Science

Marcel van der Veer COLUMNS
Children of the wind
July 2026

I do not need to tell you that this summer is exceptionally warm in Europe …


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 COLUMNS
Why is it dark at night?
September 2025

At night, I like to gaze at the stars in the sky. As soon as your eyes get used to the darkness you see the core of the Milky Way appear majestically …


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 COLUMNS
The nature of heat
March 2025

Heat is not a substance, but that was believed for quite some time …


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 COLUMNS
Academic rite of passage
April 2023

A research project resembles a book or a movie, in the sense that it is never truly finished …


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 COLUMNS
Warp speed, mister Sulu!
October 2022

Hardly anyone will dispute that Einstein's general theory of relativity is well established now …


Marcel van der Veer PROJECTS
Building a small Beowulf cluster II
April 2018

As described in an earlier post, at home I operate a modest Beowulf type cluster for embarrassingly parallel simulation runs in batch mode …


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 PROJECTS
Building a small Beowulf cluster
October 2016

At home I operate a modest Beowulf type cluster for embarrassingly parallel simulation runs in batch mode …


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 …



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