This post is an attempt to explain my recent long silence. Over the past few months I have been in a kind of “construction period,” slowly rebuilding my working environment and trying to create a space where I can think and write again in a reasonably peaceful way. All of this has been done thanks to my invaluable friends and family members.
On December 29, 2025, the situation looked like this:
And this is how it looks today, March 22, 2026:
The work is still not finished. I need to have shelves built and mounted along the wall where the piles of papers are now precariously stacked. Those papers will then have to be sorted by subject and placed into file cabinets. At the moment, the tallest pile is devoted to Quantum Theory and related topics, with the next highest one dedicated to General Relativity, and so on down the hierarchy of my obsessions.
I plan to approach this slowly, working on it a couple of hours a day. For now, the important thing is that the space is already functional: the internet connection works, there is enough light, and I can sit at my desk and actually do some work again. The environment is not yet ideal, but it is alive.
In a broader sense, this is also part of my “recovery” on a more personal level. Over the years, my books, notes, and projects have become a kind of extended family for me—a community of paper, ink, and ideas that has accompanied me through many different stages of life. Bringing some order back into this little universe feels like reconnecting with that family after a long and somewhat chaotic journey.
So this post is simply to say: I am gradually returning to normal activity. Thank you for your patience, and for staying with me through this quieter period.
As long as it’s not health or other life related problems, I’m fine with the breaks you’ve taken to retool since it’s resulted in a lot of interesting ideas you’ve had over the years. I take a long time just to catch up with ideas you had before I discovered you.
I was guessing your break might relate to Laura’s break since she’s kind of trying to retool Langan and you had mentioned Heim to her. I had mentioned to Laura on her blog that I kind of liked the idea of her having time to look more at what you’ve done.
Dear Ark, the pause in your posts proved to be very useful for me, giving the time and opportunity to dabble freely, unsupervised, in the turbulent sea of scientific ideas and results. I discovered a number of interesting areas that had previously been terra incognita for me: elliptic curves, the pi number, categorization, classic-quantum mechanics relation via the Kepler problem, and some others. The latter is related to the conformal group SO(4,2), which, as far as I recall, was our guiding star before the break.
I’m so glad you have returned, just in time, because I’ve overloaded all my correspondents with ideas and questions and was now wondering what to do next… 🙂
Thanks. In the next few days I will return to “conformal structure” to introduce my somewhat personalized Hodge *-operator on forms.