nonlinearity

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Chasing solitons

7 min read
Scicomm Science 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

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 fou…

Writing itself is fantasy

3 min read
Culture 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

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…