It seems that it is a curse of modern man to confront new possibilities of self-destruction. And now he has come to face with new man-made perils such as the poisoning of his natural environment with noxious doses of chemicals, garbages, sewage, heat, ugliness and urban overcrowding, etc. Nearly unnoticed, the scourage of pollution has spread so far that a few scientists say only a drastic cure can prevent devastation which could be as thorough as that of nuclear holocaust. What is the cause of the hazards we all feel almost too tough to deal with. And how can we overcome them?
Probably the various global problems may be due to the wrong decision we had made a few centuries ago with regard to the philosophical question of “Who is man?”. Is man the center in Nature? Or is he but one among millions of existences which comprise the living universe? Interesting enough, the philosophical question about the true place of man in the Nature is not strange to the physicists at all.
“Physics” stems from the Greek verb “phyomai” meaning “to give birth to” or “to create”. According to Aristotle, nature is what contains the principles of motions within itself. From the old Greek viewpoint, nature is not in the least opposed to human beings, but rather man is just part of the nature. It comes into harmony with human beings and physics in the old Greek period was to mean understanding  this concept.
On the contrary the modern version of “physics” in 17th century and ever, man is the master of nature, a dominant position that allows man to put nature into torture named “experiment”. In this view three main factors are strictly classified: God, man and objective phenomena which are irrelevant to human beings. In this perspective nothing would be blamed for man to destroy nature for his interests only.
As the two contrastive reviews suggest, recent global problems are in much part due to the inappropriate adoption of paradigm for human interests only, which physicists had mistakenly chosen in their field a few centuries ago. As we see from the Greek “physics”, the solution to the recent global problems or more broadly the issue of development or conservation had already been presented and naturally solved about 2,000 years before when physics loomed up in old Greece. Thus, most of the recent global natural issues are understandably nothing but the result from the erroneous selection between two opposite beliefs in the world of “physics”. This observation makes us to get aware that “physics” could be a great and reliable frame of cognition, standing aloof from common means or momentary utility. It is this “physics” that we are studying in university and often I feel very happy to be walking on this field.