nicolas.slusarenko

Physics Enthusiast

A physics enthusiast from an early age, Nicolas is particularly interested in the fundamental physics of both quantum mechanics and gravitation, and in the deep connection between them.

He also enjoys learning about the history of science and how models of reality evolve over time. For instance, he admires how Sir Isaac Newton imagined that light was made of small corpuscles — a model that became less popular as the wave model of light provided better explanations for certain phenomena. However, after Max Planck’s assumption that light is exchanged in discrete quanta to explain black-body radiation, and Albert Einstein’s subsequent use of the same idea to describe the photoelectric effect, the corpuscles made a comeback in the form of photons.