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  • 6 references 5 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, German; learning French, Spanish
  • 35, Male
  • Member since 2010
  • Physics/maths Student
  • I started to play the piano when I was 4. Right now, I'm ...
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Playing music, learning to fly and finding the theory of everything

ABOUT ME

I saw, heard, felt and tasted a bit of the world, but not yet enough!
People that are open-minded and without prejudices gain my highest respect.
I love to learn and teach music, physics, maths, computer science, improvisation theatre and a lot of other things.
I like creative and artful things as well as the beings creating them. I find much beauty in nature.
I'm vegan, pacifist, atheist, realist.
I hold the free will of an individual as the highest of all natural rights.
I like to find new perspectives of the world and everything in it and to share mine with others.

PHILOSOPHY

Borders only exist in the heads of people.
The most fundamental right of a conscious being is freedom, and it ends only where another's freedom begins.
Learn to love in order to be happy.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

My little private CS project is preparing vegan meals with as many other CS people as possible!

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I surfed couches in Montpellier, Cardiff and Avignon. I hosted a nice australian guy, I cooked a vegan meal with a friendly canadian, I showed someone the way around in Cambridge, I had a lovely dinner and other well spent evenings with a charming italian girl, I enjoyed the hospitality of a french Hamburguese.
Each time, it was really great.

Interests

Learn new things, understanding old things better.
Discovering the good in people.

Sciences -> Physics -> Fundamental Physics -> Quantum Gravity
Maths -> Category Theory, Type Theory -> Topological Quantum Field Theories
Arts -> Music -> Piano, Electric Base, Orchestra
Informatics -> Programming -> Haskell, Python, Drupal, Agda

  • arts
  • beauty
  • cooking
  • vegan
  • drinking
  • flying
  • music
  • piano
  • atheism
  • rock climbing
  • mathematics
  • physics
  • software

Music, Movies, and Books

Music:
-Classical: Debussy, Ravel, Rameau, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Barber, Bach, Mahler
-Rock: Genesis, Spock's Beard, Transatlantic, Citriniti, Animals as Leaders, Exivious, Yes, Tesseract
-Jazz: Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Snarky Puppy
Films:
-Star Wars, Monty Python, Lord of the Rings
-Stay, Babel, Syriana, Good Night and Good Luck, Traffic, 8th Wonderland, Planet Earth
-Most films by Terry Gilliam, Stanley Kubrick, the Cohen Brothers, Darren Aronofsky and Woody Allen
-I love short films, but I know far too few! Maybe you can recommend some to me?
Books:
-Everything by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury and Philip K. Dick

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Flying with a hangglider. For a much to short moment, I could imagine how it must be to be a bird.
Tasting hazelnut drink. Just water, agave syrup and hazelnuts. It was a bit similar to tejate, a mexican drink.
Being chased across a really long meadow by very angry bulls.
Climbing on a rock, slipping, falling and forgetting that there is a rope.

Teach, Learn, Share

Music:
piano
electric base
improvising
composing
theatre and music
Physics:
General Theory of Relativity
Quantum Gravity
Quantum Mechanics
Gauge Theory
Maths:
Differential Geometry
Cartan Geometry
Category theory
Topological Quantum Field Theory
Computer Science:
Programming with Python
Open Source Software
Programming with Haskell and Agda
Loving:
How to love without expectations
Loving aside of conventional relationships

Countries I’ve Visited

Israel, Mexico, Spain

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, United Kingdom

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