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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Engineering |
| Occupation | Mechanical Engineer (for a purposeful use of Science) |
| Location | Korinthos/Athens, Hellas, Earth, Solar System, Orion Arm, Milky Way, Local Group, Laniakea Supercluster, Local Great Wall/Filament, Present Aeon in our conformally mapped Cyclic Eternal Universe |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | We live in a universe that has emerged out of "nothing". A flat, Euclidean universe, which ΙS a redistribution of nothing ! Stavros is a product of thousand millennia of evolving life-forms on Earth. His ancestry can be traced to protozoa in the end of the Hadean. His family line can be followed through cyanobacteria and multicellular organisms around 1,400,000,000 BCE. In 350,000,000 BCE the first tetrapod Stavroses emerged, allowing for rapid movement on land. This was handy, given his reticence to spend a life submerged in the ocean. Finally, the evolution to bipedalism in 260,000,000 BCE has freed up Stavros's upper limbs to allow for jotting down math abstractions and abide with his attempted avocational mastery of Conservation Laws within the realm of Symmetry in the context of QFT. |
| Interests | Astronomy, Platonism, Entropy, The systematic study of Symmetry (Group Theory), Philosophy, Atheism, Pussycats, Basket Ball, Swimming, Chess, To Taunt Poseurs. |
| Favorite movies | Dr. Strangelove: or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Brazil (1985), The Singing Detective (1986), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Midnight Cowboy (1969), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Easy Rider (1969), Clockwise (1986), Pennies from Heaven (1981), The Party (1968), M*A*S*H (1970), Lipstick on Your Collar (ΤV - 1993), Τhe Commitments (1991), Shampoo (1975), You've Got Mail (1998), A Brief History of Time (1992), Being There (1979), Death in Venice (1971), Magic Christian (1969), Play Misty for Me (1971), Professional Foul (ΒΒC - 1977), Lolita (1962), The Strawberry Statement (1970), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Annie Hall (1977), Down by Law (1986), A.I. (2001), Citizen Kane (1941), A Man for All Seasons (1966), "Che?" (R. Polanski - 1972), If.... (L. Anderson - 1968), Johnny Got His Gun (1971), Lost in Translation (2003), Kill Bill (2003 and 2004), Γυναίκες Δηλητήριο (1993), Ιn the Mood for Love (2000), 2046 (2004), My Blueberry Nights (2007), The Night Porter (1974), Gilda (1946), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Casablanca (1942), 20 centímetros (2005), 9½ Weeks (1986), Blow-Up (1966), The Graduate (1967), Rain Man (1988), Ivan the Terrible (1943), Diva (1982), Georgy Girl (1966), The Conformist (1970), The Full Monty (1997), Memento (2000), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), The Ipcress File (1965), Γλυκιά Συμμορία (1983), Young Frankenstein (1974), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), A Street Cat Named Bob (2016), Spartacus (1960), The Remains of the Day (1993), The Go-Between (1970), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997), Beautiful Thing (1996), La Grande Vadrouille (1966), Blue Velvet (1986), Rear Window (1954), Butley (1974), Life Is Beautiful (1997), I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967), Straw Dogs (1971), Don't Look Now (1973), Loophole (1981), Bedazzled (1967), Of Human Bondage (1934), The Pianist (2002), Picnic (1955), Peppermint (1999), An Education (2009), Τhe Best Offer (2013) etc... |
