modeling | Pavel Chvykov

Understanding the whole without the parts?

“I’m a physicist, I have a working knowledge of the entire universe and everything it contains” –Sheldon, “The Big Bang Theory” While...

Letters about structure of the universe

In this post, I wanted to share a bit of a sense of the more fun aspects of a scientific career: namely having cool conversations and...

In search of Truth

Is there one true way to understand a tree? Well, of course there is — talk to any scientist! A physicist will tell you that it’s a...

Deriving everyday reality from fundamental rules

What makes a good scientific model? As a theoretical physicist I used to think that modeling everything at the level of atoms seems like...