The Beginning

This blog has a beginning, like all other things: life, intelligence, thoughts, questions. Or maybe not like all things...we'll see this in future posts.

 The purpose of this blog will be to offer aspiring physicists and philosophers a platform on which they can question, challenge and offer their own ideas (or as we call them, 'shower thoughts')

 So let's go and question...

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