Hi there! I was born after an accidental meeting in the train between my Dutch mother (who went to Italy for her holidays) and an Italian father (who was travelling back to Italy (the little isle Ischia, near Capri) after swimming games). My mother wanted to leave Holland to live in Italy, but I got homesick, and the doctor said I could die because of that. A good excuse for my mother because she wanted to leave badly. As a gift, my father put a beautiful nice girl baby in her womb. I didn't like to go to school, and in high school, I didn't go because all the stuff the teachers talked about was already discussed in the five years before. So I mostly did my own thing and only went to school for the exams (something that nowadays can't be done anymore!). On university, I only liked the first year (because of my friends, who were all gone next year), and the last (little classes with nice subjects). I could have saved myself a lot of money subscribing as an extraneus! In those days every student got a certain amount of money each month (600 euros) and the rest I earned myself. Nowadays you have to loan money or have rich parents. Looking back I had paid a lot of money for a few pieces of paper. All the physics stuff I might as well have learned myself. I guess I wanted to prove something (in two ways). I don't like the labour ethos so I lived on welfare for a few years and after which I helped the elderly. Now I'm making my money by making paintings, photographs or whatever. I like swimming, making long walks in the woods (I'm living at the edge of a relatively big forest. Holland has the densest population in the whole world, though you can put the world population in one of the provinces).
I'm a big fan of the rishon-theory invented by prof. Haim Harari. But I'm the biggest fan of my wife (though sometimes the biggest enemy) and our female dog, a lovely Swiss shepherd.
Besides physics, I'm also interested in many other areas of the sciences.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. My favourite colour is blue.