At this particular moment, being a physicist in the company town of S—.
Sniffing chalk dust, tangling up equations, staring blankly and wondering about stuff.
Notes
I keep typed-up notes on some astrophysics textbooks, as well as standalone topics. Some are intended for popular consumption, others more technical.
- Axions + using MESA to simulate the lives of stars (2025)
- Gravitational memory, a brief introduction (2025)
- What’s “topological” about topological defects? (2024)
- How do fundamental particles work? (2024)
- Relativistic fluids from relativistic dust (2024)
- Notes on Dodelson & Schmidt, Modern Cosmology (WIP, 2023–)
- Notes on Carroll & Ostlie, Introduction to Modern Astrophysics (Parts I & II, 2022)
- The wave optics of gravitational lensing (WIP, 2024–)
- Math/physics/astro book recommendations
Shenanigans
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- Beetle exoskeleton simulator (WIP, 2026)
- Quantum statistical mechanics classroom aid (2026)
- Starherd: Stellar evolution visualizer (WIP, 2023–)
- Rippleweave: Pretty function grapher (2022)
- Polarizar: Janky visual odometry for janky robots (2023)
- Map.ahs.app: A voxel world (2022)
- Cliques: A rip-off of Set (2019)
cosmic holography
decanting
caught in a sunbeam
portrait of the artist
wild maps
why?
le pays des larmes