Daniel Roper:  

Life Left Memphis in Dec. 75. I was afraid that my Memphis State grades would be too bad to show my dad, so I joined the Army. Later, when I had those grades transferred, I was very suprised to find that those grades were a whole lot better than I thought - Dang! Between basic at Fort Ord, and AIT at DLI, I spent all of 1976 in Monterey, California. My subsequent history is still cloaked under classified information, having entered Military Intelligence. Devoloped a conflict of conscience as an international spy, and suffered thru some retribution from the powers that be. And that's all I'm gonna say about that... Thought I got my life on track as an Orthopedic Surgeon, since surgeon ryhmed with Spurgeon; but started getting woosey with all the blood and tissue stuff. After disgust with all of the departure from truth involved with being a lawyer, I settled for a career as the Police Chief of Miami, Fla., but got tired of all the violence! Worked with the DEA, cracking the Russian mob/Columbian connection; but left that job still unfullfilled. Thouroughly enjoyed my stint as a strategist/trader with Goldman Sachs untill a personality conflict with Henry Paulson prompted my departure. Sew I figured something ethereal would be my forte'; and like a flop-transition, I entered the field of Theoretical Physics. Worked closely with Brian Greene and Edward Witten on string theory. Once we worked out the various versions of string theory into a breakthrough M-theory our progress slowed. The perturbative approach was one thing, but the noncommutative geometry of zero-branes was better left to greater brains than mine. The transition from a fabric of space and time back into a source of non-fabric of non-space and non-time has become a hurdle imposing enough to cause all of the non-string theorists to start a bandwagon of poo-pooing string ...Expand for more