Topic
quantum
3 essays follow this thread across the codex.
- Physics · August 2026 · 21 min
The Sun Does Not Send Us Energy
Earth radiates back almost exactly what it receives. Nothing accumulates. So whatever the sun is supplying that makes life, weather and civilisation possible, it is not energy—and once you see what it actually is, the questions about data, computation and where all this is heading acquire real numbers and stop being metaphors.
- Physics · August 2026 · 10 min
Stop Drawing Me as a Little Ball
A complaint from an electron. On being misdrawn in every textbook since 1913, being accused of caring whether you are looking, and the persistent rumour that I am in two places at once—which is not what I said, and is somehow less impressive than the truth.
- Physics · August 2026 · 18 min
Nobody Understands It, and It Has Never Been Wrong
Quantum theory was not chosen. It was forced on physics by experiments that would not go away, by men who mostly disliked what they had found. A century later it is the most precisely verified description of nature we possess—and it still cannot tell you what happens when you look.