Clarissa AL Lee's Lateral Worlds

Yup, I paid another visit to the high-energy physics lab over here to have a pow-wow with one of the group leaders, so that I can get out as much of the FAQs as I could. Also of course, so that he could also ask me a bit more question about my intended project. I supposed first and foremost, I wanted to ask him to suggest some more general reading materials I could get through to help me sift through all the technical details in the journal papers that I attempt to read (not always most successfully). Or even to recommend some chapters I can read from books that I have since the exigency of the current-graduate studies system leaves you with little time to read widely beyond your immediate 'professional' requirements (note I did not say 'interest'). In the process of asking these questions, I learnt a lot more about the politics of specialization, where high energy physicists do not concern themselves too much with what goes on in accelerator physics beyond what is re...

 I wrote this as a manifesto to the project that I am doing here as recorded in this blog. It is still at an early stage and I wish I have had more time to pour through all the materials I've captured since that will be so very useful to updating and thinking through this manifesto. But this will act as draft 1 for more to come. As I work on it more and develop it further, and make the meaning of each sentence more rigorous and easily understood, it can form a part of my larger dissertation prospectus. Comments to improve on it is most welcomed. ______________________________________________________ The purpose of my project is to explore how thought experiments done within a ludic context help us think more creatively about epistemology. I am interested in scientific epistemology specifically because it enables me think about the meaning of knowledge. The relationship between science and non-science and the querying involved to understand what goes on at that level help me work...