Physics

My first exposure to physics was A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, which I first picked up when I was around 8 or 9. It didn’t spawn an immediate infatuation with physics, but it did sow a dormant interest that I would only fully appreciate later on. This was primarily because I did not know of any introductory physics resources, so my knowledge of “actual physics” was only school-level until around 9th grade - although I was, and will always remain, a huge science enthusiast. This was when I found a solid book on Newtonian mechanics, and on completing it, decided to pick up Griffiths’ Introduction to Quantum Mechanics to put my multivariable calculus skills to the test. It was probably midway through this book that it dawned on me that I wanted to pursue a degree at least partly in physics.

My current interests primarily lie in theoretical high energy physics, broadly spanning quantum field theory, gauge theories, particle physics, supersymmetry and string theory. That said, I absolutely love solving classical mechanics and electrodynamics problems, they’re great fun and they keep your mind sharp too. Since I’m an avid programmer too, I often try to create simulations and visualisations related to or inspired by my physics learning. Some of my favourite topics in physics include:

On this blog I’ll be writing both technical and non-technical accounts of a wide range of physics topics that I find interesting.