Risks of simplification

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Elhuyar Zientzia

Simplification is one of the most common tools that disclosure uses, and anyone who has tried to conduct a disclosure exercise knows it is a dual tool. Without it, it would be impossible to explain some concepts; one will pass the border and, without being so simple, be wrong. The art of simplifying is to find out what the limit is in each case.

Placing it on a scale, at the end of excellence would be the direct and simple transmission of complex and difficult concepts, without these complex and difficult concepts becoming simple. And I believe that the second is as important as the first part, that is, that what is complex or difficult does not detach from those qualities with simplification. In fact, the risk of simplification amplifies not only the transmission of misinformation, but limited vision. On the scale of the art of simplification, there would be disaster.

An example of simple and erroneous disclosure of science is what is told in the article "Bernoulli gabe hegan" of this issue. It is an article on the physics of flight, specifically on the flight of planes. And I will not call it disaster, but tell me. Socially it is widespread that the principle of Bernoulli keeps in the air the planes, since the air that crosses the south by the top moves faster and arrives before the end of the wing than the air that crosses it by the bottom, so that the south receives more pressure below. However, in cases where it is applicable, the force exerted by the Bernoulli principle does not reach 1% of what the plane needs to stay in the air. That is, it excludes 99% of the forces that make flight of the plane possible.

From page 24 you will find all the forces missing. Well, not all, it's a simplification exercise offered on those pages. An exercise to recover almost everything excluded without drowning in the most demanding waters of the deepest details.

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