Essays

Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Problems in quantum mechanics
May 2026

I want to describe, without using mathematics, problems in quantum mechanics. This may surprise you because the theory is very successful, so how could it be problematic? …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Thermodynamics ex machina
April 2025

In computational statistical thermodynamics we numerically calculate the results of analytically unsolvable equations …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Artificial Unconsciousness
February 2024

Some announce the development of conscious artificial intelligence in the foreseeable future …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Ex nihilo nihil fit
January 2024

Every now and then I have this discussion with fellow scientists - can a modern scientist believe in God? …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Beyond the multiverse
January 2023

A recent study suggests that during the last decades less and less groundbreaking scientific discoveries were made …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Be multilingual!
January 2018

Every year my daughter's high school invites parents to partake in an evening of information sessions, to help students orient themselves on their future …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Classical thermodynamics in a nutshell
November 2017

Recently I met during an event at my Alma Mater, the University of Nijmegen, my high school physics teacher …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Digital version of doctorate thesis
January 2016

This publication is an extended digital version of my doctorate thesis, On Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Concentrated Dispersions …


Marcel van der Veer ESSAYS
Genealogical essay
November 2013

The essay Fan âlder ta foarâlder investigates the origin of my surname, by exploring my Frisian father line back to the end of the Frisian-Hollandic wars …



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