The Small Questions - by Quinn EcSolticia - Abstreal Logoce

We humans have a knack for asking big questions such as "what is the meaning of life?" and "why are the laws of physics the way they are?". Elusive and ambiguous, the answers to these questions are never unanimously settled on. In the sea of questions lie the smaller ones, often addressing taken-for-granted matters. Why do we boil eggs the way we do? Why does ice float over liquid water? How does the keyboard using which I am writing (typing) this post work?

The big questions take us in with their mystique and allure, while the smaller ones may bore the less perceptive. To be able to find a matter fascinating enough often requires a particular kind of perspective and a way of interpreting reality, one which emphasizes the exact intricacies by which even the most mundane and everyday processes function, revealing a deeper layer of reality typically not considered.

Data transfer through the internet can be seen as a mundane background process which most people do not need to learn too much about, or as the transfer of digital information represented by EM waves in particular configurations travelling at the maximal possible speed in the universe bouncing through fiber optic cables to reach the exact intended destination to be interpreted again as information a computer can directly manipulate...phew!

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