Courses
Concept drill-downs
- 01
The Josephson Junction: where quantum phase becomes an engineering variable
A thin gap between two superconductors lets a current flow with no voltage, turns a voltage into a perfectly tuned oscillator, and defines the volt. It is also the building block of the 'gaser' and of every superconducting quantum computer.
- 02
The Vector Potential: the field behind the fields
From a flow map anyone can picture, to the Aharonov–Bohm effect, to the phase-controlled matter beam Charles Chase calls the secret sauce.
- 03
The Metric Tensor and Warp Bubbles: how spacetime is measured, and how it might be shaped
Every ruler and every clock in the universe reads from one rulebook: the metric. General relativity says matter and energy rewrite that rulebook, and every test agrees. A warp bubble is a page of the rulebook nobody has written into reality yet — and a research programme is now trying.
- 04
Quantum Phase and Coherence: the variable behind lasers, superconductors and the matter-wave beam
Phase is only where a wave's crest is right now. Get enough waves to agree on it and you get a laser, a superconductor, a condensate — and the beam Charles Chase is trying to build.
- 05
The Zero-Point Field and the Casimir Effect: how empty space pushes
Pump out every atom, cool the walls, shut out the light — and two mirrors in the box are still pushed together. The formula contains no property of the metal at all. This is the measurement the whole field is built on.
- 06
Superconductors: current with nothing in its way, and what warmth would change
A superconductor carries current with no resistance and holds magnetic field out of its own interior. Those two facts, followed all the way down, give you the flux quantum, the energy gap, the Josephson junction, and nearly every strong magnet on the planet. This course takes them from a plain picture to graduate material, and ends on what the machines would become if the cooling requirement went away.
The six-level path
Level 1 · Foundations
- 01
Measurement, uncertainty, and evidence
Learn how a careful observation becomes a defensible scientific claim.
- 02
Matter, energy, fields, and forces
Build a physical vocabulary for what exists, what changes, and what carries influence.
- 03
Waves, resonance, and spectra
See how repeating disturbances carry energy and reveal hidden structure.
- 04
Space, time, motion, and reference frames
Learn why coordinates describe events but do not dictate what every observer measures.
- 05
Atoms, nuclei, and radiation
Understand the tiny structures that store most visible matter's mass and release nuclear energy.
- 06
Why empty space is not simple
Meet fields, ground states, fluctuations, and the measured effects associated with the quantum vacuum.
Level 2 · Secondary physics
- 01
Mechanics and conservation laws
Turn motion into predictions using forces, momentum, energy, and symmetry.
- 02
Electricity, magnetism, and Maxwell's picture
Connect charge, fields, circuits, induction, light, and electromagnetic momentum.
- 03
Thermodynamics and statistical reasoning
Learn the laws that govern heat, work, engines, fluctuations, and repeatable cycles.
- 04
Special relativity without shortcuts
Use events, light cones, Lorentz transformations, and four-vectors quantitatively.
- 05
Quantum mechanics: states, amplitudes, and measurement
Replace tiny classical particles with states, amplitudes, operators, and testable probabilities.
- 06
Nuclear reactions, fission, and fusion
Calculate binding, reaction energy, rates, and the difference between nuclear events and useful power.
Level 3 · Undergraduate core
- 01
Calculus, vectors, and differential equations
Build the mathematical language that turns physical stories into local laws and testable trajectories.
- 02
Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics
Replace force-by-force bookkeeping with action, generalized coordinates, symmetry, and phase space.
- 03
Electromagnetic fields and potentials
Derive Maxwell dynamics with vector calculus, potentials, gauges, waves, energy, and momentum.
- 04
Quantum mechanics I–II
Develop Hilbert-space states, operators, dynamics, spin, approximation methods, and identical particles.
- 05
Statistical mechanics
Connect microscopic states to temperature, entropy, fluctuations, phases, and quantum statistics.
- 06
Experimental methods and error analysis
Design measurements that survive calibration, noise, bias, replication, and adversarial reanalysis.
Level 4 · Advanced undergraduate
- 01
Tensor calculus and differential geometry
Learn to calculate geometry without confusing coordinates with physical structure.
- 02
General relativity
Connect spacetime curvature to stress-energy, observables, and the limits of proposed metrics.
- 03
Quantum field theory
Quantize fields, calculate observables, and distinguish vacuum mathematics from extractable energy claims.
- 04
Casimir physics and dynamical boundaries
Move from ideal mode sums to material response, precision force metrology, and driven photon production.
- 05
Plasma and fusion systems
Connect charged-particle kinetics, collective fields, confinement, diagnostics, and reactor-scale energy balance.
- 06
Condensed matter, superconductivity, and coherent states
Understand how collective quantum matter produces remarkable behavior without turning analogy into gravity control.
Level 5 · Graduate
- 01
Quantum fields in curved spacetime
Study particle creation, horizons, and renormalized stress-energy when quantum fields propagate on curved backgrounds.
- 02
Vacuum energy and the cosmological constant
Trace the vacuum-energy problem from regulated field sums to gravitating stress-energy and cosmic observations.
- 03
Semiclassical and induced gravity
Derive gravitational terms from quantum effective actions and ask which parts are explanation, approximation, or testable physics.
- 04
Warp metrics, wormholes, and energy conditions
Treat extraordinary geometries as research programs: derive them, source them, perturb them, and identify decisive observables.
- 05
Zero-point-field inertia programs
Reconstruct the Haisch–Rueda–Puthoff program, its covariant extensions, objections, and decisive experimental requirements.
- 06
Advanced nuclear and lattice-assisted reactions
Integrate nuclear reaction theory, solid-state environments, detectors, calorimetry, and system energy accounting.
Level 6 · Research preparation
- 01
DIRD critical-reading seminar
Turn a provocative reference study into a traceable map of sources, assumptions, forecasts, and testable claims.
- 02
Metric-engineering research studio
Translate a desired spacetime response into geometry, source requirements, controls, and invariant measurements.
- 03
Quantum-energy technology seminar
Evaluate quantum engines, driven boundaries, fluctuation harvesting, and vacuum proposals with complete cycles and energy ledgers.
- 04
Precision propulsion metrology
Design force and momentum experiments that can survive thermal, electromagnetic, vibration, gas, cable, and analysis artifacts.
- 05
Open replication laboratory
Make apparatus, data, code, and disagreement portable enough for an independent lab to reproduce the result.
- 06
Dissertation and synthesis colloquium
Defend one original, reproducible contribution that states exactly what is known, unknown, and experimentally decisive.