Writing / My abstract thoughts
Physics, the universe, and the rabbit holes that refuse to fit into a short video.
Featured essay / Investigation
A new peer-reviewed paper says a line in Sayana's Rigveda commentary comes close to the speed of light. I checked its numbers, then tested the claim against the astronomy of the very traditions it relies on.
Read the essayScience communication / 8 min read
A child in Ladakh asked me what the Big Bang collided with, and my confident answer made things worse. Here is what that taught me about the pictures our explanations put in other people's heads, and a simple habit for checking them before you publish.
Read the essayInvestigation / 9 min read
A chatbot that failed my general relativity homework in 2022 is now in the news for a claimed proof of a Millennium Prize Problem. Can AI make a foundational discovery the way Newton and Einstein did, or will it only make our work faster? Four obstacles, and a possible way around each.
Read the essayInvestigation / 7 min read
The universe may not be as stable as it looks. Physics suggests it could exist in a metastable state where a random quantum shift, connected to the Higgs boson's mass, could trigger false vacuum decay, a bubble expanding at nearly the speed of light, transforming everything in its path into an unknown new state of reality, with no warning.
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