>>> Sadly, this area is essentially culturally off limits Not in my experience. I just got back from a week of playing music in the woods with a bunch of folk

>>> Sadly, this area is essentially culturally off limits Not in my experience. I just got back from a week of playing music in the woods with a bunch of folk musicians. Sometimes we talked about science, but music is for all intents and purposes an orthogonal way of exploring reality. Likewise for many areas of art, literature, etc. Disclosure: Scientist and musician.