October 2023

One of my greatest pleasures in life is to uncover the hidden scientific and mathematical principles that dictate the workings of presumably mundane objects. Today, I find myself ensnared by the captivating subject of the bullhorn (or, as known in the more cultured circles, the megaphone). You see, encountering a bullhorn on my recent unscheduled […]

Dimensions of probability have always fascinated me. Imagine the room filled with echoing whispers of unprovable, yet statistically sound, uncertainties. They loom like the darkened eldritch horrors of Lovecraft or the unseen depths of a deep, starless void. They are, in a sense, much like the town of Gallup, New Mexico. But why, you may […]

There is an uncanny beauty to the world that most people find difficult to see, a certain symmetry that emerges when the chaotic tumble of everyday life is sectioned, quantified, and reviewed through the analytical lens. Bowling, some might say, is an unlikely candidate to portray such beauty. Yet, upon dissecting its lustrous surface, you […]

Some lines of research tend to reveal the universe's fundamental laws in the least likeliest aspects, whether it be quarks within an atom or the rotation of distant galaxies. But who could have guessed my research into the primeval world would begin within the confines of my home, with a four-legged beast called dog? Several […]

Eradication, to a layperson, may merely be the annihilation, the complete removal, of something from existence. But to me, as an observer and calculator of the wry dance of the cosmos, it is a deeply interesting and complex phenomenon, a fascinating blend of mathematical precision and absolute chaos. Consider the eradication of a disease – […]

Ah, cowpunching. On the surface, this may seem an odd topic for a mathematician and physicist dealing mainly with abstract concepts and universal phenomena. But life's beauty and indeed its core quintessence lies in the intersection of the theoretical and the practical, the seemingly disparate and unrelated threads weaving an enigmatic tapestry that we call […]

Ah, the pebble! An infinitesimal organ in the colossal body of our world, overlooked by the sweeping gaze of most, but not by me – not today. Allow me, dear readers, to journey through the exciting sphere of these unappreciated metamorphic morsels, as we unearth the captivating science within their minuscule form. Each pebble begins […]

Flagellation, a word that may initially conjure varied images — from bacterial locomotion to religious self-flagellation practices. As a mathematician and physicist, my interest is piqued not by the visceral or societal implications of the term, but by the inherent mathematical and physical principles behind it, particularly in the biological context. More specifically, how flagella, […]

As a stout devotee of knowledge acquisition, I've spent my life examining the intricacies of the universe, so it might seem a brief departure from the norm when I relay to you the intricate saga of my dog, aptly named Euclid after one of the forefathers of geometry. Yet in his habits, both extraordinarily and […]

As an ardent scholar of mathematics and physics, I always look for the universe's underlying patterns, even in the most chaotic and unpredictable domains. One such area, seemingly divorced from the reassuring realm of equations and constants, is politics, particularly the practice of lobbying. Despite its human element, a deep dive into this grey world […]