Last Updated on August 20, 2026 by Rob Cashman
Founder of Missing Variables | Exploring Science, Philosophy, Observation, and the Questions Between Them
About Rob Cashman
Rob Cashman is the founder of Missing Variables, an independent project exploring scientific concepts, philosophy, observation, perception, and the assumptions that shape how human beings understand reality.
His interest in these questions developed across multiple disciplines rather than within a single academic or professional field. Rob studied Philosophy at Binghamton University while completing a pre-med curriculum that included biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, and calculus-based physics. After graduation, he continued studying subjects including programming, digital logic and circuits, mechanical engineering, and biochemistry.
His professional career ultimately led him into law, technology, intellectual property, and Internet-related litigation. He is the founder of Cashman Law Firm, PLLC, a registered Patent Attorney, and the author of TorrentLawyer™, where he has written extensively about copyright litigation, Internet law, ISP subpoenas, IP address evidence, and technology-related legal disputes.
Missing Variables is a different kind of project.
Here, Rob’s interest is not in providing professional advice or presenting himself as an authority in physics, biology, philosophy, Torah, Chassidus, or any other field. Instead, the project provides a place to explore questions that arise at the boundaries between disciplines.
An Interest in the Questions Between Fields
Some questions resist being contained within a single discipline.
A scientific observation may raise a philosophical question. A philosophical problem may reveal an assumption hidden inside a scientific model. An idea encountered in Chassidus may invite comparison with a question arising from physics, perception, or the nature of observation.
Missing Variables exists to explore those intersections.
The goal is not to collapse different disciplines into one another, nor to claim that an analogy proves a conclusion. Rather, the project asks what happens when ideas are placed beside one another carefully enough to reveal questions that might otherwise remain unnoticed.
Intellectual Background
Rob’s academic and independent study has included:
- Philosophy
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Organic Chemistry
- Biochemistry
- Calculus-Based Physics
- Programming
- Digital Logic and Circuits
- Mechanical Engineering
- Intellectual Property and Patent Law
- Internet and Technology Law
This background represents the path through which many of the questions explored on Missing Variables developed. It should not be understood as a claim of professional or academic authority in every discipline discussed on the site.
Torah and Chassidus
Rob is also engaged in an ongoing personal study of Torah and Chassidus. At times, concepts encountered through that learning may appear alongside scientific or philosophical questions explored on Missing Variables.
Rob is not a rabbi and does not hold semicha. Nothing on this site should be understood as an authoritative interpretation of Torah, Chassidus, or Halacha.
Readers interested in those subjects are encouraged to study the original sources and learn from qualified teachers.
Professional Work
Outside of Missing Variables, Rob Cashman is an attorney whose work has focused on intellectual property, copyright litigation, technology-related disputes, ISP subpoenas, and Internet law.
His legal writing and professional work can be found through:
- Cashman Law Firm, PLLC
- TorrentLawyer™
- Other legal and intellectual property projects
These professional activities are distinct from Missing Variables.
About This Project
Missing Variables is an ongoing exploration.
The articles published here represent questions, observations, research, interpretations, analogies, and—in some cases—speculation.
Readers are encouraged to distinguish carefully between:
- What a source explicitly states
- What is established by available evidence
- How a source has been interpreted
- What analogy is being proposed
- What remains uncertain
- What is being explored rather than asserted
The purpose of the project is not to offer final answers to questions that may not yet have answers.
Sometimes the most important discovery is not an answer.
Sometimes it is the realization that there may be a variable missing from the question itself.
How to Read Missing Variables
To better understand the methodology, limitations, and interpretive framework behind this project, see: