Astrolemma
An astronomy problem bank for olympiad preparation.
Astrolemma offers astrophysics problem sets, solutions and resources for olympiad preparation — built for students who want to think like astrophysicists.
Welcome to the things I love. As you scroll, I will tell you why each one pulls me in, how it leads to the next, and what I have made along the way.
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Past the photon sphere, at 1.5 Schwarzschild radii, light itself can orbit.
Beyond the horizon every path leads inward. Let’s go through.
01 Cosmos
≈ 380,000 years
The universe cools enough for atoms to form and light streams free. We still see it: the cosmic microwave background.
After the dark ages, gravity gathers hydrogen until the first stars ignite.
Dark matter and gas collapse into filaments and clusters, while space itself keeps expanding.
Galaxies strung along a web of filaments and voids. Move your cursor — you are a gravitational well now.
Move to bend spacetime · press and hold to deepen the well
An astronomy problem bank for olympiad preparation.
Astrolemma offers astrophysics problem sets, solutions and resources for olympiad preparation — built for students who want to think like astrophysicists.
02 Powers of ten
Thirty-nine orders of magnitude, from a galaxy to a quark. Every object is drawn at its true relative size — keep scrolling.
10²¹ m
A hundred billion stars or more, wound into spiral arms and held together by gravity — most of it dark matter.
10¹² m
Four rocky planets, a belt of debris and Jupiter. Sunlight takes about 43 minutes to reach it.
Click empty space to launch a comet
10⁷ m
12,742 kilometres across. Most of its atoms were forged inside earlier generations of stars.
Click the Earth to step inside
10⁻¹ m
Where physics turns into engineering — forces, materials and the things we build to extend ourselves.
Hover to flex · click to grip
10⁻⁹ m
Look closely at most solids, metals included, and you find atoms stacked in a repeating crystal lattice.
10⁻¹⁰ m
The electron does not orbit. It is a cloud of probability, |ψ|², shaped by its quantum numbers.
Click to excite the electron
10⁻¹⁴ m
Protons and neutrons, tens of thousands of times smaller than the atom, bound by the residual strong force.
10⁻¹⁵ m
Two up quarks and a down, tied together by gluon fields. Stretch one: the field stores about 1 GeV per femtometre — roughly 16 tonnes of force.
Drag a quark to stretch the gluon string
≤ 10⁻¹⁸ m
As far as any experiment can tell, they are points. The bottom of the ladder — for now.
Physical law, turned into something you can play with.
A physics simulation project: modelling a physical system numerically and visualising how it evolves in real time.
Engineering at the human scale.
A prototype prosthetic designed in 3D — where physics, materials and the human body meet.
03 Fields
Up, up, down: +⅔ +⅔ −⅓. Charge fills the space around it with an electric field, and every other charge feels it.
Four lines describe every electric and magnetic phenomenon. A changing magnetic field makes an electric one, and the reverse.
Shake a charge and the disturbance travels: E and B regenerating each other at the speed of light. That is what light is.
Why electricity
Four equations describe every spark, magnet and beam of light, and electrical engineering lets me build with them. The same physics fires inside every neuron, so the brain comes next.
Your cursor bends the field · click to shake the charges
Move to tune the wavelength · click to send a pulse
04 Neurons
A neuron is a living circuit: a membrane holding about −70 mV, with branches that gather input from thousands of others.
Push the voltage past threshold and the cell fires: a spike races down the axon to its synapses, then the cell rests.
Each spike nudges the next cell towards its own threshold. From that, somehow, come memory, attention and thought.
Why the brain
This is the part I love most. A brain is cells passing electrical pulses, yet it remembers, imagines and feels. Building machines that learn is how I try to understand it.
Hover a cell to make it fire · click to stimulate
05 Signal
spikes → bits
everything is information
information → networks that learn
hover a neuron · click or tap to run a forward pass
Teaching machines to read sentiment in the Mongolian language.
Machine-learning research on sentiment analysis for Mongolian — a low-resource language with comparatively few labelled datasets and tools.
06 Consciousness
My long-term goal is to carry what we learn from the brain into artificial intelligence, and to study consciousness itself: the one horizon we look out from but never see.
Neuroscience, AI, electromagnetism, simulations or olympiad problems: I’d love to hear from you.
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