Research & Work
Scientific papers, engineering tutorials, and explorations in AI-generated content
Engineering
The Time Machine Problem
Dates • Time Zones • UTC • Rails 7.2 + MariaDBGetting dates and times right on the web is deceptively hard. A working recipe for importing time, storing it in UTC in MariaDB, displaying it in the user's own time zone, building the date/time widgets, using Luxon (and why we left moment.js), world time formats, and the daylight-saving edge cases that break charts. With a live demo.
Physics
How Gravity Can Be a Result of Time Dilation
General Relativity • Schwarzschild • Geodesics • GPSA theoretical framework arguing that gravity arises from spatial gradients in the time-dilation component of the metric tensor. Schwarzschild analysis, geodesic free-fall, the GPS clock correction (+38.5 μs/day), and a full line-by-line fact-check of the mathematics.
Research
Real-Time Ruby: ActionCable in Rails 7.2
WebSockets • C++ Workers • Live DashboardsA complete tutorial on building real-time communication in Rails using ActionCable. Covers WebSocket architecture, Redis Pub/Sub adapters, C++ workers publishing Monte Carlo π estimation, Rails host authorization, and production deployment patterns.
Research
Ruby on Rails Asset Pipeline: From Sprockets to Rails 7.2
Sprockets • Propshaft • ESBuild • Import MapsA comprehensive technical guide to Ruby on Rails asset pipeline options. Covers legacy Sprockets architecture and features, then makes the case for modern Rails 7.2 tooling with Propshaft, Import Maps, ESBuild, and Tailwind CSS. Includes PlantUML architecture diagrams and migration strategies.
Research
The Fluffy Archive: A Marshmallow Research Report
History • Food Science • Cultural StudiesHow a marshy plant from Egypt's Nile Delta became the world's favorite quicksweet. Tracing Althaea officinalis from 1,550 BCE Egyptian medicine through French pastry to modern Peeps, with historical recipes and market data.
Physics
Neutrino Mass Generation via the See-Saw Mechanism
Particle Physics • Cosmology • LeptogenesisExplores the see-saw mechanism explaining tiny neutrino masses through heavy right-handed neutrinos. Covers Dirac and Majorana mass terms, leptogenesis, baryon asymmetry, and experimental probes like neutrinoless double beta decay.
Physics
Bell's Theorem: Quantum Entanglement and the Death of Local Realism
Quantum Physics • Bell Inequalities • Non-LocalityHow John Bell proved that no local hidden variable theory can reproduce quantum mechanics predictions. Comprehensive analysis of the Einstein-Bohr debate, Bell's inequality derivation, the CHSH form, fifty years of experimental verification, and what it all means for our understanding of reality.
Music
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Memes and Genes (Knowledge is Life)
May 25, 2015 • Inspired by Through the WormholeInspired by the Science Channel's Through the Wormhole asking "What is the meaning of life?" The answer: to collect knowledge and spread memes for allowing knowledge to survive. A musical exploration of this idea.
Music
Singularity (Not Humanly Possible)
April 30, 2015 • Cyborg CompositionThe singularity is coming. Will musicians use their cyborg powers to play impossible music? An impossible-to-play piece dedicated to the coming singularity — because I seem to have lost my way in creating human-playable music.
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