On the occasion that I am turning 28, I look back at the chapter of my life when I was a player and modder of games by Synetic: The Funfactory, a small German studio that, without meaning to, taught me to be a designer of cars, a scientist, and, somehow, a resident of Germany.
(Cover screenshot: a modded “Excellence” / [unlicensed Aston Martin Vanquish with a Jaguar face] in front of the alpine observatory in Crash Time 5: Undercover. Taken in 2016)
My previous visit to the Göttingen City Cemetery was on the second of October, four months ago. I guess this is poised to become a tradition. Though, as this essay hopefully makes clear, future trips are unlikely to generate new essays or photo journals.
(more…)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?
(more…)My first visit to Perimeter Institute is nearing its end.
While an appreciable amount of physics and related academic thinking is to be uploaded here in the near future, I wish to start with photos of the building itself.
These images are intentionally empty and liminal. It’s the people and their ideas that inhabit this place that make it truly special, of course. I will work hard to join — more optimistically, stay in — their number.
(more…)The most incomprehensible thing about the Universe is that it is comprehensible.
Albert Einstein
Yourong Frank Wang 