，我就提出了“姆潘巴现象你怎么看”的帖子，反正，现在我也不着急了，慢慢的看吧。

tanlilin

官科大多只能在原有知识上去钻牛角尖，民科就不一样了，没有任何顾忌，会用自已的各种综合性知识作各方位的思考，所以民科才是原始创新的主体，就如爱迪生一样，都是从业余爱好开始的。

东方马克思

哈哈.......这英文我不懂，但看到了后面关于隐形的词，这个我就有一点心得，并有一点思路，而且也看到了隐形的实例，好像可以把有些东西隐形到看不见。大家有想看实例的可联系我，我在想是否可以做隐身衣?????到时一个当兵的就可抵10个敌人。