A Physicist (working for a dream)

Completed the Physics BSc. in my home country. To be honest, I took a strange road of which I knew nothing about, except it was the only job I wanted to have. I didn't know about the road but I surely enjoyed the steps.

I was amazed by the nature of reality since I was a kid. One normally takes a tough attitude towards reality blaming it for being whatever we dislike about it. I skipped literature lectures (which I found really boring), to read about planets, stars, galaxies, quasars, black holes and sense about the spirit behind them. I couldn't understand well what I read and on the contrary as my small knowledge progressed I felt more and more encouraged to pursue revelation of nature.

Culture had paying me a toll for a while, as I started an EE BSc., however, the mistake didn't last too long (I spent my time in the EE labs doing maths and physics) and I passed papers to change start towards a Physics major. I was willing to do anything in order to understand Physics and Cosmology, but I didn't know how much would that be.

Taking advanced Linear Algebra was like climbing a 70°, 5 km uphill without water and almost without knowing how to walk! The logical and rigorous approach used by mathematicians was way too difficult for me to accept and access. I cried over my Linear Algebra book a few times, in frustration for my lack of understanding. It is after a long time that you realize how important is intent in your life.

I managed to evolve my analytical and intellectual skills to a point at which I loved mathematics and fell in love with the effort required to understand what I really thought I could never understand!

In the learning process all that matters is the present moment. You might be fully aware of what you're reading and what you are thinking with in the present, everything depends on you and you're not expecting anything (except, maybe, to understand). This is why reading and learning is so enjoyable, one can clear the mind and let space only for inspiration and exploration, given that what you're reading is really what you want to know.

Some problems were seeded by my unawareness. Once I started being tired of only studying and not living the wide world outside academia, I suffered a negative effect in my attention and was soon doing things I didn't want to do, like copying a Kepler's work to present an irrelevant homework for what I thought was not an irrelevant subject. This was my first conflict with academia and I'll write more about it later.

Taking Quantum Mechanics was the confirmation that I was in the right route and that my own view point of Physics was about to start. Did my thesis in Torsion alternative theories in General Relativity, trying to find a way through unifying General Realtivity and Quantum Mechanics.

After this I felt in ecstasy and I was ready to start my MSc. in Cosmology.  Next entry I'll talk about my experience doing my BSc. in Mathematics.