If you're reading this, you're likely to believe from the title that this blog will have a running theme of reporting and musing on matters of modern physics and political philosophy. Yes, those are among my favorite subjects, but I intend to write on a much broader range of topics, and not just wonder about them in their own fields, but also to influence my thinking cross-field. Fundamentally, I write this less as a soapbox to influence others, as some other blogs tend to be, but as a personal journey, to both expand my own knowledge and learn how to think again, and hope that whatever connections I make in my fancy will lead to greater understanding of this world, and perhaps to yours.

I will admit certain hazards in this endeavor-- various fields have different standards of critique and analysis in interpreting the world (or at least their pet subject), so whatever assumptions that may fly in one area of knowledge may not be acceptable in another, and would necessarily lead to a wrong conclusion when applied in a different sphere. For this I hope to uncover whatever assumptions seem to strike me as odd or inconsistent (although the two are not mutually exclusive) and test against the knowledge of the time. Even then it is often far too easy for me to overlook the most basic presumptions that might need to be questioned, so I will need input every so often.

On that note, and as an example of the sort of style of musing that you would expect from me, is this:

I've recently begun to believe that one of the most overlooked ideas in our culture is that the pursuit of knowledge is a collective endeavor-- too often we treat the people with the "big ideas" as somehow wholly coming up with, and in effect owning, the idea, as if intellectual property had discrete, material qualities like say, an automobile. And yet every so often one hears stories about the lab assistant who saw the connection between two variables and her superior and eventual Nobel Prize winner did little more than refine it, even outright steal it altogether (though I doubt few of them were out of malice). Practical legal issues of ownership aside (especially for an aspiring patent attorney such as myself), such appearances that are spotlighted tend to obscure such problems as these, and perpetrate the idea that those who get the rewards automatically have all credit associated with them.

Certainly later posts will be longer and more thoroughly researched, likely taking some inspiration from personal, real-life events.

Oh, and yes, I will use this on occasion to gain feedback on my art. I've got a fanfiction idea that seems not to have been done before on FiMFiction, so I'm excited to bring a fairly new idea into the vast literature out there. Of course, even if the general idea has been done before, it'd still be legitimate and copyright-able, right?