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Science and Military
Analyzing the relationship between "Science" and "Military"
According to Answers.com the “Science” is described as:
The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena.
According to Answers.com the “Military” is described as:
characteristic of members of the armed forces.
Combining both the fundamental ideas, the relationship between Science and Military can be analyzed more easily. In Book 4 of Rice and Salt, Nadir is the character who is greatly influenced by the Science of Military and he also tries to influence others in military. He even tries to find the military ideas in all the concepts he comes upon: One of the example could be seen in the following quote from years of rice and salt. "or gold. In that case the cannonballs veer only slightly, but over the grear distances they are cast, it becomes significant. And no one can never say exactly what the balls will hit."(301)
There is a large amount of funding invested in the Science and technology for military purposes. The biggest evidence can be the percentage of Scientist and engineers working currently on military projects. Infact, most of the scientific research projects got started by analyzing the problems in military. There are tons of research projects gets approved each year for military purposes so they can improve the conditions for military. There is also a lot of tensions going on between the scientific curiosity and military needs. A page on "Science and war" does a good job of describing these problems in greater details. It is as under:
"Due to the high degree of military funding for science and the military influence on the direction of technological innovation, what are seen as important scientific problems -- even in the area of so-called 'pure' science -- can become oriented to military interests (3). Nuclear physics, genetic engineering and plasma physics owe part of their prestige to their potential role in war. More generally, the criterion for important science has become success in manipulating and controlling nature, rather than understanding nature and human interactions with it. Seeing the world as an object for manipulation is quite suited for the technical-rational mode of governance by bureaucratic elites which is at the core of the modern war system. "
Qoutes borrowed from:
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/sts/bmartin/pubs/83Birch.html
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