Jordan

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Science
Occupation Scientist-Businessman-Writer
Location London, Ontario, Canada
Introduction Who am I indeed? We tend to define ourselves in terms of names, family history, birthplace, nationality, culture, religion, or profession. But such parameters only define who we have "become" rather than who we really are. To more accurately define myself, I can safely say that I am a lucky configuration of cosmic dust, fighting for only a few decades against the eternal and unconquerable forces of entropy. Soon the fight will be over, entropy will win (as it always does), and I shall go back to who I really used to always be: part of the cosmic dust that is ultimately recycled in this vast universe !
Interests 3D technology. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, a 3D image is worth a thousand flat images. And by 3D I mean the "hit-you-in-the-face" out of the page or out of the screen stereoscopic images, and not the simulated so called 3D we see on computer games or models...this should really be renamed as 2 1/2 D. Calling it 3D is not accurate, or fair!
Favorite Movies True science fiction. By "true" I mean when science fiction is "really science" and not the usual Hollywood nonsense of taking our cowboy tactics into space. Space Odyssey 2001 is science fiction. Star Wars is a disgrace to true science. Contact, Apollo 13 I think you get the idea.
Favorite Music Classical music for sure. Have you ever listened to "The Beautiful Blue Danube" by Johann Strauss? It's most certainly uplifting!
Favorite Books Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion. I think everyone on the planet should read this book. I think it will change humanity's direction to the better. Christopher Hitchen's "God is not Great". Our history as humans has been shamefully violent because of religion. our minds are blocked with "garbage thoughts" from a long heritage of inferior, primitive mythology...we need to free ourselves from this bondage once and for all. Cosmos by Carl Sagan. A true eye opener on our true origins. And Contact by Carl Sagan is a possible scenario of who we can become: enlightened beings instead of warring, primitive, shallow, ignorant, greedy, selfish animals. Big Bang by Simon Singh, The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene, The Incredible Human Journey by Dr. Alice Roberts, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins, The Magic of Reality by Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins, Atoms by Lawrence Krauss, Why There is Something Rather Than Nothing by Lawrence Krauss, A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, Cosmos by Carl Sagan, Why is Evolution True by Jerry Coyne, The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert, Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin, The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey by Spencer Wells. And many other great books on the history of the universe, our planet Earth, and the environment. If we humans don't take action to change our ways of life, I am positive that we are heading towards a sure extinction. And that would be a shame, considering that we have been about 4.5 billion years in the making.