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Moss Physics!

Images from the book Gathering Moss by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Growing within the boundary layer between the air and a surface (which traps heat and moisture) is how mosses maximise their ability to stay hydrated without having the extensive root or vascular systems that trees have. Beyond the... read more

Soft Bodies, Hard Physics

the ground twitches first— running unauthorised diagnostics on my ankles like it's planning an upgrade I didn't request. a bird knifes upward with such clean aerodynamics it borders on mockery. insult recorded. the tide‑gnawed slabs pretend to be inert, but they hum with the... read more

Does he exist?

This little kitty is present in the picture, but is it really there? Lets break it into chewable pieces... the scale says 0kg, which factually means, that there shouldn't be ANYONE sitting there. Maybe float, but NOT sit! This orange fella found a hole in physics and escaped it... successfully if i... read more

The dragon problem

Class draconem Here's a draft. --- I've spent years building something I'd like to share with people who care about speculative biology. It's called Class Draconem — a scientifically grounded evolutionary history of dragons, starting from a real genetic event (a Hox gene duplication in a Silurian... read more

Reflecting on Teleportation: Fiction vs. Physics

I know, I know, it's a huge text on a very specific topic, who's going to read it?But I need to post this thought somewhere 😁 The more I think about the idea of teleportation, like we see in movies, the more convinced I become of its practical impossibility. Fiction makes everything look simple,... read more

Did you know?

In October of 2022 the Nobel prize in physics was awarded for proving that the universe renders in exactly the same way a video game does. That the universe is not locally 'real'? ( In order to define the words 'local ' and 'real, in this instance I'm referring to locality as being the assumption... read more