Not uninspired by the Sisyphus55 video of the same title, and heading to streaming before year end as part of Gold. We talk more about the context in the end.
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[Photo Journal Express] Phaeno BubbleMania
Today, 14 October, finds me back in Wolfsburg to my backyard Popsci Oasis, the Phaeno Interactive Science Museum, across the railroads from Volkswagen HQ. For the Lower Saxony school holidays they are running #BubbleMania, or as I would prefer to call it, UnbegrenzteSeifenwasserverfügbarkeitssituation (Unlimited Soap Water Situation). And I am glad to have been here on the opening day.
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Not Slow, But Doesn’t Fit in a Data Center
On watching an ethical debate morph into an economic one, and the remaining roles of the human mind in guiding progress. A layman’s response to both the arXiv submission cap and OpenAI’s huge pile of mathematical proofs released on 6 October.
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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. -
Distance Measurement in a Conformal Universe
As this is written in one short burst, there is less copy-editing than usual. This is not a technical Aperiodical piece. It concerns my own meta-physics as research, career, and life unfolds. No equations.
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[fwd.] The Price of the Shirt is Nine Pounds and Fifteen Pence
A translation based on a 2026 Jiangsu Gaokao essay by an anonymous examinee, reproduced here as a non-commercial translation exercise.
Copyright in the original remains with its respective rights holder(s). I format this note as a translation attempt, and some cultural footnotes. Note that this essay (and my commentary surrounding it) deals with death and personal losses.
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At the gate of the final year in Goettingen
This is not quite an Aperiodical, but I make a note ahead of — both scheduled and now, open to, surprising — changes.
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