I was born in a small town in Missouri where my family had lived for generations. I am one of those rare Jews whose ancestors have been in North America since the 1600's and yet at the same time I was born approximately a month after my family landed in America on a boat that had started a round the world voyage from Australia.

My formative years were spent in Texas on the border with Mexico, where my family moved before I was old enough to remember it. Although I left Texas on another boat with my family, we got only as far as Florida before my mother made it clear she wished to go no farther. Thus, I was in Florida for the remainder of my schooling and for undergraduate studies which I did at Florida state University. Simultaneously I did two Bachelor's degrees, one in classical Philology- essentially ancient Greek and Latin- with a minor in history and the other in physics. Essentially I discovered a passion for physics while I was studying for a quite different career path and B"H I never looked back.

Before going on to graduate school in physics, I taught school for about three years- mostly math- beginning by substituting to gain classroom experience. Yet, I had a passion for physics and so decided to go to graduate studies in that field rather than remain a math teacher. Thus, I went to Boston where I did a Master's in physics at the University of Massachusetts.

Simultaneously in the culmination of a process that began when I was an undergraduate, I decided to become more serious about Judaism and in Boston I immediately became affiliated with Chabad, although I incline to the non-Meshichist variety for those who know what that means.

After Boston, I went immediately to pursue a doctorate at a different branch of the University of Massachusetts, the one in Amherst. For reasons which I do not wish to go into but which I consider decidedly unfair to say the least, albeit ostensibly for other reasons, I was not permitted to finish my doctorate while at Amherst. In the aftermath of what was both a personal and a financial disaster, I made aliyah to Israel in order to pick up the pieces and start over. I had hoped to come here to build a career in any case. So currently I have a job to pay bills and am working on what would have been my doctoral research ideally at the same time; that research is in the field of quantum cosmology and general relativity. A related article is currently in press and I am confident that with H`'s bracha I will soon be working in physics. In the meantime, I am enjoying living here in Jerusalem.

Anybody out there know a nice Jewish girl?

My passion is ...

both H` and His Torah and also quantum field theory

I know too much about ...

history and languages

My parents always told me ...

to wear clean underwear in case I got into some accident

My childhood ambition ...

to be a professional cartoonist

My favorite memory ...

is probably none of your business

Why I write ...

to relax

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Jethro Tull as I write this, although it was Metallica earlier

My first job ...

was selling organs- no, the musical kind

My best moment ...

is also probably none of your business

My inspiration ...

1. "H` Echad" and 2. "Ain od milvado"

Sciences > Physics Could protons be "re-formed" anti-electrons?

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As a physicist who has taught at university, one of the things I most hope to do with my students is to get them to begin to ask questions. The physical universe is like a big machine and it is one of the delights and privileges of the practicing physicist to try and unravel the inner workings of that machine. The only way to do this is to investigate questions. When a student begins to ask probing questions, those questions will usually appear odd. Thus, for example, one has the title question, "Could protons be 're-formed' anti-electrons?" Key in such situations is to encourage the questi...

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