| Favorite music | Smooth Jazz, Latin Jazz, R&B, Swing, Soul, JB Horns, Tom Waits, Michael Franks, James Taylor, Manhattan Transfer, Chicago, George Benson, Sérgio Mendes, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Henry Mancini, Burt Bucharach, Brian Browne, EWF, ELO, The Beatles, Carole King, Crystal Gayle, Diana Krall, Renee Olstead, Supertramp, Joss Stone, Janis Joplin, Average White Band, Amy Winehouse, Eric Burdon, Matt Bianco, Al Green, James Brown, Jamie Cullum, Alan Price, Mario Biondi, Marlena Shaw, Mina, Candy Dulfer, Julie London, Melissa Ferrick, Emilie-Claire Barlow, Richard Sanderson. Cerys Matthews, Traffic, War, Cool Drive Makers, Norman Brown, Joe Cocker, Quincy Jones, Woong San, Aretha Franklin, Wax Taylor, Maria Muldaur, Belleruche, Brian Hughes, David Boaventura, Chuck Mangione, Joyce Cooling, Yvonne Elliman,Pino D'angio, Natalie Williams, Bill Withers, Lou Rawls, Norah Jones, Dana Fuchs, Bernadette Peters, Etta James, Nina Simone, Ruthie Henshall, Bebel Giberto, Rod Stewart, Florence Welch, FYC, Stacey Kent, Pat Bowie, Diane Shaw, Laura Fygi, Caecilie Norby, Sam & Dave, Thelma Houston, Barbara Dennerlein, Steve Miller, Dave Koz, CCR, Paul Taylor, The Puppini Sisters, Marva Whitney, Eden Atwood, Carpenters, Μίμης Πλέσσας, Percy Faith, Simply Red, Duke Ellington, Soulwater, James Morrison, Mανώλης Χιώτης, Halie Loren, Dusty Springfield, Sophie B. Hawkins, Lola Haag, Sarah Jane Morris, John Klemmer, John Mayer, Lalah Hathaway, Incognito, Saskia Laroo, Jimmy Barnes, James Hunter, Mike Patton, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Martha Wainwright, China Moses, Jean Carne, Melody Gardot, Suzanne Vega, Nettai Tropical Jazz Big Band, Jeff Golub, Carla Bley, Eliane Elias, Peter White, Patti Austin, Kώστας Καπνίσης, James Moody, John Mayall, Club Des Belugas, Mindi Abair, Youn Sun Nah, Fourplay, Erroll Garner,Gare Du Nord, Nicola Conte, Anita O'Day, Kylie Auldist, Jean Carne, Ana Popović, Yuko Mabuchi, Shelby Lynne etc... |
| Favorite books | The Road to Reality (Roger Penrose), The Meaning of It All (Richard Feynman), Why I am not a Christian (Bertrand Russell), The Fabric of Reality (D. Deutsch), Le Hasard et la necessite (Jacques Monod), L'écume des jours (Boris Vian), The First 3 Minutes (Steven Weinberg), Τhe Selfish Gene (Richard Dawkins), God is not Great - How Religion poisons everything (Chris Hitchens), Broca's Brain: The Romance of Science (Carl Sagan), The Elegant Universe (B. Greene), The Music of the Primes (Marcus Du Sautoy), Riemann ζ Function (H. Edwards), A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down (R. Laughlin), Why Beauty Is Truth: The History of Symmetry (Ian Stewart), Six Not-So-Easy Pieces (Richard Feynman), Just Six Numbers ( Martin Rees), Shadows of the Mind (Roger Penrose), The End of Faith: Religion Terror and the Future of Reason (Sam Harris), A Brief History of Time and the Universe in a Nutshell (Stephen W. Hawking), The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins), What is Life? (Erwin Schrodinger), Republic (Plato), Ethics (Spinoza), The Problems of Philosophy (Bertrand Russel), The Kite and Other Stories (W. S. Maugham), Keep the Aspidistra Flying (G. Orwell), Urgency of Change (J. Krishnamurti), The Ending of Time (J. Krishnamurti), What is Mathematics? (Ian Stewart et al), Stop Working and Start Thinking (Jack Cohen & G. Medley), QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (Richard Feynman), Fear of Flying (Erica Jong), Seven Types of Ambiguity (William Empson), Cybernetics (Norbert Wiener), Where I'm Calling From (Raymond Carver), Philosophical Investigations (Ludwig Wittgenstein), On Liberty (John S. Mill), The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Karl Popper), Sociobiology (E. O. Wilson), Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From The Beaten Track (Richard Feynman), The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Richard Feynman), Quantum Mechanics (Susskind - Friedman), Elements (Euclid), Human all too human ( F. Nietzsche), Conversations on truth (G. Chaitin et al), etc... |