01 / Investigation
The Way the Universe Might Actually Die Is Disturbing
False vacuum decay, the Higgs field, and the unsettling possibility that our universe is only temporarily stable.
Explore the investigationAstro Kshitij / Physics & the universe
The universe is
stranger than
you think.
I’m Kshitij Pandey, a physicist and science communicator exploring the ideas that reshape how we understand reality. I also build AI products and grow audiences the way a product manager would.
MSc Physics · Astrophysics & Cosmology
TEDx speaker
Product & AI builder
Reach / In rooms and on screen
Physics in front of rooms. Curiosity beyond them.
100+ Talks
137k+ People Reached
01 / Beyond the screen
Physics in the room.
Some ideas are best explored together.
From the TEDx stage to a room full of students, I bring difficult ideas into conversations people can be part of.
- 01Talks that make space for curiosity
- 02Quantum Mechanics for Everyone
- 03Science communication training for institutions
- 04AI literacy for researchers and science communicators
All workshop programmes are in development. Enquiries and expressions of interest are welcome.
Explore workshops02 / Selected explorations
Follow a question.
See where it takes you.
Research, stories, and ideas from a universe that keeps surprising us.
02 / Gravitation / Research
At the edge of a singularity
My co-authored work on high-energy particle collisions near naked singularities.
View the research
03 / Physics / On screen
Follow the question further.
Long-form explainers and experiments in understanding the universe, in Hindi.
Watch on YouTube
04 / Product / AI
Product work: PRDs, wireframes and case studies
How I think about users, problems and AI products, shown through the work.
See my product work
03 / Behind the questions
A physicist. A storyteller. Still a student of the universe.
My path runs through studying physics, asking questions about the universe, and sharing what I learn. The question that follows me everywhere: how do we make these difficult ideas understandable? I treat science communication like a product: audience personas, retention data, and a steady stream of experiments.
The story so far04 / Featured writing / My abstract thoughts
Did an Ancient Text Know the Speed of Light? I Checked the Paper's Numbers
A new peer-reviewed paper looks at a line in Sayana's Rigveda commentary that is often linked to the speed of light. I checked its calculations, its sources and the assumptions behind its choice of units.
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05 / The conversation continues
Find me in your orbit.
A conversation worth having
Let’s make difficult ideas impossible to ignore.
Talks, workshops, institutional training, and research or creator collaborations. Tell me what you have in mind.