Tag Archives: nonlinearity
Chasing solitons
Every once in a while, I dive into a topic in science for no reason other than that I find it interesting. This is how I learnt about Titan, laser-cooling, and random walks. This post is about the fourth topic … Continue reading
Posted in Scicomm, Science
Tagged Akhmediev breather, Bose-Einstein condensate, breather soliton, David Tong, Draupner wave, Erwin Schrodinger, fluid dynamics, Froude number, guitar string, Howell Peregrine, John Scott Russell, Kelvin wake, Korteweg-de Vries equation, Kuznetsov-Ma breather, nonlinearity, partial differential equations, Peregrine soliton, sine-Gordon breather, solitons, wave of translation
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Writing itself is fantasy
The symbols may have been laid down on paper or the screen in whatever order but when we read, we read the words one at a time, one after another – linearly. Writing, especially of fiction, is an act of … Continue reading
Posted in Culture
Tagged Ariekei, Arrival, China Miéville, Dune, Embassytown, Flatland, Frank Herbert, Harry Potter, heptapods, Higgs boson, higher dimensions, hypersphere, language, linguistics, nonlinear storytelling, nonlinearity, Orson Scott Card, sphericity, three dimensions, time, varelse
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