God's Diabolo
Why the string never snaps
Episode 10: The day Dota taught you that you were living in a cosmology
Artifact, Dota 2, and closing the series: why Valve’s lore is a physics textbook in disguise.
Episode 9: The day Portal taught you that space can have holes
Portal, multi-connected topology, and the strange problem of space itself.
Episode 8: The day Counter-Strike taught you that to know is to reveal
Counter-Strike, epistemological uncertainty, and the observer-observed symmetry.
Episode 7: The day Factorio taught you why you’re alive
Factorio, dissipative structures, and the thermodynamics of everything that organizes itself.
Episode 6: The day Stardew taught you why time moves in one direction
The arrow of time, and the most mysterious thing in all of physics.
Episode 5: The day Skyrim wasn’t breathing without you
Skyrim, a world waiting for an observer.
The singing glass
When a Burgundy wine glass explains the hidden dimensions of the universe.
Episode 4: The day Minecraft taught you to draw a sphere that wasn’t one
Minecraft, discretization, and the eternal problem of the continuum.
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