Joseph Conlon
@josephpconlon.bsky.social
Physicist (string theory), writer and poet (Origins:The Cosmos in Verse, Oneworld Publications, Nov 2024). New College, Oxford; writing represented by The Wylie Agency.
Nominative determinism
April 3, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Nominative determinism
Jewel amongst dross.
(one for the physicists and mathematicians)
(one for the physicists and mathematicians)
February 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Jewel amongst dross.
(one for the physicists and mathematicians)
(one for the physicists and mathematicians)
Possibly the only sonnet on Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics
February 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Possibly the only sonnet on Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics
Thanks to my wonderful grad students (especially Martin) for this cake for my birthday today!
January 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Thanks to my wonderful grad students (especially Martin) for this cake for my birthday today!
Beautiful on a cold winter morning, as for the last 600 years.
January 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Beautiful on a cold winter morning, as for the last 600 years.
Happy to see Origins reviewed in Nature Astronomy
December 13, 2024 at 8:24 AM
Happy to see Origins reviewed in Nature Astronomy
(For the physicists): spotted in the fiction section of the bookshop.
December 12, 2024 at 3:14 PM
(For the physicists): spotted in the fiction section of the bookshop.
Britain 1906: confident, manly, imperial, assured. No idea what was coming.
November 27, 2024 at 12:34 PM
Britain 1906: confident, manly, imperial, assured. No idea what was coming.
Yes, there was an hour of light snow in Oxford earlier this week.
But seriously…..
But seriously…..
November 20, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Yes, there was an hour of light snow in Oxford earlier this week.
But seriously…..
But seriously…..
I'm a physicist and I don't major in complex emotions, but when I think about my subject my spine tingles.
Me reading from my book.
Let's see how this compares to the other place.
(Split in two as videos have to be less than 60 secs)
Me reading from my book.
Let's see how this compares to the other place.
(Split in two as videos have to be less than 60 secs)
November 18, 2024 at 7:47 PM
I'm a physicist and I don't major in complex emotions, but when I think about my subject my spine tingles.
Me reading from my book.
Let's see how this compares to the other place.
(Split in two as videos have to be less than 60 secs)
Me reading from my book.
Let's see how this compares to the other place.
(Split in two as videos have to be less than 60 secs)
Publication day!
I well know my good fortune in being able to publish a poetry book through a trade press as good as Oneworld.
But I also think this book is like none other 1/4
I well know my good fortune in being able to publish a poetry book through a trade press as good as Oneworld.
But I also think this book is like none other 1/4
November 7, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Publication day!
I well know my good fortune in being able to publish a poetry book through a trade press as good as Oneworld.
But I also think this book is like none other 1/4
I well know my good fortune in being able to publish a poetry book through a trade press as good as Oneworld.
But I also think this book is like none other 1/4
A particularly odd crackpot email!
September 18, 2024 at 8:18 AM
A particularly odd crackpot email!
Having been over every line > 50 times and having read every line out loud > 10 times, the final read before the book goes to the printers.
August 20, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Having been over every line > 50 times and having read every line out loud > 10 times, the final read before the book goes to the printers.
Occasional series of poems related to science, here by the brilliant American sonneteer Edna St Vincent Millay
August 15, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Occasional series of poems related to science, here by the brilliant American sonneteer Edna St Vincent Millay
Much toil, many publications and long calculations: but the thing I have written with most reach remains Chapter 7 from my 2015 book Why String Theory? on the enduring intellectual value of string theory.
March 22, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Much toil, many publications and long calculations: but the thing I have written with most reach remains Chapter 7 from my 2015 book Why String Theory? on the enduring intellectual value of string theory.