The Star Carver They say you find a lively memoryof a world’s early agesdeep within. Shapes without colourscolours without shapes.Endeavours without maps,vision without eyes. To rejoin the silence was to speak;to leave behind all lights was to see. Feel the pristine ground.Touch the running water.Does a fire burn afar?Do you hear the shadows flicker? For … Continue reading Two Recent Poems
Author: FranklyWrong
FW’s Cosmology Unwrapped 2021: a year of papers in Review [Ongoing]
A summary of 2021 cosmology notes not immediately from my own research, but I consider important as well.
Two Late 2021 CGI Artworks
Reunion (3072 × 4096) Medium: Blender Cycles + Hand painting. December 2021. During my freshman year, I imagined a space colony utilizing the material of Enceladus (Saturn II). This new rendition moves the space station off the surface of the moon and bends metal and concrete into a van Braun ring space station design. It … Continue reading Two Late 2021 CGI Artworks
357686312646216567629137 and Friends
Many people close to FWPhys are aware of, in possession of, or about to possess, our first STEM merchandise, the Left Truncatable Prime Pencil. Printed on it is the largest base-10 number that remains prime as you remove digits from the left side by means of sharpening the pencil. US$3 a pair. It's common knowledge … Continue reading 357686312646216567629137 and Friends
[Lux : Phys] Bubbles and Thin-Film Interference
With beautiful afternoon daylight, a brain freshly loaded with spherical harmonics, a vial of soap water, and a powerful lens, I ran behind bubbles and attempted to zoom in on their exquisite optical details. Multibubble Thin Film Pattern Details Whand A Whand B Whand C Whand A' Hand
How Euler Tackled an innocent-looking integral
For unclear reasons, I really wanted to write down one wacky (read: elegant) calculus exercise tonight -- have you integrated the cotangent function twice? I feel the infinite series are mere toys dancing at the fingertips of Euler, and consider his method to tackle this quite beautiful, my usual attitude towards Euler math. For some … Continue reading How Euler Tackled an innocent-looking integral
A Meta Joke
Genghis Khan (K): I unified the Mongol clans.Mark Zuccboi (Z): I founded Feicebuk. K: I expanded my empire, and proved that the Mongols were the most capable.Z: I expanded my empire, and also discovered that Feicebuk is the most influential. K: Under my rule, the Mongolian Empire became the largest country on the earth.Z: Under … Continue reading A Meta Joke