|physics-educationmathematical-physics
Reading Space: A Primer on Vector Calculus
A storybook primer on vector calculus for people who love physics and have been personally betrayed by math.
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Superconductors: When Magnetism Becomes Quantized Vorticity
Superconductors turn magnetism into counted circulation, then pin that circulation in place like the universe’s weirdest bookkeeping system.
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Black Holes Aren't Violent, the Universe Just Has Terrible PR
In classical GR, a black hole's horizon is not a cosmic meat grinder. Free fall is geodesic motion, which feels like nothing. The real hazards are tidal forces (curvature), the astrophysical junk around the hole, and the very human urge to hover where hovering is basically illegal.
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Quantum Field Fluctuations in de Sitter Space
Analysis of vacuum fluctuations in expanding spacetime and their implications for inflationary cosmology.
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Path Integrals on the Lattice
Discretizing quantum field theory for numerical computation.