On Apr 3, 2006, at 12:00 PM, Mark Wagner wrote:
Simple English has one fatal flaw: sometimes there is no way to describe a subject without using big, confusing words. I would shudder at any presentation of any important topic in philosophy that's restricted to a 1,000 word vocabulary.
Someone did a reasonably good explanation of Special Relativity using only words of four letters or less.
That's admirable. Did they release it under GFDL? :P
Seriously though, physics is very strictly tied to reality so there's no temptation to multiply concepts beyond necessity the way there is in philosophy. Given that each of these concepts has to be defined, and that there are disputes over how to define these concepts, there's no point talking about it in Simple English because, while it's permissible to define and expand technical terms in Simple English, it would have to be done so much that it would be just as easy for the reader to learn full English.