The ideas behind the physics,
taken at length.
Long, playable essays on quantum interpretation, entropy and the arrow of time, and the shape of infinity — for readers who know the equations and want the meaning underneath them.
Three published · Two in progress
From Atoms to the Wave Function
Twenty-four centuries and one question: is reality tiny bits of matter sitting somewhere, or something spread across all of space? Take a side, then watch your model move.
Play the essay →The Measurement Problem That Won’t Die
Copenhagen, many-worlds, pilot-wave: what each actually claims, where they diverge, and why a century on the question still refuses to close.
Play the essay →Why Time Has a Direction
Cups break and never unbreak. The laws underneath say both directions are equally fine. Follow the argument that closes the gap — and what it costs.
Play the essay →Whose Motion Is It, Really?
Frames of reference, the Copernican turn, and the long death of a motionless Earth.
More Than One Infinity
Cantor on the sizes of infinity, and why the continuum hypothesis can be neither proved nor refused.
An instrument, not a quiz. Eight questions, one commitment each.
Where do you stand on quantum mechanics?
Physicists agree on the predictions. They have never agreed on what the theory says the world is like. Answer eight questions and see where your answers land — on a named interpretation, in unclaimed territory, or in conflict, with a theorem or with each other. It names the costs of where you land. It does not tell you which position is true.
Take the instrument →Ideas worth the depth.
Long essays on quantum interpretation, entropy and time, the foundations of motion and the sizes of infinity, for readers who know the equations and want the meaning underneath. No drills, no syllabus: the idea, taken seriously.
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