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While I really love reading articles on physics, I must confess, most of the time, I read them to try and improve my understanding of the world around me, but sadly, I fail much of the time. 
It's the dichotomy of me being bad at math and knowing how important it is; that keeps me trying.
Physics and theoretical physics are disciplines, whose development has taken a about 500 hundred years, a life work of totally devoted brilliant people. Nowadays these 500 years can be compressed to 3-4 years in university classes. This is wonderful but during this time one of course gets only some important impressions, not much more. There is no hope of compressing 500 years to a couple of web articles. This would be however needed as a background to develop introduction to TGD for dummies
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Anyone can learn macro-economics but theoretical physics is a REALLY difficult discipline. Think only that the best mathematical brains have worked for 28 years in vain with superstring models. They did not get anywhere. We still have Einstein's theory as THE theory of gravitation.
The following old saying still applies. "God give me the wisdom to see what I cannot do and give strength to do what I can ". In my case this means that I cannot write a five page essay leading the reader to enlightment but I can improve endlessly the articulations of TGD so that who have the needed background can easily understand it when the Zeitgeist allows them to read an article about TGD in presence of colleagues.
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Anyone can learn macro-economics but theoretical physics is a REALLY difficult discipline. Think only that the best mathematical brains have worked for 28 years in vain with superstring models. They did not get anywhere. We still have Einstein's theory as THE theory of gravitation.
The following old saying still applies. "God give me the wisdom to see what I cannot do and give strength to do what I can
". In my case this means that I cannot write a five page essay leading the reader to enlightment but I can improve endlessly the articulations of TGD so that who have the needed background can easily understand it when the Zeitgeist allows them to read an article about TGD in presence of colleagues.http://matpitka.blogspot.fi/2012/12/is-it-possible-to-learn-tgd.html#comments
It's very difficult also the other way around; the theoretician quoted is wondering if his theory can be communicated (to someone with required math skills) and doing his best, but remains unsure...
But his communication problems make him look only more human in my layman eyes, which I find positive, while I wish nothing but success for their efforts.