Hi, I’m Dr. Andrew James Steinmetz! Welcome to my personal website where I share my projects, blogs, and research in physics. I’m an Academic Professional at the School of Physics, Georgia Tech and former Global Professor for the University of Arizona at the Arizona College of Technology, Hebei University of Technology in Tianjin, China. My work focuses on βš› quantum mechanics, 🌌 cosmology, and 🧲 electromagnetism.

The name of this blog β€œβ€¦ a stubbornly persistent illusion.” comes from Albert Einstein, who upon hearing of his dear friend Michele Besso’s passing, wrote a letter to Besso’s family which ended on the hopeful note:

β€œNow he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

If time is fully merged with spatial dimensions as Special Relativity suggests, then the past is never gone. It is merely an address to a street we can no longer travel to.