User:JonathanD

My full name is Jonathan J. Dickau. I consider myself a Renaissance man, because my interests and talents are quite varied. I have extensive experience in the Performing Arts, but I spent quite a lot of time in the field of Engineering, and I have a deep fascination with Science. I return again to Wikipedia, after creating or editing a number of entries, then taking off time to do more learning and research. I have presented at several international Physics conferences, most recently FFP15 in Orihuela, and spoken with a number of the world's top experts in Cosmology, Quantum gravity, and other disciplines of Physics. I have also corresponded with several top researchers studying the Brain and Cognition. I have been a participant in several essay contests run by the Foundational Questions Institute, where I won a 4th prize and was a finalist on several occasions. But back in 2009, I won a Grammy award for recording an album by legendary Folk performer Pete Seeger "At 89."

I am a passionate thinker and speaker, so I enjoy expressing my opinion, yet I always strive to be objective and fair in my writing. I am decidedly a generalist or cross-disciplinarian, so I am well qualified for editing an encyclopedic reference, or assisting others in insuring that the editing process is fair and even-handed, and the finished article provides clear information usable by non-experts. My degree is in Physics, and I spent more than 15 years in the field of Engineering, but my minor was Music and I have been running a small recording studio (Diverse Productions) for the last 20 years. Since recording "At 89," I completed a 3-CD set for Pete Seeger, which accompanies the new edition of his book "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?". I am an active member of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Poughkeepsie, NY, and a former board member of the Center for Symbolic Studies near New Paltz, NY, which is dedicated to continuing the work of Joseph Campbell in helping create a mythically informed community of individuals.

I am currently on the board of the American Science and Technology Center of New York, which hopes to open its new facility soon. I am a member of the ISGRG. I am also on the editorial board of Prespacetime Journal. In July of 2016; I presented at GR21, at Columbia University in New York City - which was one of the largest gatherings of gravity physicists to date. I'm also an avid enthusiast of Fractals, and a devoted explorer of the Mandelbrot Set. For more than 30 years now, I have been examining the possible connections between the Mandelbrot Set and physical cosmology, which I presented at the second Crisis in Cosmology conference and at GR21, and published an introduction to that work in Prespacetime. I created an entry for Fractal cosmology here at Wikipedia, a number of years back, to help dispel some of the misinformation surrounding that subject. I see that some entries here at Wikipedia - including several articles I contributed to - are outdated and in need of some attention.

Jonathan's Links


 * Jonathan's Home Page
 * Jonathan's Mandelbrot Cosmology - the early works
 * The Center for Symbolic Studies
 * The American Sci-Tech Center of NY
 * Prespacetime Journal
 * Diverse Productions (Jonathan's studio)
 * Jonathan's Search for the Common Thread
 * Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Poughkeepsie