Why I Love Physics
Since starting on this path ~3 years ago, I've had dreams of physical phenomena--visions that can only be described with images and feelings. Some make sense, some don't at first. No matter what, instead of emphasizing the invalidity or lack of "proof" in each of them, I embrace them as rumors in my mind of what the universe is hiding.
Before I get too deep into thought, I should explain why I have obviously fabricated images in this page when I'm speaking of physics--a science most would say has little room for creative liberty. I believe in a deep connection between the human mind and the universe we exist in. I believe our mind only "has access" to certain elements from our true reality--we take these elements to be reality in four dimensional world. I also believe this is not an inescapable confinement. There are accounts of people having deep, unintuitive understanding of electromagnetism--why wouldn't it be possible to have such an understanding of other unintuitive features of physics undetectable to us, like quantum physics or like a multi-dimensional universe suggested by String Theory? In this way, I find that when the human mind embraces creative liberty--true inspiration--it can draw from this invisble world, and interpret its "findings" through art, which relies on the intangible and inexplicable for interpretation. The colors, intensity, depth, medium, stroke pattern--every artistic choice (which, as the son of an amazing artist, I know can not all be justified very well by the artist themselves) communicates a feeling, an idea, a vibe--if we're lucky, we can understand this upon viewing the piece and peek into the artist's vision.