iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Just made this animated map of physics to show my Modern Physics class tomorrow. Am I missing anything important? 🧪⚛️

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Editing a paper and I wanted to include an image of optical interference I had found on the web, but the editors said it would be too hard to get permission. So I spent an hour or so in the lab and made my own. Fun to do something in the lab every once in a while. ⚛️🧪

Red laser spot showing vertical interference fringes.

3475

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

And my mechanical/digital clock is finished! Here it is hanging in my kitchen. The digits are made from turned maple and walnut, and the face is birch plywood. The cam-driven mechanism is shown below.

030

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Mechanical/digital clock progress: the minutes display!

110

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Completed the first prototype of a digit for my mechanical/digital clock! Ultimate plan is to make the visible parts out of contrasting hardwoods.

120

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

New donut shop name concept: Donut Eis Requiem

030

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

My paper with former student Robert St.Clair finally coming out in Phys Rev E! We show how the ordering of sounds to make musical rhythms can be understood in the same way that atoms become ordered when undergoing a phase transition from, say, a disordered gas to an ordered crystal. (1/7) ⚛️🧪🎵

161

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Here’s a new visualization I just put together of a how a two-level quantum system can “measure” the difference between a particle in a superposition of two wave packets added to, vs. subtracted from each other (yellow wave vs. blue wave). 🧪⚛️

171

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

At the Air Force museum in Dayton, OH. Apparently the Easter bunny brought a thermonuclear bomb.

Decommissioned thermonuclear bomb next to an inflatable Easter bunny.

030

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Preparing a presentation about interpretations of quantum mechanics and found myself typing the words “Philosophers disagree.” A maximally true statement?

030

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I heard a joke about lasers but I won’t repeat it: I believe stimulated emission should only be used for the purpose of procreation.

020

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This is… blatantly wrong. I even “dived deeper” in AI mode and it offered me a proof! The proof sounded convincing, but must have had an error somewhere… ⚛️

Google AI search results, falsely claiming that in 1d scattering, transmission and reflection probabilities are generally identical for potentials V(x) and -V(x).

120

Reposted by Jesse Berezovsky

Shannon E French @sefrench.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Look, I’m not a pacifist. I genuinely believe that some wars are just and necessary (although they are always still horrific and no amount of justification lessens that horror or the moral weight that attaches to it). But this doesn’t meet any of the just war criteria. For anyone who wants a quick…

12810

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Updated the section of Catland on how quantum measurements become classical reality, now with more videos and a real demonstration! 🧪⚛️ (And migrated to a server that actually has a working SSL certificate!) jesseberezovsky.com/catland/ampl...

030

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

OK, so we know that two pure tones (sine waves) almost in unison produce a beating effect as the waves interfere. But what about two pure tones separated by almost an octave? I have never heard anyone say there will be beating, nor can I find any info online about it, but I swear it happens! 🧪⚛️

493

Reposted by Jesse Berezovsky

CWRU Physics @physicscwru.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Congrats to Ben Lehmann, PhD, Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, on winning the 2025 Michelson Postdoctoral Prize! 🎉 He’ll be at CWRU the week of April 13, 2026, giving two technical lectures + a colloquium. His work aims to uncover the nature of dark matter. #CWRU #MPPL

011

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

It’s blatantly false that Trump has made progress on cutting the debt with tariff revenue. The article confuses reducing the deficit with cutting the debt, and then acknowledges that he’s not even reducing the deficit - any tariff revenue is partially offsetting other spending and tax cuts.

000

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Is this your dream hut, or the hut that stalks you in your dreams?

010

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Behold, my latest project - the temperature controlled butter bell. Sound on for maximum effect. For real-time butter temperature tracking, be sure to bookmark jablab.case.edu/butterbell.h...

151

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Pleased with how my barware drying rack came out.

000

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

My new temperature-controlled butter bell recorded the events of Thanksgiving weekend - elevated spikes while cooking for a crowd each night, a power outage Wed. afternoon, and the occasional downward spike when someone left the door open. (All while the butter temp stayed at a spreadable 72F)

130

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I am always confused about transposing instruments. Google AI results are not helping.

Screenshot of google AI search results claiming that a B-flat clarinet in concert G major should have have two sharps, then in the next sentence claining that it should have three sharps.

010

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Working my way through the Feynman Lectures, vol 1, and suddenly several chapters on the physiology of the eye and color vision reminds me of Les Miserables, where you suddenly get 100 pages on the minutiae of the nuns of Petit-Picpus, or the history of the Paris sewers.

010

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Trying a more plant-based diet, so it felt like I was making some kind of witches brew tonight. Had to sub fermented beans for the eye of newt. (Soup came out incredible, btw)

Photo of ingredients: nutritional yeast, dried shiitakes, fermented beans, and miso.

071

Reposted by Jesse Berezovsky

CWRU Physics @physicscwru.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It's about that time of the year for the CWRU physics annual Halloween Pumpkin Drop! 👻🍂🍁 Join us on October 31st at 12:35pm in front of Strosacker auditorium ⏲️ There will be free apple cider and pie! 🍎🥧 #cwru #physics #pumpkindrop #halloween

031

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Another eland today, along with a personal best Saturday time. Not sure if I’ve ever actually seen “oribi” with its less common vowels.

000

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

10 min after handing out the first in-class exam in my quantum mechanics course, a young lady I don’t recognize comes in and sits down. Sometimes students skip the lectures and only show up for exams, so I hand her the exam and say “when you finish, staple your work together and turn it in.”

120

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

My only complaint with today’s American university is when they are radicalizing students against the concept of relativistic mass.

