It’s very
fascinating how most of the discoveries were made in those first world
countries. Somehow, I felt glad for this kind of advancements however it made
me realize how deprived some of the third world countries are.
Mr. Andre David, a
physicist, is very impressive, aside from he is a scientist and currently works
in the CERN, his knowledge is a proof that those advancements were made by such
people that are very curious of the world, mischievous to do such experiment
and discoveries and very intelligent. As he talked about the Higgs boson last
January 29 and that the inventions made by the science community and the Higgs
boson that is discovered last July 2012 and made other discoveries possible and
inventions are made. He stated that, discoveries enable invention that can
become ubiquitous. Everything that we have now are inventions that are made
because of the discoveries. And the ubiquity is the perceived value or efficiency
for the people and for the society. I agree to him that to be able to make
discoveries, societies must invest on diverse research. And I know, we have to
be on our career and profession to be able to invent what’s useful, efficient
and “marketable”. I think these considerations should be proven to have
inventions and to be proven. Yes, there are still limitations of these
inventions such as Large Hadron Collinder, CMS detector, HTTP, accelerators but
the capabilities are exceptional. These made me totally accept how a scientist
can change the world by just an invention.
In addition, the
progress-stepping through paradigms were efficiently made, discovered and
nurtured on the first world countries, my question is why? Perhaps, their capability
to do researches, experiments and to be able to this is to have technologies
that need large amounts of money to facilitate. I think this is one of the
disadvantages of the third world countries like the Philippines.
Everything is
possible, as long as Science and Technology is existing, everything can be
invented by a critical and intelligent mind. Perhaps, discoveries today will be
rare but still many inventions and upgrades are possible. But what are the
hindrances that make Filipino inventors and their inventions lose their
opportunity to credit their achievement? I think because of lack of budget and
support of the government.
I feel pity, not
for our inventors because I know they achieved whatever they want to achieve
and still inventing stuffs for the better future, I feel pity for our
government and for our country. We cannot prove the political will of the
government because as we can see, corruptions and exploitation of power reign.
Yes, we have the budget that it is not used effectively, but rather used for
their own sake, for profits and investment for ruling class. Is our country
progressing in terms of advancements and technologies? I think, yes, if we talk
about importation from other countries that are advanced enough and have the will
to develop their economy and in terms of technologies. But how about our
country? Are we contented of what we have? Of course no. Yes we have a lot of
scientist up until today and they are doing their work for the sake of the people
of our country and I am proud of them, and our government and those
politicians, they should be ashamed of themselves if they will not be able to
see these opportunities for Filipinos to achieved the rewards and title that
Filipino scientists should have, for the sake of the people of our country.
Source Cited:
David, Andre. “The Higgs Boson We cannot Unsee”. STS Public Lecture. CS
auditorium. UP Diliman, Q.C. Wednesday, January 29, 2014. Lecture.
No comments:
Post a Comment