Imagination in science: An excursus from ancient debates to modern studies of complex materials to suggest a flipped classroom approach

IF 0.6 Q3 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES

Atti Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti-Classe di Scienze Fisiche Matematiche e Naturali Pub Date : 2021-09-30 DOI:10.1478/AAPP.99S1A34

P. Calandra

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After the Cultural Revolution in the seventeenth century, several poets believed that science was killing the beauty of art and poetry. So, imagination has been believed to be as opposite to scientific method. Fortunately, this point of view has been generally abandoned now, and the important role of imagination in science is finally well recognized. Particularly in the field of material science, the final the structural and dynamical properties of a system are usually unpredictable from their constituents, since they come usullay from the emerging behavior of assemblies constituted by a huge number of building blocks, so imagination is indicated as an essential tool for (i) thinking experiments, (ii) interpretating their results and (iii) preparing novel materials. Finally, recent research activity is reported to show some examples of how imagination can help in setting up smart procedures to prepare novel materials in modern science. Some directions are also suggested

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科学中的想象力:从古代的辩论到现代复杂材料的研究，提出翻转课堂的方法

十七世纪文化大革命后，一些诗人认为科学正在扼杀艺术和诗歌之美。因此，人们认为想象力和科学方法是对立的。幸运的是，这种观点现在已经被普遍抛弃，想象力在科学中的重要作用终于得到了充分的认可。特别是在材料科学领域，系统的最终结构和动力学特性通常是不可预测的，因为它们通常来自由大量积木组成的组件的新兴行为，因此想象力被认为是（i）思维实验的重要工具，（ii）解释他们的结果和（iii）制备新材料。最后，据报道，最近的研究活动展示了想象力如何帮助建立现代科学中制备新型材料的智能程序的一些例子。还建议了一些方向

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31 weeks

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