Why ScienceAfterAll?

I got enough about people telling me what I can do, what I am supposed to do and how I suppose to think; and yes, today I’m annoyed about this because their voices have broken my self-confidence. I was waiting to start this “little universe” until one of those days when other people’s assumptions make me weaker, less valuable, less confident and less everything. I wanted to be emotionally weak to start this because I wanted to create a place for people who secretly carry these feelings too. Curious minds who don’t fit in the middle of the others, genuine humans whose ideas are rejected, the ones who need a place to share their precious thoughts without having to compromise their values. Also those who need to activate their brains with a little bit of raw and beautiful knowledge.

I would be a fool if I started this project alone. Combining the perspectives of these curious minds orbiting around society, makes our approach stronger and easier to avoid getting stuck into just one perspective, topic or whichever ‘scientific-label’ is on trend. I want to create this universe for that almost extinct bunch of humans. I have met gorgeous people in my life that taught me incredible things, not only about science and reality, but also about how they understand knowledge and learning. A common trend is founding them alone, keeping all their magic secretly inside, quitting from Science forever, used to stay hidden, burnt out after fighting society in order to make a better change for society. Here, all these incredible humans can encourage and motivate each other, not only sharing ideas, but also sharing feelings, thoughts and their life vision and values. This is a place where knowledge is understood from ignorance. So, if you are one of those and If you want to collaborate or just read something that makes your brain work, you are very very welcome.

If there is one thing I’ve learnt pretty well about science is that making too many assumptions is going to give you an inaccurate solution. It could be close to reality, maybe, but never fully true. Assumptions are based in human ego and ignorance, as religion does. If the explanation is ‘there is God who does miracles’, it is easy to not call ourselves stupid or just a ‘bunch of dumb humans in an insignificant piece of rock in the middle of an infinite universe full of wonders that we cannot even imagine’. Quite disappointing. So, what it’s intelligence? Is it the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills? This is quite an egocentric human definition. Are plants intelligent? Are viruses intelligent? Is a rock intelligent? Is humanity as a group acquiring useful and proper knowledge and skills? What is the difference between a plague and a conqueror? In the moment that someone, or humanity, starts thinking ‘yes, I totally got this, everything is controlled and I can do what I want without consequences’, is doomed. Oh… yes… wait… I forgot for a second that we are already.

Finally, I want to write my feelings and my thoughts because I’m pretty sure they are not so silly. My life, and for sure yours too, is full of people telling you what you are doing ok and what you are not, but this is like reality: no one knows nothing about your infinite universe inside you. So, in my personal experience, everyone of us is going to be defined by others and society and yes, the problem starts when you believe what they say. Remember that the Earth was once the centre of the Universe and I’m going to add something that any scientist would hate: science is never even close to the reality. But…. that’s the fun, isn’t it?

And please, don’t get me wrong, this is not a place for “Flat-Earthers”, it’s a place based on logic, reason, curiosity and observations through the scientific method, where all opinions are valid since you respect others and you use your brain. Even though we are going to focus on science topics (yes, of course, we are passionate about it) but we also want to touch on crazy topics that make us think in different ways with uncommon points of view. Remember that the world is beautiful and exciting, but not the humanity we are creating.

Do not be a simple human, use your brain, think more, decide what you want to decide, find the centre of your universe. And do it, just keeping always in mind that everything is science after all.