Well, hi there… This is kind of awkward.

This is supposed to be the first of many posts of my semi-anonymous blog/trash bin. The post doesn’t really have to do with anything and it’s simply a placeholder for optics and design purposes. It will probably be archived when the user (me) reaches an optimal professional capacity in writing. I still want to stick to something. So I chose a peculiar image to talk about.

A seemingly interesting choice for the featured image. It’s a 3D render of thousands of water molecules I placed in a molecular dynamics simulation. I stumbled upon it while wandering around my bachelors thesis data files from years ago. Water was the base of my solution (sort of like the medium) in order for a certain reaction to occur. It is reminiscent of this blog as a medium for my attempt at mindfulness. As much as I like to romanticize physics, it seemed quite fitting for a first post to upload an image of lonely water molecules trapped in an invisible box somewhere in vast nothingness. A taciturn realization of what we think molecules look like, captured in a single moment in time.

Here is what lies at the center of the crowd of H2O molecules:

This wiggly boi belongs to an important class of polymers that we call proteins. Although not very obvious in the video, it undergoes a process called protein folding, which is a super important process that helps proteins reach their minimum entropy state and be biologically functional. I’d really like to write a post one day about how life is the only natural force that works against entropy (which is literally the arrow of time). But that day is not today. Anyhow, I don’t want to yap too much on my first day. So this is where I get off.

Arrivederci!