The power and beauty of electrochemistry
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The power and beauty of electrochemistry Valentin Mirceski 1 Received: 31 May 2020 / Revised: 1 June 2020 / Accepted: 1 June 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Electrochemistry and electrochemists are part of the big picture of contemporary, modern society established according to the model of Western civilization. Due to technological achievements and comfort provided for the physical life of humans, it appears that all societies strive toward the same model. There is an implicit convincement that a better society cannot exist; we do not have even theoretical idea for a better one, as all previous ideas have failed. A part of the underlying “philosophy” of the modern society is based upon pathological rush to more, faster, and new. People are in never ending race, competing with themselves, with others, and ultimately with the Nature. As a consequence, the most common characteristic of modern people is a lack of time. Paradoxically, we miss one of the basic parameters of our universe. It would not be an exaggeration to say that we do also miss another basic parameter–space. We listen frequently that man will conquer new cosmic space; while from the history of human civilization and the present reality, we know that the battle for space (in physical and metaphorical sense) is permanent. Unfortunately, such characteristics of the modern society are opposite to some of the basic attributes of the Nature, such as balance and moderation, repeating and cycling phenomena and beings, inherent creativity, cooperation instead of competition, etc. Therefore, electrochemists adjusting themselves to the modern society, tending to be trendy, in fashion, produce electrochemical data as much as possible and publish scientific articles as many as possible. Nowadays, it seems that more scientific articles are published than could be red. It is noteworthy to mention that the modern meaning of a scientific article refers to a report containing a collection of data that are briefly commented within accepted scientific paradigm. Such report does not necessarily contain essentially new scientific findings. Moreover,
* Valentin Mirceski [email protected] 1
Institute of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Ss Cyril and Methodius University, P.O. Box 162, 1000 Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
nowadays it appears to be welcome to present a collection of research data without serious elaboration (there is no sufficient space in the scientific journals owned by profitably oriented publishing companies). One concludes that the goal of the research work is primarily to increase the amount of data; hence, research and development sector are treated primarily as a “factory” for producing data rather than enlightened intellectuals. Consequently, such “factory” has to be very big, and besides some bright people, it engages many ordinary workers. The root of such phenomenon is in the general philosophy of the research policy according to which the scientific research is pri
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