Theoretical Physicist
Physics, code, images, and questions I keep returning to.
I'm Nelson, N. to some friends. I work between theoretical physics, scientific computing, photography, agents, and Lacanian reading. Some of it is academic, some of it belongs to startups, and I am still learning from the difference.
Where the work is done.
Selected Work
Some things I have worked on, and a few that still shape me.
Not a ranking, not a monument: just a map of papers, roles, tools, and projects that explain where I have been putting attention.
Research Evidence
A few anchor publications.
Geometry made visible by patience.
Research Threads
Threads I keep circling back to.
Themes that connect papers, notes, old questions, new tools, and the pleasure of reading physics even when one is not solving the whole universe.
Current Notes
Recent physics notes, kept readable without pretending everything is a breakthrough.
A living stream of curated scientific notes: short entries for following what is moving, what is interesting, and what deserves a second look.
A pause between equations.
Simulations & Visual Physics
From equations to animation.
Manim animations and wave models making theoretical physics tangible, from warp metrics to mesoscopic transport.
Research Network
Physics institutes working on these questions, worldwide.
A curated map of research groups in general relativity, condensed matter, mesoscopic physics, and quantum computing. Click any marker to open the institute's page.
Structure first; argument after.
Foundations
The things I keep using to think.
I love doing physics. I also love building small tools around the work: simulations, notes, agents, scripts, and strange little workflows that make thought less lonely.
Photography keeps me close to framing, patience, distance, and light. It is not decoration for the science; it is another way of noticing what a system lets you see.
Lacanian psychoanalysis gives me another language for structure, repetition, desire, and what does not fit neatly. I do not need all of that to sound grand. It is simply part of how I read problems.
Visual Notes
Image notebooks, fragments, and attention.
A horizontal notebook of images: places, weather, faces, accidents of light, and the small things that keep teaching me how to look.
Less like statements than traces of attention, before an idea is ready to be explained.
Terminal Node
If something here resonates, write me.
A short note is enough. Messages are stored privately and reviewed from a separate inbox.