https://effectivefield.com/posts/Recent content in Posts on Effective FieldHugoen-usWed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/holographic-spectral-alignment/Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/holographic-spectral-alignment/🥇 1st Place — METU Engineering Day 3MT, plus the full PHYS400 poster and long presentation.https://effectivefield.com/posts/what-is-a-horizon-wis-experimental-projects/Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/what-is-a-horizon-wis-experimental-projects/PDF presentation on horizon concepts and WIS experimental projects.https://effectivefield.com/posts/nonlinear-optics-presentation-interband-berry-phase/Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/nonlinear-optics-presentation-interband-berry-phase/Presentation slides from the Nonlinear Optics course on the interband Berry phase.https://effectivefield.com/posts/holographic-spectral-alignment-draft/Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/holographic-spectral-alignment-draft/<p>This page contains a draft manuscript and an assessment note provided as supporting material for my application to the Caltech PhD program in Physics.</p> <p><strong>Private materials — please do not distribute or repost.</strong></p> <p>The documents below are end-to-end encrypted. Enter the passphrase to decrypt and view them in your browser — the files are never served or stored in readable form.</p> <div class="secure-vault" data-iters="250000"> <div class="protected-gate" data-sv-gate> <div class="protected-icon">🔒</div> <p class="protected-label">Encrypted materials — enter passphrase to decrypt</p> <div class="protected-form"> <input type="password" class="sv-input" placeholder="Enter passphrase" autocomplete="current-password" /> <button type="button" class="sv-btn">Decrypt</button> </div> <p class="protected-error sv-error" style="display:none;"></p>https://effectivefield.com/posts/metu-talk-einsteins-equations-in-electromagnetic-media/Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/metu-talk-einsteins-equations-in-electromagnetic-media/Talk given at METU on Einstein&rsquo;s field equations in the context of electromagnetic media.https://effectivefield.com/posts/ista-hosten-group-meeting-talk/Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/ista-hosten-group-meeting-talk/Talk at the ISTA Hosten Group Meeting, Wednesday September 10, 2025.https://effectivefield.com/posts/classification-of-analogies-in-mathematical-physics/Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/classification-of-analogies-in-mathematical-physics/A framework for categorizing analogies between physical systems — from intuitive connections to full mathematical dualities.https://effectivefield.com/posts/tapir-caltech-sxs-group-meeting-talk/Tue, 08 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/tapir-caltech-sxs-group-meeting-talk/Talk at the TAPIR / Caltech SXS Group Meeting on Einstein&rsquo;s equations in electromagnetic media.https://effectivefield.com/posts/gravitational-aquarium/Sat, 10 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/gravitational-aquarium/The cosmos lives within everyday moments — observing an aquarium at METU and drawing parallels to gravitational physics.https://effectivefield.com/posts/fluctuation-dissipation-theorem/Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/fluctuation-dissipation-theorem/From Einstein&rsquo;s 1905 Brownian motion to quantum vacuum fluctuations and the Lindblad equation.https://effectivefield.com/posts/through-the-curtain-darwin/Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/through-the-curtain-darwin/A creative reimagining of Charles Darwin receiving Wallace&rsquo;s letter — told through light, curtains, and the courage to publish.https://effectivefield.com/posts/dispersion-as-a-consequence-of-discrete-space-time/Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/dispersion-as-a-consequence-of-discrete-space-time/How dispersion emerges naturally from a granular spacetime model — deriving dispersion relations from coupled oscillators on a lattice.https://effectivefield.com/posts/on-the-origins-of-time-and-gravitation/Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/on-the-origins-of-time-and-gravitation/A thought experiment on the origins of time and gravitation, inspired by the stone waterfalls at METU.https://effectivefield.com/posts/quantum-circuit-notation-qcn/Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/quantum-circuit-notation-qcn/Proposing QCN as a novel framework for classical circuit analysis inspired by quantum mechanics and Dirac&rsquo;s bra-ket notation.https://effectivefield.com/posts/time-lord-victorious/Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/time-lord-victorious/On the immutability of time — from Minkowski spacetime to black holes, with a detour through Doctor Who.https://effectivefield.com/posts/group-theory-in-physics/Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/group-theory-in-physics/On the role of symmetry and group theory as the mathematical language of modern physics.https://effectivefield.com/posts/why-you-are-who-you-are/Fri, 12 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/why-you-are-who-you-are/A scientific treatise on the understanding of character and consciousness.https://effectivefield.com/posts/tardis-time-and-relative-dimensions-in-space/Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/tardis-time-and-relative-dimensions-in-space/Is it possible to manipulate dimensions? Examining the TARDIS through the lens of mathematical physics.https://effectivefield.com/posts/william-rowan-hamilton-forgotten-genius/Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/william-rowan-hamilton-forgotten-genius/The story of William Rowan Hamilton — an alcoholic poet who invented quaternions on a bridge in Dublin.https://effectivefield.com/posts/special-relativity/Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/special-relativity/An introduction to Einstein&rsquo;s special relativity — from Galileo and Newton through Mach to the 1905 revolution.https://effectivefield.com/posts/what-is-the-most-fundamental-science/Sat, 04 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://effectivefield.com/posts/what-is-the-most-fundamental-science/Which science is the most fundamental — physics, neuroscience, or mathematics?