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And this is something we like to ask all of our interviewees because it's always interesting to us and to our listeners to hear how everybody started in the hobby. So tell us a little bit about how you first started out with aquariums.

That's a great question. It was there as a child I must have been eight or 10 my mom had a fish pond. I started keeping live bears. I think I started out maybe with mosquito fish which I used to catch in the canals. This was in California and I had a little two-gallon bowl and kept sort tails mollies and guppies at one time or another. I remember being absolutely fascinated when they gave birth and all those little sort tailed babies bright red. And then when the black monoliths had babies the little Black babies I just couldn't get enough. That is a neat experience.

I started out with libraries as well. I remember the same fascination with a little baby.

Yeah, I remember watching them pop out of the mother it was. I was just absolutely entranced.

Who did you keep on with aquariums up to no more or less?

At one time these guppies that I had, they had a horrible disease that I couldn't get rid of. And I remember being out of the hobby for many years because of that but I kept coming back to them and then I started back up in 1987 with the planet tanks that. I've had tanks off and on all of my life.

And I guess this is a good lead in to our next question what led you to develop your method or what is widely known as the most admitted.

Well, I'll go back to my childhood here. I live next to a dairy farm and they had a big stock tank in the yard with the cows and it was filled with valecenaria. This stock tank was out in full sun. The substrate was probably manure from the cows but the plants in there the valecenaria it was like a forest. They were bright emerald green. There was no algae in there. They were growing like crazy. It was just a beautiful sight out in the middle of this feedlot. So that kind of gave me something that I always return to when I was having trouble growing plants. Later on, as an aquarium hobbyist, I tried to grow plants in the aquarium and I did what everybody recommended. You know put gravel in and get your plants. It just never worked. So when I got back into the hobby in 1987 I decided that I would just do something really different. And I kept that idea of the stock tank with that beautiful growth of valecenaria in my mind and I thought well none of the aquarium methods have worked. Why don't I just do what I had seen before? So I set up a 20 gallon in front of the window with sunlight and then I just put soil in the bottom and I couldn't believe it the plants just grew like crazy. I'd never seen plants grow like that in an aquarium. And that's kind of how it all started. It was like night and day from what I had remembered in my earlier failures. You know once you see plants really growing. It was just spectacular.

I can imagine. That's a fascinating story that the method was inspired by this stock tank. I'd never heard of it.

And my method it leaves the nutrients in the tanks and lest the plants have them and that keeps the fish healthy and it's just a completely different method. You could almost call it the organic Aquarium. A very good term. That's it. It's the organic aquarium. I mean the soil is a tremendous supply of carbon dioxide.

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If you have various objects in space, what does space look like? How does the universe evolve? I mean, cosmology has turned into a science since the time of Einstein. I maybe before that people had ideas about the universe and you'll often see people refer back to the same notions that occurred earlier, but really it's now a scientific theory. So it's true. There were tremendous breakthroughs in the last century, but if you know what the universe is made of, that's going to tell you how it's to some extent how it evolves and if you know how it evolves, that gives you constraints on what it's made of. So it's not like there's one field of physics and you can do it in complete isolation from another one. I mean, part of what makes the field rich and enjoyable for me is that you can ask questions not just about elementary particles, but also about cosmology. And when you begin to think about ideas about the whole global nature of space-time, you can't help but think about cosmology as well. 

You're now doing dirty. You're writing a book called war passages. Unraveling the mysteries of the universe is hidden dimensions. I love three words there. One unraveling the mysteries and secondly, hidden dimensions. What are you trying to find out? What is it you want to tell us that we're going to be amazed by-- if it proved right? 

We're really trying to understand, it sounds very vague, but what is the fundamental nature of matter and forces? What are the fundamental forces and why are they related in the way they are? So we're trying to understand more about gravity. For example, why is gravity so much weaker than all the other elementary forces we know about? That is to say the three other elementary forces we know about electromagnetism, the weak and strong nuclear forces. Gravity is far weaker. I mean, if you think about it, you can pick up a paper clip with a tiny magnet competing against the entire earth. And the fact that you can jump up and down. I mean gravity is not a strong force, although it dominates things. It's only because there's big massive objects. 

And is it only, it's not a strong force where we are and might be a strong force somewhere else. 

