Year: 2024

30/05/2024

[IrPt] Imagine Stars – Companion Booklet

Imagine Stars / Farewell, Auckland Physics – EP.

https://irpt.bandcamp.com/album/imagine-stars-farewell-auckland-physics

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/imagine-stars-farewell-auckland-physics-ep/1749597641?l=en-GB

Available to stream everywhere ~~in mid-June~~, this small release of music includes “Gravitation”, my graduation song, and “Imagine Stars”, the complete reinterpretation of a melody that has had a long history with me.

This page says a bit more about the story behind each track.
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22/05/2024

FW’s PhD Thesis Acknowledgements

Shenzhou 5 Fast Mix / FWPhys Theme 2023

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22/05/2024

A Diary from the 24/7 Study Room

Thematically this is a follow up to That Thing, Physics. Well, most of my current life is the ring down of the life period that culminated in that essay being written and posted. Reality can be so sticky at times. Flavourless molasses. Maybe there’s going to be an aftertaste?
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16/05/2024

Onwards, and thanks for all the fish
20/04/2024

Freedom*

In Series …
THE APERIODICALS
Local (personal, potentially shallow, and subject to change) outlooks on science, technology, growth, and occasionally culture and history. The goal is to write something every week, but whether it can make its way to FWPhys is random. Hence the series title.

Freedom. It is a big word. The post is hardly commensurate in length, breadth, and depth. Nonetheless I am free enough to decide to spend the Saturday to jot down the following. Free enough to have multiple waves of doubts over my career and dealing — maybe I am also free enough to carve a legacy of nothing? Anyway, here goes.
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19/04/2024

Stream “Shenzhou 5”, My Song for Impending PhD Submission

One of the working titles (since I missed the October 15 anniversary date of the flight) was “Self-Portrait of an Early-Career Theoretical Physicist“. It ended up seeming too long for my liking.
19/04/2024

A Sinking Source (Recovered Version)

Originally published in December 2023, access restored April 2024.
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