BS3 | Pavel Chvykov

Feb 4, 20214 min read

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...

Jan 28, 20213 min read

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...

Jan 20, 20212 min read

Is Santa real?

Just wanted to take a break to sprinkle some magic into this blog ;P Well as it happens, I have always believed in Santa. Perhaps thanks...

Jan 15, 20212 min read

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...

Jan 13, 20212 min read

Designing environments to select designs

In the last few posts we reasoned that “growing cars” would mean somehow creating them without a human planning out all the details of...

Jan 6, 20212 min read

Darwinian designs

What is the difference between the amazing designs of biology, and those built by humans? Well, as we’ve discussed in the last couple...

Jan 3, 20212 min read

Building cars we don't understand

Alright, so in the last post we were talking about growing cars (yes, I’m pretending this is a talk-show). I tried to argue that the...

Dec 31, 20202 min read

Can we grow cars instead of building them?

Well that sounds like an exciting idea — imagine a car tree that grows on its own, and we need not do anything other than pick the...