I am wondering if this forum is an exclusive arena, only for gladiators w/ mathematical prowess and specialists w/ Ph. D. Degrees, just to display and show their arsenals of highly advance scientific knowledge.
I felt offended by that guys (I will not mention their names). First, that guy who made a comment that the only math equation I can show is that “ a = 9.8m per sec per sec” and that other guy that told me to stop in sharing my views and dared me to take up a course in Physics ( I taught America is a free country?). You know what guys, ordinary people like me want experts who can share or explain things in simpler ways as what Prof. Stephen Hawking did. I admire Prof. Hawking for three good reasons. First, he is an “open-minded” person by taking the advice of someone who told him that each equation that he includes in his book could halve the sales. Second, he is a “sensible” person by stating in the acknowledgments of his book “A Brief History of Time”, “…yet the basic ideas about the origin and fate of the Universe can be stated w/out math in a form that people w/out scientific education can understand”(see p.vi). He was even quoted “…I hope that will not scare half of my potential readers”, the result – a best selling book. Third, he is a “brave” man – it did not matter to him if it would hurt his reputation by inserting the words “a trick”, in his proposal of a quantum theory of gravity (see pp.135-136) which in the world of Science, could be branded as a “non-acceptable excuse”. Unlike Marquis de Laplace who, maybe, not only decided that it was a crazy idea to think that light could be dragged by gravitational attraction but possibly, he was worried by the impact of such idea in his reputation (see p.82 ).
I don’t want to think that because I came from a third world country and my knowledge is not at that high level, I am not welcome to share my views and opinions about a certain topic in this forum. I regret such kind of prejudice. The story of George Simon Ohm is one classical example of such prejudice. He was ridiculed by his own fellow countrymen (German scientists) because of his dubious math but at the end, the Ohm’s Law became a very significant mathematical formula in the study of electricity and electronics (see p.205, “History of Science and Technology” by Vicente et al, Uni-Ed Inc, Phil.,1988).
I admit that I had offended and hurt the feelings of some people in giving that title, “No Need To Be Super…” (I was not allowed to mention it in this forum or I might be accused again of promoting that blog).I wish to apologize to them and ask for forgiveness. As a sign of respect, I changed the main title and deleted some of the offending statements. But I decided not to take it out from that website, just consider it as a petty sequel of Prof. Hawking’s book, a lay man’s understanding and views of a different kind of gravity.
