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Br Firoz
I am surprised to
find that there are so many agnostics in FOTH.
You are right in judging them what they are.
It is also
surprising that people started jumping and
throwing salvos at someone without even reading
1/20th of what he has said. Just when
a few people knew that I have proposed some
theory of Physics, they started hurling their
salvos at me even without knowing the synopsis
of that theory. They accused my theory of
lacking in methodology even without knowing what
methodology I used in critically analyzing the
current concepts of theoretical physics, what
arguments I gave against these theories and what
arguments I presented to support some new
postulates. They did not read even 3 pages out
of a 400 pager work and they, who are no
authority on physics themselves, started making
their wise analyses. They said that my theory
had no experimental proof in its support without
knowing what proofs I have given. They read the
definition of scientific methodology somewhere,
picked up a sentence from there and started
using it as their ballistic missile. They even
don’t understand what theoretical physics is all
about, that it debates the questions related to
wider mechanisms governing the universe, the
origin and fate of the universe and the
questions like locality, causality, determinism,
role of God, Arrow of Time, etc, none of which I
am sure they are cognizant with. They also don’t
understand that in theoretical physics, often
what is done is that theorists try to explain
the known phenomena through different sets of
arguments, which can later assume the shape of
theories. I will explain this with the help of
one example, that of gravitation. It was very
well known that things attract each other, and
that the earth revolves round the Sun because
there is some form of attraction between them.
Now when Newton gave his theory of gravitation,
he described gravitation as a force traveling
with an infinite speed. When Einstein gave
his Special Theory of Relativity, it led to
enormous problems on account of his light-speed
barrier and one of the most pressing was the
question of gravity. He could not accept that
gravity can be an instantaneous force, as it
would annul his light speed barrier. He went on
top devise a mathematical formula to explain
gravitation, which he described not as a
force but as a continuous field. He argued
that the Earth revolves round the Sun not
because Sun attracts Earth but because a massive
body like Sun creates a big field around it,
causing a warping effect, and it is this
warping effect, which makes earth revolve round
Sun, It is like assuming a curved road around
Sun, and the Earth only travels on this Curved
road. Einstein’s General theory still remains
one of the most fascinating, yet one of the most
ill understood theories. I have tried to arrive
to a middle position. But it would take a long
discussion before I can explain it, and these
platforms are not suitable for those
discussions.
Although in my
book, “Rediscovering the Universe”, I have
referred to Qur’an not even once, but Gill and
Farzana started attacking me because they
thought that I am basing my arguments on Qur’an.
My analysis of current Physics on the basis of
Quran is the subject of my coming book, no part
of which I have yet discussed in this on-going
debate.
Javed Jamil
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