This is where I get in touch with my inner crackpot. There are entirely too many silly ideas knocking around in my head, so if I get them out there, perhaps they'll let me alone and bother some other people.

When I say "crackpot", I'm not entirely unserious. I had some training in math and physics a while ago, and I can still follow a paper readily enough. But I'm not going to work very hard to rigorize these questions. Sometimes that's going to mean they're nothing but mush - amalgams of misinterpreted fragments I've picked up here and there. If so, and you're feeling patient, feel free to set me straight. I want to know the answers, and I freely admit I'm a bear of very little brain - not wedded to my mistakes.

- posted by Scott @ 5:30 PM