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Richard

@heavyprof.bsky.social

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🇺🇸 Professor of Physics, Avid Gamer, Lover of Art in All Forms, Eternal Optimist, Happily Married Father, Views are my own and do not reflect those of my employer. 🚫 No DMs. 🚫 No Porn. 🚫 No Bots. 🚫 No MAGA.

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Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yep, I did. Because I’m this old.

Outside of a vintage Lite-Brite toy box. It shows 3 children sitting around a lite-brite, their faces lit by a warm glow from the colored pegs inserted into the front screen. Boxes of additional pegs lay nearby.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yes! Clean, orderly, and fast! Here’s a Nozomi Shinkansen leaving Tokyo station this past July. Notice how perfectly the doors for cars 4 and 5 were aligned with the center of the 4&5 gate (look at the sides of the signs above that platform) before leaving. Very precise!

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Yes! Human knowledge deserves proper respect. Here’s a shot I took this summer of the Starfield Mall Library (NOT a store) in Seoul. South Korea knows how to honor books. Oh, and there are two cafes downstairs.😎

A panorama of a large, open, two-story space filled with books on shelves and people. The shot is from the perspective of the top of the escalator in a very large library.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ha! Stealing THIS… 🙃 Here is your receipt.

Official receipt from the Ankh-Morpork Thieves' Guild, to be left with the client upon theft of their meme or post.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

A view of the interior of the ALICE detector at the CERN LHC with its doors open and the inner tracking system removed. Giant bright red steal octagonal magnet surrounds the cylindrical inner structures that hold the TPC, other inner subsystems, and the cooling pipes and cabling.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Here’s one more for good measure! Throwing Copper, Live (1994)

A disfigured minister walks confidently toward a cliff while several women follow clinging to him and pointing the way for others. A church stands on a hill in the background against sweeping storm clouds.

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Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Roll the Bones, Rush 1991

A little boy kicks a skull like a tin can along a walk in front of a wall of dice, most but not all of which are turned to the side with 3 dots.

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Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I was raised on these streets

Screen shot of original Night Driver arcade game from Atari 1976.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Castelul Peleş in the late afternoon sun on a June afternoon (Sinaia, Romania).

Castle Peles across a meadow in the late afternoon sun in June.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Wildflowers across the mountainsides at 2500m in Sinaia, Romania on a beautiful June day.

Yellow wildflowers in the foreground and red wildflowers in the background of an alpine meadow photo at 2500m.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

And I don’t even have to pay for gas.

The original Big Wheel in orange and yellow.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Bushido

Cover of Bushido role playing game. Shows a mounted samurai in armor with his bow and a red disk (the rising sun) behind him.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Such a beautiful place! Here's a Muir Woods shot from last year. Not as pretty as your but still a nice memory for me.

A small white orchid above a wet log with some shelf mushrooms. Some shamrocks are visible in three backgrounds.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Deep red sunset over the Potomic river looking west. Pylons for a pier stand in the foreground.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

If you’re ever in the D.C. area, come and see her, the original model from the original series! She’s in the Air and Space Museum.

The fully restored original model of NCC-1701 USS Enterprise from the original series of Star Trek. Housed in a glass display case in the National Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Cover of The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

And here she is now, fully restored and beautiful as ever in the national air and space museum!

The original USS Enterprise NCC-1701 model that was used in filming three original series of Star Trek. The model is sitting in a glad enclosure fully lit surrounded by people in the atrium off the national air and space museum.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Santa's work done for another year. Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! Health and happiness to those who don't! Goodnight to all of you!

Christmas tree lighting a darkened room with many different colored lights. Several presents lay wrapped under the tree.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I wish all of you a peaceful and reflective Memorial Day. Stay close to those you love, and remember those who gave everything to make it possible.

Image of folded American flag on the left and a gradient from blue at the top to red at the bottom on the right. Superimposed over the gradient are the words Memorial Day remember and honor. Five white stars are displayed just below the text.

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Can't argue with that!

Image of a little girl pointing get finger accusingly at the viewer. Text says "Wrong is wrong, even if everyone's is doing it. Right is right, even if no one is doing it."

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Work is done. Milk and cookie time!!

Richard @heavyprof.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Preception is, unfortunately, the progenitor of reality. Our present reality is the product of the false perception illustrated by the top map.