My goal in this blog is to catalogue the kinds of questions that I feel responsible to know the actual answer too as an adult but for some reason have failed to really grasp the concept and its implications. I simply want to know -- but with a purpose in mind. I do not want to re-answer old questions unless they embarrass me or should embarrass you. For example, what causes the sky to appear blue to us? How do we know the Earth orbits the sun?
I don't respect trivial answers to seemingly simple questions. If the sky appears blue, one may answer the brain did it, or God did it, but either way, that isn't a scientific explanation even if both could hypothetically be true. There is a significant difference between knowing what is true and knowing how one knows that. I want (as much as possible) both good methods and accurate and precise knowledge.
Some questions will have simple answers. My goal is to make the knowledge that I gain useful. As a result, I hope to communicate answers that are not the known answer, like looking up a fact in science textbook, but instead explain answers that are effective and work. In short, my answers will be coming primarily through empirically based scientific method even though some of my questions will be considered outside the domain of science.
Sometimes the questions will be intended for a an adult audience only. The blog title may imply the questions I ask will be easy to answer or actually the kind of questions children ask. For good or ill, we often protect children from answers to difficult questions. This blog is not designed for children.
I am more far more interested in honest, open inquiry and answers to questions that are testable than method. I know I know when I can control the phenomena in question. If I am the only one who can control or experience the proposed phenomena, then my whole experience is a fantasy, an epiphenomenon. And if that were true, there would be no progress in general.
