I’m having a recurring dream where a discovery of a novel type of magnetism turns out to be the result of it being part of an as-yet unrecognized life form, I somehow think about and worry over this, but everyone thinks I’m nuts. Much later is the realization that we’ve been committing a horrible cruelty. The magnetism is some other creature’s method or function for its nervous system. It’s been in agony that it can’t escape.

Whoops.