About Me
Hi, I am Ryan Thrasher, a college freshman whose recent encounters have evoked the joy of physics. Physics appealed to my innate curiosity to understand the workings of the universe; from the smallest quarks to the largest galaxies.
Funphysics101 is a personal passion that evolved into an all-science-inclusive blog where I reveal the intellectual pleasure, inherent fun, and vitality of the subject that we can now enjoy.
Funphysics101 is driven by my curiosity and thirst for knowledge, I want to know why science gives me the why! Then poses even more questions that need answering; what would happen if…? And why does that…?. It’s not a subject that stops; it allows you to be ambitious. No one person will ever know everything about science. As our understanding of life, the universe, and everything deepen, we realize that there is more we don’t understand. That unlimited potential is exciting! That’s why I find physics so amazing and use this platform to inspire research and learning, introduce science beyond books and classrooms, and spark a healthy curiosity and love of physics in people. Trust me, as you delve into the subject, it’s no more the physics we dread in classrooms; it’s all fun and interesting.
The Goal of Funphysics101
As the name suggests, this blog explores the concepts of physics and makes more sense of how the
universe behaves, but it’s not limited to this particular science discipline in my findings and learnings
that I tend to share here. You will find me talking about light and energy someday and digging into
the atomic structures the other day.
I enjoy physics because I enjoy understanding how the universe operates. I don’t think it is enough to
accept daily phenomena at face value. I get a lot of joy from learning more about things we take for
granted, whether they are big-picture phenomena like the stars and universe or tiny ones like the inner
workings of an atom. When we look into the surroundings, we see physics, chemistry, meteorology,
biology, astronomy, and geography in action. In physics alone, there is a multitude of potential natural
phenomena; everyday phenomena such as rainbows and mirages or rare events such as eclipses and
geyser eruptions. Think of thermal physics, celestial mechanics, acoustics (thunder), electromagnetism
(auroras and lightning), optics (glories, rainbows, halos), and a lot more. Physics is the most fundamental
and all-inclusive of the sciences, which is why it amazes me to know more about it.