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I’m 24 years old and the youngest of a family that’s spread out over four provinces and two countries: a brother who has the same parents as I do, a sister who doesn’t, a mother and stepfather in France, a father in whose house I live, and not-my-dad-not-my-stepdad-dad who’s been around since before my brother’s birth and never left.
Some things I write here might make more sense if you know that I’m a 6′6″ physics student who spends significant parts of every first and third Saturday in a red cassock while making high and loud noises. My hobbies are cooking and running, which I don’t do at the same time. I have a student job which involves me living in the basement of the university hospital’s neurology research department.
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I have just arrived via a trail of posts referring to “Bootcamp”… And was then pleasantly surprised to find myself on the blogroll. Thank you for that. Rita at http://tigerishwaters.blogspot.com is another Catholic physicist in the blogosphere.
I have been planning a post on Richard Feynman, but haven’t got round to it yet. I like his “The Character of Physical Law” from a philosophical point of view, though Feynman just presents the physics – but then, when he did explicitly speak about things philosophical/religious (“The Meaning of it All”) he rather spoilt things!
I lived in Holland for three years as a child – my Father was stationed in Brunsum with NATO’s AFCENT headquarters. My last visit to Holland included a visit to Christiaan Huygens house in The Hague.
Welcome to the world of Catholic blogging!
Thank you, both for the welcome and the link! Now I know a whopping 5 Catholic physicists… myself included. One of them is an acolyte at my “when I’m at university”-parish, which means that I regularly get to stick my tongue out at my professor.
When I started reading Physics I was quite determined to keep science and religion far, far apart, but this year I made the mistake to take “history of the natural sciences” as my “academic deviations” course and suddenly find myself devouring everything I can find on the subject. It isn’t exactly comforting to find that most people one admires in their scientific capacity aren’t exactly religious in the sense I like to call proper. Feynman must be the best example of that. I would love to read your thoughts on him.
Brunssum is doing very well – they flew in a batch of Blue Sisters and it was home to the clothing of their, what, six new novices? An acquaintance of mine was stationed near there for a while, and now he’s left the military and is a first year seminarian. So, the Catholic vibe is going strong!
To my shame I must admit that I’ve never been to Huygens’ house. But I do honour his memory almost daily – our physics building is named after him!
Your English is excellent. I love your blog. :)
Tee hee! Thank you :)