Yeah, so, so there's a question of how it's manifest itself and if there's a big energetic object, it seems strong. But if you took two elementary particles and compared the force of electromagnetism and the force of gravity, I mean gravity is negligible. You don't even have to consider it. You throw it away. But why is that? Why is gravity so much weaker? And if for particle physicists it's even more mysterious than just why is it so much weaker? If you naively just sat down and calculated how you expect the forces to be related, you would think that those forces should be about the same strength. So there's a big question that particle physicists have is why is gravity so much weaker than the other forces? And so that's one question we have, but we have other questions too. What is the fundamental nature of gravity? Ultimately we do want to know what's a quantum theory of gravity that combines it with quantum mechanics. We want to understand what the universe is made of. What is the dark matter? What is the dark energy that's not carried by matter? So there are some pretty big questions that are driving us. Okay. 

Multiple dimensions idea. I think even Einstein said there were four dimensions and then string theorists came along and said that 10 dimensions. 

Yeah, string theorists seem to think that there are at least 10 dimensions. 

How many do you think there?


I'd like to leave it an open, I like to say, what have we measured? What do we know? And could there be other dimensions out there and there certainly could be other dimensions out there. It might be 10 or 11 space-time dimensions as strength or as tell us now. So why is it the physicist today are really thinking about extra dimensions? Well, one of the reasons is that we think it might actually have something to do with our university. I mean that's, I think for me the most important reason. But another reason is in fact string theory and it's introduced the idea that maybe dimensions really aren't there because that's the only way the theory makes sense. But string theory has also introduced something else. In the 1990s the physicist, Joseph Polchinski realized that there were these other objects in the context of string theory called brains. So that word is sort of related to membrane. And, and the idea is that there could be, even if you have higher dimensions, even if you have a fifth spatial mention or a fourth spatial dimension out there, there could be objects in the universe called brains that don't spread throughout the entire universe. And maybe stuff is stuck on those lower-dimensional surfaces. And that's one idea that we got very excited about.

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Great. So could you just tell us a little more about what you do here at the BSU and what your position consists of?

Well I arrived here at BSU in January of 2006 at that point I was an instructor and I came in and was focusing on crisis management and crisis communication negotiation because of my experience as a negotiator and love of that. And also interest in a global hostage-taking. I became interested in moving up and got a great opportunity to become the unit chief behavioral scientist since I put in and eventually I was selected. And since then I've been reworking the BSU and expanding the programs. Typically we have been focused on violent crime and we are the ones that developed profiling Criminal Investigative Analysis and term victimology and serial killing. All that came through our national academy classes over the years back in the 70s and 80s. And so what I want to do is Unit Chief and what I'll continue to do is move it forward and getting into areas like cyber and national security threats in addition to doing our staple file-at-crime mission that we've always done.

Great. So would you mind just describing the structure of the unit and the function of the various staff members you have here.

Sure. The Behavioral Science Unit has been around since 1972 as part of the FBI's training division and we are physically located in the basement area of the FBI Academy in Quantico Virginia. We are one of a number of training units here at the FBI Academy and what our main function is here is to train our National Academy students that come in. And the National Academy is kind of like a war college for law enforcement it's been in existence since about 1935. At the time that this academy was formed or built in 1972, the national academy program was moved over here. And what that program involves is experienced law enforcement officers mid-level management types that compete-- come to the FBI Academy for about 11 weeks. And when they get here they choose whatever courses they want to take. If it's in behavioral science, they'll come to our unit and take our courses. If it's in leadership, they go to leadership units. And there's also forensics and communication and other areas that they can learn. Now with that training in addition to National Academy, we also teach new agents training. We teach the FBI intel analysts and we take our courses and our blocks of instruction literally worldwide all over the world where we'll get requests for training from everyone. And now in addition to supporting our traditional law enforcement clients, we also train the military, the intel community, and some of our international partners. And that's what we do that's our bread and butter. Now along with the training, we also do research and we also do consultations. And our tag line or kind of the way we do business is that if we train we research it and if we train it, we consult it. And that's an important model because the consoles are the things that a lot of times where we're known for we're a police officer will call us and he'll let's say ask for interview strategies. Let say he's working in a gang matter-- a violent crime maybe aberrant behavior weird sexual type crime, and he'll call and want help and he may only have one shot to interview the subject. And so we try our best to give him some idea of strategies and tactics to get the person to confess or at least make admissions based on the behavior