the word “doubt” has played a decisive role in the progress of mankind, and in building the western civilization itself.
the humans have lived on the banks of rivers, valleys and vast deserts, whose length and breadth was unimaginable. humans have weathered the rains and strong winds, the news of earthquakes and they heard the roar of thunders.
h o w e v e r, for hundreds of thousands of years, they were left to look at themselves with utter foolishness and inability to explain what they were, or to avoid their evils or benefit from their good.
in the past, the same situation continued in many countries, each tribe or a group had a magician or a scientist who had an explanation for every phenomenon or something strange that has happened, all based on imagination. the process of some of them benefiting from the ignorance of the riffraff is still ongoing untouched.
then came different human beings who believed in the virtue of the question, and ‘doubted’ in all that they heard about the past, and decided to enter the mindset of the experience, and sought to reflect on the reason or secret behind these phenomena.
the answers came in succession after the fall of superstition and cleared the clouds of ignorance and the same facts appeared. one by one, we knew that we were nothing in this vast universe, that we were following a solar system, like billions in the universe, that we were living on a round ball that takes us around once every 24 hours and that nothing happens in vain, but for every secret and every news, there has been some sort of lip service.
the people of the nile valley, for example, have lived for tens of thousands of years drinking water, and no one has asked or cared to know the source of this water, and the reason behind the flooding from year to year, until the english traveler john hanning speck in 1858 discovered the freshwater lake, the second biggest in the world, and the largest in africa. he named the lake after his queen, ‘victoria’, and it was supposed to have been named by the name of one of the khedive, an egyptian or sudanese, for example if he had exerted efforts to reach them… but!
the arabs have lived on the outskirts of the islands and in the midst of vast deserts for thousands of years yet have never cared to know about the places where they lived until the travelers from the west came and discovered them and mapped their borders and the wells, the corridors and plains and valleys, and even after that none of us seemed to care about the discovery and all that we have on our hands is a lot of sand.
the friend reader, “najib”, says newton did not need anything but an apple on his head to wonder or doubt why it fell and did not stay hanging on a tree. if it had stayed on the tree he would not have asked the same question. this is what a sane person says, let alone what the ignorant say of us?!
humanity, or human science, has moved one step further and wondered or doubted even the strongest agreed facts and what was removed as suspicion. as long as the physicists doubted that quantum mechanics allowed two observers, for example, to try different and conflicting facts, weiner and his friend were named after the physicist weiner, which shows how the strange nature of the universe allows two observers to experiment with different facts, which opened the way for exploring the nature of analogy and arguing about the possibility of objective facts, but if they faced different facts, the argument goes on. so how can they agree upon these facts?
the conclusion we derive from this article is that the field must remain open, and we should not recognize anything.