Science

These essays follow curiosity, not a curriculum. The subject might be a pendulum, a prime number, a probability that won't leave me alone, or a process that turns out to be more interesting than it looks. Physics appears most often — it is where my intuition is strongest — but this section is not bounded by it.

I try to stay honest about what I do not know. When I hedge, I hedge deliberately. When I use a technical word, I mean a specific thing; many of them have glossary entries.

If you find a mistake, please tell me. That is how the archive gets better.