Blog Posts

My blog posts are summarized below, 176 as of 2026 November 14, colored below by year, or visit my weblog summary index. These are contributions to the Wooster physics blog.

• They Caught a Starship! • Powered Gravity Assist • 3D Ein Stein • Hyperball Volumes • Orbital Starship • Navier-Stokes Singularity • Roman vs. Hubble • First Photo From Mars • Constructing Pentagons • Negative Resistance • Stokes’ Drag Law • 1+2+3+… = –1/12 Revisited • Pythagorean Animations • Copy, Moon Joy • The Dream Is Alive • A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes • Guided Flame • Moon Trees • The Mathematics of Wonder • Chemical Wires • e is Transcendental • My First Patent • My Second Patent • Extreme SI Prefixes • Wooster Physicists • Growing Neural Networks • Logic with Nonlinear Maps • Barred Warped Wobbly Spiral • Weak Prime Number Theorem • Fram2 Over the Poles • 2D Kepler Conjecture • Blue Ghost Eclipse • Mach Cutoff • Mount Wilson Trek • Outer Planet Cloud Colors • Sum of Reciprocals • There and Back Again • Rey’s Theme • Skywalker • An academic in industry • Does a charge in gravity radiate? • The Longest Flight • Where Are the Stars? • Bertrand’s Postulate • Aero thermo dynamics • Stegosaurus Tiling • A Better Alphabet • Measuring the Solar System • Wooster’s Time Crystals • Venus’s Supercritical Ocean • Percy & Ginny • Summer of ’19 • Chemistry Does General Relativity • Magic Scroll • All Engine(s) Running • Diversity Improves Machine Learning • Neural network does quantum mechanics • The Ringed Planets • Simplest Chaos • Vampire Ein Stein • The Temperature of the Vacuum • A Century of Compton Scattering • We Are Going • Behold, an Ein Stein! • Generalizing Coulomb’s Law • Triple EVA • 5-Color Theorem • Compton Generator • Analemma • Perseverance, Ignition, Breakeven • Distant Retrograde Orbit • Artemis Is the Sister of Apollo • Zero-G Indicator • For the dinosaurs! • Great Plains Solstice Twilight • Signature Spikes • Fact Meets Fiction in Gravity • Alien Suns Reversing in Exoplanet Skies • Black Hole Above the Fold • Slide Rule Examples • Slide Rule Theory • Diffraction Limited • Shackleton’s Valiant Voyage • Halo Orbit • Merlin & Raptor • Astronomy Christmas Gift • Burning Plasma • Part Science, Part Art, Part Luck • 4D Unknot • Punch it, SpaceX • Dandelin Spheres • Grad Schools • For Teague • 21st Century Skyscraper • Spinors • Squares & Cubes • Transition • Archimedes & Euler • Free-Fall Spinning Tunnels • Geographic Tongue • Mars Sky Crane • Nightfall • Chemical Clock • Dragon Eye • Novel Math, Nobel Physics • Cookie Cutter • Flying Silo • Hot & Cold Electricity • Hamiltonian Flow • Summer Highlight • A Gigasecond at Wooster • Higgs Without Molasses • The Tall Towers • Losing Betelgeuse • Continental Bridge • Table of Nuclides • Intrepid-Surveyor • Relaxing Fermat • Stainless Steel Starship • After the Moonwalk • “Contact Light” • Wooster Epicycles • Redefining SI • Black Hole Radii • The Longest Day • Relativistic Colors • 720° untangles 360° tangles • Luna’s Convex Orbit • 1+2+3+… = –1/12? • A Better Table • Math Grenade • Optical Tweezers • Dr. Rendezvous • Saturnday • Anholonomy • Norton’s Dome • Moon Dance • On Mercury One Day Lasts Two Years • Dynamo • Falcon Heavy • The Impossible Problem • Electronic Kilogram • Taylor Bowl • Newton’s Can(n)on • Ein Stein • Gossamer Flight • The Cupola • The Falls • The Burj • Engine of Computation • Frustration & Perpetual Motion • Harvesting Wind Energy for Signal Detection • Raptor Interplanetary Transport Engine • First Deep Space Walk • Found in a Box • If Apple Designed Buildings… • Singing in the Wind • Into the Wind • Dreaming Eyes Wide Open • Kelly Twin Paradox • A New Kind of Astronomy • Hillary & Armstrong • Ticktock Deadbeat Escapement • The Falcon Has Landed • ER = EPR? • The Martian • 19th Century Foreground, 20th Century Background • On the Shore of the Arctic Ocean • Rubik’s Cube Puzzles • It’s Geology, But Not As We Know It • The Double Planet • Chaos in the Clockwork • The Flight of the Dragon • The Unveiling of Pluto • Strange Nonchaotic Stars • Wooster Physics in Hawai’i!