Ants and Waves

Last night, while looking for ways to revive Rookie Physics, I stumbled upon an article in The Guardian. It said, "If you’re stuck in a rut, try posting something small: a cool picture or video, with a few words of explanation." The picture on top is something I picked at random (please believe me). It's…

Coins, Dice, and Entanglement

As a kid I loved multiplication. Dividing was hard—because I didn’t know what to do if the remainder wasn’t zero—but I managed to do okay in my tests. It was only in high school that I met the Cartesian product. Tensor products had to wait till my undergrad. Mathematics is full of products: scalar product,…

Math Class Musings

Joy sapped off our faces as the bell rang. Playful noises from seconds ago turned to whispers and then dead silence. A slight breeze from outside knocked chalk dust off the blackboard. The dust pelted the floor as it fell, like raindrops on a tin roof. It was Math class. He walked in with a…