At the moment, one of many projects: Diving into the deuteron.  There are combinations of 6 quarks that stand alone as a single color singlets.  I'm working on 6-quark objects which are contained within the wavefunction of heavy hydrogen. These are called "hidden-color" states and they look to me to be very massive - i.e., highly off-shell and therefore contributing less than I would like to the 2H wavefunction.  Related to "Diquark Capture" work in progress with Stan Brodsky.

Helium 💜

Now helium-4 is a different story.  The 12-quark hidden-color state in 4He has a very good chance of being low mass enough to have an impressive impact on nuclear physics.  I will write more about this soon - any experts can look at the HEXADIQUARK collaboration paper, below.  I love that thing, let's see what Nature thinks.

I used to make abstract short films, very very short.  Loved them so much.  The image above is from the former Krispy Kreme shop in Medford, Massachusetts, which has since closed down...donuts under the frosting waterfall...it is from an abstract short film I made when I was working at the darling Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.  Making these shorts was therapy for me. If you click on the image you can watch the short 🩷

This photo is from my apartment in Irvine during the PhD, I turned the living room into an oil painting studio...stretched the canvases myself, built the frame on the easel myself, I LOVE that thing and I haven't seen it since 2018...it is in storage, I took off for Stanford and SLAC fall 2018 and my stuff is in Los Angeles....right now it is December 2023, haven't seen my things for 5 years now...Correction!!! Now it is July 2025, I gave away almost every single thing, including ~1000 physics texts, my easel, my canvasses, my frames (the GIANT frame I built with my own hands made me cry to give up - I cut the wood, I sanded the wood, I cut the struts and sanded them and nailed and glued it together all with so much love) but I did it, I had to get solvent for physics reasons - I'd do it again in a moment too!)