Explainers and deep dives in theoretical and classical physics.
How does a planetary push actually work?
A clear case of quantum apathy
How Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg attempted to resolve the quantum measurement problem through wave function collapse
What mathematicians and physicists actually mean by dimensions
Ten essential concepts about particles, wave functions, and reality in accessible language
Why Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle isn’t about clumsy measurements or mysticism, but fundamental wave mechanics and Fourier pairs
How Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen challenged quantum mechanics, and how John Bell devised a theorem to test local realism
What locality and non-locality mean in physics, and how entangled quantum states challenge our classical intuition
How firing particles through two narrow slits broke classical intuition and revealed the wave-particle nature of reality
Why the classic planetary model of the atom is wrong, and what quantum mechanics really tells us
Why mass is not converted into energy, why pure energy does not exist, and what Einstein really meant
Why the sky between primary and secondary rainbows is noticeably darker
Why radioactivity means nuclear instability, and how inhaling radioactive polonium and lead from tobacco smoke exposes lungs to extreme radiation doses
How quantum fields, oscillating electron clouds, and vertical polarisation filter out blinding glare from roads, water, and screens
Why microwave radiation is non-ionising electromagnetic energy that merely causes friction in water molecules without damaging DNA or vitamins
How Maxwell’s equations, interface boundary conditions, and microscopic electron responses explain optical refraction
Deriving an analytical expression for the normal force on a sliding mass over a cylinder, eliminating second derivatives via integration
How Ludwig Boltzmann, statistical microstates, and the second law of thermodynamics explain why water inevitably evaporates into the air
Deriving the energy-momentum invariant, analyzing massless particles, and calculating relativistic proton speeds at high kinetic energies
Understanding the scale of the observable universe, the mechanics of accelerated cosmic expansion, and why Earth is at the centre of its own visible bubble
Why intensity doesn’t cause ionisation, but frequency does
How Archimedes’ principle and hydrostatic pressure explain why massive vessels float, and why gravity is both the cause of sinking and floating
The Moon’s influence on tiny things is tiny
Why energy is a mathematical bookkeeping tool rather than a physical substance, and how spacetime expansion breaks global energy conservation
How Einstein and Minkowski showed that while space and time individually contract and dilate, the spacetime interval remains strictly invariant
A geometric derivation of the Lorentz transformations using Wick rotation, complex spacetime coordinates, and planar Euclidean rotations
