Hi all, and welcome! On this site, devoted to sharing the excitement and meaning of science, you’ll find a blog (posts begin below) and reference articles (accessible from the menus above.)
Keep an eye out for my new book, “Waves in an Impossible Sea,” due out in March 2024. Here’s what some of my colleagues are saying about it. You can pre-order it at independent bookstores (such as Harvard Book Store, Powell’s, and many others), or at Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
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On May 11, 2012 my comment was “I like Matt Magazine”. Now, more than 10 years later I repeat: I like Matt Magazine 🙂
Really enjoy all your posts. Fascinating material about the fundamental workings of our universe.
In a certain sense we all are just “field excitations”
Thank you for continuing to write these posts!
Matt, what are the long term plans with your blog?
If you intend to use it to supplement your professional career long term, then I recommend you hire someone making a career out of designing and maintaining blogs: they’ll quickly elevate your blog to a level within a day or so that would otherwise take you a few years casually, if at all, and suggest things you weren’t aware of. If not, and your blog is a casual hobby, then it’s fine as it is IMO. One very famous ex-string theorist used to have a blog with a green colour scheme that I found to be awful and amateurish to look at; but it was his blog, his way of doing things and overall functioned OK.
A professional upgrade is planned. It won’t be hasty but it is coming.
I’ve enjoyed your blog for many years, so thank you!