Hi, I'm Kaziuk.
And bellow is my fairy tale titled "The Fairy Tale About Simple Peasant".
The Fairy Tale About Simple Peasant
Once upon a time there was a simple peasant. One day he went to the city to sell potatoes at the market. There also was a foreign merchant selling his goods. Seeing the peasant's interest in a certain complicated device, the merchant said to him that it was the model of the universe – he explained to him that at the center of the universe was the Earth around which the Moon, Sun and planets revolved. The peasant was simple, but not stupid, so after a while he noticed something strange: well, in this model of the universe, the Moon was sometimes twice as close to the Earth, so sometimes it should seem twice as big as at other times.
“Ptolemy’s model provided a reasonably accurate system for predicting the positions of heavenly bodies in the sky. But in order to predict these positions correctly, Ptolemy had to make an assumption that the moon followed a path that sometimes brought it twice as close to the earth as at other times. And that meant that the moon ought sometimes to appear twice as big as at other times!” – Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time
But that wasn't the case! So the peasant expressed doubts about the correctness of the model. And then the angry merchant replied:
Highly learned professors say that the universe looks as shown in the model. And these enlightened professors certainly know what they are talking about. And you, ignorant peasant, instead of playing a smart guy, take care of potatoes.
But the peasant stopped taking care of the potatoes. From then on, he was busy thinking about what was wrong with the model he had seen in the market. True, he was illiterate and unwritten, but he was quick-witted, patient, and stubborn, but above all, he was gifted with a soaring imagination.
How many times in various ways had the peasant rearranged the model in his imagination! How many nights had he not slept! How many hairs had he torn out! And in the meantime, he had taught himself to read and write. And although with difficulty, he had made progress. After a dozen or so years of constant mental struggle with the model of the universe, the peasant finally found the solution to all the problems. Then he jumped out of the tar barrel in which he had just been bathing, and running naked through his village shouted: I found it! I found it!! I found it!!!
“The exclamation "Eureka!" (I found it) is attributed to the ancient Greek scholar Archimedes. He reportedly proclaimed "Eureka! Eureka!" after he had stepped into a bath and noticed that the water level rose, whereupon he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged. He then realized that the volume of irregular objects could be measured with precision, a previously intractable problem. He is said to have been so eager to share his discovery that he leapt out of his bathtub and ran naked through the streets of Syracuse.” – Wikipedia
After returning to his cottage, the peasant decided to inform the highly learned professors of his momentous discovery. Then, dressed in his best, he went to the city. Aftrwards he boldly entered the highly respected university. But most of the highly learned professors didn't even want to listen to him. And the few remaining ones mocked him thus:
What can you, ignorant peasant, know about the universe? Take care of potatoes, because we, the highly learned professors, take care of the universe! And besides, your claim that the Earth revolves around the Sun is as bottomlessly stupid as the claim that heavier-than-air flying machines are possible.
“Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” — Lord William Thomson Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895.
Then the peasant promised himself that he would not only overthrow this absurd model of the universe practiced in all the universities, but would also make a laughing stock of these fools calling themselves professors.
Here is my letter to the public.
Kaziuk von Märchendorf
mail: kaziukvonmaerchendorf@gmail.com
P.S. If you have something to say about my fairy tale, do it on my Facebook page Einstein miał rację (Einstein was right).
(28/11/2024)