Wavefunksion, 52

I’m an intellectual syncretist with a lifelong habit of pulling ideas apart and then seeing how they fit back together. Professionally I’m a semi-retired businessman, an enthusiastic yet mediocre musician, well-seasoned home cook, long distance cyclist, sailor, board and tabletop RPG player, dog foster parent, and - most importantly - the very proud father of two remarkable kids.

My curiosity gravitates toward theoretical physics, quantum field theory, and the question of how life and mind and meaning emerge from the quantum soup that underlies everything. I’m especially drawn to foundational questions: how fields give rise to particles, how classical reality emerges from quantum descriptions, and whether interpretations like Everett’s many worlds framework illuminate (or obscure) what’s really going on.

I enjoy the places where physics overlaps with philosophy: decoherence, emergence, symmetry, information, time, and the limits of reductionism. I’m less interested in winning arguments than in refining questions, and am happiest in rooms where curiosity outpaces certainty.

I love unfamiliar places and cultures, deep conversations, thought experiments, learning from people smarter than me, and being the dumbest person in the room whenever possible.

I value kindness, humor, and intellectual generosity, and tend to recoil from rigidity, cruelty, performative ignorance, and unnecessary noise (literal or figurative).

What I’m hoping to find here is community and connection. I look forward to thoughtful conversations about theoretical, quantum, and classical physics, and - if I’m lucky - a collaborator for world travel, grand unifying theories, and a good cup of coffee.