Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter One: The Cosmos (section)

===The Black Box Law (aka Goldblum's Diatribe)===

Due to the nature of Inspiration, a genius can never know exactly how even her own wonders work. Her theories might have remained consistent so far, but that doesn't mean that the next experiment or test-flight won't reveal a new glitch that could not possibly have been predicted. When she builds a wonder, a genius deals with principles well beyond anyone's current understanding―possibly beyond anyone's possible comprehension―and this leaves her open to all sorts of baffling and dangerous phenomena.

This means that geniuses can never be certain of exactly what they are doing. Their ideas might be nonsense that are coincidentally correct this time, under a narrow set of circumstances that the genius has witnessed. Just because a coin comes up heads five times doesn't mean both sides are heads, and with Mania, the same rule applies if the coin comes up heads a million million times. Some geniuses postulate that Mania provides a path-of-least-resistance from the genius to a wonder, allowing the genius to formulate a hypothesis that will get him just far enough to create a functioning wonder, though the hypothesis breaks down immediately upon applying it to other situations.