000

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I remember as a kid having a book of NYT crosswords and it suggested if the clue is “African antelope,” 5 letters, you might pencil in “eland” or “oribi”. Finally got to use it on the final word today.

011

Reposted by Jesse Berezovsky

CWRU Physics @physicscwru.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Science takes a team! At CWRU Physics, we’re bridging disciplines with Expansion Microscopy—embedding cells in gels and stretching them to study their inner workings. Here, Dr. Marouen Zammali optimizes hydrogels for maximum expansion. #askmeaboutmyresearch #CWRU #physics #micrs

021

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Don’t mind me, just wringing out my pants into my office wastebasket. Misjudged the weather a bit before biking to work.

020

Reposted by Jesse Berezovsky

Ben Brubaker @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I made a quantum foundations alignment chart — go forth and fight about it! (also, "good" is not an endorsement)

Alignment chart meme for the interpretations of quantum mechanics. LG: Bohmian, NG: everything else, CG: QBism, LN: Many Worlds, TN: Copenhagen, CN: Objective Collapse, LE: Superdeterminism, NE: Retrocausality, CE: Quantum Mysticism

7316

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

This compound angle has required the most thought of any cut I’ve done. Wish me luck.

130

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Can we understand consciousness with AI and quantum? I think this quote from me in Popular Mechanics accurately sums up my skepticism. ⚛️🧪

Image of text "Not everyone is convinced. Jesse Berezovsky,
Ph.D., associate professor ofphysics at Case Western Reserve University, urges caution. “I am deeplyskeptical of people trying to make money off of claims to link consciousness,quantum computing, and AI,” he says. “If any useful link exists between thesethree topics, it is far in the future.” Though intrigued by Penrose’s radicalmodel, he calls it “an incredible long shot.” He adds: “It stacks oneimprobable hypothesis on top of another: that quantum states objectivelycollapse, that there is a process in microtubules where this collapse plays animportant role, and then a further big leap that this process is somehowresponsible for consciousness. I certainly wouldn’t advise anyone to pin theirhopes on these ideas panning out.”"

2123

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Last night’s insomnia rabbit hole: Do mirrors flip images left-right? Why not up-down? Our brains seem to have a bias towards certain rotations, probably due to the symmetry and typical motion of the human body. And this can help explain why special relativity is so counterintuitive. (1/7) 🧵🧪⚛️

5202

Reposted by Jesse Berezovsky

Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Let me try to explain why it's important to study the foundations of quantum mechanics. (1/n) (Have to do some breathing exercises, b/c to me it's blindingly obvious that "understanding the most important theory in physics" is something physicists should care about, but apparently opinions differ.)

1733490

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

“Republicans look at the Republican Party, slowly digesting deep within Trump’s belly, and think, this looks good to me.”

000

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

After years of teaching quantum, I just realized that I have gotten this equation, at the heart of QM, backwards. It’s not saying that the frequency f of a particle’s wave function is given by its energy E. It’s saying that energy is *defined* as the frequency of the wave function. ⚛️🧪 (1/4)

6175

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Replacing the seats on some Adirondack chairs I built about 15 years ago. Yeah, those were probably not good to sit on anymore.

Side by side comparison of old, rotted wooden seat slat, and a fresh new one.

000

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Thanks, AI overview, for giving my 11 yr old an inferiority complex.

Text from Google AI saying the average vertical jump for an 11 year old is 39.5 inches.

100

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Writing about how nuclear decay can be understood through the Many Worlds picture of quantum mechanics, and I'm stymied with confusion over which is the anode and which is the cathode. ...can I just call them both "electrodes?" Just saying, electrochemistry is more confusing than QM.

000

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Achieving a quantum advantage with billiard balls? Following up on my visualizations of quantum gates using billiard-ball-like particles, here’s a 🧵 on visualizing a quantum algorithm with speedup over its classical counterpart. (1/15) ⚛️🧪

100

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Quantum computing with billiard balls? The operation of a quantum computer is usually described with abstract mathematics. This 🧵 is part 1 of my attempt to visualize what is going on based on examples developed in my quantum tutorial, Catland: jablab.case.edu/catland/ (1/14) ⚛️🧪

jablab.case.edu

Welcome to Catland! — Catland 0.1 documentation

170

Reposted by Jesse Berezovsky

CWRU Physics @physicscwru.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

We're so excited to see #CWRU Physics @cyrusctaylor.bsky.social in APS @apsphysics.bsky.social's 'A visit to Mount Kilimanjaro spurs career pivot. Cyrus Taylor, once a high-energy experimentalist, sees climate change as his calling—& physics as a tool for the public good.' tinyurl.com/CWRUcyrus 🎉

tinyurl.com

A visit to Mount Kilimanjaro spurs a career pivot

Cyrus Taylor, once a high-energy experimentalist, now sees climate change as his calling — and physics as a tool for the public good.

032

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Great fun today giving a guest lecture in Modern Physics on interpretations of quantum mechanics. Got to use my quantum measurement demo, and I think blow a mind or two. ⚛️🧪

Device with ball bearings that roll down a pair of ramps and hit a pointer to the left or right, illustrating the nature of quantum measurements. Blackboard in the back with notes about interpretations of quantum mechanics.

2300

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Optics people: the tiny feet of these water bugs make these big oval shadows surrounded by a bright ring. Does anyone have a good explanation for why that happens? ⚛️

A water strider, whose feet cast shadows on the bottom of the stream.

110

Jesse Berezovsky @jesseberezovsky.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

One of my favorite Easter traditions: @radiofreetom.bsky.social posting his family recipe for roast lamb, and then everyone trying to dunk on each other re garlic powder.

010