--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote: > > It's what you've always wanted, a text editor that dumbs what you're > trying to say down to the max by restricting you to the 1,000 most > common words in the English language (really "ten hundred" if I were > writing this using the editor).
Cool, but what I need is one that does it the other way round.... > http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/01/up-goer-five.html? > > > > To show how this would be useful when communicating to TMers who want to > believe that if you dumb something down enough that they can understand > it they actually understand it, here's the editor describing string > theory... :-) > > "Things are made of small bits. Some of the bits are made of even > smaller bits. There are many different kinds of bits. Even light is made > of very small bits flying very fast. If we look carefully at the > smallest kinds of bits they look like little points. But we don't > really know if this is true, because the bits are very small and it is > hard to look at things that are so small. > It turns out that we know how to make most things out of point-bits, > but one thing is hard. We know everything falls down or actually > everything always falls towards everything else. The force that does > this is hard to make out of little point-bits if we try to do this > we get too many little point-bits flying around. There is one way to > fix it: we realize that the little bits are actually not points but > long things! The long things are wrapped tight and it is hard to see > them because they are so small and a very small wrapped long thing > looks just like a point. > > But then the long things make fun things happen. The force that makes > things fall comes out! Wow! And all kinds of other things too! In fact > all the different kinds of bits that we see come from just one kind of > wrapped long thing moving in different ways. This is great! One idea > explains many different things and so we are happy. There are some > little problems still but we are working hard and it is possible that > everything around us in space, near by, all of it can be > understood from one simple idea of wrapped long things." >
