About Symmatica

When I buy a new notebook, I quote these words by James Clerk Maxwell as my epigraph of choice. It feels fitting to do the same now

"Happy is the man who can find in the work of to-day, a connected portion of the work of life, and an embodiment of the work of Eternity."

My work of ‘to-day’ is to investigate foundations of cosmology and spacetime physics. But here, I write about awe and beauty, both structured and sublime.

Schrödinger, in his essay on Science and Humanism, claimed that specialized knowledge is only meaningful insofar as it contributes to a synthesis aimed at the greater mystery — Whence I came, whither I go, who am I?

Symmatica, which I envision more as an aesthetic than a collection of writings, documents an effort towards such a synthesis, albeit confined within the contours of my understanding. Here, I collect the wonders I encounter in formalisms of gauge symmetries and non-commutative geometries, in the contemplations of Nāgārjuna and the meditations of Plotinus, in lines written by Wordsworth and in formless recollections of my most distant memories, in the worlds of Dunsany and the letters of Leibniz, in paraconsistent proofs and in prāṇāyāma’s micro-phenomenology. Symmatica is my attempt at recognizing the beauty of an ‘I’ existing in a Hausdorff manifold and of a manifold existing within and through the same 'I'.

You can find more about me on my personal website.