John F. Lindner
Blog Posts
Browse my blog posts, 146 as of 2025 April 11, colored by year, or visit the Wooster Physics blog post index.
• Fram2 Over the Poles • 2D Kepler Conjecture • Blue Ghost Eclipse • Mach Cutoff • Mount Wilson Trek • Outer Planet Cloud Colors • Sum of Reciprocals • There and Back Again • Rey’s Theme • Skywalker • An academic in industry • Does a charge in gravity radiate? • The Longest Flight • Where Are the Stars? • Bertrand’s Postulate • Aero thermo dynamics • Stegosaurus Tiling • A Better Alphabet • Measuring the Solar System • Wooster’s Time Crystals • Venus’s Supercritical Ocean • Percy & Ginny • Summer of ’19 • Chemistry Does General Relativity • Magic Scroll • All Engine(s) Running • Diversity Improves Machine Learning • Neural network does quantum mechanics • The Ringed Planets • Simplest Chaos • Vampire Ein Stein • The Temperature of the Vacuum • A Century of Compton Scattering • We Are Going • Behold, an Ein Stein! • Generalizing Coulomb’s Law • Triple EVA • 5-Color Theorem • Compton Generator • Analemma • Perseverance, Ignition, Breakeven • Distant Retrograde Orbit • Artemis Is the Sister of Apollo • Zero-G Indicator • For the dinosaurs! • Great Plains Solstice Twilight • Signature Spikes • GRAVITY and Gravity • Alien Suns Reversing in Exoplanet Skies • Black Hole Above the Fold • Slide Rule Examples • Slide Rule Theory • Diffraction Limited • Shackleton’s Valiant Voyage • Halo Orbit • Merlin & Raptor • Astronomy Christmas Gift • Burning Plasma • Part Science, Part Art, Part Luck • 4D Unknot • Punch it, SpaceX • Dandelin Spheres • Grad Schools • For Teague • 21st Century Skyscraper • Spinors • Squares & Cubes • Transition • Archimedes & Euler • Free-Fall Spinning Tunnels • Geographic Tongue • Mars Sky Crane • Nightfall • Chemical Clock • Dragon Eye • Novel Math, Nobel Physics • Cookie Cutter • Flying Silo • Hot & Cold Electricity • Hamiltonian Flow • Summer Highlight • A Gigasecond at Wooster • Higgs Without Molasses • The Tall Towers • Losing Betelgeuse • Continental Bridge • Table of Nuclides • Intrepid-Surveyor • Relaxing Fermat • Stainless Steel Starship • After the Moonwalk • “Contact Light” • Wooster Epicycles • Redefining SI • Black Hole Radii • The Longest Day • Relativistic Colors • 720° untangles 360° tangles • Luna’s Convex Orbit • 1+2+3+… = -1/12? • A Better Table • Math Grenade • Optical Tweezers • Dr. Rendezvous • Saturnday • Anholonomy • Norton’s Dome • Moon Dance • On Mercury One Day Lasts Two Years • Dynamo • Falcon Heavy • The Impossible Problem • Electronic Kilogram • Taylor Bowl • Newton’s Can(n)on • Ein Stein • Gossamer Flight • The Cupola • The Falls • The Burj • Engine of Computation • Frustration & Perpetual Motion • Harvesting Wind Energy for Signal Detection • Raptor Interplanetary Transport Engine • First Deep Space Walk • Found in a Box • If Apple Designed Buildings… • Singing in the Wind • Into the Wind • Dreaming Eyes Wide Open • Kelly Twin Paradox • A New Kind of Astronomy • Hillary & Armstrong • Ticktock Deadbeat Escapement • The Falcon Has Landed • ER = EPR? • The Martian • 19th Century Foreground, 20th Century Background • On the Shore of the Arctic Ocean • Rubik’s Cube Puzzles • It’s Geology, But Not As We Know It • The Double Planet • Chaos in the Clockwork • The Flight of the Dragon • The Unveiling of Pluto • Strange Nonchaotic Stars • Wooster Physics in Hawai’i!
