Introduction to Chapter 2:
The study of physics is a tentative of mankind to explain the universe in
which we live.
But physic can be mis-interpreted and/or misused for egoistic goals.
This is the reason why I decided to try to explain some of this science.
Not because I have a higher knowledge of this science, but just because I am so
ignorant myself that I can better understand which and why people are
afraid by trying to understand physics.
First at all let me try to describe how I see science as part of
the human knowledge of the universe: I think that we are in a similar
situation like a blind
person who is in an unknown room and try to discover the room using
his hands to scan the environment. Obviously he will never succeed in having
a complete and correct "view" (knowledgment) of the place where
he/she is. But as longer that he/she explore around, he/she can figure out
what is around him/her.
And of course there is plenty of possibility to make mistakes.
It is also important to agree now, that everything that we describe
is not full understood: there is always some part of it which has not yet
beeing discovered. For this reason we have to work with a probabilistic
view of the universe. In saying this, we admit that we could make
mistakes, but also that we can correct them and increase the probability of
reaching a good description of the universe in which we live.
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