"Small steps, Ellie, small steps"
I've been watching the ongoing basaltic eruption in Iceland and participating in some chat rooms. I've learned tons. Posters are tearing apart the current seismic and acoustic charts, analyzing flow morphologies, attempting to predict the periodicity of eruption. I've learned about two phase separation in a de pressurizing viscous fluid within a narrow vertical conduit. How slug bubbles have different sounds. The math is quite beyond me but I see this event in a different way.
It has been said that when Newton published his principia mathematica, there were only a handful of people that could understand it. But now many do.