Miscellaneous

This page collects some of my physics writings that don't belong in a research journal.

Lay

• ThePrint, The Hindu
  • Essays on particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology for a broad audience.

• Nature Unsolved
  • The outstanding puzzles of physics that worry me the most. (The footnotes, doubling as a reference repository, are for a technical audience.)

• Mythos _[arXiv]
  • Timeline of Greek mythology retold in the ubiquitous names of experiments and codes in fundamental physics. [Running updates]
  • The Wandering Tribe
    • Origin tale of the family of Greek gods who gave their names to Solar System bodies.

• Invisible Forces _[PDF]
  • Pamphlet accompanying a fabric-and-beads sculpture exhibited at Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, made by artists I collaborated with.
  • On Collaboration
    • Transcript of a public speech I gave on the experience at Swiss-Canadian Innovation Fest, Apr 2022.

• Peer review
  • A layperson's introduction to the process of peer review and publication.

• Pasta
  • My 'lab note' in Massive Science on how nuclear pasta in the crusts of neutron stars could be a sensitive detector of dark matter.

• Blindstuff
  • Popular essay on dark matter and the ongoing hunt for it. I will keep updating this in proportion to my learning.

Technical

• My favourite paper
  • Or: Presentation is everything.

• Particle Bites
  • My erstwhile contributions to the online journal club.

• Stability _[PDF]
  • Notes for a journal club talk doubling as a mini-review. I am fascinated by what makes dark matter stable/long-lived. If you know of more mechanisms than listed here, please e-mail me.

• Special relativity
  • My notes on mind-tickling conceptual aspects of the topic.

• Susskind's General Relativity _[PDF]
  • Handwritten notes of lectures by Leonard Susskind at a Continuing Studies course.

• e
  • LaTeX notes on Eli Maor's e: The Story of a Number, which covers a lot of ground on the history of mathematics.

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